eMDR Therapy in Nashville
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EMDR Therapy in Nashville
What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, more commonly known as EMDR, is a method used to help you understand and move beyond a traumatic experience or a belief that’s holding you back. That traumatic experience could be a number of things:
A traumatic experience in childhood
An emotional trauma during childhood
Grief for the loss of a loved one
Physical abuse
Sexual abuse
Emotional abuse
Anxiety
Perfectionism
Your experiences have stuck with you and shape(d) your behavior at school or work, at home, and in relationships. Your trauma is disruptive, even if it happened decades ago. You might have vivid flashbacks or nightmares about the traumatic event, or feel startled easily in certain situations. Social isolation or the need to be perfect may have become part of your daily routine. These experiences constantly looms over you, making you feel anxious, angry, panicky, and sometimes even guilty. EDMR therapy will help you reprocess this event and move forward stronger than ever.
How does EMDR therapy work?
EMDR is a proven method for reprocessing and moving forward from a traumatic experience in your past. EMDR shows the mind how to heal, just like our bodies heal. Proven to be equally as effective as talk therapy, EMDR can help you reprocess trauma faster than traditional therapy.
When you get started with EMDR, we first help you to identify the specific event or series of experiences in your past and the feelings it brings up. This sets up the foundation for our work together. Next, we create tools for you to use whenever the symptoms of trauma present themselves. Then we actually reprocess the traumatic experience through EMDR therapy.
This involves moving the attention back and forth visually with the assistance of the EMDR therapist while concentrating your mind on the traumatic experience. From here, we do the same thing, but while focusing on the positive outcome you wish to gain from EMDR therapy. Your therapist will guide you through this exercise, discussing what you feel throughout until your focus is on this positive outcome rather than the traumatic experience.
EMDR is a proven treatment method for trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, and addiction. EMDR will help you process your traumatic experience, heal your mind, and understand what to do when these feelings come back in the future. Rest easy knowing you have the power to change your current state of being and heal. Ready to get started with EMDR therapy?
*EMDR therapy can be conducted via telehealth.
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