Adjunct EMDR & Somatic Trauma Processing
Enhance Your Current Therapy with Targeted Trauma Work
you do not have to leave the primary therapist you already know and trust!
I partner with your primary therapist to provide short-term, highly focused EMDR and Somatic processing.
Targeted EMDR and somatic work to gently unstick deep-seated trauma responses.
How Adjunct Therapy Works
A Team Approach to Your wellbeing Adjunct therapy is not a replacement for your current therapy; it is an acceleration tool. We form a collaborative team to help you move past a specific roadblock.
Maintained Continuity: You continue seeing your primary therapist for your ongoing, weekly support and theraputic goals.
Targeted Focus: You meet with me concurrently for a predetermined framework (typically 3 to 6 months) solely to target, desensitize, and process specific traumatic memories or somatic blocks.
Collaborative Care (As Needed): I am happy to maintain open clinical communication with your primary therapist if you request it. With your permission, we can align our goals so that your somatic breakthroughs seamlessly integrate into your regular talk therapy.
Clinical Readiness & Safety
Foundations for Deep Processing Somatic processing and EMDR invite us to look closely at survival responses held in the body. To ensure this work is safe, effective, and therapeutic, we utilize a strict framework for readiness:
Stability First: Trauma processing requires an anchored foundation. Adjunct care is designed for individuals who currently have a baseline of environmental and emotional stability in their daily lives.
Grounding & Resourcing: We do not rush into traumatic memories. If your nervous system is in a high-alert or dysregulated state, our initial sessions will focus entirely on building somatic resources, expanding your window of tolerance, and establishing physical grounding tools before any processing begins.
Information for Fellow Providers
For Therapists Looking to Refer As clinicians, it can be frustrating when a client you care about hits a therapeutic plateau due to pre-verbal trauma or somatic buffering. I welcome collaborations with fellow practitioners.
I honor the sacred bond you have built with your client. My role is strictly adjunctive—focusing solely on the somatic or EMDR target we agree upon. Once the specific trauma processing or nervous system re-patterning is complete, the client transitions fully back to your care.
If you have a client who has the baseline stability for trauma processing but needs body-based somatic integration or EMDR to move forward, please feel free to reach out so we can discuss a collaborative care plan.
Next Steps
Talk to Your Therapist: Share this page with your current primary therapist to see if they feel adjunctive somatic work is a good fit for your current treatment plan.
Schedule a Consultation: Book a complimantary consultation call with me. We will discuss your history, assess clinical readiness and stability, and outline what a collaborative framework would look like for you.