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Somatic EMDR is EMDR therapy with a focus on the body. In traditional EMDR, the therapist asks about the emotions, the negative thoughts, the intensity, and the body, and then proceeds with trauma processing. Depending on the therapist and how they were trained, they may or may not ask follow up questions about these specific areas. When EMDR is done with a somatic focus, there is more focus placed on the body and the nervous system. For example, when I do EMDR with client

An EMDR Intensive is similar to EMDR therapy that happens in weekly sessions, but there are a few key differences. In regular EMDR therapy, we spend part of each hour checking in and then part of the hour grounding before closing, meaning that only a 30-45 minutes is spent doing processing. In an EMDR intensive, we do long chunks of work at once, so that once we get into the more intense pieces of processing, we can keep going until we finish the memory we are working on and

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is a therapy modality that involves using eye movements (or other types of movements, called bilateral stimulation) to move stuckness out of the body, brain, and nervous system. It is a structured treatment that looks very different from other types of therapy. In EMDR therapy, your therapist will guide you through identifying which memories and experiences you will treat, and then they will guide you thro