Any life event which causes significant physical and/or emotional injury and distress, where the person experiences being overwhelmed, helpless, or trapped, can become a traumatic experience.  In most cases, the traumatized individual does not usually have the opportunity or the support to adequately process these traumatic life events.  That trauma is held in the body and can cause many uncomfortable and disruptive symptoms and consequences in a person’s life. At Best Self Counseling Center, All of our mental health counselors at Best Self Counseling Center are trained in either EMDR or Brainspotting; two cutting-edge approaches that assist our clients in achieving emotional and physical healing.

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EMDR:

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experiences to bring these to an adaptive resolution.  During EMDR therapy, the client attends to emotionally charged material in brief sequential doses while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. Therapist directed lateral eye movements are the most commonly used external stimulus but a variety of other stimuli, including hand-tapping and audio stimulation, are often used.  EMDR assists with the elimination of emotional distress and development of cognitive insights leading to increased brain/body healing and functioning.