How it works

EMDR does not require you to talk through a traumatic memory in detail or to complete homework between sessions. Instead, your therapist guides you through short sets of bilateral stimulation — usually guided eye movements — while you briefly hold the memory in mind. Over time this helps the brain reprocess the experience so it is stored as a memory rather than something that keeps reactivating in the present.

EMDR may be a fit if you are living with

• Post-traumatic stress or a single distressing event
• Childhood or complex trauma
• Anxiety or panic tied to a specific memory
• Grief, loss, or a difficult medical experience
• Distress that talk therapy alone has not resolved

Available in person at our Mendota Heights clinic or through a virtual session.