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EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy

"EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms of emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, the healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain's information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing process." (Excerpt from www.emdr.com)

Watch these brief films from the EMDR International Association to learn more about EMDR therapy.

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Desirée Helfrick, MA, MHP, LMHC
117 S. Cedar Street, Suite 2
Buckley, WA 98321
desiree@cedarstreetcounseling.com 
​Phone: (360) 382-7269
Fax: (360) 326-1154 

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." --Rainier Maria Rilke 
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