Therapy Services / Individual EMDR TherapyEMDR Therapy
EMDR is therapy for experiences that are over — but don't feel over.
emdr in nycWhat is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapeutic approach that helps you process experiences that continue to affect you in the present. While originally developed to treat trauma and PTSD, EMDR can also be helpful for anxiety, relationship wounds, difficult life experiences, and persistent negative beliefs about yourself.
Using bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or alternating tapping, EMDR supports the brain's natural ability to process and integrate experiences that may feel unresolved. Rather than simply talking about what happened, EMDR helps you work with the thoughts, emotions, memories, and body sensations connected to an experience—so that it no longer has the same hold on you.
Many people describe feeling lighter, more grounded, and less emotionally activated by experiences that once felt overwhelming.
How EMDR Works
Sometimes, an experience can be over intellectually but still feel very present in your body and nervous system. You may understand that you're safe now, while a part of you continues to react as though you're back in the original situation.
EMDR helps create space between what happened then and what is happening now. Through bilateral stimulation, such as alternating taps or guided eye movements, we engage the brain and body in a different way than simply talking about an experience. This can help bring together thoughts, emotions, memories, and physical sensations that may have remained disconnected or unresolved, allowing the experience to become more integrated and less emotionally charged.
The goal isn't to erase a memory or change what happened. It's to change the way the experience lives within you.
What Can EMDR Help With?
EMDR can be helpful for:Trauma and PTSD
Complex and relational trauma
Anxiety and panic
Fears and phobias
Grief and loss
Shame and negative self-beliefs
Relationship wounds
Difficult life transitions
Distressing memories that continue to affect you
Feeling stuck despite having done significant work in therapy
What Is EMDR Like?
EMDR is not about forcing yourself to relive your most difficult experiences or recounting every detail of what happened.
We begin by creating a sense of safety and establishing tools that help you stay grounded and connected to the present. When you're ready, we identify the experiences, beliefs, emotions, or sensations that feel unresolved and begin processing them at a pace that feels manageable.
During processing, you may notice memories, emotions, physical sensations, images, or new connections arising naturally. You remain aware and in control throughout the process.
You don't have to know exactly what needs to change before you begin. Part of the process is allowing your mind and body to discover what is ready to be processed.
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My approach to EMDR is collaborative, integrative, and tailored to you. While EMDR provides the framework for processing, I draw from my training in trauma therapy, IFS-informed work, somatic approaches, attachment-based therapy, and yoga to understand the larger patterns underneath what you're experiencing.
Because healing isn't only cognitive, I may also incorporate movement, breathwork, and somatic exploration into our work. This can help you connect with the wisdom of your body and access experiences that may be difficult to reach through words alone. Movement can also be a powerful way to help your nervous system experience something different—not just understand it intellectually.
We won't rush the process or force you into a protocol that doesn't feel right. Together, we'll listen to what your mind and body are communicating and work at a pace that supports genuine integration.
EMDR can be especially powerful when you understand your patterns intellectually but still find yourself reacting in ways you can't seem to change.
You don't have to keep understanding why you feel this way. You can begin to experience something different.
The goal isn't simply to feel different during a session. It's to create meaningful change that you can carry with you beyond it.
Together, we work with the deeper patterns that shape your emotional, physical, and relational experience—so change becomes something you experience, not just something you understand.