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...
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Jun 23, 2026 | EMDR Skills
Not all hesitation around healing comes from fear of pain. Sometimes it comes from fear of loss. When symptoms, diagnoses, or trauma narratives have shaped how a person understands themselves, healing can feel less like relief and more like a threat to coherence....
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Jun 16, 2026 | EMDR Skills
1.The client needs to feel comfortable with the possibility of experiencing high levels of vulnerability. I used to say EMDR therapy is not for the faint at heart because it asks clients to approach memories, emotions, and beliefs they may have spent years...
by Elena Engle, LMHC-S | Jun 9, 2026 | EMDR Skills
EMDR assumes something that often goes unspoken: that the nervous system has at least some opportunity to settle. When a client is living in an environment that is actively threatening, coercive, or unpredictable, that assumption no longer holds. Readiness for EMDR...
