ONLINE EMDR THERAPY FOR TRAUMA IN OREGON
Online Trauma Therapy
Just for You
It can be hard to take a step toward healing when you feel rooted to the trauma points in your life. But we can make sense of it together.
I offer EMDR therapy for women and young adults looking for support with difficult or traumatic life experiences.
Let’s Call it
Trauma
Something I’ve found in my work with clients is just how difficult it is to name some of the traumas we’ve been through in our lives. We’re more comfortable with terms like “difficult life experiences” or “challenges”, or “shitty childhood.” Whether it was a one-time event or a chronic sense of feeling unsafe, those experiences stick with you and show up in your life in a multitude of ways. Calling it what it is—trauma—and working with a trauma-informed therapist can help you to wrap words around your experience, find understanding and clarity and then be better able to manage it.
Types of Therapy
for Trauma
My primary approach to treating trauma is EMDR therapy — a powerful, evidence-based method that helps you heal without having to relive every painful detail. EMDR allows your brain to process what’s been stuck so you can finally move forward.
I also draw on body-based wisdom from my yoga training to help you reconnect with your sense of safety. While EMDR is the foundation of our work, I tailor each session to your needs so that healing feels grounded and holistic.
Benefits of healing
trauma
The traumas we’ve experienced are not the easy, breezy parts of us that we like others to see. Instead, they’re kept in the shadowy depths that do not easily or painlessly come to the surface for us to see. Still, once you learn skills to contain and cope with the pain and memories that arise, you’ll be able to move forward in life.
Here are some of the benefits of addressing your trauma(s) in therapy:
Recognize the feelings, events, and experiences that trigger you
Create a skill set of healthy coping tools you can access when you need them
Experience less disruption due to unexpected symptoms of traumatic stress
Have support while confronting your trauma during healing
Practice active processing and integration to speed up your recovery and return to a life you love
Feel calm and safe in your body again
EMDR & Trauma
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, or EMDR, was originally developed to help sufferers of PTSD who saw no improvements with other methods of treatment. EMDR works by bypassing the communication and information processing areas of your brain.
Using repetitive movements of the eyes to bypass the deeply painful emotional response to trauma, EMDR allows you to access less painful and faster healing by taking a shortcut through the neural networks of your mind to reprocess your experiences.
EMDR can help you get control of racing thoughts, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmares and other disruptive symptoms related to unprocessed and exceptionally painful experiences.
Ask Me
Anything
You’ve got questions and I want to make sure you’ve got the space to ask them! Here are just a few of the questions I get the most.
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It depends on your goals and what kind of support you’re looking for. EMDR can be surprisingly efficient — some clients come in for just a few targeted sessions, while others prefer a steadier, longer-term approach. I offer standard sessions, extended sessions, and EMDR intensives, so we can create a plan that fits your pace and your life.
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Yes. 1000% yes. Trauma isn’t about how “big” or dramatic the event was — it’s about how it landed in your nervous system.
Trauma is more than the cultural notion that trauma must be something huge like a pandemic, a wildfire, or a tragic loss (and yeah, it’s absolutely those things too).
Trauma is anything that happens to you beyond the point of feeling like you can safely cope. If you’re in that place, it’s worth the effort, money, and energy to heal.
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Healing is often painful and no one talks about that. It might feel uncomfortable at times — that’s part of the process. But EMDR is designed to keep things manageable. You don’t have to relive everything or talk through every painful detail. We’ll move at your pace, and I’ll be right there with you to make sure you feel safe and supported.
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Not at all. One of the most powerful things about EMDR therapy is that you don’t have to talk through every detail for it to be effective. We focus on how the memory is held in your body and mind now, and use EMDR techniques to help your brain do the healing work it was never able to finish.
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That’s totally okay — and incredibly common. Trauma memories are often fragmented or fuzzy, and you do not need a complete story to begin healing. EMDR works with the emotions, body sensations, and beliefs that are still lingering, even when the full memory isn’t accessible.
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Trauma is more than a feeling or a response to a feeling. Your mental health is an experience that your whole body has and sometimes, those feelings can get stuck in weird places and cause tension and pain that definitely isn’t doing you any favors.
While yoga isn’t going to heal your trauma or solve all your problems, it can help you work out the physical pain that is connected to the emotional trauma you bear.
Yoga-based practices can support trauma healing by helping you reconnect with your body in a gentle, grounded way. I sometimes incorporate breathwork, movement, or body awareness into EMDR sessions when it’s helpful — no flexibility or yoga mat required. It’s just another tool to help you feel more at home in yourself.
Ready to get started?
Trauma is a huge disruptor in life. It stalls, it stunts, and it sucks. And trauma left unprocessed will continue to show up in your life until you find the bravery to deal with it. If you’re ready to find holistic healing from trauma—bodily safety and emotional clarity—I’m ready too.