Four Corners Healing - Chapel Hill's Best EMDR Choice
My Background
"My approach to therapy is nonjudgmental and down to earth. I am trained in 4 different trauma modalities and have created my own Trauma Survivor's Workshop designed to move people through traumatic experiences in a supportive group setting. Being an EMDR specialist is helpful as an adjunct to the deeper therapeutic work I do."
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My Approach
I believe that every individual has the potential to live a fulfilling and purposeful life. My approach is centered around helping my clients cultivate self-awareness, identify their values and goals, and create actionable steps towards achieving them. I am committed to providing a safe and non-judgmental space for my clients to explore their inner world and work towards their desired outcomes.
My Services
Rachel has been working with adults, children, couples,and adolescents in a mental health capacity since 2003. She tries to meet people where they are at and maintain a nonjudgmental approach to helping each person she serves in a unique and supportive way. She has been licensed since 2010 and in private practice since 2012. She has had the opportunity to train with world renowned experts in her field. In addition to creating her own personalized approach to treating trauma Rachel is also trained in the following evidence based treatment modalities:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Exposure Therapy, Seeking Safety, Play Therapy, and Sand Tray Therapy (children ages 3-12), Anxiety, Depression, and Related Disorders, Systemic Family and Couples Therapy, Co-parenting and Blended Families, Sports and Executive Performance, ADHD / Executive Functioning Training
EMDR - A Vital Tool For Healing
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), is a specialty many patients of Rachel have seen rapid progress with. According to the APA,
"Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (Shapiro, 2001) was initially developed in 1987 for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is guided by the Adaptive Information Processing model (Shapiro 2007). EMDR is an individual therapy typically delivered one to two times per week for a total of 6-12 sessions, although some people benefit from fewer sessions. Sessions can be conducted on consecutive days.
The Adaptive Information Processing model considers symptoms of PTSD and other disorders (unless physically or chemically based) to result from past disturbing experiences that continue to cause distress because the memory was not adequately processed. These unprocessed memories are understood to contain the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and physical sensations that occurred at the time of the event. When the memories are triggered these stored disturbing elements are experienced and cause the symptoms of PTSD and/or other disorders.
Unlike other treatments that focus on directly altering the emotions, thoughts and responses resulting from traumatic experiences, EMDR therapy focuses directly on the memory, and is intended to change the way that the memory is stored in the brain, thus reducing and eliminating the problematic symptoms.
During EMDR therapy, clinical observations suggest that an accelerated learning process is stimulated by EMDR’s standardized procedures, which incorporate the use of eye movements and other forms of rhythmic left-right (bilateral) stimulation (e.g., tones or taps). While clients briefly focus on the trauma memory and simultaneously experience bilateral stimulation (BLS), the vividness and emotion of the memory are reduced."
While this may seem daunting, the process is clinically proven to effectively handle traumatic symptoms and patients often see results of years-long trauma healed within months or weeks.
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Four Corners Healing
1506 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, United States
