Do any of these sound familiar?

• Other people see you as a high-achiever, but your internal voice is uncertain or critical, and you’d like to connect to your confidence.
• You’d like to restore your sense of purpose and move past the uncomfortable sense that life is running you while you struggle to keep up.
• Your coping skills are ready for a tune-up and you’d like help to find what works for you now.
• You want to feel more connection and satisfaction within the relationships in your life.
• You are seeking a safe space to explore your experiences and find ways to get past the things holding you back from living fully.

Maybe you’ve been in the habit of saying “I’m fine”, because you didn’t feel like you deserve or should need any help, although you recognize that we all encounter circumstances that are challenging to face alone.

Reaching out for help is courageous, and I’d like to help you utilize that courage to move forward toward gaining peace and fulfillment.

Healing starts by finding what isn’t working, and breathing into it with compassion, without judgment. This exploration typically includes discovery of your resilience – the tools and skills you may not be aware you already have. We’ll then work together to help you resolve thoughts and habits that are no longer serving you well and add new tools to help you thrive so you can find peace and the freedom to create the life that you desire and deserve.

My approach involves using evidence-based practices tailored to your needs to help you explore and clarify your emotional experience, restore your relationship with yourself, strengthen your relationships with partners, friends, and family, and reconnect you to your passions and purpose.

I look forward to helping you discover your best life. Let’s work together and get you feeling better!

Contact me to schedule your free, 15-minute phone consultation.

Email me at jenniferLMFT@jenniferrowetherapy.com or call 949-345-1981

How it Works:

1. During the intake appointment we will discuss goals for the intensive sessions, narrow down our focus for the EMDR and if time allows begin with resourcing exercises. Together, we will decide how many EMDR intensive sessions to schedule for the current phase of short term psychotherapy. This will range from two or three half day EMDR intensive sessions depending on your needs.
2. During the EMDR intensive sessions we begin with resourcing exercises, continue identifying our target memories that cause you emotional disturbance, and begin reprocessing and clearing out the distress associated with the target memories.
3. The follow up session is scheduled a few weeks after we finish the EMDR intensive sessions. During this session we will check in with how life has been after completing EMDR and re-evaluate for recommendations for the next steps. This may be continue therapy with your primary therapist, continued EMDR to focus on other memories, or continue living your life free from trauma.

How EMDR Intensive Programs are Different from Traditional Therapy:

EMDR Intensive Programs are NOT intended to be a long term solution to therapy. They are intended to get you in, bring you relief in DAYS and get you moving forward in your journey to be your best self. Think of it more as “Change” therapy and not on-going “Support” therapy.

The traditional weekly therapy model is 53-60 minute sessions on a recurring basis usually for months or years at a time. Yes, EMDR works in the traditional model, but it is stunted by the short amount of time that is available. As soon as you start to get into the stuff that needs to be healed, it’s time to shut it down again and wait until next week. This often brings very incremental doses of relief, that over time results in progress, but often feels discouraging.

Routine weekly therapy session $200/session for 6 months = $4,800 and for 1 year that’s a total of $9,600.

EMDR (Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy treatment that enables individuals to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress from traumatic or difficult life experiences. Numerous controlled studies have shown EMDR to be an effective form of psychotherapy with an increased rate in reduction of symptoms than traditional talk therapy alone. It recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs as an efficacious treatment for PTSD. What can I expect during an EMDR session?

During EMDR sessions, I will ask you to focus on a disturbing memory, emotion or body sensation, while applying gentle, bilateral stimulation (visual) which repeatedly activates the right and left side of the brain. Bilateral stimulation assists the neurophysiological system to release emotional experiences that get stuck in the nervous system and returns the body to equilibrium. Thus, it accelerates your brains capacity to process and heal the memory being targeted, which can leave you feeling a greater sense of ease and self-agency. It can be very effective for those troubling memories or ingrained patterns of behavior or negative thoughts. My clients often express they feel a sense of “freedom” from the event being processed with reduced emotional distress, new insights and a sense of their agency to handle and overcome the distressing situation. Please visit www.emdr.com for additional information.

What issues are helped by EMDR?

Studies to date show a high degree of effectiveness with the following issues:

Contact me for your free 15-minute phone consultation to see how EMDR may help you gain freedom from your symptoms.

Email me at jenniferLMFT@jenniferrowetherapy.com or call 949-345-1981