EMDR Therapy Online
What is EMDR Therapy Online?
Have you found yourself in the same situation again and again, repeating thought patterns and behaviors even though you know better? Even after gaining insight in other therapies? That's because insight alone doesn't equal change in deeply held patterns. Trauma and difficult experiences get wired into our neural pathways and continue to impact our emotions, thoughts, moods, and behaviors for years.
How EMDR Therapy Online Works
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation — right and left eye movement, sound, or tactile stimulation — to repeatedly activate opposite sides of your brain. This movement supports the release of emotional experiences that have become trapped in your nervous system. EMDR removes the blocks that hold you back from healing and helps you process past images, memories, and sensations without having to relive them the way traditional exposure therapies require.
Sessions are conducted securely online, making EMDR therapy accessible from the comfort and privacy of your own home. Research consistently shows that online EMDR therapy is as effective as in-person treatment, with the added benefit of flexibility and accessibility for people managing busy schedules or living in areas with limited access to specialized trauma therapists. I completed EMDR training through EMDRIA, ensuring that every session meets the highest clinical standards for trauma treatment
How EMDR Therapy Effects the Brain
Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not be processed without help.
Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create an overwhelming feeling of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.
Relational EMDR Therapy
In relational EMDR therapy, we target the early relational experiences and attachment wounds that shaped your core beliefs about yourself and others — beliefs like “I am not enough,” “I am not safe,” “I am too much,” or “Love always comes with pain.” By reprocessing these foundational experiences, EMDR helps update the nervous system’s understanding of what relationships can feel like.
Benefits of Relational EMDR Therapy:
- Healing attachment wounds from childhood or past relationships
- Reducing people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and codependency patterns
- Building greater capacity for intimacy and trust
- Improving self-worth and reducing chronic shame
- Breaking cycles of attracting harmful relationship dynamics
- Developing more secure attachment patterns in current relationships
- Reducing anxiety and hypervigilance in relationships
Relational EMDR is particularly effective when combined with Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which helps identify and heal the protective parts of yourself that formed in response to relational pain. I have specialized training in Relational EMDR, an approach that goes beyond traditional trauma processing to address the attachment wounds and relational patterns that shape how we experience ourselves and others.
What can EMDR Therapy do? What can it treat?
- PTSD
- Trauma
- Abuse
- Panic Attacks
- Anxiety
- Mood Swings
- Sleep Difficulties
- Depression
- Intrusive thoughts
- Flashbacks
- Performance Anxiety
- Inability to love, nurture, bond
- Frequent Crying
- History of Abuse
- Sexual Assault
- Phobias
- Grief
- Disturbing memories
- Body image issues
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And more mental health concerns related to past experiences
- Nightmares
- Inability to make commitments
- Feelings of Impending Doom
- Diminished interest in life
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Illness
- Feelings of detachment
- Feelings of Isolation
- Exaggerated startle response
Clients consistently report that the emotional distress related to past experiences greatly lessens after EMDR. Many notice that sleep improves, anxiety reduces, and their overall quality of life improves significantly.
Who Is a Good Candidate for EMDR?
EMDR therapy is a strong fit if you feel stuck despite trying other approaches, if you have a sense that your reactions in the present are being driven by experiences from the past, or if traditional talk therapy hasn’t produced the change you were hoping for.
You don’t need to have experienced a major traumatic event to benefit from EMDR. Many people seek EMDR for relationship patterns, chronic anxiety, low self-worth, or a persistent feeling that something from the past is limiting their present life. If it affected you, it matters — and EMDR can help.
Where is EMDR Therapy Online Offered?
While I’m located in Ashland, OR, I offer online therapy for anxiety and panic attacks in Oregon, Washington, Georgia, Florida and New Jersey.
Contact me today to discuss whether EMDR is right for you.
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541-499-7338
Insurance Coverage:
Aetna, First Choice Health, Providence, and Pacific Source. If you have a different insurance provider, I can work with you as an out-of-network provider.
I offer a FREE 15-minute consultation.
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Center of Balance Counseling offers EMDR therapy online for adults throughout Oregon, Washington, Georgia, Florida, and New Jersey. Services include treatment for trauma, PTSD, complex PTSD, anxiety, relational trauma, attachment wounds, narcissistic abuse, childhood abuse, and grief. Online EMDR therapy is conducted via secure telehealth and is available across Portland, Eugene, Ashland, Seattle, Atlanta, and surrounding areas. EMDR certification training through EMDRIA.