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If you've ever wondered why you can't just "think your way" out of trauma, this video is for you. Erica Bonham, EMDRIA-Certified EMDR therapist, breaks down exactly what happens in your brain during trauma — and how EMDR helps it heal.

Traumatic memories don't get filed away like regular ones. Instead, they get stuck in the brain's emotional processing centers — the limbic system, the amygdala — keeping your nervous system on high alert even when the danger is long gone. That's not a character flaw. That's biology.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) was developed by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s and works through bilateral stimulation — eye movements, handheld pulsers, or tapping — that gets your right and left brain talking to each other again. The mechanism is similar to what happens during REM sleep: your brain reprocesses stuck experiences and stores them somewhere they can't hijack your present life.

Brain scans show the difference clearly. Before EMDR, trauma survivors show overactivation in the right (emotional) brain. After? More balance between hemispheres, more activation in the frontal lobes — the part responsible for emotion regulation, clear thinking, and impulse control.

At AVOS Counseling Center, we work with all kinds of trauma: big, identifiable events like accidents or assault, and the quieter wounds — attachment-based trauma, preverbal experiences, generational patterns stored in the body before you had words for any of it. For complex or early trauma, we pair EMDR with somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS/parts work), and attachment-focused approaches so the whole nervous system gets to heal, not just the conscious mind.

Our team is trained and certified in Attachment and Somatic Focused EMDR. We also integrate DBT and Mindfulness, and offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for clients who need a deeper entry point into healing.

Ready to stop white-knuckling it and actually move forward? We'd love to talk.

AVOS Counseling Center
8795 Ralston Rd #200a, Arvada, CO 80002
(303) 880-7793
avoscounseling.com

Serving Arvada, Westminster, Wheat Ridge, Lakewood, Golden, and Broomfield.

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