EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
This treatment method is used to heal the symptoms of trauma and other emotional conditions. This therapy uses right/left eye movement and tactile or sound stimulation in repetition which activates both sides of the brain. This, in turn, releases the individual from intense feelings associated with the traumatic event. EMDR allows the client to process experiences that he or she is not yet able to talk about. Many times following this type of therapy, clients are able to speak to their therapist about the event. Clients are strongly encouraged to explore the relevant research that supports this unique technique.
Please note that we are an out of network Provider. We do not submit insurance claims for you; however, we do provide the forms for you to do so through our client portal every month. Our standard fee structure appears below. Your initial visit will be for 80-minutes and consist of a psychiatric diagnostic evaluation.
Standard 50-minute session: $130 – 175
Standard 80-minute session: $195 – 265
Initial Intake 80-minute session: $225 – 300
Art Therapy and Trauma Recovery
Responses to traumatic stress are individual, highly subjective, and dependent on a person’s resources, supports, and strengths. Trauma is experienced in three ways: Physically (the body), cognitively (memory and thought), and emotionally (the subjective experience). The making and processing of art allow access to all three of these characteristics of trauma.
- Art therapy facilitates the organization and integration of traumatic memories as it helps you understand and process your experiences differently.
- The creative process reactivates positive emotions and serves as a vehicle for communicating difficult topics.
- The process of artmaking reduces the heightened arousal responses of trauma triggers such as the fight, flight, freeze responses.
- It enhances emotional self-efficacy and maintains a space for the exploration of self-perception. Artmaking lends autonomy over the therapeutic process because the work is literally in the client’s hands. The image can communicate unconscious thought processes and form a bridge between thought and communication.
- It enhances the development and reintegration of identity as the traumatic responses are unpacked through art therapy, made sense of together with the therapist, and put back together to form a piece of artistic, traumatic, and healing expression.
Please note that we are an out of network Provider. We do not submit insurance claims for you; however, we do provide the forms for you to do so through our client portal every month. Our standard fee structure appears below. Your initial visit will be for 80-minutes and consist of a psychiatric diagnostic evaluation.
Standard 50-minute session: $130
Standard 80-minute session: $195
Initial Intake 80-minute session: $225