EMDR Therapy in Atlanta
In person in Atlanta. Telehealth throughout Georgia, New York, Maine, and Florida
EMDR Therapy in Atlanta
EMDR is a powerful trauma therapy that helps people recover from painful experiences.
You have always managed to get by but you want more out of your life.
You get things done. You are “high-functioning” but you feel anxious and unsettled more than you would like.
Even when things are going okay, a small event or interaction can make you suddenly upset, agitated, or just “off”.
Sometimes the feelings are momentary, other times you fall into a funk and are more self-critical, insecure and irritable.
You worry about upsetting your partner or friends.
You avoid social situations, perfectionism kicks up, you drink or eat a little more just to feel …less.
You think this feelings and behaviors are connected to a past traumatic event, painful experience, or a difficult childhood but you don’t want to deal with it and want to “leave the past in the past.” But it doesn’t feel in the past.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is evidence based and shown to more effective than traditional therapies in helping people recover from traumatic and painful experiences.
EMDR is a bottom up approach that taps into your nervous system’s innate capacity to heal. As much as you wish you could just forget or think your way past what happened, healing doesn’t work that way.
EMDR can help you put events in experiences where they belong; in the past so you are no longer burdened.
EMDR Therapy (even though it is kinda weird) can help
First of all, EMDR is faster than traditional talk therapy. EMDR therapy is structured differently than most traditional therapy sessions. It, honestly, looks and sounds a bit weird but, research has shown EMDR therapy to be extremely effective.
EMDR therapy uses bilateral stimulation (through either eye movements, sounds, tapping or buzzers placed in each hand) to assist the brain in processing unresolved traumatic material. It rewires the neural networks associated with those terrible experiences.
After EMDR therapy with me…
I have been practicing EMDR for over 20 years and have seen it provide tremendous healing and relief. After completing EMDR, people often report feeling that the traumatic memories or experiences are in the past. When they recall the traumatic memory, it feels more like it happened instead of feeling like it is still happening.
When events are placed accurately in the past, the associated emotions and beliefs that get instilled at the time of the trauma(s) are lessened or eliminated. As an EMDR therapist, some of the words and phrases I hear from clients are “relief”, “clarity,” “it’s over”, I’m ok, “it had nothing to do with me” or “it wasn’t my fault.”
Kim Austin, LCSW - Brainspotting, EMDR, and Ketamine Therapist in Atlanta, New York, and Maine. Specializing in Anxiety, Trauma - Brainspotting & EMDR
My name is Kim and I can help
My name is Kim Austin, an experienced EMDR Therapist in the Atlanta area. I see clients in person in Decatur, GA and also provide online EMDR therapy. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Georgia, New York , Maine and Florida. I provide trauma therapy using EMDR to help people find greater clarity, self-understanding, and compassion so that they can get free of internal blocks that are holding them back in their relationships, work, and life.
My work with you picks up where traditional talk therapy ends and deeper healing begins.
Effective therapy tailored to you
EMDR is offered in traditional weekly therapy format
In focused extended sessions in an EMDR Intensive.
And can be done adjunctively in collaboration with your primary therapist.
EMDR therapy in person in Decatur, GA
Online EMDR through Georgia, Maine, New York, and Florida
Contact me for a free consultation
Contact me for a free consultation to see if EMDR therapy might be helpful for you. You can call me at (207) 295-7427, or click here, to schedule your 15-minute phone consultation. Other specialties include:
Brainspotting, EMDR Therapy, Anxiety Therapy, Trauma Therapy/PTSD Treatment, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
