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Online Therapy for Adults

 
   At Resiliency Counseling Services I believe no two people are the same and I tailor my services to meet your specific needs as an individual. I utilize a trauma informed lens throughout treatment. Trauma doesn't only include life-threatening events or situation. Trauma is any event or experiences that overwhelms our mental and emotional capacity to adequately cope at that time. What constitutes as traumatic varies per person and on the developmental level of the person faced with the event/lived experience. Trauma can make you feel emotionally, mentally, and physically overwhelmed, making it difficult to cope. Trauma can also lead to repressed traumatic memories which can then wreak havoc in other areas of your life causing symptoms found in anxiety and depressive disorders. The effects of trauma are tiring and can make anyone feel utterly alone.
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   You're not alone. I'm an EMDR certified clinician, my skills allow me to help my clients ease their traumatic symptoms. Together I will teach you how to regulate your anxiety and trauma symptoms & help you gain efficacy in reducing your distress and improve your current functioning. You have lived through the worse part, the traumatic event itself. Together we will get to the other side. 
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What is EMDR?
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based practice used to treat trauma and help facilitate the brain's natural healing processes. 
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During a traumatic or stressful event, the brain does not process information as it normally would. Instead, information can get stuck or stored in the brain in unhelpful ways and continue to negatively affect you in your present day life. The old stored information can be triggered in the present and can cause you to have thoughts, feelings, or bodily sensations that transport you back to the time the trauma occurred. This affects the way a person sees the world and how they relate with others. 
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EMDR uses eye movements (similar to what occurs during REM sleep) to help facilitate information processing and relieve the effects of trauma and the accompanying negative beliefs. Following a successful EMDR session, you will still remember what happened, but you will not be overwhelmed when recalling the painful memories of the incident. This allows you to access positive ways of viewing the original trauma (reprocessing) and to release the stored negative emotional reactions around it (desensitization). To learn more about EMDR click on the video link below.