Once mass recollection, repetitive negative thinking, and anxiety start to interfere with everyday life, the ability to find an appropriate therapeutic style becomes the key. Our specialty in the Integrative Counseling Center is to provide people with evidence-based therapies aimed at enabling them to process their past experiences and alleviate emotional distress as well as experience a sense of balance again. EMDR cognitive processing therapy is one of these techniques and it is a very effective and transforming approach to heal traumas.

Learning EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a cognitive treatment procedure and involves bilateral stimulation e.g., eye-guided motions to enable the brain to re-process traumatic memories. Clients are taught to look differently at these memories in a more adaptive and less threatening manner instead of being left caught up in uncomfortable emotional patterns.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a supplement of EMDR, as it assists one to recognize and transform unhelpful beliefs, which they developed in the course of traumatic events. As EMDR is concerned with the reprocessing of sensory and emotional elements, CPT is concerned with the thoughts that are perpetuating the fear, shame, or self-blaming cycles in people.

EMDR cognitive processing therapy, when used alone, offers a whole person approach- working on both the emotional level of the trauma and aftermath cognitive distortions.

Why This Approach Works

Trauma does not only influence the way the mind thinks, but also influences the body in terms of its way of reacting and remembering. EMDR assists in breaking the shackles of the nervous system to heal, whereas CPT provides the means to redefine the views on safety, trust, control, and self-worth.

This method of integration can assist people:

·         Take away the emotional intensity of the traumatic memories.

·         Knowledge of how the thinking patterns have been formed under the influence of trauma.

·         Create stronger more balanced beliefs.

·         Enhance emotional intelligence and awareness.

·         In Integrative Counseling Center, we treat each different client in a different way, therefore each client will be getting the treatment that best fits his or her healing experience.

·         Helping Anxiety using Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical behavior therapy of anxiety is also beneficial to many people together with trauma-focused treatments. DBT is an intervention that teaches skills that are used in practical situations to control extreme emotions, alleviate worry, and enhance mindfulness. DBT can be used to reinforce coping mechanisms and provide long term resilience when combined with either EMDR or CPT.

Begin Your Ways toward a Cure

Integrative Counseling Center is ready to be with you whether you need to recover traumas, relieve anxiety, or just have a firmer ground in yourself. Our evidence-based care is compassionate and individualized with the help of EMDR cognitive processing therapy, DBT, and other methods. There is a way out--and you need not go the road yourself.