It’s time to quiet that inner critic.

EMDR therapy in MA & CT

Are you doing big things yet you still feel small? Is there a voice inside you saying, “you’re not good enough”? Do you have a sense that maybe this negative self-talk isn’t totally true but do not know how to quiet that voice?

Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, you’re beginning to notice the impact of this in every facet of your life:

  • Doubting yourself and your abilities at work, in your relationships, in your parenting

  • Holding yourself back from the things you really want

  • Feeling down on yourself and frustrated that you can’t give yourself more grace

 You’re ready to step into your power.

How therapy works

You don’t have to live life feeling small.

It may feel impossible now, but you can feel confident and grounded. You can shift that self-critical inner voice to be more compassionate. You can soothe the part of you that feels “not good enough” to allow you to step into your power and strength. And I can help you get there using EMDR therapy.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, research-backed method for healing trauma, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. Whether you're dealing with traumatic memories, anxiety, or unresolved emotional pain, EMDR helps your brain reprocess these experiences, allowing you to let go of old wounds and live with greater peace and resilience.

What You Can Expect:

  • Bilateral Stimulation: Using eye movements or other methods to stimulate both sides of the brain, EMDR helps process and resolve emotional pain.

  • Deep Healing: EMDR works by targeting the root causes of emotional dysregulation, helping you release unresolved trauma and move forward with emotional freedom.

  • A Trauma-Informed Approach: My practice is grounded in compassion and trauma-informed care, ensuring you feel safe and supported throughout the process.

I’ll help through this process, tailoring each step to your unique needs and circumstances. My approach to EMDR therapy for self-esteem comes from a place of compassion and acceptance: I believe that there is nothing wrong with you and that the negative self-talk is trying to take care of and protect you in some way. Together we will better understand where negative self-talk came from and from there, use EMDR to reprocess those early experiences so that you can access your strength, confidence and self-compassion.

EMDR therapy can help you…

  • Identify the root cause of the distress you’re feeling so that you can offer validation to the parts of you that need support

  • Rewire your brain so that self-compassion is your natural response

  • Learn the tools that will help settle your nervous system and soothe the self-conscious parts so that you feel more sturdy and confident

  • Listen to the signals your body is sending you and work with those sensations

EMDR and somatic therapy for anxiety, panic, self-esteem, highly sensitive people, phobias, in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Beacon Hill, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Frequently asked questions about EMDR therapy for self esteem

FAQs

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative 8-phase protocol psychotherapy approach that allows maladaptively stored memories, which lead to distressing symptoms, to be reprocessed and put away properly. It is used to help the nervous system heal from harm caused by trauma and other stressful life experiences. Bilateral stimulation (BLS), provided by tracking a dot with your eyes, self tapping, or audio tones, is used in EMDR to allow our brains to access its natural healing process, to move stuck and unprocessed experiences in the nervous system into processed memories. Learn more.

  • Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). Sometimes stressful events can be processed on their own but sometimes, if it is too fast, too much, or not enough, it can get stuck and needs some help being reprocessed and stored.

    Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, it may create an overwhelming feeling of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved. Please visit EMDRIA.org for more information

  • The work we do together is 100% individualized. We will work together to meet your goals and check in along the way to see how you are feeling about therapy and your initial goals. Some people move through EMDR quickly, some move through it over a longer span of time. Anything is ok and normal! For some clients they feel they have met their goals and want to end therapy, for other clients they feel they have met their initial goals but then find they have new goals and want to continue therapy. We will determine how long you will be in therapy together by checking in along the way. I also offer 90-minute EMDR sessions and we can decide together if that could be a good fit for you.

  • Reach out to schedule our initial 15 minute consultation call! We will discuss why you are reaching out for therapy, your current coping skills and what your hopes are for therapy. I will share with you how I practice as a therapist and together we will determine if we are a good fit. If we are a good fit, we will go forward with scheduling our first appointment! Learn more.

 You don’t have to stay small. You can take up space.