EMDR Therapy
Are you feeling stuck in talk therapy causing you to lose hope? This can be common for people who have a mental wall or emotional block up to things from their past. Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy helps you heal from small and large traumatic and disturbing events in your life. There are moments throughout life where we unproductively process life events. This can happen through suppressing the life event, downplaying the importance of the life event, focusing on others instead of yourself and more. Our minds are beautiful and are able to protect us when we need to. That is why your mind might sometimes suppress a memory, your mind is doing this to protect you in that moment. While this is helpful at that time it may not be helpful always.
Through EMDR we will reprocess the memories that are suppressed or wrongly remembered (for example if you put the blame on yourself for a situation that was not your fault). When this is done your body and mind are able to believe positive beliefs about yourself rather than the negative ones you have been holding onto your whole life. EMDR can be helpful for people who struggle with anxiety, depression, self esteem, trauma and more. As we grow up we learn how to cope with stress and anxiety. Sometimes these coping mechanisms are maladaptive and lead to processing memories believing you are not enough or worthless.
If these memories are not reprocessed it may feel as if you constantly have a wall in front of your face and are unable to move forward. Novo Therapy helps you break down that wall and feel alive in your life.
The EMDR Institute explains EMDR Therapy as:
“When a disturbing event occurs, it can get locked in the brain with the images, sounds, thoughts, feelings and body sensations. EMDR seems to stimulate the information and allows the brain to process the experience. That may be what is happening in REM or dream sleep - the eye movements may help to process the material. It is your own brain that will be doing the healing and you are the one in control.”
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