More about Betty Anne & EMDR

I am a psychiatric mental health Nurse Practitioner and EMDR certified clinician. I am a little bit conservative in some ways, and a little bit crunchy in other ways. Above all, I am inspired to work with you to expand the positive aspects of your life.   

Do you have chronic pain, migraines, IBS, panic or anxiety, or depression? Did you know that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) can write on the slate of your life and could still be having an adverse impact in your adult life? Can you picture what life looks like for you in 6 months? A year? Ten years? 

Is there an inner dialogue that tells you that you are shameful, powerless, unsafe, powerless, or a failure? What if we could work together to change this self talk through brain based therapy? 

This is a collaboration. I do this with you, not to you. This means we both work hard inside and outside of session to facilitate improvement of your symptoms and lead you to your best life. Please know that transformational therapy does not set out to re-traumatize. In fact, the client is in the driver’s seat and has power, control, and agency in the therapy session. Decisions about every aspect of the session, including disclosure (or not) and tolerance of emotional distress are in the hands of the client. 

You will find the therapy session to be warm, relational, validating, and sometimes direct. We can’t treat what we don’t acknowledge. This does not mean it is necessary to review the whole distressing story or the details of every trauma. While the process call for accessing some (parts of) distressing memories, the intended outcome is to facilitate metabolism of those body feelings. In other words, the distant memory remains, but the emotional charge is lessened, or gone. There are no promises or guarantees, but it does offer an opportunity to learn and be understood in a calmer body.