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EMDR Therapy

Trauma’s shadow can linger, but you don’t have to live in it. Trauma can shape your life in ways you never asked for — but healing is possible.

If you’re searching for EMDR therapy, you may be longing for relief from memories, patterns, or reactions that still live in your body. We offer EMDR therapy across BC, supporting clients across the Lower Mainland who want a compassionate, evidence-based way to process trauma, reduce distress, and reconnect with a deeper sense of safety in their lives. Whether you’re seeking EMDR services for PTSD, anxiety, or long-held emotional wounds, we’re here to walk alongside you.

At Turning Point Therapy, We Start With You

Healing Begins With Feeling Understood

Before we focus on trauma memories, we focus on you. Your story, your pace, and your lived experience guide everything we do. We’re curious about how your nervous system responds to stress, what safety feels like for you, and what “better” might genuinely mean in your life today.

Our EMDR therapists bring a relational, trauma-informed approach to every session. Whether you’re beginning EMDR counselling for the first time or returning to therapy after a difficult season, we offer presence, compassion, and steady pacing so you never have to move through this work alone.

We collaborate with you to shape EMDR in a way that feels respectful of your history, your boundaries, and the healing path you’re ready to explore—creating a foundation for effective EMDR trauma therapy Vancouver clients can trust.

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What Is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a trauma-focused therapy that helps your brain and body process overwhelming experiences so they no longer feel as intense or controlling.

Instead of repeatedly retelling your story in detail, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements, alternating sounds, or taps) while you briefly focus on specific memories, images, or sensations. This process supports your nervous system to reprocess what happened and integrate new, more adaptive beliefs—like “I’m safe now” or “It wasn’t my fault.”

EMDR therapy can help with:

  • PTSD and complex trauma
  • Childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse
  • Car accidents, medical procedures, or other single-event traumas
  • Relationship trauma, betrayal, and attachment wounds
  • Anxiety, panic, and emotional overwhelm
  • Disturbing images, nightmares, or intrusive thoughts

Our trauma therapists combine EMDR with attachment-based and experiential approaches so that EMDR fits into a broader healing journey, rather than being a one-size-fits-all technique.

EMDR Therapy: Trauma can shape your life in ways you never asked for — but healing is possible.

How Trauma Shows Up – and How EMDR Can Help

Trauma doesn’t always announce itself loudly. For some people, it shows up as symptoms they can’t ignore. For others, it appears as subtle, repeating patterns that quietly shape everyday life.

You might notice:

  • Feeling constantly “on edge” or hypervigilant
  • Sudden emotional flooding or shutting down
  • Avoiding certain people, places, or conversations
  • Numbness, disconnection, or feeling far away from yourself
  • Shame, self-blame, or a sense that something is “wrong” with you
  • Nightmares or memories that won’t stay in the past
  • Struggles with trust, closeness, or feeling safe in relationships

When difficult experiences aren’t fully processed, the nervous system can stay locked in old survival responses. EMDR therapy helps your system update—so you’re responding to today rather than reliving yesterday.

Our therapists offer EMDR therapy throughout BC. Whether the wounds are recent or long-held, EMDR can help you feel safer in your body, grounded in your relationships, and more present in your life.

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How Do I Know I Might Benefit from EMDR?

Not everyone needs EMDR, and not every session has to include it. You might benefit from EMDR counselling if:

  • You know something from your past is still affecting you, even if you can’t fully name it
  • Talk therapy has helped somewhat, but the emotional intensity hasn’t really shifted
  • Certain situations seem to trigger outsized reactions in you (or people tell you this)
  • You feel “stuck” in patterns you can’t think your way out of
  • You’re tired of feeling like your nervous system is always on high alert

 

Our EMDR therapists in Vancouver will never force this approach on you. Together, we’ll explore whether EMDR is the right fit, or whether another way of working with trauma and emotion might be more supportive right now.

Not everyone needs EMDR, and not every session has to include it. You might benefit from EMDR counselling if:

  • You know something from your past is still affecting you, even if you can’t fully name it
  • Talk therapy has helped somewhat, but the emotional intensity hasn’t really shifted
  • Certain situations seem to trigger outsized reactions in you (or people tell you this)
  • You feel “stuck” in patterns you can’t think your way out of
  • You’re tired of feeling like your nervous system is always on high alert

Our EMDR therapists will never force this approach on you. Together, we’ll explore whether EMDR is the right fit, or whether another way of working with trauma and emotion might be more supportive right now.

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EMDR Counselling : Our Values and Approach

Here are a few things we strive for in providing EMDR therapy.

  • You set the pace. You choose what to share, when, and how deep we go.
  • We stay within what feels tolerable. EMDR doesn’t have to mean re-living everything at full intensity.
  • We work collaboratively. We see you as a partner in the process, not a passive recipient of treatment.
  • We respect your survival strategies. We view “symptoms” as understandable ways you’ve coped, not signs that you are the problem.
  • We draw from multiple approaches. EMDR counselling is combined with attachment, experiential, and somatic methods for deeper, more integrated healing.

Our goal is not just to reduce symptoms, but to support you in feeling more connected—to yourself, your body, and the people who matter to you.

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If you’re ready to explore EMDR Therapy, or if you’re unsure where to begin, we’re here to help you take the next step with care and clarity.

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EMDR Therapy Vancouver BC – FAQs

There’s no single timeline that fits everyone. Some people notice significant shifts in specific symptoms after several focused EMDR sessions. Others—with complex, long-term trauma—benefit from a longer course of EMDR integrated into ongoing trauma therapy in Vancouver.

We’ll check in regularly about how you’re feeling, what’s changing, and what you’d like to work on next, so we can adjust the length and focus of therapy together.

EMDR is widely recognized as an effective approach for PTSD and is also used with complex trauma and attachment wounds. For many people, EMDR helps:

  • Lessen the intensity of memories and triggers

  • Reduce emotional reactivity and hypervigilance

  • Support a greater sense of safety and self-compassion

EMDR is not a quick fix, but for many clients it becomes an important part of trauma treatment in Vancouver, especially when combined with relational and body-based approaches.

Yes. We offer online EMDR therapy in Vancouver and throughout BC via secure video sessions. Online EMDR can be just as effective as in-person work, especially when you have a private, comfortable space where you feel safe.

Before we begin, we’ll orient you to how EMDR works online and make sure you have what you need to feel supported throughout the session.

You don’t have to decide that right away. Our first sessions are focused on getting to know you, understanding your history, and building enough safety to explore options together.

If EMDR isn’t the best fit, we have other ways of working with trauma, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. Your needs—not the method—come first.

EMDR is one way of working with trauma, but it’s not the only approach we offer. Some clients benefit from a combination of EMDR and ongoing trauma counselling, especially when working with long-term or complex experiences.

If you’d like to learn more about how we support trauma more broadly — including relational, attachment-based, and nervous-system-focused approaches — you can explore our
Trauma Counselling page.

PTSD is a result of trauma, where the person experiences symptoms such as flashbacks, hypervigilance, or avoidance, and a profound feeling of being unsafe. Our therapists are experienced in working with PTSD both acute and Complex PTSD, helping you regain control over triggers and emotional responses.

If you’re experiencing these symptoms, contact us today to set up an appointment.