go beyond traditional talk therapy.

EMDR Therapy in Rye Brook, New York and virtually throughout New York State

closed eyes, eye movement desensitization and restructuring therapy utilized eye movements to reprocess memories and emotions

You’ve tried everything you can think of to feel better, but nothing’s sticking.

Maybe you’ve been to therapy before, but you still feel intense distress surrounding traumatic experiences or memories

But you’re still…

Feeling intense and heightened emotions

Struggling with anxiety, panic attacks or intrusive thoughts

Reliving emotional trauma when something reminds you of the memory

EMDR therapy can help you “reprocess” and move past emotionally intense memories.

EMDR is an evidence-based method that uses eye movements or rhythmic tapping to change the way a memory is stored in the brain allowing the brain to reprocess the memory with less intense, emotional reactions.


  • EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements or tapping), to reduce the vividness and emotions associated with the trauma memories and beliefs.

    After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced.

    During EMDR therapy, the client attends to emotionally disturbing material in brief sequential doses while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. Eye movements (such as tracking the therapist's fingers as they move left to right) or slow, rhythmic "tapping" are similar to the rapid eye movement (REM) experiences during the sleep stage when you dream and your brain processes experiences and forms connections.

  • EMDR is an individual therapy typically delivered one to two times per week for a total of 6-12 sessions. You will be encouraged to briefly focus on an emotional memory while performing side-to-side eye movements or bilateral rhythmic tapping.

  • There are many theories about how EMDR works. One is that by recalling a memory as your eyes simultaneously move back and forth your brain must split its resources making upsetting images less vivid and creating emotional distance. Another is that the process is relaxing and your brain begins to associate the memory you recall with relaxation rather than the prior emotion.

At the end of the day, I want you to know:

It doesn’t have to be this hard. EMDR may help as it works differently than other psychotherapeutic interventions

Is EMDR right for you?

EMDR may be a good fit for you if you…

  • Have experienced trauma

  • Experience stress, anxiety, panic attacks or intrusive thoughts

  • Struggle with phobias, depression, and chronic pain

  • Have recurring self-defeating patterns of behavior and negative thoughts

  • Have performance anxiety (ie. sports or public speaking)

  • Have difficulty talking about traumatic events

You dont  have to feel like this.

You don’t have to feel like this.

have Questions?

FAQs

  • Other therapies focus on directly altering the emotions, thoughts and responses resulting from traumatic experiences, while EMDR therapy focuses directly on the memory, changing the way that the memory is stored in the brain, reducing and eliminating the problematic symptoms.

  • Unlike hypnosis, in EMDR therapy you do not ever enter a translike state nor is subconscious suggestion used.