EMDR Treatment
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a well-researched, evidence based therapy designed to help individuals heal from trauma and distressing life experiences.
After a traumatic event, the brain can struggle to fully process and memories are "stuck in the form of intrusive thoughts, vivid images, difficult emotions or physical sensations.
EMDR therapy helps the brain to reprocess these experiences so they are no longer stored in such a distressing way.
Through guided bilateral stimulation, EMDR supports the brains natural ability to heal and integrate difficult memories. Many people find that experiences that once felt overwhelming begin to lose their emotional intensity, allowing them to move forward with greater relief, stability and clarity.
EMDR is a structured intervention that applies somatic interventions to treat trauma at the root. Your clinician will work through 8 phases of treatment to assist your brain in releasing the stored trauma.
The 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy
1. History & Treatment Planning
Your clinician will start by understanding your story, identifying patterns, and selecting specific memories or experiences to target. This phase ensures the work is intentional and paced appropriately for you.
2. Preparation
You’ll learn practical regulation tools to stay grounded during and between sessions. This might include visualization and ways to manage emotional intensity so you feel steady going into deeper work. This phase will feel soothing building your confidence in the treatment.
3. Assessment
Your clinician will assist you in identifying a specific memory and map how it lives in your system — including the image, negative belief (e.g., “I’m not safe”), preferred positive belief, emotions, and body sensations.
4. Desensitization
Using bilateral stimulation which can include eye movements, tapping, or sound, you process the memory in a way that allows the emotional charge and distress to shift and resolve.
5. Installation
As the disturbance decreases, we strengthen a more adaptive belief (e.g., “I am safe now”) until it feels internally true and anchored.
6. Body Scan
You’ll check in with your body while holding the memory and new belief, noticing and clearing any remaining tension or residual activation.
7. Closure
Each session ends with stabilization, making sure you leave feeling grounded and regulated — regardless of how much processing occurred.
8. Re-evaluation
At the start of the next session, we revisit the work, assess what’s shifted, and determine whether more processing is needed or if we’re ready to move forward.
The 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy
1. History & Treatment Planning
Your clinician will start by understanding your story, identifying patterns, and selecting specific memories or experiences to target. This phase ensures the work is intentional and paced appropriately for you.
2. Preparation
You’ll learn practical regulation tools to stay grounded during and between sessions. This might include visualization and ways to manage emotional intensity so you feel steady going into deeper work. This phase will feel soothing building your confidence in the treatment.
3. Assessment
Your clinician will assist you in identifying a specific memory and map how it lives in your system — including the image, negative belief (e.g., “I’m not safe”), preferred positive belief, emotions, and body sensations.
4. Desensitization
Using bilateral stimulation which can include eye movements, tapping, or sound, you process the memory in a way that allows the emotional charge and distress to shift and resolve.
5. Installation
As the disturbance decreases, we strengthen a more adaptive belief (e.g., “I am safe now”) until it feels internally true and anchored.
6. Body Scan
You’ll check in with your body while holding the memory and new belief, noticing and clearing any remaining tension or residual activation.
7. Closure
Each session ends with stabilization, making sure you leave feeling grounded and regulated — regardless of how much processing occurred.
8. Re-evaluation
At the start of the next session, we revisit the work, assess what’s shifted, and determine whether more processing is needed or if we’re ready to move forward.
Why is EMDR with Clarity Therapy & Consulting different?
Many therapists complete basic training for EMDR allowing them access to the tools that support clients in reducing the distress of their traumas. Clarity Therapy clinicians have gone beyond the basics.
Trauma work is nuanced and requires care. EMDR isn’t just a technique—it’s a comprehensive, structured approach to healing. As a certified EMDR therapist, Bekah Gentry is trained to thoughtfully navigate the layers that can emerge in this work—from early attachment injuries and identity-based trauma to intergenerational patterns and deeply held beliefs that no longer fit. You deserve trauma therapy with someone who brings not only training, but presence, skill, and a genuine commitment to your healing process.
Trauma work is nuanced and requires care. EMDR isn’t just a technique—it’s a comprehensive, structured approach to healing. As a certified EMDR therapist, Bekah Gentry is trained to thoughtfully navigate the layers that can emerge in this work—from early attachment injuries and identity-based trauma to intergenerational patterns and deeply held beliefs that no longer fit. You deserve trauma therapy with someone who brings not only training, but presence, skill, and a genuine commitment to your healing process.
Expertly Trained EMDR Clinicians
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As a certified EMDR therapist, Bekah has met one of the highest levels of training in EMDR with EMDRIA. She works with clients to deeply process unresolved trauma and distressing memories in a focused, supportive environment. Bekah is especially attuned to how trauma shapes attachment patterns, emotional regulation, and a person’s sense of safety in themselves and in relationships.
Through her unique training and skillset, Bekah helps clients move beyond survival-based coping and toward a more grounded sense of clarity, resilience, and self-trust. In addition to her work in EMDR with clients, she also is completing training to offer consultation to other clinicians. |
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Kelly offers EMDR therapy as a focused, evidence-based approach to help clients process and move through experiences that feel stuck or unresolved. Kelly targets the root of distress—shifting the beliefs, emotional responses, and body-based reactions that keep patterns in place.
Kelly's approach to EMDR is steady, collaborative, and tailored to each client’s readiness. She prioritizes preparation and emotional regulation so clients feel supported throughout the process, not overwhelmed by it. Kelly integrates EMDR within a broader, whole-person approach, helping clients not only process the past, but also build new patterns that support lasting change. |
EMDR therapy is most commonly offered in weekly sessions and, in many cases, is covered by insurance—making it an accessible and effective option for processing trauma over time.
This approach works well for many people, allowing for steady, supported progress within the rhythm of ongoing therapy.
However, there are times when a more focused and accelerated approach is needed. For individuals navigating high-intensity trauma (such as recent acute events), persistent patterns like OCD, or demanding schedules that make weekly therapy difficult to sustain, EMDR intensives can be a better fit.
Intensives allow for extended, concentrated sessions—often over a weekend—so you can move through deeper layers of processing more efficiently, without the stop-and-start of traditional weekly work.
This approach works well for many people, allowing for steady, supported progress within the rhythm of ongoing therapy.
However, there are times when a more focused and accelerated approach is needed. For individuals navigating high-intensity trauma (such as recent acute events), persistent patterns like OCD, or demanding schedules that make weekly therapy difficult to sustain, EMDR intensives can be a better fit.
Intensives allow for extended, concentrated sessions—often over a weekend—so you can move through deeper layers of processing more efficiently, without the stop-and-start of traditional weekly work.
