EMDR Therapy for Men

EMDR Therapy can break through what’s holding you back.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a well established integrative psychotherapy approach that treats many common psychological issues. This approach is a particularly good fit for many men seeking therapy.

Are the important relationships in your life falling apart? Is something at work getting the best of you? Are you bothered or troubled by a persistent fear, stress, or anxiety? Maybe loved ones are telling you that they are concerned about you.

These feelings are tough and confusing.  Very often these negative thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings are caused by unresolved life experiences. If you find you are stuck or challenged like so many other men you can take steps to get back on track before things get worse. Meeting with a professional EMDR therapist will help you get things back on track and feeling your true self again. Strong and able to meet life’s challenges.

What happens in EMDR Therapy? Is there something that makes it different? What’s a session actually like?

What is EMDR therapy for men?

EMDR therapy is a great fit for the men we work with at Denver Men’s Therapy. We combine our advanced training in EMDR therapy with our specialization in Men’s Issues. We strongly acknowledge and understand that men experience and respond to stress, trauma and life experiences in a unique way. In addition, men experience mental health symptoms differently than their female counterparts. Therefore, we explore how masculinity, gender roles, and expectations may be contributing and interacting with current struggles.

While it’s true that our changing world makes being a man these days a little confusing, we also believe that men have incredible and healthy strengths, resources and skills. We build and strengthen these during the EMDR therapy process. In other words, we work to resolve what’s holding you back while improving what makes you a uniquely awesome man.

EMDR Therapy for Men Treats:

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  • Trauma/ PTSD
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Physical Pain
  • Reduce Unhealthy Anger
  • Positive reprocessing of past harmful memories
  • Fear and Avoidance
  • Resolve painful emotions
  • Reduced intrusive thoughts and flashbacks
  • Shame

8 Phases of EMDR Therapy

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In the first phase of EMDR treatment, we explore your  history and develop a treatment plan. This phase will include a discussion of the specific problem that brought you into therapy, and the behaviors and symptoms stemming from that problem.

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In this phase, the therapist will teach you some specific techniques so you can rapidly deal with any emotional disturbance that may arise. One of the primary goals of the preparation phase is to establish a relationship of trust between you and the therapist. If you do not trust your therapist you may not accurately report what you feel and experience during the eye movements.

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In this phase, you will be prompted to notice different aspects of a specific memory.

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In this phase We reprocess the disturbing incident until it is neutral. You will still remember the incident, but it will no longer cause you distress.

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The goal is to concentrate on and increase the strength of the positive response you have identified to replace your original negative response. During this fifth phase of treatment, your positive responses will be strengthened.

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After the positive response has been strengthened and installed, we will ask you to bring the original target event to mind and see if any residual tension is noticed in the body. If so, these physical sensations are then targeted for reprocessing.

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Closure ensures that you leave at the end of each session feeling better than at the beginning. If the processing of the traumatic target event is not complete in a single session, we will assist you in using a variety of self-calming techniques in order to regain a sense of equilibrium.

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At the beginning of subsequent sessions, we check to make sure that the positive results have been maintained, identify any new areas that need treatment and continue reprocessing the additional targets. The Reevaluation Phase guides us through the treatment plans that are needed in order to deal with your problems. As with any form of good therapy, reevaluation is vital in order to determine the success of the treatment over time.

EMDR therapy is not complete until attention has been brought to the past memories that are contributing to the problem, the present situations that are disturbing, and what skills you may need for the future.

Many of our therapists are trained in EMDR

If you are looking for an EMDR therapist for men, you’re in the right spot. Take a look at our team of experts or take our therapist match quiz to see who would work best with you and your needs. 

Stephen Rodgers

LCSW

Sharon Burgamy

LPC

Megan Hall

LCSW

Lance Hill

LPC

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What our male clients have said about EMDR therapy:

Life Changing

“EMDR therapy is a way to use your own physical body to reverse damage from trauma, depression, anxiety, or even to help with low energy, ED, stress or regular everyday hard times. It’s helped so many people.” – S. R.

Effective

“Highly skilled, compassionate, and effective. Working from a space of deep empathy and authentic communication, Stephen employs the EMDR methodology to successfully help adult men process trauma and create new possibilities for their lives.” – B.B.

Mindful

“Using mindfulness as a staple of their practice, Denver Men’s Therapy is skilled in effective EMDR therapy, and is a leader in the area of men’s mental health, helping to normalize therapy services.” – K. J.

Our Team at Denver Men’s Therapy work exclusively with men on men’s issues.

Our special focus on helping men with emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression through EMDR therapy provides you will the unique opportunity to resolve the roadblocks in your life. At Denver Men’s Therapy, we are flipping the old script on the modern American male. The script that says he is expected to publicly be strong and display only an aggressive persona that is always in control of his surroundings. To show vulnerability is not acceptable. The problem with this narrative is it often leaves men to face emotional trauma alone and in silence. Our practice gives men the place and time to safely wander away from the difficult spot the American man is in these days.  In therapy, we can explore what it means to be a man in today’s society, while we uncover the root causes of emotional trauma and anxiety that is keeping you stuck.

Take the first step to getting unstuck. Open the door to discovering how EMDR therapy will help what is troubling you. Call 720.295.4233 or click below to schedule an initial session with our collective. Click below to find out if EMDR therapy for men may work for you.

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What is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR therapy is a phase oriented therapy. This means that each phase builds on itself. It also means that you always understand where you are in the therapy process and why you are doing what you are doing. The time it takes to complete EMDR therapy depends on your personal history. Although EMDR therapy may produce results more rapidly than previous forms of therapy, speed is not the focus and it is important to remember that every client has different needs. The goal of EMDR therapy is to leave you with the emotions, understanding, and perspectives that will lead to healthy and useful behaviors and interactions.

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Men Say EMDR Therapy is:

“EMDR therapy is a way to use your own physical body to reverse damage from trauma, depression, anxiety, or even to help with low energy, ED, stress or regular everyday hard times. It’s helped so many people.”

– S. R.

“Highly skilled, compassionate, and effective. Working from a space of deep empathy and authentic communication, Stephen employs the EMDR methodology to successfully help adult men process trauma and create new possibilities for their lives.”

– B.B.