No, our treatments are for anyone who has mental health symptoms preventing you from living a full life. We can help you resolve the roots of your symptoms so that you can focus on enjoying your life!

Yes! We love helping people who have not been helped by traditional first line treatments, like talk therapy or anti-depressants. Those things can both be helpful, but they usually don't involve finding and resolving the root of symptoms, which is what we do best. We have successfully helped many people with a life-long history of trauma or with many failed attempts at medications or other treatments.

We have other effective trauma treatment tools we will offer you in addition to EMDR, but we encourage you to have a conversation with us and see if it's possible EMDR might still be helpful. There are many EMDR therapists in the world, many of them good, but others of them don't follow protocol or don't have the advanced, in-depth training to work with complex issues. Basic training alone does not equip someone to work with complex trauma. We are dedicated to ongoing training and consultation and have many hours of advanced training under our belts. It is rare that we find a client who doesn't benefit from this work with the model and training that we use.

If you have a regular therapist you love, we encourage you to continue seeing them while you are doing work with us. We are happy to collaborate with them, and it can be helpful to have that person to help you process and integrate the big shifts that can occur during this work.

Some clients look forward to telling the story of something bad that has happened to them and having someone who is trained and compassionate listen to them. Others would rather not. In this treatment, you do not have to say aloud anything unless you want to. We can do this treatment with zero knowledge of the details, other than it is helpful to know the age range of the thing we are working on. You will likely have to bring some difficult memories up in your own mind and feel the feelings associated with them, but then we will quickly use our tools to help reduce the distress and discomfort of the memories.

Treatment time varies widely depending on how much trauma you have experienced in your life, the severity of your symptoms, and when they started. A one time trauma, such as a traumatic wreck, loss of a loved one, or medical event, can often be successfully treated in several hours or a handful of sessions. A history of complex, severe trauma that started young may take many months to treat. We can discuss our estimate for treatment after your initial intake and assessment.