E MDR is a reprocessing therapy. It allows clients to go into traumatic memories or events in a safe way and process them so the brain can experience healing. Lynsei Love, a Counselor with Family Insight, LLC., practices EMDR in her therapy when a client is suited to it. Lynsei says, “I’m there [in the session], but it’s not about me, and it’s not really about me pouring into you. I’m just giving you the space to do what you need and your brain space to heal.” On any given day, Lynsei receives an assessment and completes it with her client. She then creates interventions for her client so that they can meet their treatment goals. Lynsei takes notes on her client’s progress, and then they sit down and reassess. The clients experience healing breakthroughs in their lives so they can function as whole human beings instead of pressuring themselves constantly. Lynsei’s journey to practicing EMDR was intense. Her life as a child was stable until she was eleven, when a close family member was diagnosed with cancer. Until she was thirteen, Lynsei struggled with watching that family member
go through the horrors of fatal cancer. Adding to her pain, she faced extreme amounts of teasing in school. In high school, life was better, but college was rough. Lynsei worked as an RA in the dormitory, and it’s difficult to serve and monitor your peers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Other students perceived her as mean, but she did have a good group of friends. Lynsei later spent some time after college in Stone Mountain, Georgia as a substitute teacher. From there, she decided to become a therapist. Lynsei studied school counseling in a program with a special accreditation that allows the counselor to practice outside the school setting. She began her employment as a school counselor and started to pursue her LAPC. After earning her license, she moved into the mental health field and transitioned to Family Insight, LLC. As a counselor, Lynsei had a solid caseload but wanted to help her clients more. Then, she experienced trauma first-hand. When counseling clients after the event, she was informed that she needed to be trauma certified. The certification would help her deal with her own trauma just as it would her clients’. CONTINUE READING > > >
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