EMDR -Eye Movement Desensitization

EMDR is a special treatment protocol that does more than relieve the symptoms but deeply changes the perceptions about yourself and others and decreases the pain of past abuses or negative experiences.
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EMDR an evidence-based psychotherapy that has shown to effectively and efficiently eliminate the symptoms of stress and trauma. Also EMDR is helpful to treat:

1. anxiety/ panic attacks,
2. public speaking,
3. depression, postpartum depression
4. trauma, childbirth trauma,
5. phobias,
6.  and performance anxiety and self-esteem.​​

EMDR has been found to be a simple method to lessen the impact of trauma on how people behave, think and feel about themselves. Such as:

• nightmares
• flashbacks
• anxiety/depression
• feelings of guilt and shame
• difficulty trusting and getting close to others

​​​Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can occur after any type of physically or psychologically stressful event in which you perceive an emotional threat. Often this event will alter the way you deal with the world and yourself. Until resolved it will lower school grades.
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Situations and circumstances that can bring about a traumatic stress response are many. It may not even be as extreme as this list: Sexual abuse or assault, Domestic Violence, Transportation accidents, Military combat, Natural disasters, Childhood physical, verbal, sexual and psychological abuse.
Frequent exposure to threatening situations such as those experienced by First Responders (EMS, police, firefighters, ER nurses & physicians).
Second-hand trauma involves observing or learning about threatening or abusive events effecting your loved one.