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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.

EMDR therapy (including remote EMDR) does not require talking in detail about the distressing issue or completing homework between sessions. Rather than focusing on changing the emotions, thoughts, or behaviors resulting from the distressing issue, EMDR therapy allows the brain to resume its natural healing process. And, in supporting your brain’s natural ability to recover from trauma, EMDR can help you overcome the discomfort of the “fight, flight, or freeze” response.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple, and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal. 

IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a modality that champions our innate healing capacities and seeks to clinically improve neuroplasticity. AEDP views crisis and suffering as opportunities for each client to find their own ability to heal and can be transformative for people with depression, anxiety, trauma, or general distress.

The key to AEDP’s therapeutic action is through the in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences and establishing the therapeutic relationship as both safe haven and a secure base. Once that’s established, we work with emotional experience, working experientially toward healing trauma and suffering and toward expanding emergent positive transformational experiences. 

Somatic Experiencing is a potent psychobiological method for resolving trauma symptoms and relieving chronic stress. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics. This trauma therapy encourages somatic release, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.

Polyvagal Theory (or the “science of feeling safe”) focuses on what is happening in the body and the nervous system. It explains how our sense of safety, danger, or threat can impact our behavior. Understanding Polyvagal Theory gives us a scientific framework that can be applied through physiological or “bottom-up” therapies to help change and improve how we feel, think, and connect with others. 

The Safe and Sound Protocol, or SSP, is a non-invasive application of polyvagal therapy, and its effectiveness has been proven in a wide range of studies. It is a 5-hour program designed to reduce stress and auditory sensitivity while enhancing social engagement and resilience. Prosodic vocal music is modulated to train the neural network associated with listening, to focus on the frequency envelope of human speech. This helps clients to better interpret the meaning and intent of conversations, improve their sense of safety in interpersonal relations, improve social connection, and support behavioral regulation. 

The Comprehensive Resource Model® (CRM) is a neuro-biologically based, affect-focused trauma treatment model which facilitates targeting of traumatic experiences by bridging the most primitive aspects of the person and their brain (midbrain/brainstem) to their purest, healthiest parts of the self.  

This bridge catalyzes the mind and body to access all forms of emotional trauma and stress by utilizing layers of internal resources such as attachment neurobiology, beneficial affiliation neurochemistry, breathwork skills, brain neuroplasticity, our deep connection to the natural world for survival, toning, and sacred geometry, and one’s relationship with self, our intuition, and higher consciousness. The sequencing and combination of these resources and the eye positions that anchor them allow unbearable emotions and pain to be stepped into and felt fully. At the same time, the client is fully present and aware from moment to moment, which changes how the memories affect the person.