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Psychotherapy is a powerful form of healing that takes you on an incredible inner journey

Tim Ervin, LCPC, BCC, CH

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Polyvagal Informed EMDR Therapy is a journey of deep healing that usually results in the release of emotional blocks trapped in your mind and body

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How EMDR can be applied to performance enhancement

Addressing Performance Anxiety

Stress Reduction:

EMDR can help reduce anxiety and stress

Building Confidence: By reprocessing ​negative self-beliefs, EMDR can help ​individuals build more positive and ​empowering beliefs about their abilities.

Enhancing Mental Focus: Clarity and ​Concentration: EMDR can help individuals ​clear mental blocks, allowing for better ​focus and concentration during ​performance.

Overcoming Performance Blocks


Past Failures: EMDR can help reprocess and ​desensitize memories of past failures or ​setbacks that may be causing current ​performance blocks.

Fear of Failure: It can reduce the fear of ​failure by addressing the root causes and ​creating a more resilient mindset.


Increasing Motivation and Goal ​Setting


Motivational Enhancement: EMDR can be ​used to reinforce positive motivations and ​commitment to goals.

Clear Goal Visualization: It helps in visualizing ​clear and attainable goals, making it easier to ​stay motivated and focused.


EMDR (Eye Movement ​Desensitization and Reprocessing) is ​a psychotherapy that enables people ​to heal from the symptoms and ​emotional distress that are the result ​of disturbing life experiences.


Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy ​people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that ​once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed ​that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. ​EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from ​psychological trauma much as the body recovers from ​physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body ​works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated ​injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once ​the block is removed, healing resumes.

EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of ​events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s ​information processing system naturally moves toward ​mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by ​the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound ​festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is ​removed, healing resumes.

EMDR for couples, a unique way ​to experience couples’ therapy.


Individual Therapy:

One or both partners may ​undergo EMDR therapy ​individually to address personal ​issues affecting the relationship.




Couples Therapy:

Some therapists may integrate ​EMDR techniques into couples ​therapy sessions to address ​shared issues or dynamics ​affecting the relationship.