Traditional Trauma Therapies
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)​
After EMDR, “the troubling memories can be more comfortably recalled as “just something that happened” and for the individual to easily believe “It’s over.”
~ EMDRIA​
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is a psychotherapy treatment that is effective for resolving emotional difficulties caused by disturbing, difficult, or frightening life experiences. When individuals are traumatized, have upsetting experiences or repeated failures, they lose a sense of control over their lives. This can result in symptoms of anxiety, depression, irritability, anger, guilt, and/or behavioral problems. EMDR therapy helps resolve the troubling thoughts and feelings related to the distressing memories so that individuals can return to their normal developmental tasks and prior levels of coping. In addition, EMDR therapy can help to strengthen feelings of confidence, calmness and mastery.
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Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT)
TF-CBT is a conjoint child and parent psychotherapy approach for children and adolescents who are experiencing significant emotional and behavioral difficulties related to traumatic life events. Children and parents learn new skills to help process thoughts and feelings related to traumatic life events; manage and resolve distressing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related traumatic life events; and enhance safety, growth, parenting skills, and family communication.
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BrainSpotting
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Brainspotting is based on the profound attunement of the therapist with the patient, finding a somatic cue and extinguishing it by down-regulating the amygdala. It isn’t just PNS (Parasympathetic Nervous System) activation that is facilitated, it is homeostasis”
—Robert Scaer, MD, “The Trauma Spectrum”
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Brainspotting is a focused, body-based psychotherapy approach that helps identify and process the impact of distressing or overwhelming life experiences. When individuals experience trauma, repeated stress, or emotional overwhelm, these experiences can become stored in the body and nervous system, leading to symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, difficulty regulating emotions, and behavioral challenges. Brainspotting works by using specific eye positions to access and process these unprocessed experiences at a deeper, brain-body level. This allows individuals to release emotional distress, increase regulation, and restore a sense of safety and control. As a result, individuals are better able to return to their natural developmental path and experience increased confidence, resilience, and connection.