Why EMDR Therapy?
Talk therapy is only the beginning of healing. Talk therapy is co-creating a new spiritual container with your therapist, which should be strong energetically, to hold the work you are about to do. The first part of the container involve the phone call and paperwork. Signing the documentation agrees to a specific container the therapist is offering to hold. The next piece is bringing what you want to look at into the container to be acknowledged. Insight and awareness can be gained in these first steps, but there is no reorganization of the way trauma is held in the body.
Sometimes talk therapy can get redundant, and ends up trying to make sense of pain, get rid of a symptom, or fix a situation like a mechanic would use a wrench to tighten a screw. But that is not how transformation happens, which is why the term “alchemizing” is often used. Its taking intense energy that can be channelled more adaptively, so we reorganize the molecular structure, to channel it into a new form of operating.
We offer EMDR therapy to take talk therapy to the next level, and alchemize that intense energy. The movement of bilateral stimulation simulates REM cycle in which brain pathways are formed after an experience. EMDR connects trauma memories to the adaptive part of the brain. EMDR claims to create new physiological brain pathways, so you could say the emotion that triggers, literally has an adaptive place to go, which is into a part of the brain that holds a positive cognition, instead of the cutoff/fractured part of the brain that is holding a negative cognition.
The “trauma sequence” is a brain pathway that has a habit of firing off when any semblance of danger is perceived and the old negative cognition, regarding the self, surfaces. Someone can have a long history of feeling these emotions and beliefs, even when their lives are going wonderfully. They are not able to fully perceive their beautiful life and be grateful for what they have.
EMDR relies on the higher self of the person, who is empowered to float back to the memories that first created the trauma sequence. This allows our clients to confront the source of their fears as an adult, from a perspective that views the self as capable of withstanding that energy and finishing out the healing process. These trauma sequences can also be seen from an ancestral lens, working out karma inherited and held that is older than the physical body. On a spiritual level, this can bring a massive amount of catharsis, realizing that the healing work has not been in vain, and one family member has power, when called, to heal a family line, a collective trauma.
EMDR is a very powerful tool in reorganizing the held energy of trauma into a more adaptive response, which ultimately transforms into a unique spiritual strength.
