EMDR Therapists

Similar to how the body heals from a wound, the brain can recover from trauma. Heal from traumatic experiences through Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)--a proven practice created to help you rewrite your trauma and restore your peace.

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Mental Health is a Journey

At Integrative Psych, members of our Columbia-trained team specialize in trauma-informed psychotherapy. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment used for patients with unresolved trauma, PTSD, and distress. Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, depressive symptoms, or flashbacks as a result of an unprocessed experience, EMDR, under the supervision of our clinicians, can help bring you towards recovery.

What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that helps patients work through traumatic experiences. There are eight stages of EMDR therapy.

EMDR Phases

1. History & Planning: A comprehensive evaluation of the patient that allows the clinician to best create a suitable approach to treatment.

2. Education & Coping Skill Development: The clinician provides insight into the practice and appropriate regulation skills, such as the safe and calm place exercise, to prepare the patient for the EMDR sessions.

3. Assessment: The clinician assesses and identifies all aspects of the trauma.

4. Desensitization: The patient focuses on an external object and then performs bilateral eye movements, as instructed by the clinician. That, partnered with recalling the trauma, helps to reprocess and desensitize specific memories. These procedures continue until there is no longer distress reported.

5. Installation: Strengthen positive associations and beliefs so that prior negative schemas connected to the trauma can be replaced.

6. Body Scan: The patient analyzes physical responses to thinking about the trauma.

7. Closure: Conclude therapy after journaling your feelings over a week and debriefing your notes with your clinician.

8. Reevaluation: Review progress and compare the patient’s current state after treatment to their initial assessment.
What can EMDR be used to treat?
Benefits to EMDR

Relieve Distress

EMDR reshapes prior negative associations by reprocessing traumatic memories in a healthier manner.

Regain Sense of Power

Patients feel empowered and confident through EMDR.

Avoid Discussing Trauma

Unlike other therapies, EMDR does not require in-depth conversation about your trauma to see real improvement.

No Homework

There is less upkeep for patients outside of their EMDR sessions compared to other forms of therapy.

Faster Results

EMDR is quite structured and targeted, so data supports that patients see results very quickly.

Dr. Ryan Sultan, MD Senior Psychiatrist at Integrative Psych

Meet The Founder

Dr. Sultan, son of psychiatrist, is a dual board certified mental health physician who has made it his life’s mission to explore, learn and practice the many treatments for the mind and its troubles.

Dr. Sultan’s path has led him to extensive training in therapies ranging from meditation and mindfulness to practical cognitive behavioral therapy and deep psychodynamic therapy. As a physician, he has explored how classical and innovative medical treatments can foster healing of the mind as well as personal growth.

These extensive ranges of therapies can be effective for many individuals, however they often take years to get results and many individuals hit walls in their treatment—getting only limited benefits.

Dr. Sultan founded Integrative Psych to push past the barriers of traditional mental health treatment by using naturally derived compounds in conjunction with conventional treatments such as medications, lifestyle interventions and psychotherapy to heal the pain and struggles in our minds beyond what traditional mental health treatments can accomplish.


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