Life has been hard and confusing for a while now. You don’t have to suffer through it alone. Disconnection from family and friends, emotions running the show, career at a dead end, or divorce. Many reasons can bring us to the point where we can use a life reboot. Finding a way through. You have made changes several times, but the old patterns keep slipping back in. If you relate to what you are reading on these pages, we can offer you a way forward.

EMDR is short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy. By activating the brain’s natural ability to process life events through dreams, EMDR allows the brain to integrate or digest a disturbing memory. This innate process can be stimulated, while awake, through guided eye movements or by bilateral tapping. The eye movements are tied to the dream state’s rapid eye movements (REM sleep). What is useful is incorporated and what is useless is discarded. Old negative beliefs are replaced with positive beliefs about yourself. This process allows you to function more easily in the world. EMDR doesn’t require you to describe your trauma if you don’t want to. The guided process will still work without specific details.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, developed by psychologist Richard Schwartz, is an evidenced-based approach to psychotherapy that views the mind as being naturally subdivided into multiple sub-personalties or “parts”. The core premise is that everyone has an innate, undamaged core Self that can act as the leader of these parts to bring about healing and inner harmony.

Integrating these two approaches is helpful when disturbing memories are not fully resolved by EMDR alone and for long ongoing intense childhood situations known as complex trauma.