EMDR FAQs

Why choose Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy?

It is a scientific, evidence-based therapy for trauma treatment.

It incorporates the whole body system, nervous system, mind, emotions, and physical sensations and negative beliefs while allowing effective processing a quicker timeframe than traditional talk therapies.

It offers a comprehensive treatment plan that affirms the way your being stored your life story and adapted to survive the most painful parts.  This allows your system to restructure the way the events got stored in your whole system and to help you to get unstuck, to effectively reduce trigger activation, and to heal.

Healing is possible.

Why choose Abundant Freedom Counseling and Michelle Croyle, LPC to do your EMDR therapy?

Your Christian faith is important to you.

You desire your faith to be incorporated in your healing.

You want a therapist who understands the Bible, denominational difference, religious trauma, and healthy spirituality and who can help to incorporate it in helpful ways in your therapy.

You believe the spiritual is an essential part in true healing.

You have been praying for healing and now know that it is possible and a trustworthy place to get help.

Why choose an EMDR Intensive?

You want more intensive focus on target areas of your life.

You don’t want to commit to years of therapy and want to effectively process the most troubling of your pain points to gain traction in your healing.

You want results sooner rather than later and are ready to do the work to reach your goals.

You want to skip the waitlist and have therapeutic treatment designed to your needs, schedule, and timeline.

You want to go deep and progress sooner than traditional weekly sessions can provide.

EMDR is Effective Because:

It can be well-tolerated in clients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction

Significant improvement of PTSD symptoms can happen in a very short timeframe, especially in an intensive format.

It may decrease treatment time, eliminate scheduling hassles, encourage mindful grounding in the present and empowerment of the client throughout the process.

EMDR is Not a Good Fit for:

Those under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Those wanting treatment but in a current situation where the trauma is still occurring.

Those involved in current legal proceedings.

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