EMDR & Trauma Treatments

When we're working with complex trauma, we can't just Navy Seal Team rescue mission your inner child.

Would it be easier to go in with night-vision goggles, blow down the walls and helicopter out of there as covertly as possible?

Maybe.

But there'd probably be casualties and collateral damage...And then you'd have to recover from that.

In fact, that may be something that's already happened in your past efforts to get better.

Have you ever quit therapy or "finished" therapy feeling worse than you did before you started?

It might be because your 'system' did not give permission to do the work.

Your system might have felt tricked or like it was the subject of Seal Team Secret-Op.

This is exactly why I use a unique blend of the SSP, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR.

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) primes your nervous system for the interventions. It creates a sense of felt safety (not too much safety that you start to feel unsafe, of course...IFYKYK). It carefully softens protections just enough to allow the next step.

Once your nervous system is primed and receptive, we use IFS to tap into your inner resources of Self (Connection, Compassion, Curiosity, Courage, Clarity, Creativity, Calm & Confidence) and access the support, resources and innate skills you already have inside of you.

Once you've got the hang of hanging with your inner-world, we use EMDR to reprocess the trauma, burdens, and disturbing beliefs, patterns and thoughts that have been causing you so much distress.

It's a really beautiful process.