EMDR

Picture your brain as a forest filled with winding paths. These paths represent the ways your thoughts, feelings, and memories travel. When life is calm, the paths are clear, and you can move easily from one idea to another.

Then a storm hits, this storm is trauma. It knocks down trees, scatters branches, and leaves debris everywhere. Some of the main paths you used to rely on are now blocked. Your brain, trying to keep you moving, creates new paths around the fallen trees. These detours might help you survive in the moment, but they’re often rough, confusing, and lead to places you don’t want to go, like anxiety, self-blame, or fear.

EMDR is like a team of gentle forest rangers. They don’t bulldoze the forest or erase the storm. Instead, they slowly clear the fallen trees and branches from the original paths, the ones that lead to healthy, balanced thinking. As the paths reopen, your thoughts can flow freely again, without getting stuck or lost in those stressful detours.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy that helps process traumatic or distressing memories that feel “stuck.” When trauma occurs, the brain’s communication system can go offline, leaving the memory stored on the right side, where emotions and sensory experiences live, without the left side, which organizes and makes sense of events, 

stepping in to help. 

This imbalance can keep triggering stress long after the event, causing the brain to react as if the danger is still present by going into fight, flight, or freeze mode. While these responses were helpful during the original event, they limit our quality of life when triggered by reminders of the past. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, hand buzzers, butterfly taps, or alternating sounds, to activate both sides of the brain, reconnecting the hemispheres and allowing the memory to move from raw emotional 

storage to a more balanced, logical place. 

Think of it as giving your brain the tools to finish processing what got interrupted during trauma, so you can feel calmer, safer, and more in control.