EMDR THERAPIST IN CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE.

Heal the heartache. Learn to thrive.

 

Does it feel like your life is out of control?

You may feel confused and not sure why you’re feeling this way. You might have this nagging feeling in the pit of your stomach that something feels off, and you don’t know what it is. You pride yourself on figuring things out and are a problem-solver. You feel scared because you’ve been the person who has their ‘shit’ together and has been the go-to person in your family.

But lately, you’ve been crying more, hiding in the bathroom, scrolling on your phone, and trying to avoid family and friends. You have this heartache that’s hard to put in words. You feel more irritable, and not knowing what’s wrong leaves you feeling inadequate and out of control.

You try to throw yourself into work and other projects. You like focus, but lately, doing anything feels like a chore. You’re not the women, mother, or wife you want to be.

 

You deserve someone who gets you.

Whether you’re struggling with flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, anxiety in your relationships, or simply wanting to feel more secure and connected to those close to you…EMDR can help.

You can be in control of your life and express yourself more freely. Therapy provides you with a space to explore your feelings and thoughts and how they impact your behavior. You’ll be able to understand where your feelings are coming from, be able or process them, and feel more in control.

You’ll have more energy to spend with your kids, connect with your spouse, and show up as the woman, mother, and spouse you know you are. You’ll be able to go through your day with ease and not feel the weight of the world on your shoulders. You find it easier to express and connect with the people you love.

You’ll notice your confidence in yourself increase, and you can express yourself freely with your family.  

I bring a warm, empathic, and challenging style to therapy. I believe feeling truly understood helps you tap into your inner strength to help guide your healing. Through EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy), I help you move through the emotions and memories of the past that make you feel stuck and unable to move on with your life.

What we’ll work on:

  • Calming down your nervous system

  • Reduce the flashbacks and memories

  • Identify the negative beliefs and change them

  • Help you move through your inner blocks

  • Gain more control of your life

  • Process your emotions

  • Reconnect with your hope and natural resilience

  • Improve your ability to thrive and have the meaning that you deserve

  • Help you be the woman, mother, creative, and spouse you know you are!

Write your new story with EMDR.

 

EMDR Therapy can help. Holistic Trauma & EMDR Therapy:

It might feel hard to believe that you can feel in control, but you can heal your heartache & from what has happened to you. You may have been hurt once or repeatedly. There’s hope that you can heal from the pain. You can have deep, lasting change. And I help you get there by offering a mind-body connection that goes beyond talking, I help you feel the change in your body and your life!  You don’t even have to talk about what happened if you don’t want to.

Build on your unique and innate strengths with practical skills to help you calm your nervous system, tolerate stress better, and handle overwhelming emotions so you can feel more in control of your life, be more present and build your resilience. 

  1. Reprocess painful memories, draining away the emotional charge locked into them at the time of the trauma so that you can access more positive beliefs about yourself and the world. 

  2. Take those gains made in the therapy room out into real life to transform your relationships, your self-esteem, and your future.

  3. Take those gains made in the therapy room out into real life to transform your relationships, your self-esteem, and your future.

Let’s help you feel in control and thrive!

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FAQS

What others have wondered about EMDR Therapy.

 

  • “The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places” Ernest Hemingway.

    EMDR is highly researched in the mental health field and uses evidenced-based techniques in therapy.

    Sometimes we have experiences that change our beliefs about ourselves, and after a while, we start to believe that story/belief about ourselves. People perceive trauma as a big event such as a natural disaster, sexual abuse, or physical/mental abuse. But it is NOT! Trauma could be a young girl needing help but getting shot down and told to buckle up and deal with it. Or a young person gets made fun of in class for the way they look and dress outside their control.

    When we have a trauma response, we are usually in shame. We are social creatures, and our brain is wired for connection.

    These traumatic experiences and memory networks are stored in our brains. Our brain is wired to store these stories/memories with our physical sensations, images, thoughts, feelings, etc. There is communication between our amygdala (alarm system for stressful events), the hippocampus (assist with learning, memories about safety and danger), and the pre-frontal cortex (control behaviors and emotions). Most of the time, the brain can naturally work through the traumatic event and does not cause stress responses.

    Sometimes, our brain cannot process the event without help. Our minds can trick us into thinking that we are reliving painful experiences. EMDR brain helps the brain reprocess our fight, flight, freeze response and restore balance.

    In my experience, clients tend to blame themselves for their blockages, yet it is a brain thing, which means that different levels of stress influence the brain and get stuck in the nervous system. We are working on the neurological rewiring of your brain, which leads to you changing your negative pattern to nourishing and feeding your life.

  • After history taking, we identify the negative beliefs around the traumatic event (I am not safe, I do not have value, I am not enough, I am not worthy). Then, we use a 30-second rapid eye movement set to help you move through those beliefs, and we identify the positive beliefs you want to move to cultivate in your life.

  • This is based on your needs and your motivation for change. The more you do the work, exercises, process feelings, and practice the skills, the more you benefit from therapy.

    I’ll check in with you every three months to see how you’re doing and the progress you feel you’re making.

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.

EMDR Therapy for:

  • Generational Trauma

  • Childhood sexual trauma

  • Gaslighting 

  • Emotional Abuse

  • Mental Abuse