Healing Trauma
Traumatic experiences can profoundly impact your mental health, relationships, and overall well-being. Whether you’ve faced a single overwhelming event or years of chronic stress, trauma can get “stuck” in the nervous system—showing up as anxiety, shutdown, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, or relationship triggers. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and Brainspotting are two powerful, evidence-based approaches that help the brain and body process unresolved experiences so you can feel calmer, clearer, and more in control.
Understanding Trauma
Trauma encompasses a wide range of distressing events, including:
Physical or sexual abuse
Emotional or verbal abuse
Neglect or abandonment
Accidents or natural disasters
Witnessing violence
Sudden loss of a loved one
Chronic illness or medical trauma
These experiences can lead to symptoms such as anxiety, depression, flashbacks, and difficulties in personal relationships. What you’re experiencing is a normal trauma response. But, help is available.
What is EMDR therapy?
EMDR is short for Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing. It is a therapeutic tool used to help clients reprocess painful events from their past. A trauma therapist accomplishes this through a technique called bilateral stimulation. This means we stimulate both the left and the right sides of your brain. An EMDR therapist will provide this using handles that vibrate, tapping both sides of the body, or waving a finger to move your eyes from left to right. The goal is this treatment is to move the past trauma from the emotional side of your brain to the logical side. This way, your brain can process it and help you feel less triggered by memories of what happened in the past.
EMDR therapy has been shown to:
Reduce symptoms of PTSD
Alleviate anxiety and depression
Improve self-esteem and confidence
Enhance emotional regulation
Strengthen interpersonal relationships
By processing traumatic memories, EMDR enables you to move forward without being hindered by past experiences.
EMDR Intensives
Our EMDR Intensives are designed for clients who want focused, accelerated healing in a shorter period of time. Unlike traditional weekly sessions, intensives allow you to spend several hours in concentrated therapeutic work, helping you process traumatic memories, reduce emotional distress, and regain a sense of calm and control. This format is ideal for individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, or overwhelming life experiences who are seeking faster relief and deeper progress. With personalized planning, pre- and post-support, and a compassionate therapist to guide you, EMDR Intensives offer a powerful way to experience meaningful change in days rather than months.
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a brain-body therapy that helps identify and process trauma stored in the nervous system by using where you naturally look (your “brainspot”) to access deeper emotional and physiological healing. It can be especially helpful when experiences feel hard to explain, when talk therapy hasn’t fully resolved symptoms, or when your body reacts before your mind catches up. Brainspotting is often experienced as gentle but powerful—supporting processing without requiring you to retell every detail of what happened.
Our Approach at My-Therapist
Our trauma-trained therapists provide a supportive, steady space to help you heal at your pace. We tailor treatment using EMDR, Brainspotting, and other evidence-based approaches to match your needs—whether you’re working through PTSD, anxiety, relationship trauma, childhood wounds, medical trauma, or overwhelming life experiences. Services are available in-person in Wake Forest and Raleigh, NC, and through secure telehealth across North Carolina and Georgia.
Take the First Step Toward Healing
You don't have to face the effects of trauma alone. If you’re ready to find healing from your past, EMDR therapy may be the solution you’re looking for. Contact us today to schedule an appointment and discover how EMDR therapy can help you reclaim your life and well-being. Begin EMDR Therapy in Wake Forest, NC and online all over Georgia and North Carolina:
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Other Services Offered With My-Therapist
We are happy to offer a variety of mental health services. Other services include online therapy, family therapy, individual therapy, couples workshops, couples therapy, prenatal therapy, child loss therapy, teen therapy, and couples intensive therapy. We also offer support through premarital counseling, divorce counseling, foundations of lasting love, co-parenting counseling, and AAMFT supervision.
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