Grief and Trauma Related Therapy

EMDR is primarily used to treat PTSD but can also be used to treat a myriad of other diagnoses such as Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Gender Identity Disorders. 

Through the use of eye movements, EMDR allows patients to reprocess traumatic and/or disturbing experiences,  EMDR therapy doesn’t require talking in detail about a distressing issue. EMDR instead focuses on changing the emotions, thoughts or behaviors that result from a distressing experience (trauma). This allows your brain to resume a natural healing process. 

EMDR relies on the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, a theory about how your brain stores memories.

When you undergo EMDR, you access memories of a trauma event in very specific ways. Combined with eye movements and guided instructions, accessing those memories helps you reprocess what you remember from the negative event.

That reprocessing helps “repair” the mental injury from that memory. Remembering what happened to you will no longer feel like reliving it, and the related feelings will be much more manageable.

Grief counseling, also known as bereavement, is a form of therapy intended to help you cope with loss, like the death of a partner, family member, friend, colleague, or pet. 

The death of a loved one can cause both emotional and physical pain that can sometimes impair your ability to function. 

In the short term, grief counseling can help you navigate the aftermath of a loss and make practical decisions, like funeral arrangements. 

In the long run, it can help you accept the loss of your loved one and adapt to life without them.