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EMDR Therapy near Knoxville, TN
EMDR therapy in Knoxville is one of the most popular evidence-based treatments for mental health conditions like PTSD. It is a non-invasive, low-cost therapy that can help address any trauma or emotional distress in your past. If you or someone in your family is struggling with unresolved trauma, it's well worth considering getting help today.
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Understanding EMDR
What is EMDR
EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. It is a form of therapy that helps you reprocess negative memories, often associated with drama, and proactively address them. This form of therapy is more interactive, with your therapist guiding you through events and aspects of those events while conducting movements in front of your face to help change the way your eyes move and your brain stores the information you are recalling.
With EMDR therapy, you can work with a trained specialist to change your views about the abuse you may have suffered. Rather than subconsciously blaming yourself, you can better understand how those circumstances took place, and we’re not your fault. Let Sanctuary Mental Health & Wellness help you get Knoxville EMDR therapy today.
How it is Used
What is EMDR Used to Treat?
EMDR therapy can be used for many mental health disorders, including:
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Social anxiety
- Phobias
- Panic disorder
- Major depressive disorder
- Dissociative identity disorder
- Eating disorders
- OCD
- Personality disorders
- PTSD
- Adjustment disorder
It is most often used for PTSD treatment. EMDR is the most prominent therapy for veterans with PTSD. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs use EMDR as their main PTSD treatment.
PTSD occurs when you experience or witness something traumatic. This can include violence, abuse, assault, natural disasters, or accidents. Under normal circumstances, that stressful event might cause problems sleeping or eating, fear, anxiety, or depression. However, those feelings diminish over time because the memories are properly stored and processed.
With PTSD, that’s not what happens. The memories don’t get properly stored, so the information in the memory can’t be processed. This causes disruptions in the form of flashbacks, triggers, and hypervigilance. These symptoms can disrupt daily function and last for months or years without proper treatment to process and store that information correctly.
Tennessee EMDR therapy offers a chance to resolve these issues by storing memories correctly. Contact Sanctuary Mental Health & Wellness today to learn more about our EMDR therapy in Tennessee.
What to Expect
What to Expect from Knoxville EMDR Therapy
During a therapy session, your therapist will have you recall a traumatic event. You don’t have to share the event’s details; you just have to remember them as vividly as possible.
This is a much more interactive form of treatment. So, as you vividly recall your trauma, your therapist will guide you through side-to-side eye motions or lateral eye motions. This can be done with sounds filtered through headphones or handheld devices.
As you recall the details, your therapist might ask you specific questions to guide a thought while helping you heal by changing the eye movements and the way your brain stores the information about that trauma.
- Typical sessions last sixty minutes.
- Your sessions will run through eight phases.
- Resolving trauma can take three to six sessions if you have experienced a single traumatic event.
- It can take anywhere between eight and twelve sessions to resolve trauma if you have experienced multiple traumatic events.
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The Benefits
Benefits of EMDR Therapy in Tennessee
Experiential therapies in Tennessee can profoundly impact dozens of mental health disorders. For example:
How memories get stored can cause triggers and improper storage of new information or experiences. All of this happens in a fraction of a second, but trauma can disrupt how the brain would otherwise seamlessly store memories. Incorrect storage inhibits your ability to heal from the trauma. EMDR therapy in Tennessee can change this storage so that the memories don't continue to inhibit your daily function through flashbacks or triggers.
When trauma results in incorrect memory storage, it can negatively influence new experiences because the new experiences might create new neural links to that trauma. This is what causes additional triggers, anxiety, and depression. People with this issue might go out of their way to avoid places, people, or things related to their trauma, reinforcing the symptoms.
Something acting as a trigger can cause overwhelming anxiety, fear, or anger. Similarly, EMDR sessions can help you reduce your triggers by reprocessing information around the triggers. During a session, you might be asked to bring to mind specific details of your trauma, like places, sounds, or smells. By reprocessing the way these details are stored, you are less likely to be affected by places, sounds, or smells that might previously have been triggers.
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Sanctuary Mental Health & Wellness Offers EMDR Treatment in Tennessee
Sanctuary Mental Health & Wellness is a Tennessee EMDR therapy center. When you sign up for EMDR therapy in Tennessee, your sessions occur at our facility. You can work with the same care team and build comfort and security in that relationship. How often you come to our facility for treatment is based on your needs. Suppose you are struggling with depression or anxiety, and your individual therapy reveals underlying trauma that may have contributed to your depression or anxiety. In that case, you might integrate EMDR therapy into a program with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. If you are struggling with severe PTSD, Tennessee EMDR therapy might serve as the primary treatment option in your program and consist of multiple sessions over several days or weeks.
We can work with you with our case management services to determine the effectiveness of your treatment. You’ll have an opportunity to determine when you start to notice results and what progress you are making. That information can be used to determine how many more treatments you should receive.
Our services are outpatient programs, so you can schedule your EMDR therapy in Knoxville to fit around other obligations like work, school, or family. If you are ready to find outpatient Knoxville EMDR therapy, contact Sanctuary Mental Health & Wellness today.
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