Trauma Therapy & EMDR

In person in Boulder and online throughout CO & FL

 

Is your past taking over your present?

Something happened that you just can’t get out of your head.

You feel like you’re always on edge, even when there doesn’t seem to be anything to be worried about.

You have trouble sleeping and sometimes have nightmares.

You want to love and be loved, but you just can’t make yourself trust others.

You feel like you always have an urge to run away, but you don’t know from what.

It’s hard to motivate yourself to do basic things, like keeping the house clean and eating healthy meals.

 

HOW TRAUMA THERAPY CAN HELP

Traumatic experiences can negatively impact your ability to communicate, focus at work/school, rest and relax, form secure attachments, and have healthy relationships. 

The good news is that you absolutely can recover from the effects of trauma!

With talk therapy, DBT, and EMDR, we can work on helping you heal from the past, resolve the underlying core beliefs about yourself that developed during the time of trauma, and create the building blocks to experience a healthy and happy life. For children, trauma therapy can involve play therapy, EMDR, DBT, and/or talk therapy.

Therapy can help you:

  • Heal the wounds you have from the trauma you’ve experienced

  • Know (both cognitively and emotionally) that you didn’t do anything to deserve what happened

  • Develop healthy coping strategies to deal with the negative feelings that come up in your day to day life

  • Learn how to say no when you don’t want to do something

  • Improve your relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and most importantly, yourself

Learn to love yourself the way you deserve to be loved

I’M HERE TO HELP YOU GET THERE

FAQS

Common questions about trauma therapy and EMDR

  • EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. The way it works is we mimic the rapid eye movement experienced during REM sleep to help reprocess traumatic memories and store them in a healthier way in the brain. You’ll still remember the events that happened, but EMDR can make the memories less emotionally charged.

  • That’s completely fine! Some people choose not to do it at all, or combine it with other modalities, like talk therapy or DBT. We’ll create a treatment plan that works for you

  • Great question! It’s hard to say because people and their circumstances are so unique. Trauma treatment can last anywhere from a few months to a year or two. A lot will depend on the nature of the traumatic experiences and how you’re feeling.

  • That’s completely ok! Memory issues are very common in people who have experienced trauma. You don’t need to remember specific details (or much of anything) about what happened in order to heal from it.

  • These are traumatic experiences that occur as a result of childhood neglect/abuse and/or in the context of some kind of significant relationship. This type of trauma is different than something like a car accident or losing your home in a fire. How it impacts the individual varies from one person to another.