EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy originally developed to treat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In addition, successful outcomes are well-documented in the literature for EMDR treatment of other psychiatric disorders and mental health problems, including, but not limited to:  phobias, panic disorder, victims of crime and sexual assault, complicated grief, victims of natural disasters, chemical dependency, chronic pain, personality disorders, and complex PTSD.  The model on which EMDR is based, Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), posits that much of psychopathology is due to the maladaptive encoding of and/or incomplete processing of traumatic or disturbing adverse life experiences. This impairs one's ability to integrate these experiences in an adaptive manner. The eight phase, three-pronged process of EMDR facilitates the resumption of normal information processing and integration. This treatment approach, which targets past experience, current triggers, and future potential life challenges, results in the alleviation of presenting symptoms, a decrease or elimination of distress from the disturbing memory, improved view of the self, relief from bodily disturbance, and resolution of present and future anticipated triggers.  EMDR has helped countless trauma survivors and others suffering from a wide range of clinical conditions by providing profound and stable treatment effects in a short period of time.

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EMDR Patient Testimonial:

"After experiencing health trauma with my daughter I realized my fear was living and expressing itself in my body in the form of my own unexplainable health issues and nervous system disregulation. I didn’t know how to process it and was interested in EMDR therapy. After a few months of sessions with Dr. Lewis to confront and process the events I began to feel the power being lessened and my brains memory of it disconnecting from my body that was still continuously feeling the pain. Reprocessing it eventually became a story of those times instead of the feeling of being present in it over and over again. It has been a huge gift to feel my body release that trauma and see how my brain and body can now coexist in stressful situations without spiraling inward. I am so glad I gave EMDR a try and am grateful to Dr. Lewis for holding safe space for me during the process." (A.M., age 36)