EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy for Women in Denver
You’ve gotten good at outrunning it. Busy helps. Productive helps. Then something small lands wrong and you’re right back in it, and the pace you kept up to avoid this is the thing wearing you out. EMDR works on the thing itself.
EMDR Therapy in Denver • 1764 Platte St. in LoHi • In-Person & Online
The Method
What EMDR Actually Does
Some memories never finished processing. They sit in your nervous system in raw form, still wired to your alarm. That’s why something small can still set you off, years after the fact.
You keep part of the memory in mind while short sets of bilateral stimulation run. Eye movements, most often. Taps or tones through headphones otherwise. Your therapist stops after each set to ask what shifted. What you say out loud is yours to decide, and the whole story isn’t required.
Colorado Women’s Center is designed for women, so you won’t spend a first session explaining context that should already be understood.
Want to learn more before reaching out? Our guide, “What is EMDR Therapy”, explains the eight phases of EMDR and gives you a clearer picture of what you can expect during a session.
Our Promise to You
We Guarantee Our Therapist Matching
Denver has no shortage of therapists. That isn’t the same as finding the one who fits you. If the first one we match you with isn’t right, say so, and we’ll match you with another at no additional cost.
What This Works On
What EMDR Helps With
Trauma brings most women here. Not all of them. None of it has to reach a crisis before it’s worth bringing in.
Trauma and PTSD
Something happened. Part of you still hasn’t been told it’s over. Trauma & PTSD therapy using EMDR works on the memory in its raw form, which is why you don’t have to narrate it well.
Anxiety That Won’t Quiet Down
It’s there before the day starts. Nothing attached to it. The work looks for what your system learned to expect, which is usually where that kind of anxiety comes from.
Panic Attacks
It picks a moment that can’t explain it. A meeting. The highway. The work goes at whatever your body has wired to that moment.
Painful Memories
You’ve told the story enough times by now. It still costs you something every time you do. Reprocessing is what changes that.
Childhood Experiences
You learned what to expect from people early. Before you could weigh any of it. Your therapist can work on those memories without a neat account attached.
Grief and Loss
Your grief stalls when something else is caught in it. Guilt, usually. Or a last conversation you’d take back. EMDR can work on that piece.
Phobias and Fears
The fear outruns the thing in front of you. It came from somewhere specific. That’s the part reprocessing goes after.
Negative Self-Beliefs
I’m too much. I should be over this by now. They don’t feel like beliefs to you. They feel like assessments. EMDR works on the experiences you drew them from.
Our Approach
Starting EMDR at the Denver Office
Reprocessing isn’t step one. EMDR therapy in Denver starts with preparation. Here’s the order it goes in.
Start With a Match Call
Before you’re matched with anyone, you talk to a Wellness Coordinator. Tell her what you want, and say EMDR if that’s what brought you. She matches on that, on Denver or online, and on therapist specialty and experience.
Preparation and Grounding
The opening sessions are groundwork. History, and skills for settling yourself between appointments. Your therapist wants to know what you’re bringing and how your system behaves under pressure before anything gets targeted.
Reprocessing at Your Pace
You and your therapist choose a target together, and the belief riding on it. The work comes in short sets, with a pause after each. Speed is yours. So is stopping. A session is 50 minutes, and three-hour intensives are an option where your therapist thinks that format suits.
At the Denver Office or Online
The office is at 1764 Platte St. in LoHi, off I-25, with street parking and nearby lots. It also hosts the rest of our therapy in Denver. Open seven days a week, 8am to 8pm.
Methods We Offer
- EMDR
- Somatic Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Family Systems Therapy
Common Questions
EMDR Questions Denver Women Ask Us
What is an EMDR session actually like?
You and your therapist choose a target memory and the belief attached to it. Then you work through short sets of bilateral stimulation, pausing after each one to check what shifted. A session is 50 minutes. You set the pace, and you can stop a set whenever you want without explaining yourself.
Do I need a diagnosis to do EMDR?
No. You don’t need a diagnosis and you don’t need what happened to qualify as bad enough. Women use EMDR at Colorado Women’s Center for anxiety, panic, grief, phobias, and beliefs about themselves that formed a long time ago. If your past is shaping how you feel today, raise it on the Match Call.
Will I have to go through it in detail?
No. You decide how much of it gets said out loud. Your therapist needs a target, and enough to track what surfaces in a set. Before each one she’ll say what she’s asking you to hold in mind, so nothing catches you off guard.
How many sessions will this take?
That’s decided between you and your therapist rather than set in advance. It turns on the material itself, how much of it is connected, and what you’re after. Your therapist will draft a plan with you early and revise it. It also depends on how the sessions are sitting with you. If a stretch is hard to tolerate, your therapist slows the pace or comes back to grounding first. That’s part of how EMDR is meant to run. A session at the Denver office is 50 minutes.
How soon can I be seen in Denver?
Match Calls are usually available within 48 hours and often within 24. From there most clients see a therapist inside a week, though your own schedule drives that. Platte Street is open seven days a week, 8am to 8pm, evenings and weekends included. Call 720.810.2355 or use the form below.
Does EMDR work over video?
Yes. Online sessions swap the eye movements for alternating taps you do yourself, or tones through headphones, and they carry over secure video anywhere in Colorado. Denver clients often split the difference, coming in some weeks and staying home when the drive won’t fit. Our online therapy page has the detail.
What if EMDR turns out not to be the right fit?
Say that on the Match Call. Your Wellness Coordinator will note EMDR as what you’re weighing and pair you with a Denver therapist trained in it. Where you actually begin is settled between the two of you in early sessions. A call doesn’t lock you into a method.
Find Us in Denver
Colorado Women’s Center, Denver
EMDR therapy in Denver is at 1764 Platte St. in LoHi, and any session can be done over secure video instead.
You’ll find us across the river from Union Station and downtown, with the Highlands and Sunnyside to the northwest and RiNo to the northeast. Street parking and nearby lots.
Outside Denver? EMDR is available over secure video anywhere in Colorado. Reaching an office isn’t a requirement.
Other Nearby Locations
Broomfield and Boulder Are Both on US 36
EMDR is available at both offices, and the Match Call and matching guarantee work the same way. If either is closer to your home or your work, start there.
