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EMDR Therapy at Motivations Counseling | Mental Health Blog

Heal from the Past. Find Peace in the Present.

If you’ve been carrying the weight of trauma, anxiety, or painful memories, EMDR therapy may offer the relief you’ve been searching for.

At Motivations Counseling, we specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a powerful, evidence-based approach that helps people process and heal from emotional wounds—without needing to relive every detail of the experience.

What Is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR is a structured therapy method that uses bilateral stimulation (like guided eye movements) to help the brain reprocess distressing memories. It’s most commonly used for trauma and PTSD, but it’s also highly effective for:

  • Anxiety and panic attacks
  • Depression
  • Childhood trauma and abuse
  • Grief and loss
  • Phobias
  • Relationship issues
  • Performance anxiety

During an EMDR session, you’ll focus briefly on a difficult memory while your therapist guides you through sets of bilateral stimulation. This process helps the brain “unstick” from the emotional charge of past experiences and file them away as neutral memories—reducing their power to impact your present life.

Why Choose EMDR?

EMDR works differently from traditional talk therapy. You don’t have to explain every detail of your trauma or rehash painful stories. Instead, EMDR helps your brain do the work of healing, often more quickly than other methods.

Benefits of EMDR therapy can include:

  • A sense of relief and closure from past trauma
  • Reduced anxiety, depression, and emotional reactivity
  • Improved self-esteem and personal insight
  • Greater emotional regulation and resilience

Many clients begin to feel a noticeable shift after just a few sessions.

EMDR at Motivations Counseling

At Motivations Counseling, we take EMDR seriously—because we’ve seen how life-changing it can be.

When you choose us for EMDR therapy, you’re working with licensed professionals who are specially trained in EMDR protocols. We combine clinical expertise with compassion, helping you feel supported every step of the way.

What you can expect:

  • Trained EMDR Therapists – Our team includes EMDR-trained clinicians who use this approach regularly with great success.
  • Individualized Care – EMDR is tailored to your unique experiences and goals.
  • Safe, Supportive Environment – We foster a space where you can feel calm, heard, and empowered.
  • In-Person and Virtual Sessions – Access EMDR therapy from the comfort of your home or at our welcoming office.

Is EMDR Right for You?

Whether you’re dealing with long-standing trauma or recent emotional distress, EMDR could be the key to moving forward.

We're here to help you:

  • Reclaim your sense of safety
  • Reduce emotional triggers
  • Build a stronger, more grounded self

Ready to Get Started?

You don’t have to keep reliving the past. EMDR therapy can help you heal and move forward—and we’d be honored to guide you on that journey.

Call today to schedule an appointment or a free 10-minute consultation.

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5 Ways EMDR Therapy Can Improve Your Life


EMDR, A Life-Changing Event


Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, better known as EMDR, is a type of therapy using eye movements, audio tones, sometimes even hand-held buzzers -- to stimulate the left and right hemispheres of your brain.

Developed in the late 1980's to treat military veterans struggling with PTSD and combat-related trauma, EMDR eventually became more widespread as a treatment for many other conditions.

Today, it is used to treat addiction, trauma, PTSD, depression, anger, grief, fear, anxiety and more. In fact, the treatment can be life altering.


Some of the things EMDR can do for you


  1. Helping you to overcome one or more fears that you dread.

    EMDR can help you to see things from a different perspective, making you more aware of what things are a real threat to you, versus thoughts that amount to simply nonsense in your head.

  2. Bring long lost memories back again.

    EMDR impacts the neurons in your brain allowing you to bring back memories from the past. Places you grew up, people you knew, perhaps even memories of elementary school or a favorite teacher will return to you in vivid detail. Imagine walking through your childhood home again, remembering all the little details long forgotten.

  3. Feel and deal with emotions of the past.

    EMDR will help you to come to terms with thoughts and feelings from your past that you may not have fully processed. The EMDR sessions help bring these things to the surface to allow your brain to processes them in a safe, healthy way. You may find yourself shedding a few tears in the processes, or feeling angry. Those feelings will go away as EMDR helps you to process them and to heal.

  4. Your relationships will change.

    While EMDR helps you to clean up the problems of your past and present, you will have more energy to focus on your relationships with the people around you. Energy that you may have spent on a problem will become available to you to use to focus on improving relationships. You can deal with others now with confidence.

  5. You will find that you are able to leave the past behind for good.

    When it comes to trauma especially, EMDR will allow you to take traumatic, unpleasant, and even highly repetitive memories, and turn them into normal, everyday kinds of memories. Eventually, you will hardly think about any of these bad thoughts at all.

Through EMDR Therapy, you may find that you experience some or all of the above. There are many life experiences that can be addressed with EMDR, and even many more positive outcomes that I didn't even list in this article. Every individual's experience is different.

One thing that is very clear and, if nothing else, the main takaway from this article should be: EMDR therapy with a trained clinician can help you to change your life in a very positive, lasting way.


At Motivations Counseling, we want to help you to resolve emotional issues of the past and the present. Together, we can open the door to you finding a brighter and more confident future.

Call us today for a free 10-minute consultation to see if our approach and experience are right for you.

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Phone: (281) 858-3001
Email: susan@motivationscounseling.com
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EMDR In The News

20/20 Report on EMDR

EMDR, which is an acronym for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, works well for trauma response. We’ve used it successfully here at Motivations Counseling with a number of our clients. There are numerous studies that point to the effectiveness of this unique therapy treatment.

For the skeptics, or anyone else simply looking for more information about EMDR, here is a 20/20 Report that was done a while back that covers it in detail.