Attachment Focused - EMDR

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps the brain process experiences that continue to feel emotionally or physically present, even when you know they’re in the past.

Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) builds on traditional EMDR with greater attention to relationship, attachment, and the emotional resources you may have needed but didn’t receive at the time.

Using bilateral stimulation, often through guided eye movements or alternating taps, we work with memories, emotions, beliefs, and physical sensations connected to an experience.

AF-EMDR is especially useful when what you’re struggling with isn’t simply what happened, but what you came to believe because of it:

I’m not safe.
I’m not enough.
I have to get it right.
I can’t trust anyone.
I have to take care of everything myself.

Those beliefs may once have made sense. They don’t have to keep determining what happens next.

The goal isn’t to erase the past. It’s to help you experience it differently in the present.

Trauma isn’t defined only by what happened. It’s also about what happened inside you as a result.

Sometimes there is a clear event: an accident, assault, loss, betrayal, frightening experience, medical event, or other experience that continues to feel emotionally present.

Sometimes it’s more complicated. There may not be one event you can point to. Instead, there were repeated experiences of criticism, rejection, instability, neglect, not feeling safe, or not getting what you needed from the people you depended on.

And sometimes the lasting effects look surprisingly functional: perfectionism, hyper-independence, people-pleasing, over-responsibility, staying constantly alert, avoiding conflict, or needing to get everything right.

AF-EMDR helps us work with both the experience and what your nervous system learned from it.

We can’t change what happened.

We can help your mind and body recognize that it isn’t happening now.

Tou’ve prepared. You know your material. You have the experience and the ability.

And then the stakes get high and your nervous system has other ideas.

Performance anxiety can show up in presentations, public speaking, interviews, auditions, difficult conversations, leadership situations, or any moment when you feel watched, evaluated, or under pressure.

Sometimes there’s a specific experience behind it: freezing during a presentation, being criticized publicly, forgetting what you wanted to say, or experiencing a failure or embarrassment that your brain has become determined not to repeat.

Sometimes there isn’t.

AF-EMDR can help us work with the memories, fears, beliefs, and physical responses that interfere with your ability to access what you already know how to do.

The goal isn’t to eliminate adrenaline or make you stop caring.

It’s to help you remain connected to yourself when the room is watching.

Presence begins on the inside.

Ketamine-Assisted Therapy can help you break through persistent emotional barriers and find relief from chronic depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It facilitates deeper self-exploration and offers new perspectives on your mental health, promoting emotional resilience and long-term positive changes. By combining the therapeutic effects of ketamine with psychotherapy, this approach can enhance your ability to process and heal from past traumas, improve your overall mood, and foster a greater sense of well-being.