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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.
It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as 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 that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain's information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy delivered by telehealth follows the same eight-phase protocol as in-person work. Sessions take place on a secure, confidential, HIPAA-conscious video platform, and you attend from a private space of your own choosing.
Bilateral stimulation — the dual-attention element of EMDR — can be delivered on screen through guided visual movement, through alternating audio tones, or through self-administered tactile methods such as alternating taps or the butterfly hug. Your therapist guides the pacing and checks in continuously.
Before any reprocessing begins, we prepare together: establishing a stable connection, agreeing on what to do if the call drops, identifying your support people, and building grounding and containment resources you can use between sessions.
Many clients find remote EMDR more comfortable than in-office work. You end the session already home, in your own environment, with your own supports close at hand.
When a disturbing event occurs, it can get locked in the nervous system with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. Because the experience was not fully processed at the time, the material continues to be triggered by reminders in the present.
EMDR therapy uses bilateral stimulation while you briefly attend to the memory, which appears to unlock the nervous system and allow the brain to process the experience to an adaptive resolution.
What changes is not the fact of what happened, but how it is stored. Clients frequently report that the memory becomes less vivid and less physically charged, and that the negative belief attached to it — I am unsafe, it was my fault, I am powerless — is replaced by a more accurate and compassionate one.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health by challenging and changing cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and developing personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
CBT is one of the most extensively researched forms of psychotherapy. It is effective for depression, anxiety disorders, panic, social anxiety, and many stress-related difficulties, and it gives clients concrete, transferable skills rather than open-ended discussion.
CBT works from the premise that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and that changing one changes the others. Sessions are structured and collaborative, and often involve practice between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy originally developed to treat personality disorders, ADHD, and interpersonal conflicts. It is also useful for mood disorders, suicidal ideation, and for changing behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance use.
The word dialectical points to the central balance in the work: full acceptance of yourself exactly as you are, alongside genuine commitment to change.
DBT teaches specific, practicable skills that can be used in the moment, rather than insight alone. Skills are practiced, rehearsed, and applied to real situations between sessions.
DBT is used when emotions arrive quickly, intensely, and take a long time to settle. Rather than treating that sensitivity as a flaw, DBT treats it as something the nervous system can learn to work with.
Distress Tolerance addresses the moments when the pain cannot be changed right now and the task is to get through it without harm. Emotion Regulation addresses the longer arc — sleep, routine, values, and the physical conditions that make overwhelm more or less likely. Mindfulness sits underneath both, since no skill can be applied to an experience you have not first noticed.
Over time, clients report shorter recovery from emotional spikes, fewer crisis behaviors, and more room to choose their response.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy combines the methods of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with mindfulness meditation practices. It was originally developed as a relapse-prevention treatment for major depressive disorder.
The aim is not to stop difficult thoughts from arriving, but to change your relationship to them — to see a thought as a passing mental event rather than a fact that must be obeyed.
MBCT draws on a small set of practices, repeated regularly.
MBCT has been studied and applied across a range of presentations.
Clients who practice MBCT often describe a quieter internal environment: fewer automatic reactions, more space between a trigger and a response, and greater self-compassion where there had been criticism.
Because the practices are portable and require no equipment, they continue to work long after therapy has ended — which is precisely why MBCT is so valuable as relapse prevention.
