EMDR Therapy and Trauma Therapy in New York State
I provide virtual EMDR therapy and trauma therapy throughout New York State for adults experiencing childhood trauma, complex trauma, anxiety, PTSD, and other effects of overwhelming life experiences.
When Your Past Still Feels Present
You may look fine on the outside, but inside it’s a constant effort to hold it all together.
Maybe your mind races, your body feels tense or shut down, or you can’t stop replaying old memories—even ones you thought you’d moved on from.
You’ve worked hard to push through, but the stress keeps resurfacing. It’s exhausting to keep managing, pretending, or over-functioning when what you really want is to feel calm, safe, and in control of your life again.
If this sounds familiar, trauma therapy can help you start to make sense of what’s happening in your mind and body, and finally find relief.
Understanding Trauma and the Body’s Response
Trauma isn’t just something that happened—it’s something that lives in the nervous system.
Even when the danger is over, your body can stay stuck in survival mode: anxious, hypervigilant, or disconnected.
Therapy helps your nervous system relearn that you’re safe now.
By slowing things down and creating safety, we help your mind and body begin to communicate again, so you can respond to life rather than react to it.
How EMDR Therapy and Trauma Therapy Help You Heal
EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based treatment that helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they lose their emotional intensity. Rather than reliving the past, EMDR therapy helps your brain safely store difficult experiences so they no longer overwhelm your present life.
In addition to EMDR therapy, I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS-informed therapy), CBT, DBT, and nervous system regulation techniques to create a treatment plan that fits your unique needs. Together, these approaches can help you:
Understand and soothe the parts of yourself that hold pain or fear
Strengthen your ability to self-regulate and recover from emotional overwhelm
Reconnect with a sense of safety, self-compassion, and trust in your body
Each session moves at a pace that feels safe, respectful, and attuned to your needs.
What Healing Looks Like
Over time, clients often notice they:
Feel calmer and more present in their daily life
Respond instead of react when triggered
Sleep better and experience fewer physical symptoms
Feel less guilt, shame, or self-blame
Connect with others with more ease
Healing doesn’t mean erasing what happened—it means being released from the grip of the past.
Therapy That Supports Your Healing
Whether you’re just beginning to explore therapy or you’ve been working on your healing for years, EMDR and trauma therapy can help you find relief and healing.
You don’t have to keep reliving the same pain alone.
Together, we’ll help you find healing and begin to feel like yourself again.
What We Will Work On
Trauma therapy can help you:
Relax and enjoy life again
Improve sleep and physical health
Feel successful at work and in life
Experience more fulfilling relationships
Understand the root cause of anxiety and depression
Reduce self-doubt and increase confidence
Trauma doesn’t have to hold you back anymore.
Ready to take the next step? Click the button below to schedule a free consultation:
Frequently Asked Questions:
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Trauma therapy helps you process painful experiences that may still be affecting how you feel, think, or respond to stress today. It focuses on creating safety, building coping skills, and helping your nervous system calm down so you can feel more present and in control. The goal isn’t to relive the trauma—it’s to help your mind and body understand that the danger has passed and that you’re safe now.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured, evidence-based therapy that helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer trigger intense reactions. Instead of talking through every detail, EMDR uses gentle eye movements, sounds, or taps to help your brain “file away” what happened. Over time, the memories lose their emotional charge, allowing you to think about the past without feeling trapped in it.
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Trauma often leaves parts of us carrying fear, shame, grief, or helplessness, while other parts work hard to stay in control, avoid pain, or keep everything together. In IFS-informed therapy, we gently build a relationship with these parts—at a pace that feels safe—so they no longer have to carry such extreme roles.
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Trauma therapy and EMDR can help with many kinds of distressing experiences—such as childhood neglect, emotional abuse, accidents, medical trauma, grief, or sudden loss. You don’t need to have a formal PTSD diagnosis for therapy to help. If you often feel anxious, detached, or on edge for reasons you can’t fully explain, trauma therapy may offer relief.
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That’s very common—and it doesn’t mean you can’t heal. Sometimes talk therapy alone isn’t enough because trauma is stored in the body as much as in the mind. EMDR and trauma-informed approaches help by engaging both, allowing your whole system to process and release what’s been held inside. Healing is possible even if other treatments haven’t worked before.
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Everyone’s healing journey is unique. Some clients feel noticeable relief within a few sessions, while others benefit from longer-term work—especially if the trauma was ongoing or complex. We’ll collaborate to find a pace that feels safe, manageable, and effective for you.
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Yes. Both trauma therapy and EMDR can be done safely and effectively through secure telehealth sessions. I use online tools that simulate the same bilateral stimulation used in-person for EMDR, so you can receive trauma-informed care from the comfort of your home.
How do we get started?
Fill out my contact form by clicking the button below. After I receive your contact form, we can move forward to set up a free 15 minute consultation to answer any questions that you may have.