What if, by modifying our thoughts, language and responses, we resolve internal conflict, change how we experience past memories, and heal trauma? NLP enables us to see old patterns in new ways and uncover new possibilities.

We all possess a neurology – those pathways that perceive and process sensory information about the environment for our nervous system.   As we experience life, our sensory modalities capture and store experiences as memories that bring us back to past experiences; a favorite song, a particular smell, taste or touch can return us to moments of joy or profound sadness.  We assign meaning to these perceptions, including beliefs and expectations.  As we grow from childhood into adulthood, these meanings can morph and change in distorting ways, resulting in a less than optimum personal “map-of-reality.”  Altering our internal maps in powerful, effective ways directly impacts our experience of our self and the world.

NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) is the art and science of personal excellence. Art because we bring unique character to our individual expression, and science because there is a discoverable pattern in performance. Desirable states of being can be mapped and modeled to embody positive change.  

NLP accesses our Neurological levels; Inner Soul Work is the key to outer life change. 

The innermost ring represents the Spiritual level - the deepest, most internal element.  Any change at this level will affect every other level.  Spiritual experience affects our sense of self within the totality of All that is.  This identity change influences what we believe.  Our beliefs affect our sense of capability.  Capability informs our behaviors which influence our environment -  the outermost element of our lives.  In this way, the depth of inner change relates directly to the power of influence the change will make in the whole of our lives

An interactive tool for un-sticking trauma. 

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that supports healing for traumatic life experiences.  Repeated studies show that EMDR therapy heals the mind from psychological trauma much like the body heals from physical trauma.  When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.  If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and cannot heal.  A similar sequence occurs with mental processes.  The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.  If the system is imbalanced by the negative impact of replaying images of the disturbing event over and over again, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.  Once the imbalance is resolved, healing resumes.  

EMDR uses bilateral (left and right sides of the brain) stimulation to process past memories, disturbing feelings and associations of trauma.  Eye movements, sound, and or tactile sensations evoke biological mechanisms involved in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, which interact with the internal associations in the trauma field, accelerating intellectual and emotional processes to facilitate healing. The meaning of painful events is transformed on emotional and developmental levels; a rape victim shifts from feeling terror and self-disgust to holding the belief, “I survived it and I am strong.” 

Kristen utilizes EMDR only after a strong therapeutic relationship has been established. Listening to the organic motion with a client, as well as their interests and wants, she occasionally engages EMDR in the soul work process as a nudge to assist trauma processing naturally.  

EMDR is a somatic tool for processing the mind while remaining in the body. EMDR is not a short-cut to healing.

EMDR therapy is now recognized as an effective form of treatment for trauma.  More than 30 positive controlled outcome studies have been done using EMDR therapy.  Some studies show that 84%-90% of single-trauma victims no longer have post-traumatic stress disorder after only three 90-minute sessions. EMDR is also effective in treating “everyday” memories that underlie conditions such as low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, and many of the issues that bring people in for therapy. Over 100,000 clinicians throughout the world use the therapy and millions of people have been treated successfully over the past 25 years.