Trauma therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are powerful tools for healing emotional and psychological wounds caused by trauma.
These therapies are essential for addressing underlying issues that contribute to mental health challenges and addiction.
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, our trauma-informed approach integrates evidence-based methods to provide resilience, relief, and recovery.
If you’re ready to process painful memories and move forward with your life, trauma therapy and EMDR at Harmony Treatment and Wellness can help you heal.
The Role of Trauma & EMDR Treatment in Addiction Recovery
Trauma and EMDR therapy are important parts of recovery if you’re struggling with mental health conditions and substance use disorders (SUDs).
By targeting the root causes of emotional distress, these therapies help clients break free from negative thought patterns and build healthier coping mechanisms.
Trauma therapy offers a safe place to explore and process past experiences, while EMDR uses specific techniques to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories.
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, these therapies are available through our various treatment programs. We take a comprehensive approach to healing, ensuring your treatment and therapy options are tailored to the needs of your condition.
What Can Trauma Recovery & EMDR Treat?
Trauma therapy and EMDR are effective in addressing a variety of mental health and addiction-related challenges.
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, these therapy approaches are used to treat conditions like:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders (closely related to complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, due to the overlapping symptoms)
- Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Addiction
How Trauma Therapy & EMDR Helps in Addiction Recovery
Unresolved trauma can manifest in different ways, negatively impacting your mental health, relationships, and overall well-being. Trauma therapy and EMDR work to reverse these effects.
Some key benefits of trauma therapy and EMDR include:
- Reduced anxiety: Therapy eases the constant sense of danger or worry that results from trauma.
- Improved emotional regulation: You can learn to manage overwhelming emotions like anger or sadness.
- Restored focus and concentration: Processing trauma can improve cognitive function and help you be more productive, focused, and decisive.
- Better sleep: Addressing flashbacks and trauma-related nightmares (TRN) helps you get more restful sleep.
- Learning to re-evaluate your beliefs: You can challenge negative beliefs and replace them with positive beliefs.
- Healthier relationships: Healing helps you reconnect with loved ones and feel less socially withdrawn or isolated.
- Reduced reliance on harmful coping mechanisms: You can learn to replace negative behaviors like substance use with healthier strategies
- Enhanced self-awareness: You can discover triggers and stress responses to build resilience.
- Renewed confidence and purpose: Therapy empowers you to rebuild your life and have a hopeful, fulfilling way forward.
Trauma & EMDR Treatment at Harmony Treatment and Wellness
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, trauma therapy and EMDR sessions are carefully structured to provide a safe, supportive environment for healing.
A session may include:
- Psychoeducation: This helps you learn how trauma affects the body and mind, identify triggers, and explore ways to manage them.
- Emotional regulation techniques: You can develop skills to stay calm and grounded during challenging or emotional situations.
- Imaginal exposure: This method helps you safely revisit and process traumatic events in a controlled setting to lessen their power over you.
- Focus on meaning-making: Find personal growth and empowerment during your healing journey.
- Targeting emotions: Your therapist helps you target and identify emotions related to your trauma, like guilt, shame, anger, and grief.
EMDR processing may also be integrated into your trauma therapy. Developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro, EMDR includes eight phases to address traumatic memories.
The eight phases of EMDR include:
- History-taking: The initial session is for treatment planning, and you’ll discuss your history and traumatic events.
- Preparation: Your EMDR therapist explains the process, and you develop a safe therapeutic alliance. When ready, subsequent sessions will move on to the other phases.
- Assessment: Identify the traumatic event to reprocess, along with images, beliefs, feelings, and body sensations associated with it.
- Desensitization: The next three phases are known as reprocessing and involve dual attention bilateral stimulation. Desensitization uses side-to-side eye movements, taps, or sounds while focusing on the memory, which helps to reduce its emotional power and impact.
- Installation: You associate a positive belief with the memory and strengthen it.
- Body scan: The event and the new positive belief are held while scanning the body. Any sensations still occurring are identified and reprocessed.
- Closure: You return to the present moment and reach a calm state.
