EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy for Women in Fort Collins
You’re the one who holds it together. For your family, at work, for whoever needs it that week. Something has been sitting under all of it for years, and EMDR is what works on that.
EMDR Therapy in Fort Collins • 1220 S College Ave., Suite 200 • In-Person & Online
The Method
What EMDR Actually Does
The first thing you’ll notice is how little talking it takes. You hold part of a memory in mind. Your therapist runs a short set of bilateral stimulation. Usually eye movements. Sometimes taps, or tones through headphones. Then she stops and asks you what moved.
That’s the loop, repeated. You don’t owe anyone an account of what happened, in order, out loud. You decide what gets said and what doesn’t.
Colorado Women’s Center is designed for women, so you won’t spend a first session explaining context that should already be understood. EMDR is one of the approaches available among our therapy methods.
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
You’re used to making things work. Which means if the therapist isn’t right, you’ll probably put up with her. Don’t. Tell us, and we’ll match you with another at no additional cost.
What This Works On
What EMDR Helps With
Trauma is the usual reason. It isn’t the only one. None of it has to reach a crisis before it’s worth bringing in.
Trauma and PTSD
You survived it. Part of you is still on duty anyway. Trauma & PTSD therapy using EMDR works on the memory as it’s stored, not on how well you can describe it.
Anxiety That Won’t Quiet Down
It isn’t attached to anything you can name. That’s what makes it hard to argue with. Your therapist goes looking for what it is attached to.
Panic Attacks
You’re fine, and then you’re not. A parking lot. A phone call. Reprocessing works on whatever your body connected to that, long before now.
Painful Memories
You’ve carried it so long it feels like furniture. It doesn’t have to stay that heavy. Reprocessing is what changes what it weighs for you.
Childhood Experiences
You learned early what to expect. And what to keep quiet about. Those lessons are memories too, and your therapist can work on them directly.
Grief and Loss
Your grief won’t move because something else is lodged in it. Often something you didn’t get to say. EMDR works on that one moment.
Phobias and Fears
Your reaction is out of scale with the thing itself. It usually traces to one experience. That’s what gets reprocessed.
Negative Self-Beliefs
I’m the strong one. I don’t get to fall apart. You didn’t decide those. You concluded them, under pressure, a long time ago. EMDR works on the pressure.
Our Approach
Starting EMDR at the Fort Collins Office
Reprocessing isn’t step one. EMDR therapy in Fort Collins starts with preparation. Here’s what your first weeks look like.
Start With a Match Call
Your first conversation is with a Wellness Coordinator. She’ll ask what you want in a therapist, and note EMDR if that’s what you’re after. She matches on that, on Fort Collins or online, and on specialty and experience.
Preparation and Grounding
Then a stretch of history and skills. No reprocessing yet. Your therapist learns what you’re bringing and what your system does under stress, then teaches you ways to settle yourself between appointments. Nothing gets targeted before that.
Reprocessing at Your Pace
You pick a target with your therapist, and the belief that came attached to it. Short sets follow, with a check after each. You control the speed and you can stop. A session is 50 minutes, and three-hour intensives are available where your therapist thinks that format suits.
At the Fort Collins Office or Online
The office is at 1220 S College Ave., across from the CSU campus and a few minutes down from Old Town, with parking on site. It also hosts the rest of our therapy in Fort Collins. 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 Fort Collins Women Ask Us
What does an EMDR session involve?
You and your therapist agree on a target memory and the belief attached to it. Then short sets of bilateral stimulation, with a pause after each one to check what moved. A session is 50 minutes. You control the speed, and you can stop a set whenever you want without explaining why.
I’ve held it together this long. Why start now?
Because holding it together is costing you something, and that cost tends to compound quietly. You don’t need a crisis to justify the call, and nothing about what you bring has to qualify as bad enough. If your past is shaping how you feel today, raise it on the Match Call.
Do I have to describe what happened?
No. Your therapist needs a target and enough to track what surfaces in a set. What else you say is yours to decide. Before each set she’ll tell you what she’s asking you to hold in mind, so nothing arrives without warning.
How many sessions will this take?
That’s decided between you and your therapist rather than set in advance. It depends on what you bring and how much of it connects. Your therapist builds a plan with you early and revisits 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. Sessions at the Fort Collins office are 50 minutes.
How soon can I be seen in Fort Collins?
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. The College Avenue office is open seven days a week, 8am to 8pm, evenings and weekends included. Call 720.810.2355 or use the form below.
Can I do EMDR from home?
Yes. Online sessions use alternating taps you do yourself, or tones through headphones, in place of eye movements, over secure video anywhere in Colorado. Fort Collins clients often mix the two, coming in some weeks and staying home when the drive won’t fit. Our online therapy page has the detail.
What if EMDR isn’t the right approach for me?
Say that on the Match Call. Your Wellness Coordinator will note EMDR as what you’re weighing and pair you with a Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins
Colorado Women’s Center, Fort Collins
EMDR therapy in Fort Collins is at 1220 S College Ave., Suite 200, and any session can be done over secure video instead.
You’ll find us across from the CSU campus, with Old Town a few minutes north and Midtown on down College. It’s an easy drive from Loveland to the south, Windsor and Timnath to the southeast, and Wellington to the north. Parking is on site.
Outside Fort Collins? EMDR is available over secure video anywhere in Colorado. Reaching an office isn’t a requirement.
Other Nearby Locations
Longmont and Boulder Are the Nearest Other Offices
Longmont and Boulder are both south on US 287. Each has the same Match Call and the same matching guarantee. Take whichever drive you’ll actually make.
