What if I told you, you didn’t have to re-live your trauma, to heal from it?
EMDR Therapy & PTSD Treatment
Remembering is not recovering.
The only thing worse than living through a traumatic event, are the after affects that impact the present day.
These affects may include mood instability, flashbacks, depression, irritability, anxiety, hyper-vigilance, isolation, destructive behaviors, and more. Past trauma has the ability to change our worldview in the present, contributing to an ongoing sense of danger, fear, hopelessness, and shame. That's why, as a therapist, Jaclyn uses an array of here-and-now techniques to assist clients in re-establishing a sense of safety.
As an EMDR-Certified therapist, Jaclyn strives to create a safe, empathetic, and validating environment for clients to process their trauma, so they can heal and become the best version of themselves. Jaclyn’s goal as a clinician is to create a safe environment for clients to foster growth and promote healing. As your therapist, Jaclyn promises to dedicate time, effort, and extensive training to best assist you with troubling symptoms causing dysfunction.
mental, physical, and emotional pain
nightmares or flashbacks
panic or anxiety attacks
dissociation, memory loss, gaps in memory
depression
social withdrawal and isolation
Symptoms of Trauma & PTSD:
substance abuse or emotional numbing
avoidance behaviors
hypervigilance and hyperarousal
irritability, guilt, shame, paranoia, and fear
Feeling alone.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy) is a leading treatment for Trauma/PTSD, anxiety, phobias, & an array of other mental health disorders. EMDR is based on the notion that when something overwhelming happens, our memory of that event becomes “stuck” in a part of our brain that causes present-day dysfunction. EMDR systematically re-processes the “stuck” experience, so individuals are no longer disturbed by the triggering event. Clients have a sense of “that was then, and this is now” and often see an elimination or reduction of presenting symptoms.
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That is not a problem. Jaclyn’s job as your trauma-informed therapist, is to create a safe, understanding, and validating environment to assist with engaging in EMDR’s 8-phase treatment. Slow and steady wins the trauma race.
EMDR preparation work (Phase 2) specifically focuses on creating a sense of safety both within the client’s body and ability to exist in the outside world. Preparation work is engaged in until both the client and the therapist feel it is appropriate to move forward with trauma processing. EMDR is a collaborative process where the client’s needs and desires are heard, listened to, and responded to accordingly throughout treatment. No pressure, just healing.
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You’re in luck.
EMDR can be what is referred to as a “blind to therapist” therapeutic modality, meaning the therapist does not need to know the in’s and out’s of the traumatic event. As long as the client can tap into the past negative experience, EMDR can heal the “stuck” memory with as little intrusion as possible. Preparation work will assist in increasing the client’s ability to tolerate distress associated with trauma processing.