EMDR & Spiritually Integrated Therapy
Specialized approaches within integrative trauma-informed care.
These approaches are offered within integrative psychotherapy and are introduced based on readiness, goals, and clinical judgment.
EMDR is provided by an EMDR-trained clinician. Spiritually integrated psychotherapy is informed by Master’s-level training in ethically integrating spirituality and meaning within therapeutic care.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based trauma therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing experiences so they are no longer stored in a way that triggers intense emotional, cognitive, or somatic reactions. Based on the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, EMDR works with how memories are encoded in the nervous system, allowing previously overwhelming experiences to become integrated, adaptive, and no longer disruptive. This approach does not require detailed verbal retelling of events and proceeds at a pace that prioritizes safety, stabilization, and nervous system regulation. EMDR is integrated with parts-informed, somatic, cognitive, and spiritually integrated frameworks to support healing across bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions.
This may include
Resourcing and stabilization skills
Targeting past, present, and future memory networks
Bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or auditory tones)
Processing distressing memories without full verbal recounting
Installation of adaptive beliefs and self-concepts
Body-based awareness during reprocessing
• Future template work for upcoming situations
Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
Spiritually integrated therapy is an evidence-based approach that ethically and intentionally incorporates your spiritual, religious, or meaning-based worldview into psychotherapy when it is important to you. Grounded in Kenneth Pargament’s model, this work explores how spirituality functions in your life as a source of resilience, identity, struggle, or healing. Therapy is client-directed, culturally responsive, and clinically focused. Your beliefs are never imposed upon; instead, we work within your existing meaning system to address spiritual resources, spiritual wounds, moral injury, questions of purpose, and experiences of disconnection from what you hold as sacred. When appropriate, this work is integrated with EMDR, parts-informed, somatic, and cognitive approaches to support healing across bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions.
This approach may include:
Exploring beliefs and values that shape identity and meaning
Integrating cultural or spiritual resources that support resilience
Reflecting on purpose, direction, or connection
Examining beliefs that no longer feel supportive
Spiritual exploration is never used to bypass emotional pain. Therapy remains grounded in trauma-informed, evidence-based psychotherapy and ethical standards.
This approach is compatible with religious, spiritual, secular, or non-spiritual perspectives.
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