EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
I am EMDRIA-certified in EMDR therapy — a distinction reflecting advanced training, clinical experience, and demonstrated competency beyond foundational EMDR requirements. EMDRIA certification is widely regarded as the gold standard for EMDR practitioners, and reflects my ongoing commitment to ethical, trauma-informed, specialized clinical care. I've trained extensively in advanced EMDR protocols.
EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, which holds that the mind and nervous system are naturally oriented toward healing and integration. When experiences are overwhelming or chronically stressful, they can remain insufficiently processed — continuing to shape present-day emotions, beliefs, relationships, and physical responses.
While EMDR is widely known for treating trauma and PTSD, it's also used to address anxiety, panic, negative core beliefs, low self-esteem, and relational or intimacy difficulties.
I work from an attachment-focused perspective, integrating relational, psychodynamic, and humanistic approaches with EMDR and verbal psychotherapy — informed by contemporary understanding of trauma, defensive adaptation, and memory processing.
Extended 90-Minute Sessions
For clients who want EMDR to be central to the work — not occasional — I offer 90-minute sessions in addition to standard 50-minute appointments.
In a 50-minute session, it's common to begin accessing something meaningful just as time runs out. Ninety-minute sessions allow you to stay with what arises long enough for it to shift, reducing the start-stop rhythm and supporting a more complete arc of work in each session — often making the process both deeper and more efficient.
Extended sessions tend to be a good fit if you:
Prefer a more direct, immersive therapeutic experience
Want to move through material more efficiently than weekly 50-minute sessions allow
Are looking for a more contained, time-limited course of treatment rather than long-term open-ended therapy
Schedule a consultation to explore whether EMDR — and which session format — may be the right fit for your work together.