- Revelation: This phase begins each new reprocessing session from then on and helps to determine the level of recovery and future treatment needs.
Our Programs Featuring Trauma Therapy & EMDR
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, we incorporate trauma therapy and EMDR into various levels of care, including:
Our partial hospitalization program (PHP) provides intensive, full-day treatment sessions. After treatment, you return home in the evening.
We integrate trauma therapy and EMDR if you’re dealing with trauma or PTSD. This helps your overall recovery and gives you tools to prepare to transition back to daily life.
Our intensive outpatient program (IOP) is ideal if you need daily support but can still manage your daily responsibilities. In our IOP, you attend treatment three to five times a week during the day or evening.
Trauma therapy and EMDR sessions can be included to build coping strategies and emotional resilience to process your trauma, making it easier to maintain your daily routine.
Our outpatient program allows you to continue your recovery journey while spending most of your time outside of treatment. You still consistently attend treatment regularly, but not every day.
Trauma therapy and EMDR can be part of your outpatient program to continue teaching you skills for emotional healing, relapse prevention, and personal growth.
Which of our treatment programs is right for you? Contact Harmony Treatment and Wellness, and our mental health professionals will help you find the best treatment option.
Who Does Trauma & EMDR Treatment Help in Addiction Recovery?
Trauma therapy and EMDR can help anyone who has experienced trauma and its effects.
Trauma and EMDR therapy may be right for you if:
- You’ve experienced trauma from abuse, accidents, natural disasters, or other life experiences
- You experience painful flashbacks or disturbing memories
- You struggle with intrusive thoughts or overwhelming emotions
- You want to reduce fear and anxiety in daily life
- You’re seeking relief from nightmares and sleep disturbances
- You want to understand and manage your triggers
- You want to explore new perspectives on past events
- You want to replace negative coping mechanisms with healthier strategies
- You want to restore confidence
Payment Options for Trauma Recovery & EMDR at Harmony
The cost of trauma therapy and EMDR can vary based on the level of care, the number of sessions, and additional services needed for trauma treatment.
Harmony Treatment and Wellness accepts most major insurance providers to make treatment affordable for everyone.
Contact us to verify your healthcare benefits and learn more about payment options.
Now is the perfect time to begin to heal!
Heal with Trauma Therapy & EMDR at Harmony
Healing from trauma is a journey, but you don’t have to walk the path to recovery alone.
Trauma therapy and EMDR at Harmony Treatment and Wellness give you the support you need to process painful experiences and reclaim your life.
If you’re ready to take the first step, contact our team today, and let’s start your path to recovery.
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We work with most major insurance carriers and offer a range of options to fit your lifestyle and financial means
Trauma & EMDR FAQs
EMDR is an evidence-based and effective treatment for PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Since these conditions can feed addiction, it can be helpful to include EMDR in addiction recovery treatment if you’re dealing with trauma.
EMDR is guided by the adaptive information processing (AIP) model and uses eye movements to reprocess traumatic memories.
Unlike other psychotherapy approaches, EMDR focuses on the memory itself rather than changing the thoughts and emotions that result from psychological trauma.
Trauma therapy focuses on processing memories in a controlled setting. While memories may be revisited, the goal is to reduce their power over you and help you move forward.
EMDR works by targeting the emotional impact of traumatic experiences. By reframing and lessening their power, you can heal deeply and reduce trauma’s influence on daily life.
Sources
- American Psychological Association. “Trauma” Retrieved from: https://www.apa.org/topics/trauma. Accessed on November 22, 2024.
- EMDR International Association. “The Eight Phases of EMDR Therapy.” Retrieved from: https://www.emdria.org/blog/the-eight-phases-of-emdr-therapy/ Accessed on November 22, 2024.
- National Institutes of Health. “Trauma-Informed Therapy. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK604200/. Accessed on November 22, 2024.
- University of Rochester Medical Center. “Healing from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Retrieved from: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=56&contentid=2401. Accessed on November 22, 2024.
- World Health Organization. “Post-traumatic stress disorder.” Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/post-traumatic-stress-disorder. Accessed on November 22, 2024.
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