EMDR Trauma Therapy in California & NEW YORK
Culturally Sensitive Individual Counseling and EMDR Trauma Therapy
Are you experiencing persistent distress that impacts your ability to live the life you deserve?
Do you struggle to regulate your emotions due to overwhelming stress and anxiety? Are your relationships affected by traumatic experiences and intrusive thoughts?
People grappling with trauma, complex trauma, PTSD, and chronic stress often experience overwhelming emotions, intrusive memories, and persistent anxiety that disrupt their daily lives. These struggles can lead to difficulties with life transitions, strained relationships, and a pervasive sense of helplessness or hypervigilance.
Individual Counseling provides a safe environment to explore thoughts and emotions, understand challenges, and develop coping strategies using approaches like CBT and other modalities, with the ultimate goal of empowering clients to enhance their well-being.
EMDR Therapy offers a structured approach to reprocess traumatic memories, alleviating distress, and fostering healing.
By addressing the root causes of your pain, you can reclaim control over your life, develop healthier coping strategies, and find relief from the debilitating effects of past traumas.
We may be a good fit for you if you are looking to:
Feel a sense of relief and emotional liberation
Experience reduced anxiety, diminished intrusive thoughts, and an overall improvement in emotional regulation
Gain a clearer perspective on your past experiences
Increase your self-awareness
Maintain healthy relationships
Increase boundaries - guilt free
Enhance your coping strategies to effectively manage stress and trauma
Leave therapy feeling empowered, resilient, and equipped with the tools needed to navigate your daily life
What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment approach that has been widely validated by research to treat post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, phobias, anxiety disorders, sexual and physical abuse, disturbing memories, additions, and complicated grief.
EMDR is a late‐stage trauma resolution modality that currently has more scientific research for treatment of trauma than any other non‐pharmaceutical intervention. EMDR has proven to be an efficacious and rapid method of reprocessing traumatic material. Research on other applications of EMDR is now in progress.
EMDR is a simple but efficient therapy using bilateral stimulation (BLS) tapping, auditory tones or eye movements to accelerate the brain’s capacity to process and heal a troubling memory. BLS, which occurs naturally during dream sleep, causes the two brain parts to work together to reintegrate the memory. Some clients experience relief or positive effects in just a few sessions. EMDR is effective in alleviating trauma-related symptoms, whether the traumatic event occurred many years ago or yesterday. It gives desired results –with little talking, without using drugs, and requires no “homework” between sessions.
EMDR Therapy can be safely done both in-person and online.
How does the EMDR Therapy process work?
Get to know the 8 phases of EMDR Therapy:
EMDR Intensives
We also offer EMDR intensives, which are extended and concentrated sessions of EMDR therapy that are conducted over a shorter period of time than traditional weekly sessions.
Instead of spreading therapy out over several weeks or months, intensives involve multiple sessions scheduled closely together, often over the course of several consecutive days or a weekend.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Individual counseling is one-on-one therapy focused on your specific concerns, goals, and life experiences. It can be helpful if you’re dealing with anxiety, trauma, depression, stress, relationship challenges, or major life transitions. You don’t need to be in crisis to start—many people come to therapy simply to better understand themselves and feel more balanced.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured therapy approach used to help people process traumatic or distressing experiences. It works by helping the brain reprocess memories that feel “stuck,” so they become less emotionally intense over time. EMDR does not require you to go into graphic detail about past events to be effective
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EMDR can be helpful for people experiencing trauma, PTSD, anxiety, panic, phobias, or lingering emotional reactions to past events. During your initial sessions, we’ll talk through your history, symptoms, and goals to decide together whether EMDR is a good fit or if another approach may better support you right now
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An EMDR session usually includes brief check-ins, guided focus on thoughts or memories, and bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements or tapping). You remain fully awake and in control the entire time. Sessions are paced carefully, and we regularly pause to make sure you feel grounded and supported throughout the process.
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No. You are never required to share more than you feel comfortable with. Therapy moves at your pace, and your sense of safety comes first. With EMDR especially, you don’t need to describe traumatic events in detail for the work to be effective. We focus on what feels manageable for you.
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The length of therapy varies from person to person. Some clients come for short-term support around a specific issue, while others choose ongoing therapy for deeper or longer-term work. We’ll regularly check in about your progress and goals so therapy remains helpful and aligned with what you need.
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Individual counseling can support concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, life transitions, stress, and relationship difficulties. It can also help if you feel “stuck,” overwhelmed, or disconnected and aren’t sure why. Therapy is a space to explore these experiences without judgment.
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Feeling nervous is very common, especially if this is your first time in therapy. It’s okay to bring those feelings into the room. Early sessions are focused on building trust, understanding what you’re looking for, and helping you feel comfortable. There’s no pressure to have everything figured out before you begin.