SPECIALTIES / EMDR THERAPY
EMDR Therapy
Heal from the past.
Feel more present.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process distressing memories and reduce the emotional intensity connected to traumatic experiences.
At Harmony Healing Psychotherapy, we provide online EMDR therapy for adults across Ontario and Nova Scotia. EMDR can support healing from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, painful memories, shame, and experiences that continue to affect how you feel, think, and respond in everyday life.
Treatment is personalized to your needs and paced with care, helping you feel safer, more grounded, and more in control.
Your past is part of your story.
Healing is how you move
forward.
Trauma can affect how you see yourself, connect with others, and respond to the world around you. While you cannot change what happened, you can change the way those experiences continue to impact your life.
Through trauma-informed therapy, you can build greater awareness of your responses, strengthen emotional regulation, and move from simply coping toward feeling safer, more grounded, and more connected.
How Trauma Can Show Up
Feeling constantly on edge or easily startled
Flashbacks, nightmares, or intrusive memories
Overthinking, perfectionism, or people-pleasing
Difficulty setting boundaries or feeling safe
Difficulty trusting others or maintaining relationships
Avoiding certain people, places, or situations
Emotional numbness or feeling disconnected
Trouble relaxing, sleeping, or concentrating
Anxiety, panic, or persistent worry
Shame, guilt, or harsh self-criticism
You don't have to experience every symptom for trauma therapy to help. If your past continues to affect your present, healing is possible.
What EMDR Therapy Can Help With
Childhood Trauma
Early experiences of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, neglect, criticism, or inconsistent caregiving that continue to affect your relationships, self-worth, and emotional well-being.
Complex Trauma
(C-PTSD)
Repeated or prolonged experiences of abuse, neglect, instability, or fear that can impact emotional regulation, identity, trust, and relationships.
Sexual Trauma
Support for survivors of sexual assault, rape, childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and other unwanted sexual experiences in a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental environment.
Relationship Trauma
Healing from emotional abuse, domestic violence, narcissistic relationships, betrayal, abandonment, or other experiences that have affected your ability to trust and feel safe.
Single-Incident Trauma
Trauma following events such as car accidents, medical emergencies, physical assault, natural disasters, or other overwhelming life experiences.
Grief & Loss
Support for navigating the trauma of losing a loved one, pregnancy loss, divorce, sudden life changes, or other significant losses.
Attachment
Trauma
Healing from early attachment wounds caused by inconsistent caregiving, emotional unavailability, or disrupted childhood relationships.
Distressing
Memories
Reduce the emotional charge connected to painful memories so they feel less overwhelming in the present.
What EMDR Therapy Looks Like
EMDR is a structured therapy process that moves at a pace that feels manageable. You are not expected to immediately revisit difficult memories. Treatment begins with building safety, understanding your goals, and preparing you with tools to manage emotional distress.
1. Understanding Your History & Goals
We begin by exploring what is bringing you to therapy, the experiences that continue to affect you, and what you would like to feel different in your life.
2. Building Safety & Coping Skills
Before trauma processing begins, we focus on grounding, emotional regulation, and coping strategies so you have tools to manage difficult emotions both in and outside of sessions.
3. Identifying What to Work On
Together, we identify specific memories, triggers, emotions, physical sensations, or negative beliefs that may be contributing to current distress.
4. EMDR Processing
During EMDR processing, bilateral stimulation—often guided eye movements—is used while you briefly focus on aspects of the distressing memory. This helps the brain begin processing the experience in a new way.
5. Strengthening Healthier Beliefs
As the emotional intensity of a memory decreases, we work on strengthening more adaptive beliefs such as feeling safer, more capable, or less responsible for what happened.
6. Checking in With Your Body
Trauma can be stored as physical tension or sensations as well as thoughts and emotions. We pay attention to what is happening in your body and work toward reducing any remaining distress.
7. Closing Each Session Safely
Sessions end with grounding and stabilization so you feel supported before returning to your day.
8. Reviewing Progress
At the beginning of future sessions, we check how the memory feels now, what has shifted, and whether additional processing or a new target would be helpful.
Still Have Questions?
Choosing the right therapist and approach can feel overwhelming.
Reach out to learn more about trauma therapy, ask questions, and see whether Harmony Healing Psychotherapy feels like the right fit for you.
Book a free 15-minute consultation to discuss what you’re looking for and explore the next steps.
What EMDR Therapy Can Help With
EMDR therapy can help reduce the emotional intensity connected to difficult memories while supporting healthier ways of responding in the present. Treatment is paced carefully and tailored to your needs, with a focus on helping you feel safer, more grounded, and less controlled by past experiences.
Together, we can work to help you:
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Reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and triggers
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Feel less overwhelmed by flashbacks, anxiety, or emotional distress
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Process painful experiences without reliving them in the same way
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Challenge shame, guilt, and negative beliefs about yourself
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Improve emotional regulation and nervous system stability
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Reduce avoidance and fear connected to past experiences
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Build a stronger sense of safety, confidence, and self-trust
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Feel more present and connected in everyday life
The goal of EMDR is not to erase what happened, but to help the memory feel less powerful so you can move forward with greater freedom and control.
Evidence-Based,
Transformative Care.
I use proven, effective approaches tailored to your unique needs and goals. My trauma therapy is always:
You are in control of your story and your healing.
Collaborative & Client-Led
Compassionate & Non-Judgmental
Safety-Focussed & Empowering
Grounded in Evidence