Meet your therapist: Hannah Pasternak, LCSW
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Understanding Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR):
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy that helps individuals process and heal from traumatic experiences and distressing memories. EMDR uses techniques like moving your eyes to help your brain work through and ease the impact of difficult memories.
Application and Scope of EMDR:
EMDR is used to help with problems like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and strong reactions to tough memories. It's really good for people who have had things happen to them that still bother them a lot. EMDR is a proven way to help deal with these kinds of issues.
What to Expect in EMDR Sessions:
In EMDR sessions, you work with a therapist who guides you through different steps. You talk about the tough memories while doing things like moving your eyes or tapping your hands. This helps your brain process the memories in a new way, so they aren't as upsetting. The therapist helps you feel safe while doing this, and over time, it can make those tough memories feel less intense and easier to handle.
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Professionals Who Specialize in EMDR
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Courage does not erase our fears; courage is when we face our fears.
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Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. - Freud
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Mordy Lyss, LCMFT, CHT
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Therapy should not be theory-driven, but relationship-driven. - Irvin Yalom
Rocheli Sternheim, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.
Rivky Weiss
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Elana Schwartz, LCSW
Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker: IN PERSON SESSIONS ONLY
It's okay to have negative thoughts; it's what you do with them that matters.
Tzvi Friedman, LPC
Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung.
Deb Hirschhorn
Therapist, Ph.D, LMHC
The Self is in everybody. . . the Self cannot be damaged, the Self doesn't have to develop, and the Self possesses its own wisdom about how to heal internal as well as exteral relationships.
Rebecca Marcus
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change," Carl Rogers