EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy for Women in Longmont
You’ve stopped calling it a problem. It’s been long enough that it just feels like how you are. Tense before certain conversations. Braced for no reason you can name. EMDR goes at what sits underneath that.
EMDR Therapy in Longmont • 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 206 • In-Person & Online
The Method
What EMDR Actually Does
The memory isn’t the problem. How it’s stored is. Some experiences get filed while they’re still raw. Wired straight to the part of you that reacts. They stay like that until something goes back and finishes the job.
That’s what a session does. You hold part of the memory in mind while your therapist runs short sets of bilateral stimulation. Eye movements, usually. Taps or tones through headphones otherwise. She stops after each set to ask what moved.
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
There aren’t many EMDR therapists in Longmont. That makes it tempting to take whoever you can get and hope. You don’t have to. If the first one isn’t right, tell us, and we’ll match you with another at no additional cost.
What This Works On
What EMDR Helps With
Most women come for trauma. Plenty come for something else. None of it has to reach a crisis before it’s worth bringing in.
Trauma and PTSD
Something happened and you dealt with it. Or you thought you had. Trauma & PTSD therapy using EMDR works on the memory itself. Telling it well has nothing to do with whether it helps.
Anxiety That Won’t Quiet Down
It came with you. New town, quieter street, same tightness in your chest by four in the afternoon. The work goes at what your body is still expecting.
Panic Attacks
One minute you’re ordinary and the next you’re not. The room never explains it. Your body tied that room to something much older. That’s what gets reprocessed.
Painful Memories
You’ve had it so long you stopped noticing you were carrying it. That’s not the same as it being gone. Reprocessing is what actually sets it down.
Childhood Experiences
Some of what you assume about yourself you never chose. It got decided for you, early. Your therapist can work on those memories directly.
Grief and Loss
Grief stops moving when something else is knotted into it. Guilt. Something unsaid. Your therapist works on that knot instead of the whole loss.
Phobias and Fears
The fear is bigger than whatever is in front of you. It started at a particular moment. That moment is what gets worked on.
Negative Self-Beliefs
This is just who I am now. That one is the hardest, because it stops sounding like a belief and starts sounding like a fact. Reprocessing goes at the experiences that made it feel settled.
Our Approach
Starting EMDR at the Longmont Office
Reprocessing isn’t step one. EMDR therapy in Longmont starts with preparation. Here’s what your first few weeks look like.
Start With a Match Call
You talk to a Wellness Coordinator before you meet a therapist. Tell her what you want, and say EMDR if that’s what you came for. She matches on that, on Longmont or online, and on specialty and experience.
Preparation and Grounding
The early sessions are 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 in between. Nothing gets targeted until that’s in place.
Reprocessing at Your Pace
You and your therapist pick a target, and the belief that came with it. Short sets follow, with a check after each one. You set the speed. You can stop. Fifty minutes a session. Three-hour intensives are an option too, where your therapist thinks the longer format suits.
At the Longmont Office or Online
The office is on Ken Pratt Blvd., just off the main corridor through town, with parking on site. It also hosts the rest of our therapy in Longmont. 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 Longmont Women Ask Us
What actually happens in a session?
First you settle on a target memory with your therapist, and the belief riding on it. Then come short sets of bilateral stimulation, with a pause after each to check what moved. Fifty minutes in all. You set the speed. You can stop whenever, and you don’t have to say why.
Do I have to drive to Boulder for EMDR?
No. EMDR is offered at the Longmont office on Ken Pratt Blvd. You get the same therapists, the same Match Call and the same matching guarantee as every other Colorado Women’s Center location. And if you’d rather not drive at all, the same work happens over secure video. Our online therapy page has the detail.
Will I have to talk about what happened?
No. Your therapist needs a target and enough to follow what surfaces in a set. Past that, what you say is yours to decide. She’ll say what she’s asking you to hold in mind before each set. Nothing arrives without warning.
How many sessions will this take?
That’s decided between you and your therapist rather than set in advance. What you bring shapes it, along with how much of it turns out to be connected. Your therapist will sketch a plan with you early on and keep revising 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 Longmont office are 50 minutes.
How soon can I be seen in Longmont?
Match Calls are usually available within 48 hours and often within 24. Most clients are then scheduled with a therapist inside a week, depending on your own availability. Ken Pratt is open seven days a week, 8am to 8pm. Evenings and weekends too. Call 720.810.2355 or use the form on this page.
Is it too late if this has been going on for years?
No, and length of time is not the thing that decides it. Some of what EMDR works on has been sitting there since childhood. Your therapist will take a history first and build the preparation around what you bring, however old it is. Nothing about it has to reach a crisis before it’s worth bringing in.
What if EMDR turns out not to suit me?
Say that on the Match Call. Your Wellness Coordinator will note EMDR as what you’re weighing and pair you with a Longmont therapist trained in it. You and she will work out where to actually begin during the first sessions. Booking a call commits you to nothing.
Find Us in Longmont
Colorado Women’s Center, Longmont
EMDR therapy in Longmont is at 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 206, and any session can be done over secure video instead.
You’ll find us just off the main corridor through town, a few minutes from downtown Longmont. It’s a short drive from Niwot to the southwest, Erie to the south, and Firestone, Frederick and Mead up to the north and east. Parking is on site.
Outside Longmont? EMDR is available over secure video anywhere in Colorado. Reaching an office isn’t a requirement.
Other Nearby Locations
Boulder and Broomfield Are the Nearest Other Offices
Boulder is southwest of here and Broomfield is south. Both offer EMDR on the same terms. If either is closer than Ken Pratt Blvd., book there instead.
