EMDR THERAPY - ALLISTON, ON
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“A lot of times with EMDR, you can find instant relief.”
— Emily MacIver
The Weight of Unhealed Trauma
Trauma often settles into the most ordinary parts of life, and you notice it in the way you grip the wheel near that corner on 27th Street, in how your eyes slide away from a parent’s face, or in your nine-year-old’s bedwetting as the divorce unfolds around them. It can be there in the nights you stall before going to bed because you’re bracing for another nightmare, or in the difficult memories from college or a painful breakup that quietly convinced you that you’re not enough, no matter what you do now.
These experiences are not minor details; they are evidence of experienced trauma that was too much to process at the time and was simply stored instead, and over time that weight and the ongoing emotional distress it creates can shape how you make decisions, how close you allow yourself to feel to others, and how intensely you react when something reminds you of the past.
In trauma therapy, we offer client centered psychotherapy and get curious about what you’ve been carrying and how it shows up in your life today, so you can feel supported while we work together to soften its hold.
The goal is for your choices to come from who you are now, in a healthier way, rather than from what you’ve survived, and to give these parts of your story a safe space to finally be understood.
When Trauma Starts Steering Your Days
When trauma isn’t resolved, it has a way of shrinking your world and feeding a quiet anxiety or even depression. You begin to organize around what feels least upsetting instead of what feels most meaningful. Maybe you avoid a certain route, keep conversations shallow, or find yourself tense before you even know why, because your body is still dealing with distressing memories that never fully settled. Bit by bit, life becomes about managing reactions instead of actually living it.
Release the trauma that’s weighing you down with EMDR therapy.
Release the trauma that is weighing you down with EMDR therapy. Grounded in trauma-focused psychology, EMDR gives your brain a structured way to revisit painful experiences so they no longer take over the present. Research suggests it is a highly effective treatment for trauma and related concerns, and several studies show that this process helps the brain move toward an adaptive resolution of what happened. Using bilateral stimulation with gentle rhythmic tones, taps, or guided eye movements, EMDR supports you to reprocess what you went through so the memories lose their intense charge and the beliefs they left behind can begin to shift.
We offer EMDR therapy both in person and through online therapy, so you can choose what feels most accessible. At our private practice in Alliston, Ontario, you can meet with an EMDR therapist in a welcoming office, or you can work from your own home through secure virtual care. Each session helps support steady personal growth, and online care can be especially helpful if you live in a remote area or one of the many rural or underserved areas where local services are limited.
What EMDR sessions typically look like:
EMDR sessions start with connection and pacing. Your therapist checks in, helps you choose what feels most important to work on, and makes sure you feel grounded before you move toward anything painful. Whether you come for in person therapy in our Alliston office or meet with an online EMDR therapist, the focus is on safety, clarity, and support that fits where you are that day.
During Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, you gently bring specific images, body sensations, or beliefs into focus while engaging in bilateral stimulation such as alternating tones, taps, or guided eye movements. As this unfolds, your brain begins to reprocess traumatic memories and other distressing life experiences, which can bring old feelings and sensations to the surface. Your therapist stays with you, helps keep the experience tolerable, and tracks how things are shifting. Over time, many people notice that EMDR helps the memories feel less charged and that their nervous system can settle more easily, both in session and later in their own space.
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We chat, I learn and understand your background, and we pinpoint your biggest areas of pain you want relief around.
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Learn the process of EMDR and get set-up with bilateral tones, taps, or eye movement. We calming techniques first so you’re familiar with EMDR.
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We start with the biggest area of pain or trauma you want that deep healing around.
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Attend regular sessions (typically 3-4 per incident, depends on the person though).
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Feel relief, start seeing your life change.
Who is EMDR for?
EMDR works well for people who are willing to look inward with steady support, and our EMDR practice is built around a strong therapeutic relationship so you never have to do that alone. You don’t need to be “strong enough” to begin, just willing to take a first step. Whether you’re an Ontario resident, elsewhere in Canada, or working through virtual EMDR therapy or remote EMDR therapy, your care follows clear ethical guidelines and is provided by therapists with specialized training in trauma and PTSD, along with additional resources to support you between sessions
EMDR can help so many struggles and are not limited to…
Post traumatic stress disorder
Grief and loss (of any kind)
Accidents
Natural disaster
Life transitions
Childhood trauma of neglect, abuse (of any kind), bullying, loneliness
Seeing a trauma happen to someone else
Relationship turmoil
Trauma to your child 9+
Stuck in negative thoughts
We also offer counselling for children as well as mental health services for teens and individuals, including therapy for men and women—because trauma touches every part of the human experience.
