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Scottsdale EMDR Therapy, Phoenix PTSD Treatment, Scottsdale PTSD Counseling, Arizona PTSD Counselor. Depression, Anxiety.

Do painful past hurts and experiences keep interfering in your life?

Do you suffer from nightmares, have intrusive thoughts and images, and feelings of helplessness all related to a traumatic life event?

Are you ready to break free?



Crossroads offers

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

or EMDR therapy in our Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Anthem locations. EMDR is for those individuals who want to overcome the negative impact of past and present hurts and trauma so that you can come to a place of healing and peace.

What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain's information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can causes intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

How does EMDR work?

EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment. Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session. After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use his eyes to track the therapist's hand as it moves back and forth across the client's field of vision. As this happens, for reasons believed by a Harvard researcher to be connected with the biological mechanisms involved in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level. For instance, a rape victim shifts from feeling horror and self-disgust to holding the firm belief that, "I survived it and I am strong." Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes. The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them. Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed. As a natural outcome of the EMDR therapeutic process, the clients’ thoughts, feelings and behavior are all robust indicators of emotional health and resolution—all without speaking in detail or doing homework used in other therapies.

How effective is EMDR?

Twenty positive controlled outcome studies have been done on EMDR. Some of the studies show that 84%-90% of single-trauma victims no longer have post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD after only three 90-minute sessions. Another study, funded by the HMO Kaiser Permanente, found that 100% of the single-trauma victims and 77% of multiple trauma victims no longer were diagnosed with PTSD after only six 50-minute sessions. In another study, 77% of combat veterans were free of PTSD in 12 sessions. There has been so much research on EMDR that it is now recognized as an effective form of treatment for trauma and other disturbing experiences by organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the Department of Defense. Given the worldwide recognition as an effective treatment of trauma, you can easily see how EMDR would be effective in treating the “everyday” memories that are the reason people have low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, and all the myriad problems that bring them in for therapy. Over 70,000 clinicians throughout the world use EMDR therapy. Millions of people have been treated successfully over the past 20 years.

Source: EMDR Institute.
Web: www.emdr.com
Crossroads Family Counseling Center offers EMDR therapy in Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Anthem Arizona. EMDR is an effective form of therapy for the treatment of:
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Trauma

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    Note : Crossroads Family Counseling Center provides marriage counseling, couples counseling, relationship counseling, premarital counseling, family counseling, intensive marriage and couples counseling, counseling for children, counseling for adolescents, individual counseling for those struggling with depression, anxiety, and counseling for those struggling with trauma. Crossroad Family Counseling Center provides counseling for men who desire to have healthier relationships, become a better husband and father, who struggle with purity, and who want to grow spiritually. Crossroads offers counseling services for women who desire healthier relationships, a great marriage, who are struggling with family, depression, anxiety, and who desire to grow spiritually. Travis Frye is the Owner and Clinical Director of Crossroads. He is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, or EFT, and is New Life Live Credentialed Christian Counselor. While we work from a Christian counseling perspective we work with people from all faith backgrounds. Crossroads has a staff of highly trained therapists committed to helping you and your family. Crossroads also provides grief and loss counseling, anger management counseling, groups to improve your marriage, family, or parenting skills. Crossroads Family Counseling Center serves individuals and couples in Scottsdale, Anthem, North Scottsdale, Phoenix, North Phoenix, Carefree, Cave Creek, New River, Desert Hills, Peoria, Glendale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek, their surrounding areas, and in the following zip codes: 85086, 85085, 85008, 85012, 85014,85016, 85017, 85018, 85019, 85020, 85021, 85022, 85023, 85024, 85027, 85028, 85029, 85032, 85034, 85040, 85050, 85054, 85201, 85202, 85203, 85204, 85208, 85210, 85224, 85225, 85226, 85233, 85234, 85250, 85251, 85252, 85253, 85254, 85255, 85256, 85257, 85258, 85259, 85260, 85261, 85262, 85266, 85267, 85268, 85269, 85271, 85280, 85281, 85282, 85327, 85331, 85377.