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EMDR Los Angeles

Specializing in EMDR, EFT, Hypnotherapy,
Family and Relationship Therapy and Life Coaching

Susan Quinn, MA, MFT
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EMDR Therapy

Free Your Mind, Heart and Body

For Los Angeles EMDR therapy, choose experience: Susan Quinn, M.A., M.F.T

A practicing psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for more than 20 years, Susan Quinn is the leading Los Angeles EMDR therapist. Her training, certifications and licensure demonstrate a skill level that gives clients maximum comfort when undergoing EMDR treatment.

What is EMDR?

A revolutionary therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDRŽ has been shown to free the mind, open the heart and clear the body. It's fast, easy and has helped thousands of clients haunted by traumatic events or histories of abuse.

The Los Angeles EMDR therapy movement has been led by Susan Quinn, author of several articles on EMDR treatment and active proponent of Power Therapies for emotional pain relief.

EMDR can benefit patients who haven't found relief with other therapies, including those with chronic eating disorders, anxiety, depression and blocked personal and professional performance. In Los Angeles, EMDR therapy offers hope to millions who have been told that recovery must be a lifelong process.

EMDR treatment incorporates eye movements into a comprehensive approach that processes and releases negative information trapped in the body-mind, freeing people from disturbing images and body sensations, debilitating emotions and restrictive beliefs.

Not only does healing occur much more rapidly than in traditional therapy (often in just a few sessions), but clients experience a sense of joy, openness and deep connection with others. This Los Angeles EMDR therapist helps clients make a quantum leap in the human ability to heal trauma and maladaptive beliefs.

EMDR treatment was tested and used initially on Vietnam veterans suffering from intrusive memories from the war.

As the process evolved, therapists realized they could use it on any troubling event or memory from the past.

"In my private practice I work with many everyday traumas that cause people to have limiting beliefs about themselves" says Susan Quinn. "As children we are so sensitive to approval and acceptance that we end up getting many erroneous negative messages about ourselves which get imprinted in the subconscious and accepted as true."

For example, people come to believe: "I'm too tall, too short, I'm too big, too small, I should have been a boy, a girl, I have too much weight, too little weight, I don't deserve to be loved, I'm unlovable, I'm a disappointment". All these beliefs make sense to that "child" part of the mind, so they need to be worked with in a special way before they can be released to make room for more realistic and optimistic beliefs.

How Does it Work?

In Los Angeles, EMDR therapy with Susan Quinn begins with her client being directed to hold a troubling image in awareness, with its accompanying sensory experiences and the distorted negative belief (i.e. "it was my fault").

This is accompanied by alternate bilateral brain stimulation via eye movements, sound moving from ear to ear, or tapping. As the client follows a specific process, while observing those feelings, he experiences a letting-go of the feelings and symptoms. He soon becomes free to live in the present and feel safe again.

Are You Ready?

Susan Quinn's Los Angeles EMDR therapy experience enables her to help her clients overcome trauma and make life changes that conquer undesirable habits and lead to improved functioning and behavior. Belief in the therapy isn't even necessary for it to work. Do you think you might be a good candidate?

Susan Quinn has been doing EMDR therapy since 1993.
Contact Susan Quinn to see if EMDR treatment might help you.