EMDR & IFS Therapy at NCH!
Healing our Clients in Mind, Body, and Spirit!
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories (Shapiro, 1989a, 1989b). Shapiro’s (2001) Adaptive Information Processing model posits that EMDR therapy facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experience to bring these to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced (retrieved from the EMDR Institute)
What is IFS?
The IFS Model views a person as containing an ecology of relatively discrete minds, each of which has valuable qualities and each of which is designed to play a valuable role within. These parts are forced out of their valuable roles, however, by life experiences that can reorganize the system in unhealthy ways. In addition to these parts, everyone is at their core a Self containing many crucial leadership qualities such as perspective, confidence, compassion, and acceptance. The goal of IFS is to differentiate this Self from the parts, thereby releasing its resources. When the individual is in the state of Self, we can work together to help the parts out of their extreme roles and into a more mindful, whole-hearted and peaceful state. retrieved from Selfleadership.org.
Therapy with Our Clinical Team Using These Models...
Our clinicians at NCH are trained in both EMDR and IFS. Our founder, Candice Christiansen, is EMDR Certified and considered one of the leading trauma experts in the country. Our team receives on-going consultation and advanced training from the leading experts in EMDR and IFS to ensure our clients have the best care possible when healing from attachment and other trauma wounds.