EMDR Therapy

EMDR IN CALIFORNIA

Here’s a hard truth: trauma isn’t just a story you tell — it’s stored in your body. And no matter how much you talk it through in traditional talk therapy, intellectualizing your pain might not be enough to heal it.

So how do we reduce your trauma symptoms & help you move forward in life?

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) is a safe & effective therapy tool used to resolve unprocessed trauma memories & symptoms. Unlike traditional talk therapy, you won’t verbally rehash the trauma over and over again, which can be retraumatizing, dysregulating, & counterproductive to your healing.

And @ Big Mood Therapy, your EMDR therapy is 100% online.

The nitty gritty of EMDR therapy in The San Francisco Bay Area

First, we’ll make sure you’ve got some banging coping strategies prior to your EMDR Therapy. We’ll make sure that you are prepared for your trauma reprocessing by learning coping skills for dealing with some big emotions that might come up during your EMDR sessions.

Then we’ll get comfy.

 

Emotional support water bottle?

Check

 

A calm & serene environment?

Check

 

Post-therapy snacks?

Check

 

Finally, we’ll start each EMDR session by picking an unpleasant memory or disturbing experience contributing to your unwanted symptoms.

You’ll recall the details of the event in your mind, and we’ll use visual & auditory bilateral stimulation (back and forth movement) to safely guide you through the painful sensations, emotions, thoughts, & beliefs resulting from the disturbing memory. 

How EMDR CAN HELP

We can’t go back and change or erase what happened to you.

However, EMDR therapy CAN reduce the intensity of your trauma symptoms and automatic coping strategies + help you develop healthier messages about yourself and the world. EMDR can help with:

Fewer freakouts over small stuff
(Your body stops reacting like it’s DEFCON 1 every time you get ghosted or criticized.)

Less anxiety taking up precious mental real estate
(Your brain isn’t spinning worst-case scenarios on loop 24/7.)

Better sleep, less doomscrolling at 2am
(When your nervous system calms down, so do you.)

No more random crying at the drop of a hat
(Emotions stop exploding out of nowhere. Unless it's a dog reunion video, then fair.)

Physical symptoms that finally make sense
(That constant stomach achE? That chest tightness? Trauma’s sneaky like that — but EMDR helps release it.)

Less snapping at people you love
(Because you’re not stuck in fight/flight and running on fumes anymore.)

More confidence, fewer self-drag spirals
(You stop defining yourself by old wounds and actually start liking who you are.)

Clarity and peace you didn’t know were possible
(Not ✨fixed✨ — just more regulated, more grounded, and more you.)

Ready for real & lasting relief for your trauma symptoms, unhelpful looping thought patterns, challenging relationship dynamics, and old ways of automatic coping?

Get started on your EMDR therapy journey now.

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