Somatic EMDR & EMDR Intensives
Somatic EMDR Therapy
Somatic EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a powerful 8-phase trauma therapy that helps people reprocess traumatic memories using bilateral eye movements or other forms of rhythmic, left-right stimulation. Somatic EMDR focuses on both the body's felt sense of the traumatic experience and the thoughts or beliefs to help release trauma. Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) integrates Somatic EMDR to focus on missing attachment experiences and healing relational trauma.
The Art of Healing offers Somatic EMDR therapy as traditional weekly sessions or as EMDR Intensives.
Traditional Weekly Sessions
Traditional weekly sessions of Somatic EMDR can help you make steady progress towards healing past trauma. These sessions involve us getting to know each other, working together to map out memories you’d like to target, and building somatic resources in preparation for your reprocessing. The work within these sessions is paced to your nervous system. These sessions are offered as 50-60 minutes, with 90 minutes reserved specifically for reprocessing sessions.
EMDR Intensives
EMDR Intensives are multi-hour sessions that offer deeper, focused, and more spacious trauma healing. Intensives can be ideal for individuals who are looking to heal a recent traumatic experience, a single traumatic experience from earlier in life, or complex and repeated traumatic experiences. EMDR Intensives are paced to your nervous system, both in length and in the work within them. You are always welcome to begin with traditional weekly EMDR sessions before transitioning to EMDR Intensives.
EMDR Intensives include a 90 minute initial session and are offered as 2, 3, 4, or 6 hour sessions.
If you are a Black or Brown lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans/nonbinary/GNC, or two-spirit person who has experienced a traumatic or distressing event within the last three months, please reach out to our program, Rooted Together, for information about free trauma therapy support.