Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on healing from emotional distress or symptoms that have resulted after a disturbing life experience. EMDR focuses on your present concerns and works to heal the brain and body from trauma much like the body heals from physical injury. This approach believes past emotionally charged experiences are overly influencing your present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about yourself.

EMDR processing helps you break through the emotional blocks that are keeping you from living an adaptive, emotionally healthy life. With the aid of EMDR therapy, the mental blocks that are preventing you from getting better can be integrated resulting in a more beneficial and therapeutic experience.

EMDR uses rapid sets of eye movements to help you update disturbing experiences, much like what occurs when we sleep. During sleep, we alternate between regular sleep and REM (rapid eye movement). This sleep pattern helps you process things that are troubling you. EMDR replicates this sleep pattern by alternating between sets of eye movements and brief reports about what you are noticing. This alternating process helps you update your memories to a healthier present perspective.

Woven Nest has four clinicians who are trained in EMDR Therapy including Megan, Cadence, Kelly and MacKenzie.

Here are a couple of videos about EMDR to help understand how it works: