EMDR Therapy
You’ve already done meaningful therapy, yet you still feel stuck.
You understand what is happening, yet still react with old patterns.
I offer collaborative, trauma-informed EMDR Therapy to help you reprocess those stuck points with choice, safety and confidence.
What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured psychotherapy approach designed to help people reprocess experiences that continue to affect the way they think, feel, respond or relate in the present.
Sometimes you can understand intellectually that an experience is in the past, yet still notice that your body, emotions or patterns respond as though it is happening in the present. EMDR provides a way of working with those experiences that goes beyond simply talking about them.
My approach to EMDR is collaborative and individualized. We don't move into reprocessing simply because a memory has been identified. Together, we pay attention to what happens within you and what may be needed for you to approach the work with greater safety, choice and confidence.
When useful, I may integrate IFS-informed work, trauma-sensitive movement, somatic awareness and nervous-system regulation within the EMDR framework to support your therapeutic goals.
EMDR Therapy does not erase what happened. It is meant to help the past feel more like the past, so you have greater freedom in how you respond in the present.
Building Interoceptive Awareness
An important part of trauma therapy can be rebuilding the ability to notice what is happening inside your body without becoming overwhelmed by it — something many people find difficult both in daily life and during EMDR Therapy. Trauma Centre Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) offers trauma-sensitive principles and practices that can support this work.
TCTSY emphasizes agency, choice, present-moment awareness, shared power and authentic experience. Rather than focusing on moving “correctly,” the emphasis is on your power to choose: you are invited to move, invited to notice sensations and invited to choose if and how you want to respond.
You have opportunities to experience what it feels like to make choices with and for your own body.
These principles can support a greater sense of agency, increase your capacity to notice internal sensations and signs of activation earlier, and strengthen your ability to remain connected while experiencing strong emotion throughout the EMDR Therapy process.
TCTSY-informed practices may support preparation, stabilization and reprocessing throughout EMDR Therapy.
Building Capacity for EMDR Processing
EMDR Therapy includes more than reprocessing difficult experiences. Throughout the work, we also pay attention to what helps you remain present, recognize activation and return to a more workable range when needed.
Preparation and stabilization practices can help you become more familiar with how your system responds, experiment with different forms of support, and develop resources you can draw on before, during and between EMDR sessions.
These practices are not something you need to master before processing can begin. We can move flexibly between preparation, stabilization and reprocessing depending on what is happening for you in the moment.
You can also explore these practices independently through my free guided EMDR preparation resources.
EMDR Intensives
For some clients, a longer session can create more space to settle into the work and flow with the reprocessing once it begins.
I offer 2- and 3-hour EMDR intensive sessions for clients who would like a more concentrated format. Longer sessions can allow more time for preparation, reprocessing and integration without needing to stop simply because the appointment time has ended.
Intensives are not the right fit for everyone, and there is no expectation that you choose them. We can talk together about whether a standard session or a longer intensive feels more supportive for your goals, nervous system and current capacity.
Intensive sessions are offered at the same hourly rate as regular therapy.
Supporting Meaningful Change
Sometimes understanding a pattern is not the same as being able to change it. As old experiences begin to feel more like the past, there can be space to experiment with new choices, habits and ways of responding in the present.
Coaching-informed practices can help you clarify what matters to you, notice what may be getting in the way, explore possibilities and identify small, realistic steps toward the changes you want to make.
Within therapy, I may draw on coaching strategies when they are useful for helping you connect what you are learning about yourself with choices in your present-day life.
The emphasis remains collaborative: rather than telling you what you should do, we can become curious about what you want, what feels available to you, and what might support you in moving toward it.
You can also explore these ideas independently through my free guided coaching practices, which are designed to support reflection, self-awareness and intentional change.
Frequently Asked Questions
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I work with adults who have already done some therapy, personal growth or reflection yet continue to encounter experiences, patterns or reactions that haven’t fully shifted.
You don’t need to know exactly what needs to happen next. We can begin by being curious about what still feels unresolved and whether my approach fits what you’re looking for.
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Our first sessions give us an opportunity to understand what brings you to therapy, what you have already tried, what has been helpful and where you continue to feel stuck.
EMDR is an eight-phase therapy and reprocessing is only one part of the process.
We may spend time developing a clearer understanding of your experiences, identifying patterns or protective parts, strengthening resources and noticing what happens within your nervous system before deciding together when reprocessing feels appropriate.
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No. EMDR does not require you to tell me every detail of an experience in order for us to work with it.
We will talk enough for us to understand what you are experiencing and work safely and collaboratively, while you remain in control of what you choose to share.
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That is quite common, particularly when someone has learned to disconnect from internal sensations during overwhelming experiences.
We can approach interoceptive awareness gradually. I may incorporate trauma-sensitive movement, somatic awareness, parts-informed work and nervous-system regulation within EMDR Therapy to help you notice internal experience with greater choice and less overwhelm.
You can also explore my free guided therapeutic practices between sessions if that feels useful.
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I offer 50-, 80- and 170-minute EMDR Therapy appointments.
The length that makes sense can vary depending on where we are in the therapeutic process and the kind of work we are doing.
We can decide together what format best supports the work while respecting your capacity, time and resources.
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Current appointment fees are listed in my online booking portal. Payment can be made by e-transfer or credit card. Receipts are provided for insurance or income-tax purposes where applicable.
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I currently offer a limited number of daytime appointments. Available appointment times can be viewed through my online booking portal.
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My work is particularly suited to adults who understand a great deal about themselves but continue to experience unresolved trauma-related memories, emotional or physiological reactions, protective patterns, dissociation, or places where previous therapy has not created the shift they were hoping for.
Rather than focusing primarily on a diagnosis, we look together at what continues to feel unresolved and what may help the therapeutic process move forward.
Optional Practices to Support Your Therapeutic Journey
