ONLINE EMDR THERAPY FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS 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 in therapy. I offer EMDR therapy for teens 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.

A group of clients sitting on yoga mats arranged in a circle, practicing breathwork taught to them by Jackie Curry

Types of Therapy

for Trauma

Some of my favorite approaches to treating trauma include EMDR, somatic therapy, and internal family systems which can be combined to help you find healing in every part of you; body, mind, and spirit.  These therapies are proven to work, even without having to talk about every uncomfortable detail of your difficult experiences.  How great is that?

To ensure I’m equipped to support you with as many tools as possible, I’ve incorporated this whole-self philosophy into my training. I’ve completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) so that I can deliver mindful movement alongside other therapies. I am an EMDR certified therapist in addition to being a licensed social worker, so I’d be happy to help you find the right balance of holistic healing in your life.

Oregon therapist Jackie Curry and a friend hold a yoga pose on a dock, overlooking the lake after a healing trauma therapy session.

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 and 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.

  • As briefly or as slowly as you need it to, honestly. My goal is to help you get the tools you need so you can get back to your life as scheduled. 

    You don’t want to be beholden to therapy any more than you want to be tied to trauma, so whatever you need to get where you’re going, we can figure it out together. No matter the pace you choose, my door will be open to you if you need me.

  • There’s no trauma that’s “too small” to get support in moving past. 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.

  • Healing is often painful and no one talks about that. But we will. If it does hurt, we can slow down or push through. Just know that as long as we are in session together, we are going through it together. 

    If you are hurting, you will not be alone. If you need support, coping mechanisms, or just to be heard at the moment you’re in, we can go together toward the healing that’s ahead of you. 

    Healing trauma can take time but it can’t take your potential from you.

  • 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.

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.