Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
When you survive chronic trauma, persistent panic feelings, or crushing high-achiever burnout, your brain's natural information processing system locks up. The raw memories, body sensations, and self-critical beliefs get frozen in time in your nervous system.
Traditional talk therapy lets you intellectualize what happened, but keeping it conversational doesn't change how your body experiences and reacts to triggers. EMDR skips the endless story telling loops. By using targeted virtual bilateral stimulation we activate your brain's ability to process and adapt.
We go into the subconscious filing cabinets, pull out the heavy memories that hijack your peace, and strip them of their emotional change. You don't forget your history you just stop reliving it in your body and your thoughts.
Standard clinical settings try to squeeze deep trauma processing into a 50-minute session. Right when you drop your guard and allow yourself to relax, giving space to the memory, the time is up and its back to reality.
I don't do clinical fluff here. I provide custom tailored, high-impact EMDR across extended sessions for Michigan and South Carolina residents.
I utilize 90 minute blocks and trauma intensives for extended processing, nervous system relaxation, and deep-dive experiences. Stop watching the clock and give your system what it needs to relax and reset.
This trauma therapy model has been shown to be effective for trauma processing, anxiety, depression, life's distressing moments, and more. It doesn't involve retelling your story constantly.
I offer trauma informed EMDR virtually across both Michigan and South Carolina to help heal from trauma, anxiety, burnout, stress, PTSD and more.
Nervous system mapping: Pinpoint the triggers keeping your body stuck in fight-or-flight.
Bilateral Stimulaton: Use guided visual or tactile tracking over secure video to reprocess memories
Nervous System Release: File away distressing moments so your body understands it is safe to relax.
The Unfiltered Couch Counseling
Specialized neuro-experiential trauma therapy and somatic nervous system regulation for ambitious, high-functioning adults and adolescents.
The Unfiltered Couch Counseling provides specialized, private pay trauma and somatic telehealth services. I am fully licensed to practice in Michigan and registered as an active Out- of -state Telehealth provider in South Carolina.
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