EMDR | AwakenMind

Rewire Your Brain for Change

Remove the obstacles to your full potential with the transformative healing power of EMDR

EMDR benefits

Elimination/Reduction in PTSD Neutrality of past triggers
Resolution of painful memories/images
Anxiety relief and stress reduction
Overcoming fears: Stage fright, public speaking, flying, phobias
New sense of self-worth
Creative insights
Inspiration, motivation and flow
Confidence, strength & resiliency
Productivity and performance enhancement
Clarity of purpose and meaning
Courage, resolve and sense of freedom

What is EMDR?

*EDMR is the most effective method for the treatment and elimination of trauma and PTSD. Results from EMDR are astounding: rapid, transformative, and long-lasting. Nothing compares to its ability to deliver permanent change.

EMDR is the acronym for the modality "Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing." EMDR combines specific clinical protocols with bilateral stimulation to activate neural memory networks and release stored trauma.

The reality is that most people have experienced some kind of trauma in their lifetime. EMDR is not reserved only for those with diagnosed PTSD, but to anyone who feels stuck in self-defeating patterns.

EMDR treats a vast spectrum of issues. From a veteran suffering from PTSD to a business executive looking for cognitive performance enhancement, EMDR clears the neural roadblocks in your brain and body so you can live out your full potential.

*EMDR is not right for everyone. Clients must be assessed for readiness before treatment can begin.

How It Works

The brain can be compared to a super information highway comprised of interconnected neural circuitry. Think of trauma like neural roadblocks or looping round-a-bouts that prevent trauma resolution.

The bilateral stimuli in EMDR--visual, tactile or auditory-- set the brain to work untangling, clearing and reconnecting new neural networks that allow the information highway to flow again.

These neural networks make new connections that result in adaptive information processing--ie., new learning/understanding/clarity/resolution of the originating trauma, release of emotional distress, re-regulatiom of the nervous system and break-through cognitive insights and revelations.

Because EMDR acts at the level physiology and neurobiology, it enables rapid, effective and sustainable change.

Think: REM sleep. The protocol uses alternating bilateral eye movements to process unconscious psychological content.

Neuroscientific EVIDENCE

EMDR aligns the right and left hemispheres of the brain, activates the prefrontal cortex and reduces over-activity in the limbic brain (amygdala, fight-flight response). It activates the parasympathetic nervous system and re-regulates the body, dramatically reducing anxiety.

Brain SPECT imaging and the latest neuroscientific research statistically validate the dramatic results seen with EMDR. Over 50 positive controlled studies show improvements of up to 80-90% in cognitive functioning and complete elimination of PTSD in many cases, after only three-five 90-minute sessions.