Therapies I Use In My Counseling Practice
EMDR Therapy
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an a 8 phase, 3 pronged (past, present and future) structured therapy designed to help people heal after a traumatic or distressing event. EMDR is an evidenced based therapy that combines bilateral stimulation or BLS with the images, beliefs, emotions, and body sensations that are part of the memory causing distress to desensitize it and reprocess or metabolize it from a place of physical safety and resource that you may not have had at the time of the event. EMDR is effective via telehealth (virtual) sessions. I use remotEMDR.com as my virtual platform, it is HIPAA compliant and you do not need to download anything to use it.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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Also know as ACT, this therapy focuses on increasing psychological flexibility. In short, it's learning new ways of being with our thoughts, feelings and sensations, in the moment without letting them dictate our behavior.
There is a strong focus on values (the things in life we find most meaningful) in this work.