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What services are offered at Ann Arbor EMDR?
What services are offered at Ann Arbor EMDR?
Focused EMDR Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety, PTSD, Burnout, and more
EMDR is often used to help people process distressing experiences that continue to affect the present.
Rather than only talking about what happened, EMDR helps the brain reprocess memories, sensations, emotions, and beliefs that may still feel unresolved.
At Ann Arbor EMDR, treatment may focus on:
EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Typical length of treatment: 6-10 sessions
Typical length of treatment: 6-10 sessions
For: PTSD, cPTSD, Chidlhood Neglect, Attachment Issues, Low Self-Esteem, Repeating Life Patterns, Negative Self-Talk, and More
For: PTSD, cPTSD, Chidlhood Neglect, Attachment Issues, Low Self-Esteem, Repeating Life Patterns, Negative Self-Talk, and More
Format: In-person or Virtual
Format: In-person or Virtual
High-impact, short-term treatment for specific, identified targets. These kinds of targets might include, just for example:
Fear of heights, emotional dysregulation, impostor syndrome, avoiding a certain location, etc. Whatever is getting in your way.
This can be an adjunct treatment f you already have a traditional psychotherapist. EMDR's effectiveness can be amplified when paired with traditional talk therapy.
EMDR for Trauma
EMDR for Trauma
Trauma can leave the nervous system reacting as if the past is still present.
EMDR can help reduce the emotional intensity connected to painful memories and support a greater sense of safety, clarity, and self-trust.
EMDR for First Responders, Police, Fire, EMS
EMDR for First Responders, Police, Fire, EMS
First responders are repeatedly exposed to crisis, danger, injury, loss, and moments where rapid decisions carry enormous emotional weight. Over time, the nervous system can begin to hold onto these experiences, even when you are trained to keep functioning and move forward.
EMDR can help first responders process distressing calls, cumulative stress, critical incidents, moral injury, and stuck beliefs such as “I should have done more,” “I failed them,” or “I’m not safe.” Treatment is structured, focused, and paced carefully, with respect for the realities of emergency work and the resilience it requires.
EMDR for Veterans
EMDR for Veterans
Veterans may carry experiences that are difficult to explain to people who have not lived through military service, including combat exposure, training accidents, military sexual trauma, loss, moral injury, and the strain of returning to civilian life.
Even years later, certain memories, sounds, situations, or beliefs can continue to feel intensely present.
EMDR can help veterans process traumatic experiences, reduce emotional reactivity, and work with stuck beliefs such as “I should have done more,” “I’m not safe,” “I can’t trust anyone,” or “I don’t deserve to move on.” Treatment is structured, collaborative, and paced with respect for the client’s history, values, and readiness.
EMDR for Medical Providers
EMDR for Medical Providers
Medical providers often carry repeated exposure to suffering, urgency, high-stakes decisions, death, and moments where there is no perfect outcome. Over time, these experiences can contribute to burnout, moral injury, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, or a sense of being unable to fully “come down” after work.
EMDR can help physicians, nurses, residents, therapists, and other healthcare professionals process difficult cases, cumulative stress, medical trauma, and stuck beliefs such as “I should have done more,” “It was my fault,” “I can’t make a mistake,” or “I have to hold everything together.” Treatment is focused, collaborative, and paced with respect for the realities of medical work and the emotional weight providers often carry.
EMDR for Divorce and Family Disruption
EMDR for Divorce and Family Disruption
EMDR for Anxiety
EMDR for Anxiety
Anxiety is not always just worry about the future. Sometimes it is the nervous system responding to past experiences, old threat patterns, or deeply held beliefs about safety, control, failure, or worth. Even when you understand that a fear is “irrational,” your body may still react as if danger is present.
EMDR can help target the experiences and beliefs that keep anxiety feeling automatic. Treatment may focus on panic, performance anxiety, social anxiety, health anxiety, relational anxiety, or the lingering impact of stressful experiences that taught the brain to stay on alert. The goal is not to eliminate normal caution, but to reduce the emotional intensity of anxiety that no longer fits the present moment.
EMDR for Stuck Beliefs
EMDR for Stuck Beliefs
Many people seek EMDR because they logically know something is not true, but emotionally it still feels true. Beliefs like “I’m not safe,” “I’m not enough,” “I should have done more,” “I’m powerless,” or “Something is wrong with me” can persist long after the original experiences have passed.
EMDR can help identify where these beliefs became emotionally attached and support the brain in reprocessing the memories, sensations, and emotions connected to them. Over time, the goal is for the belief to lose its grip and for more adaptive beliefs to feel not just intellectually correct, but emotionally believable.
EMDR for Grief
EMDR for Grief
EMDR for Substance Use
EMDR for Substance Use
EMDR for Couples
EMDR for Couples
Typical Length of Treatment: Around 12 sessions
Format: In-person Only
EMDR for couples is an emerging, experimental practice. This therapy format will involve a combination of individual EMDR sessions as well as joint sessions in which both of you are participating and discussing roadblocks in your relationship.
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