EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
Office in Weehawken in Hudson County, NJ Minutes from midtown Manhattan, New York, NY, Hoboken, NJ, the Lincoln Tunnel, Routes 3, 495 and the NJ Turnpike 215-860-3770 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy is the state-of the-art technique for healing trauma and symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder. I've had amazing and significant results with my clients with this technique. EMDR has been effective in helping my clients deal with the processing and release of unwanted emotional blocks for the purpose of eliminating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the effects of trauma -- particularly anxiety, depression, protracted grief, physical ailments, sleep disturbances, fatigue, phobias, nightmares, and flashbacks. EMDR therapy reprocesses memory fragments (visual, tactile, auditory, etc.) that have not been fully integrated, that is, never “made it” into long term memory and thus result in symptoms. When we are traumatized our left and right brains disengage much as a home’s circuit breaker kicks in when an electrical storm overloads it. The result is that the right brain (providing sensory experiences and emotions) does not have the benefit of the left brain (the logical and rational processes) to help make sense of the experience and thus provide emotional closure. EMDR is particularly helpful for reprocessing trauma (PTSD), anxiety, phobias, and grief.
Here is what experts and the media are saying about EMDR: o "Recent independent studies have found EMDR up to 90% successful." - Association for the Advancement of Science o "Ideal for those who have been unable to forget traumatic life events." - Dusty Bowencamp, RN, CTR, Disaster Mental Health, American Red Cross o "EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) provides "a way for people to free themselves of destructive memories and it seems to work, even in cases where years of conventional therapy have failed. - Hugh Downs, 20/20, ABC News o EMDR... which to newcomers sounds implausible and way too good to be true, may become the psychological wonder cure of the nineties, the non-pharmaceutical equivalent of Prozac." - New York Magazine o "Within two or three or four sessions, we had resolved issues that I'd been discussing for four or five years with other people" - Eric Smith, Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD, quoted on 20/20, ABC News o "In four, hour long EMDR...sessions I was able to get at issues that years with other therapists couldn't touch." - Sherry Morgan, rape trauma survivor, quoted in the Orange County Register o "EMDR...is the most revolutionary, important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades." - Herbert Fensterheim, Cornell University
Sliding scale fees are available for those who can't afford my regular fees. I will work with you to come up with something affordable if I feel that I can help you. I try to turn no one away whom I feel that I can help.
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“I first started going to David to deal with difficulties in my marriage and definition of self. When he suggested EMDR as a treatment to deal with the issues we uncovered, I was curious but skeptical. What followed was a rapid approach that I can only define as astounding in what it uncovered, in how it helped me heal, in how quickly it moved us to the next level of dealing with the changes I needed to make. David not only answered questions and concerns, but gave me tools to use everyday to help in dealing with what life brings. I truly believe I was changed for the better and the effect of my sessions on myself, and on my relationship with my husband were life-altering.” |