EMDR Therapy In-person and Online throughout California

EMDR can help you heal so you can move forward with your life.


Have you tried regular talk therapy and felt like you needed something more?

EMDR therapy can help you reprocess unresolved trauma and change negative thought patterns so you can move forward with your life and begin experiencing the happiness you deserve!

EMDR is worth the Investment because your happiness doesn’t have a price!

What is EMDR and How Can It Help You?

If you’ve been carrying the weight of past trauma, painful memories, or deeply rooted negative beliefs about yourself, you might feel stuck—like no matter what you do, the past keeps haunting you. Maybe you’ve tried to “move on” or push the thoughts away, but they keep creeping back in. This is where EMDR can help.

Breaking Free from the Past

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful therapy designed to help your brain process and heal from trauma in a way that traditional talk therapy often can’t. Trauma doesn’t just live in your mind—it gets stored in your nervous system, keeping you in a cycle of overwhelm, anxiety, self-doubt, or emotional numbness. EMDR works by rewiring how your brain processes traumatic memories, so they lose their emotional charge and stop controlling your life.

How EMDR Works

During an EMDR session, I guide you through a structured process that allows your brain to reprocess painful experiences while using bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements, tapping, or sounds). This helps your nervous system release the trauma that’s been trapped for years. It’s like taking a memory that once felt overwhelming and reshaping it into something you can finally put to rest.

Who Can Benefit from EMDR?

If you’ve experienced childhood trauma, relationship wounds, emotional neglect, abuse, or painful life events that still affect you today, EMDR can help you:
✔ Stop reliving distressing memories over and over again
✔ Release the shame, fear, or self-blame connected to your past
✔ Feel safer in your body and relationships
✔ Let go of anxiety, panic, or emotional numbness
✔ Rebuild your sense of self-worth, trust, and empowerment

You Don’t Have to Stay Stuck

The best part? You don’t have to talk about your trauma in detail for EMDR to work. Your brain already knows what hurts—you just need the right approach to heal. EMDR helps you process those painful experiences without re-traumatizing you, so you can finally move forward with peace and freedom.

If you’ve been feeling like nothing has helped, EMDR might be the breakthrough you’ve been looking for.

My Specialties for EMDR:

  • Trauma (sexual, physical, emotional abuse)

  • Childhood Trauma

  • Domestic Violence Survivors

  • Anxiety

  • Chronic Illness and Medical Trauma

  • Increase Performance for Athletes, Students, and High Achievers

  • Relationships

  • Self-Esteem and Identity Support

  • Driving

  • Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse

EMDR is for you if:

  • You’ve tried regular therapy and you didn’t get enough out of it

  • You’re still feeling stuck

  • Those negative thoughts are flooding your mind

  • You have trauma that needs more than just talking through

  • You have anxiety that is taking over your world.

  • You’re struggling with your relationships

  • You’re overly worried about performance whether it’s sports, school, or job performance

   EMDR  will help you:

  • Improve your emotional well-being 

  • Reconnect with who you were before you had these negative emotions that took over

  • Identify the negative beliefs that are causing anxiety and other negative emotions

  • Dive deep into how your negative beliefs were formed and create an understanding

  • Gain skills you can use for the rest of your life 

  • Regain trust with people 

  • Decrease PTSD symptoms 

  • Decrease anxiety and depression

  • Gain confidence again


EMDR will empower you so you feel comfortable taking your power back!!!

What to Expect

EMDR is an 8 phase treatment method.

1st phase - History Taking

  • (Gathering detailed history, identifying clients readiness and determining if EMDR is appropriate)

2nd phase - Client preparation

  • (Client/therapist forms therapeutic relationship, skills will be taught to help you feel prepared)

3rd phase - Assessment

  • (together, we will make a treatment plan that identifies your goals and we build a target sequence plan that identifies traumatic events ) 

4th phase - Desensitization

  • ( Start reprocessing discussed targets)

5th phases - Installation

  • (Installing positive beliefs to help make positive changes) 

6th phase  - Body scan

  • (Scanning the body to identify any bad feelings in the body)

7th phase - Closure

  • (Identifying if the target event is fully reprocessed and if not then you will utilize the installed belief to make sure you’re able to manage any symptoms that may pop up in between session)

8th phase - Reevaluation

  • (We will review progress and identify if there may be new targets or end treatment)



Questions?

FAQs

  • Yes! EMDR can help heal trauma, negative beliefs about themself, anxiety, and performance (grades, sports, friendships).

  • With EMDR, we will focus on the event and the feelings connected to it. You will have skills that I teach before we do that so you feel more prepared and more in control. I will keep the reprocessing at your pace so if you say stop that’s what we do. You will be in control.

  • Yes! EMDR can help with various issues such as depression, phobias, anxiety, burnout, addictive and compulsive behaviors and more. EMDR can help athletes, high achieving individuals, and students reach a new level of performance.

  • Everyone is different. If it is a single event it can be reprocessed faster and might only need 8-10 sessions. A lot of us have more than just one traumatic event which can make the reprocessing longer.