IFS Informed EMDR in Orange County, CA

Concentrated therapy for deeper healing and lasting transformation

Are you someone who has received IFS or EMDR but are not seeing the change everyone said would happen?

Have you…

Tried EMDR but felt like you were white knuckling it and crawling out of your skin the whole time?

Tried EMDR but felt like parts of you were not really consenting to the process?

Felt like something was wrong with you because traditional talk therapy didn’t result in feeling calm and peaceful like you had hopes?

Gone to an EMDR therapist and had a negative experience?

IFS Informed EMDR is a much gentler approach

IFS Informed EMDR combines these two powerful, evidence-based therapies to help you achieve internal balance and harmony. IFS supports the EMDR process in ensuring that all parts of you are giving permission to engage in EMDR. It also helps to make sure that the part that is involved in the traumatic event is the one getting the healing and that another part is not taking over the session (with good intentions).  This gentle approach helps you to feel powerful and prevents big, upsetting emotions overcoming you.

Tell me more, Denise! How do we get there?

1) With IFS Informed EMDR, we identify a clear idea of what you want to have be different in your life (ex: “I want to be able to speak up for myself in the moment”, “I want to not say things I regret when I feel mad”).

2) We identify parts of yourself that are involved with those situations. For the example above of wanting to speak up for yourself, possible parts that a person might have would be a people pleasing part that wants to be liked, an anxious part that feels terror at the idea of others being upset and freezes, a part that criticizes you for not speaking up, a part that distracts you by making you binge on tv to avoid thinking about the situation altogether, etc.

3) We get to know one of these parts and try to understand it’s good intentions for you and help it to realize there is a you inside who is not a part who can be a support to it. We build a relationship between this part and Self (the you who is not a part) and strengthen this relationship using EMDR tapping.

4) We seek permission from the parts identified to go the part who holds and experienced the pain from the traumatic event using EMDR to accelerate healing.

5) This is where the “holy shit that was great!” can come in which can result in you saying that there is something else you want to address as well and then we repeat the process above.

What IFS Informed EMDR therapy can do for you:

  • Increase your confidence in being able to feel emotions deeply

  • Allow for gentle healing from traumatic experiences

  • Increase experience of wholeness, balance and feeling centered

  • Reduce feelings of shame and aloneness

Become the person you were truly meant to be

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