by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Sep 1, 2026 | EMDR Skills
Every client walks into therapy with a language of their own. Not necessarily a different vocabulary, but a particular way of describing their experiences. Certain words repeat. Images appear. Metaphors emerge. A phrase that seems ordinary at first ...
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Aug 18, 2026 | EMDR Skills
Here’s something many EMDR therapists recognize: A client knows something is important, but they can’t quite explain why. They may have an image that keeps returning. A reaction that feels bigger than the present moment. A sense that something...
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Aug 4, 2026 | EMDR Skills
Readiness for EMDR reprocessing is often framed as something the client either has or doesn’t. But the longer I’ve done this work, the clearer it’s become that readiness is shared. EMDR asks something of the therapist’s nervous system too, and there are moments when...
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Jul 21, 2026 | EMDR Skills
Not every nervous system arrives in therapy with the same developmental foundation. Some clients are not unready because something went wrong recently, but because certain capacities were never fully built in the first place. When we think about readiness for EMDR...
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Jul 7, 2026 | EMDR Skills
EMDR doesn’t unfold in a single moment. It asks for space. For continuity. For the nervous system to return, again and again, to what has been opened and to carry that movement forward. When that space isn’t available, readiness becomes more fragile than it first...
