Counseling, Intensives, Speaker

EMDR:  EMDR addresses symptoms associated with life events that have been maladaptively stored in the brain's memory networks.   Often times these dysfunctional reactions to memories include anxiety, depression, fear, hopelessness or sleepless nights, nightmares and intrusions.  EMDR has been proven to be effective in overcoming these symptoms and hastening the journey towards victorious living. 

EMDR INTENSIVE:  If you are tired of weekly appointments and would like to do some laser-focused therapeutic work, then you might want to consider an EMDR Intensive.   

1. EMDR is an integrative therapeutic approach to help clients experience more effective and efficient results in overcoming life struggles and eliminate symptoms.  
2. Research fully demonstrates that EMDR leads to positive results when dealing with all types of traumas, combat related trauma and other life issues.  
3. EMDR helps you reprocess negative feelings and thoughts and change the way you think about yourself and your memories.  
4. Dr. Herb recommends intensives, which produce faster results than weekly sessions using standard talk-therapy approaches.  
5. God designed our bodies to heal yet sometimes the healing process requires an intervention.  For example, if you have a cut on your arm that fails to heal and then becomes infected - you seek medical attention.  The process of cleaning the wound from infection is painful, but once complete, the arm heals.  It is the same way with the brain.  EMDR helps you as the client reprocess how your brain has stored a life experience.  It helps you change the experience from a maladaptively stored experience to one that is adaptively stored and connected to your resilience, grit and can-do approach to life.  

WEEKLY APPOINTMENTS:  Dr. Herb has a limited number of 75 minute appointments on Thursdays.  Contact me at Lakeoconeecounseling@gmail.com for an appointment.  

Dr. Herb firmly grounds her use of EMDR in Biblical principles and the belief that God is Sovereign.

 EMDR Intensives are conducted in the Lake Oconee Georgia area (or online in special circumstances).  Clients typically live in the lake area or travel to the area in order to receive treatment. 

Situations in which people have chosen EMDR Intensives include:

• A recent event just happened which has caused someone to be on leave from work and the person wants to get back to work faster;
• Symptoms are disruptive to the client's day-to-day functioning and he or she wants faster results; 
• Military/First Responder related Missions
• Early childhood trauma
• Client is busy and doesn't have time for week-to-week therapy, etc. 

To determine if an EMDR Intensive is right for you, click the button below to see the FAQ sheet or request a free consultation.​  The FAQ provides pricing.    Pricing is set at affordable rates as a way of "giving back" to those in need.  

Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable feelings that we all might experience at some point in our lives. Through Christian counseling, Biblical principles and a therapeutic tool called EMDR, Dr. Herb can help you reignite your personal motivation, examine your life perspective, and find joy in living victoriously as a child of God.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of therapy unlike traditional talk-therapy, which is based on helping you understand what you feel, why you feel it and how to cope with those feelings in your life.  Essentially – let’s change how you think and that will change how you feel.  Sounds good on paper……

EMDR TAKES A DIFFERENT APPROACH.  While EMDR will help you understand what you feel and why, EMDR also “rewires” your brain – through the use of bilateral stimulations – so that you no longer feel those feelings associated with your negative core beliefs.  Therefore, reducing the impact of what you feel to a state of acceptance.  EMDR does not erase memories, but it desensitizes memories that have led to the creation of negative core beliefs about self.  Essentially – let’s rewire your brain to change how you feel, and that will change your life.

In EMDR treatment, you and I will identify your negative beliefs along with the memories of life situations and events that have led to the creation of these negative beliefs.  We will process the memories of these situations and event and desensitize them through eye movements.  

EMDR is a highly researched, evidence based therapy that is used throughout the world.  

Drawing on my experience as a Rear Admiral in the Navy, a combat veteran and EMDR therapist, I provide leadership and human performance "talks" tailored to the needs of the organization.   In a chaotic world, common sense approaches to leadership and human performance might be a welcome change.  The hiring organization is responsible for travel, lodging, transportation and a speaker's fee.  Speaker's fees include all preparation time and time within the hiring organization.   If interested, please reach out at Lakeoconeecounseling@gmail.com