Your Memory Comes in Fragments.
EMDR helps you put the pieces together
EMDR trauma therapy for adult women
The Nightmare is Already Fading into the Background
You can’t remember what it was about.
But you can still feel it’s presence.
You’re sitting up in the dark, gasping, the sheet twisted around one leg.
The house goes on with its quiet creaks and moans, the refrigerator, a car two streets over.
Your breathing comes back down and you try to sort out what just happened. A dream, or a piece of something from your past.
You can’t tell. And the alarm is going to go off in two hours.
You Only Ever Tell the First Half
What happened to you arrives in pieces: a smell, a doorway, three seconds of someone’s voice.
You’ve told parts of it to a couple people. You watched their faces change and decided not to finish.
The ones who’d know the whole shape of it are family. Some of them were part of what happened.
The pieces don’t have to make sense before we work with them.
Why EMDR Reaches Memory You Can't Narrate
EMDR is an eight-phase protocol. You hold one memory in mind while I guide your attention back and forth with sight, sound, or touch.
You put a number on the distress that memory carries. We watch that number across sessions.
You never have to build the whole story to work the memory.
What Starts Coming Back to You
The spontaneous, self-assured version of you is still in there, and she comes back in pieces first.
- Sleep through a night without sitting up in the dark
- Round a corner without bracing for what's behind it
- Hear a song, catch a smell, and stay right where you are
- Make plans you actually want to keep
- Get excited about something without talking yourself out of it
You decide what we open, and when.
The Three Phases You'll Move Through With Me
-
1
Knowing Each Other First
Before anything gets targeted, we talk.
Where you're from, your family, your goals, your fears, what happened in the therapy you already tried.
-
2
Targeting the Memory
We talk about traumatic memories while using EMDR.
We target one memory and use sight, sound, or touch to stimulate the brain.
-
3
Getting Yourself Back
This process is measurable and easier on your nervous system.
It brings you back toward the person who didn't worry about everything.
Why Trust Me as Your Partner in Healing
The Measuring Is Real
Every target memory gets a distress rating you watch move, so progress never comes down to my opinion.Trauma Work That Stays in Your House
Sessions happen wherever you already let your guard down, usually your own living room.A Doctorate Behind the Protocol
I hold an LCSW and a doctorate in psychology, and I built this practice around trauma.
Hi. I’m Dr. Elizabeth Wise, LCSW.
Trauma and narcissistic abuse recovery are my specialties, and they’re also my direct experience. That’s why people tend to get to the truth of things with me faster than they expected to.
You’re the expert on your own life. My job is knowing what to do with the pain and building a plan with you that fits the life you actually want to be living.
You’ll get real regard from me, for you and for whatever you’re trying to become. We work as a team on this, and the life we’re building toward is the one you define.
Frequently Asked Questions
You tell me as much as you want to. We pick one target memory, and the work moves into the back-and-forth, where talking isn’t the tool. Flash EMDR, the branch I reach for most, works a memory while you hold it at arm’s length, and it enters once we know each other, unless you arrive already asking for it.
Fragments are what trauma memory looks like. A smell, an image, three seconds of sound: any of those works as a target.
You’ll rate the distress on a target memory before we work it and again after. That number is the change, and you read it.
You get to work on it without handing your history back to the people it involves.
Limited Availability This Month
Rediscover What it’s Like to Sleep Through Night
Call Now for Your Free ConsultationTake the First Step Today
There’s a night ahead where something surfaces and doesn’t take the night with it. You go back down before you finish deciding what it was.
A free consultation is where this starts. I’ll explain the method, and you’ll decide whether I’m someone you’d let near this.
What Happens Next?
100% Secure & Confidential
All information is encrypted and protected under HIPAA privacy laws.
Payments & Services
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis. We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement and accept HSA/FSA. No hidden fees – all costs are explained before you begin.