“We believe the most effective therapy goes deep, so that healing occurs at the place of the wound.”
E.M.D.R.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an information-processing psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.
At Lake View Psychotherapy, we gravitate towards selected therapeutic strategies to improve brain health, and we employ EMDR because it is a scientifically proven tool. Bilateral brain stimulation makes connections in the neural network between old traumatic material and new information, so that brain structure is rewired.
This integrative mode of therapy has earned the esteemed designation from the American Psychiatric Association as a “highly effective and empirically supported” treatment for PTSD and trauma. EMDR has become the “gold standard” of psychotherapy approaches shown to reduce the symptoms of PTSD.
In EMDR, clients are helped to activate their natural healing processes and the mind is calmed.
It is falsely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.
EMDR therapy shows that the mind can heal from psychological trauma similar to how the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates a similar sequence occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward health.