Rediscover calm & finally feel like yourself again.

EMDR THERAPY IN-PERSON IN PLANO + ONLINE ACROSS TEXAS

You feel distant and disconnected from the people and things you care about, and aren’t really sure how you got to this point.

Lately you’ve just felt lost, confused, and unsure about where you want your life to go. Reflecting on your past, you're starting to see that your childhood might not have been as ideal as you once thought. This realization has stirred up a lot of existential questions and made you wonder about your direction and purpose.

Communication with others has felt more challenging lately, too. You might find yourself going along with things just to avoid conflict or feeling too drained to stand up for yourself. It's as if keeping the peace has become more important than expressing your true feelings, simply because the idea of dealing with potential backlash is too exhausting. Trusting yourself and others has become more and more difficult—especially after how you’ve been treated in certain relationships. 

You may feel like the black sheep in your family, being the only one to question long-held beliefs and expectations. Despite it seeming easier to stick to the status quo, you're tired of fitting into molds that no longer serve you and are ready to explore, understand, and heal from the past.

Maybe you’ve experienced…

  • A specific traumatic event like abuse, a natural disaster, car accident, or sexual assault 

  • Betrayal or emotional manipulation in past relationships

  • Confusion about your childhood or relationship with your family

  • Being neglected or ignored by your caregivers as a child

  • Having to take on adult responsibilities during childhood

  • Flashbacks, nightmares, or severe anxiety around issues from your past

Whatever you’ve been through, we can use the brain-body connection to help you break free from the pain of the past.

MEET OUR THERAPISTS WHO SPECIALIZE IN EMDR

  • Dr. Kristina Dingus Keuhlen, PhD, LMFT-S

    EMDR Certified Clinician

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  • Bianca Javery, MS

    LMFT-Associate
    Supervised by Dr. Kristina Dingus Keuhlen, PhD, LMFT-S, EMDR Trained

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OUR APPROACH

Helping you connect differently with your past.

EMDR is a powerful tool, but  may not be the right fit for everyone. To figure out if it's the best approach for you, you and your therapist will start with some assessments and questionnaires to understand your emotional and physical health, readiness, timing, and support systems. Together, you'll take a detailed look at your history, including any traumatic memories, negative beliefs about yourself, and important relationships in your life. This helps create a clear picture of your needs and how your therapist can best support you.

During your sessions, you and your therapist will focus on creating a toolkit full of grounding and resourcing strategies. These are practical skills you'll learn to manage emotional distress, minimize anxiety, and reduce stress—whether it's related to your EMDR treatment or just everyday frustrations like traffic or minor mishaps. These techniques will become tools you can use anytime you need a bit of extra support.

Once you're comfortable with these coping strategies,

you and your therapist will move into the active part of EMDR, using bilateral stimulation (like eye movements, taps, or sounds) to help reprocess memories. This process helps shift negative beliefs from one area of the brain to another, where they won’t be able to show up as much in your day-to-day life. In their place, you’ll install new, more positive beliefs about yourself related to these distressing memories. It might sound a bit unusual, but there are decades of research and evidence to back up how effective EMDR can be in helping you see your past in a new light. Though it doesn’t erase the memory or its impact, it does help you create a new narrative related to what happened so you are less heightened and reactive in the present.

How it works

EMDR helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they don't feel as intense anymore. Bilateral stimulation activates both sides of the brain, which enables you to process and reorganize these memories more effectively.

There are 8 steps in the actual EMDR process…

01

History & Planning

Discuss your past, identify what you want to work on, and establish treatment goals.

02

Preparation

Your therapist will explain how EMDR works, determine your readiness and timeline, and make sure you feel comfortable. This is where we begin teaching your stress reduction strategies through grounding techniques and resources to minimize emotional distress.

03

Assessment

You'll identify specific memories, feelings, or other issues to target together.

04

Desensitization

Through guided eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation, you’ll reprocess the memory, the negative beliefs about yourself, and its emotional impact.

05

Installation

You and your therapist will reinforce positive beliefs about yourself to replace the negative ones so your target is not causing disruption in your daily life.

06

Body Scan

You’ll check to see if any physical discomfort remains and, if so, you’ll address it.

07

Closure

Your therapist will make sure you feel good and balanced before you leave, grounding you in the present.

08

Reevaluation

In your next session, your therapist will check in to see how things are going, what changes you have experienced, and what you have noticed since reprocessing, and plan next steps with you.

EMDR therapy can help you…

  • Have a greater understanding of how the past influences the present and how your emotional processes play into this.

  • Feel less on-edge all the time and find relief from panic, flashbacks, and nightmares.

  • Break down and reprocess the ideas you have about yourself and the world to make room for more positive beliefs.

  • Gain the tools to navigate and manage stress and anxiety better to prevent overwhelm.

It’s time to find real relief & get back to living.

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faqs

Common questions about EMDR therapy

  • EMDR therapy may not be a good fit for those who are unwilling or unable to tolerate emotional discomfort or examine how their past influences their present. It also isn't suitable for those looking for a miracle cure that doesn’t require their active participation, or those unwilling to explore negative beliefs that keep them stuck. Additionally, it may not be appropriate for individuals with active self-harm or suicidal ideation without ongoing support, or those struggling with severe mental health issues such as  bipolar disorder, personality disorders, or hallucinations without additional psychiatric or therapeutic support.

  • EMDR therapy can vary in length depending on your specific needs, but typically, it involves a series of 6 or more sessions. Some people may start to feel better in as few as 6-12 sessions, while others might need a bit more time. Your therapist will check in with you throughout the process and track your progress toward the goals you’ve set together.

  • EMDR works by helping you process and heal from traumatic or distressing experiences. It involves focusing on specific eye movements or doing other bilateral stimulation techniques like tapping on parts of your body while thinking about the traumatic event, which can help reduce its emotional impact over time. This process is completely safe and your therapist will make sure you have the tools to navigate through any difficult emotions that come up.

  • EMDR was developed by Francine Shapiro, a psychologist who discovered its benefits almost by accident while on a walk in 1987. Her research and dedication turned it into a powerful therapeutic tool, and it is now considered an effective, evidence-based method for treating trauma, anxiety, and more.