Body-Mind-Based Psychotherapy
EMDR Therapy Center of CT offers eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) therapy to support the body’s natural ability to process stress and trauma. At the center, we often use EMDR in tangent with other somatic or mind-body-based interventions to guide our clients back to balance.
The “bottom-up” approach
We offer therapeutic interventions that have a “bottom-up” approach to wellness. These types of interventions are an integral part of embodying ease in the body as well as the mind. For example when we “feel depressed” it is more than a thought but a feeling that is in the body. Talk therapy often uses interventions that engage the cognitive mind to create change with the idea that the “felt” sense of the body will shift. By using a “bottom-up” approach we engage the body first and then thoughts through somatic techniques such as EMDR. This allows observable change in both the mind and body during treatment.
Jennifer Kerr, LMFT
“The mind and body are not separate. They are two sides of the same coin”