You've Been Bracing for Something That Already Happened
EMDR helps your brain file the past where it belongs.
EMDR Therapy for Adults in Wheat Ridge, CO, In Person and Online
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Why Does a Change of Plans Hit This Hard?
You’re at the kitchen counter on a Tuesday night. Your partner mentions the weekend plans changed, and your chest locks before the sentence ends.
You keep your face pleasant while your body treats a schedule change like a threat.
The past keeps oozing into the present.
Then the thought you never say out loud: it happened years ago, so why is it still happening?
The plans have changed. Your body heard something else.
A Foot on the Gas and a Foot on the Brake
That’s what unprocessed memory feels like, and most of your fuel goes into simply getting through the day.
The kettle whistles a minute before you hear it.
A car door slams down the street and your shoulders answer.
Someone laughs in the next room and you wonder if it’s about you.
And none of it listens to reason.
Your body is answering a question the present isn’t asking.
The event ended years ago. Your body is still waiting for it to be safe.
The Memory Never Got Filed, So It Never Ended
When something overwhelming happens, the brain’s processing system gets overloaded, and the memory freezes with its original sights, sounds, emotions, and physical sensations.
Your brain keeps looping on those frozen fragments, so a tone shift at the counter pulls an ancient emergency response into tonight.
The memory is still sitting in the in-tray, marked urgent.
How EMDR Helps Your Brain Finish the Job
Once you have your footing, we use gentle bilateral stimulation (guided eye movements, rhythmic tapping, or alternating tones) to help your brain reprocess the old event and file it into long-term memory. Gestalt awareness and somatic tracking run alongside, because your body usually knows first.
- Hear a change of plans as information instead of danger.
- Feel the sharp edge of the memory soften.
- Let the baseline tension in your body finally drain.
- Keep the memory without it hijacking your evening.
- Get your presence, your vitality, and your self-trust back.
The memory becomes something that happened, instead of something still happening.
Three Phases From Bracing to Moving Forward
Preparation
We build trust and take stock. You learn coping tools, relaxation skills, and "resourcing" to handle tough feelings, then we choose the core memories to reprocess.
Nothing gets processed before you're ready.
Trauma Processing
We desensitize the memory until the distress is minimal or gone, and the ripple effects in your mind and body go quiet. You build a new, life-affirming understanding of what happened.
Distress drops until the memory is just a memory.
Rebuilding and Integrating
With the new story in place, we make sure it holds in your real life and creates movement toward what's next.
The new story comes home with you.
Healing Starts With Feeling Safe and Understood
EMDR-Trained Since 2007, Still Studying It
I trained in EMDR in 2007 and still study it through the EMDR Center of the Rockies, so you get a protocol refined over nearly two decades of trauma work.
Light Enough to Go to Hard Places
Expect some laughter in here, because keeping it light is how the hard places become survivable, and it's how I've worked with trauma since 2003.
Change You Can Measure in Your Life
We're done when you can speak up, feel what your body is telling you, and have people around you who can hold you, which is a different finish line than a quieter symptom.
Hi, I'm Tania.
Asking a stranger for help takes more courage than most people realize. I learned that in the client’s chair, doing inner work of my own, and I haven’t forgotten how exposed that first conversation felt.
Since 2003, I’ve been blending Gestalt therapy, EMDR and Adlerian psychology into a way of working that’s all my own. The Adlerian piece looks at the beliefs about yourself you picked up early and how they still steer your choices.
Expect more laughter than you’d guess for therapy! We roll up our sleeves together, and it gets messy, real and delightfully imperfect.
Bring the courage to ask, and I’ll bring everything I’ve learned about helping what’s been held down come up gently.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. You hold the memory in mind while I guide the eye movements or tapping, and you decide how much of it you say out loud.
Quieter than people expect. You follow a gentle back-and-forth with your eyes, or feel light tapping, while your brain does something with the memory that talking never quite managed.
Talk therapy helped you understand the memory. EMDR helps your brain finish processing it, which is why other therapists refer clients to me when their work has plateaued.
Yes. I see clients in my Wheat Ridge office and by secure video across Colorado, and the bilateral stimulation is guided the same way on screen.
That’s what the Preparation phase is for. Before we process anything, you’ll have grounding and resourcing tools, and we slow down the moment your body asks us to.
Limited Availability This Month
Your Body Has Been Waiting for Permission to Stand Down
Take the First Step Today
The weight of old memories does not have to be a permanent way of living.
Painful edges can soften, internal alarms can quiet down, and a genuine sense of peace and color can return to your days.
A free consultation is a supportive, low-pressure place to explore how EMDR can bring lasting relief and give you back some confidence in what’s ahead.
We’re in it together, from the first call on.
What Happens Next?
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Payments & Services
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis.
We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement and accept HSA/FSA.
No hidden fees – all costs are explained before you begin.