EMDR

EMDR

When we are faced with overwhelming emotional distress or trauma, our brain's ability to make sense of our experience is greatly diminished.

Our brain could be thought of as a computer who’s job it is to take the inputs - all the information our senses are picking up from the world - and organize them into one cohesive output - our experience of the world.

Trauma could be thought of as anything that overwhelms our brain’s computing powers.

PTSD

PTSD

Any threat that overwhelms our ability to keep ourselves safe is inherently traumatizing to our nervous system.

Whether such a threat is real or perceived, whether it is physical, mental or emotional, makes no difference. Our nervous system does not discriminate between physical annihilation and annihilation of the self. Such situations directly conflict with our primary biological imperative: to survive. And when such a visceral drive is undermined, it has profound and lasting impact on our mind and body.

Trauma fundamentally changes the brain.