EMDR THERAPY
EMDR therapy will help you overcome trauma and move forward with confidence
Learn more about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and its benefits.
Efficiency
EMDR has been found to be more efficient and comprehensive in treating symptoms caused by trauma than methods such as behavior therapy, biofeedback, or active listening.
Natural Healing
EMDR’s foundation is rooted in Adaptive Information Processing. It facilitates the brain’s natural, functional healing process, providing clinicians with a therapeutic protocol to create a clinical roadmap for effective treatment.
Integrative Approach
With its fully integrative approach, EMDR utilizes imaginal exposure, mindfulness, and somatic and cognitive techniques that lead to rapid symptom reduction and leaps in adaptive functioning.
Unparalleled Effectiveness
EMDR therapy helps children and adults of all ages with challenges such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sexual assault, and more.
What is EMDR?
EMDR is a neuroaffective intervention that actually builds new neural pathways related to aversive life experiences. EMDR can diffuse your triggers, eliminating the floods of emotions, distorted perceptions and thoughts and somatic experiences that are associated with things that were overwhelming. Keeping you in touch with the wisest parts of yourself and healing old wounds.
What we treat:
Our founder, Wendy Sue Horn, can use EMDR therapy to help clients with a variety of challenges, including:
Aftereffects of trauma such as physical and sexual assault, molestation, accidents, war, and natural disasters
Phobias or fears
Panic
Emotional abuse and neglect
Anxiety
Addictions
Be more present, authentic, and connected in your relationships
Meet Wendy Sue
Your EMDRIA-approved consultant and trainer
A seasoned clinician, treating children, adolescents, and adults for over 20 years, expert in the field of EMDR therapy, anxiety disorders, PTSD, complex trauma, dissociation, child development, and parent support.
As an EMDRIA-approved consultant and trainer and natural teacher, Wendy Sue has been mentoring therapists in trauma and dissociation for 10 years. Her teaching journey began in 2005 at San Jose State University, she has continued to pursue her love for teaching and training, actively participating as an EMDR consultant in basic training since 2014. Additionally, since 2021, Wendy Sue has been teaching a certification program in trauma and adoption-competent mental health services offered to clinicians by the Oregon Department of Human Services in collaboration with the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.).
Wendy Sue’s approach is practical, accessible, and grounded in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. She maintains her in-person private practice in Portland, Oregon, treating children, adolescents, and adults while also being licensed in California, where she treats clients virtually. She is proud to be partnered with Oregon’s Child Welfare Services to offer free EMDR therapy training and consultation to the therapists treating clients who most need this powerful, integrative, therapeutic approach.
Areas of Expertise
- Helping individual adolescents and adults with panic, anxiety, PTSD, Complex Trauma and Dissociation.
- Adoption issues for both adoptive parents, birth parents, and adopted children.
- Working with individuals and couples who are struggling with prenatal and postpartum anxiety, depression, and trauma.
- Parent support, consultation, and education.
- Providing consultation for therapists who are applying EMDR therapy and working towards EMDRIA Certification.
- Consultation and support for educators as they face the community wide effects of trauma and anxiety.
My Certifications
- Child development and psychology with a Masters in social work
- EMDRIA-approved consultant
- Certification from Postpartum Support International in the specialized treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
- Certification from The Happiest Baby as a parent educator
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker — #27961
- TAC (Training for Adoption Competence) Certified mental health provider and trainer