EMDR Therapy for Women Online in New York & Florida
Is talk therapy not working for you?
Trauma doesn't just live in your memories.
It shows up in your body, in how you react to everyday situations, in the anxiety that won't quit.
You've tried to push through it in traditional talk therapy, but the same patterns keep surfacing.
What is EMDR?
EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps your brain process traumatic memories that got stuck. Using bilateral stimulation like guided eye movements, taps, or sound, EMDR allows your brain to complete its natural healing process. The memories don't disappear, but they lose their emotional charge so you can finally move forward.
EMDR effectively treats:
PTSD, trauma, and complex trauma (C-PTSD)
Anxiety, panic, and chronic worry
Depression rooted in past experiences
Low self-worth and imposter syndrome
People-pleasing and perfectionism with deep roots
Grief and loss
Healing from narcissistic abuse
Birth trauma, miscarriage, and infant loss
Phobias and specific fears
Research from major organizations including the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and American Psychological Association recognizes EMDR as an evidence-based treatment for trauma and PTSD.
And for clients seeking concentrated healing, I also offer EMDR intensives that compress months of progress into focused single or multi-day sessions. Learn more about intensives here.
Your history doesn’t have to look like big trauma to feel like it
EMDR isn't only for people who've experienced a major traumatic event. Many of the wounds that shape us don't come from a single moment, they come from years of feeling unseen, criticized, or misunderstood. From growing up in a home that never felt quite safe enough. Where your emotions went unheard, unseen, or invalidated. Where you were told to “get over it” or told you’d be given “something to cry about.” From a thousand small experiences that said you're not enough, you're too sensitive, stop needing so much.
That kind of accumulated pain is real. It becomes embedded in your nervous system the same way as a single painful event would. And EMDR is meant for both types of pain.
If you've ever thought "I don't know if my stuff is bad enough for trauma therapy” or “other people had it so much worse, just get over it already” that thought itself is worth exploring.
What makes my EMDR practice different?
I hold advanced EMDR credentialing recognized by EMDRIA
As an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant, I've completed years of advanced training and consultation that go well beyond basic EMDR training. The Approved Consultant credential means I'm also qualified to educate and mentor other therapists working toward their own EMDR certification. Both credentials require ongoing education to stay current with the latest developments in the field, and reflect a commitment to trauma treatment standards.
My work integrates EMDR with IFS (Internal Family Systems)
EMDR identifies and reprocesses the memories driving your symptoms. IFS helps you understand the parts of you that developed around those wounds, for example, the perfectionist, the people-pleaser, the one behind the emotional outbursts. When layered together, these two treatment models address both the traumatic memory and the protective patterns that formed around it, which is why clients who've tried EMDR elsewhere often find this work goes somewhere new. Learn more about IFS here.
For clients who want to move faster, I offer EMDR intensives
I also offer EMDR Intensives for clients who want to compress the work. These can be half, full, or multi-day sessions that go deeper, faster, when weekly therapy isn’t moving quickly enough, or if your schedule doesn’t allow for consistent weekly sessions. Learn more about intensive EMDR sessions here.
Frequently Asked Questions
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There's no universal answer, and anyone who gives you a specific number upfront is offering an educated guess at best. For a single-incident trauma such as a car accident, a single assault, or a medical event, some clients notice significant shifts in 6–12 sessions. For relational or developmental trauma (the kind that accumulated over years and dates back to childhood), the work is typically longer because there are more memory networks to process. What I can tell you is that EMDR often moves faster than traditional talk therapy, and we'll have an ongoing conversation about your progress so you always know where we are and what's ahead.
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Yes. Research supports the effectiveness of online EMDR, and for many clients it's actually preferable. You're in your own space, which can support a sense of safety and grounding, and you don’t have to drive somewhere else right after session—you can take a little time to sit with the experience in your own surroundings. In my fully virtual practice, I use bilateral stimulation adapted for telehealth, including visual and auditory tones that I control from my end, and sometimes tapping cues you direct yourself. The only requirements are a private space, a stable internet connection, and a device with a camera. I work with clients throughout New York and Florida via secure video.
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Bilateral Stimulation, or BLS, is any form of sensory input that alternates from one side of the body to the other. In EMDR, this most often looks like eye movements, tapping, or audio tones. While BLS, or, specifically, the eye movements that give EMDR it’s name, are often emphasized in EMDR, BLS is a small part of this type of therapy.
A more detailed explanation of BLS can be found here.
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No, and this often surprises people. EMDR does not require you to narrate what happened in a detailed, linear way. You'll be asked to bring a memory to mind and notice what comes up in your thoughts and in your body, but you don't have to say everything out loud. In fact, the processing happens largely internally. This is one reason EMDR works well for experiences that feel too painful, shameful, or fragmented to put into words.
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Talk therapy asks you to share details of your experiences in hopes of achieving understand and make meaning of what happened. EMDR works differently by targeting the way traumatic memories are stored in the nervous system, not just how you think about them. When a traumatic memory is fully processed through EMDR, it loses its emotional charge. You still remember what happened, but it no longer hijacks your nervous system the way it used to. For many people who have spent years in talk therapy without the relief they were hoping for, EMDR reaches the layer that talk therapy alone couldn't touch.
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EMDR is not a separate billing code. It’s a therapeutic method delivered within a standard therapy session, so whether it's covered depends entirely on your insurance plan and your out-of-network benefits. My practice is private pay, however, I have several options to help keep therapy affordable. For more information about fees and using your out-of-network insurance benefits, click here.
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EMDR works best when you have some capacity to tolerate emotional distress without becoming overwhelmed. This is what clinicians call "window of tolerance." Before any reprocessing begins, we spend time in the preparation phase building internal resources and grounding skills. This phase can be longer or shorter, depending on what skills and tolerance you already have. If you've done therapy before, have some language for your emotions, and are ready to move beyond insight and into a deeper level of healing, you're likely a strong candidate. If you’re still unsure, I can help answer questions during a free consultation.