Emotional Regulation with EMDR in BC
– Learning to Manage Intensity
EMDR for Emotional Regulation: Find Balance and Resilience in Your Daily Life
Emotional regulation is the ability to manage and respond to your feelings in a flexible, healthy way. For many, intense or rapidly shifting emotions (like frequent anger, sudden anxiety, or deep depression) can feel overwhelming and out of control. Emotional regulation therapy offers practical, evidence-based tools to understand your internal world, stabilize your nervous system, and build lasting emotional stability.
Understanding Emotional Dysregulation and How It Affects You
Emotional dysregulation happens when your emotional responses don't match the situation, leading to feeling constantly reactive or numb. This often happens because past experiences, including trauma or early attachment wounds, have wired your nervous system to react strongly to perceived threats.
You may be experiencing emotional dysregulation if you:
Struggle with Anger: Have frequent, intense bursts of anger that feel disproportionate to the cause.
Experience Rapid Shifts: Find your mood swings quickly from high anxiety to low depression or withdrawal.
Feel Constant Stress: Live in a state of chronic stress, where small triggers lead to the fight, flight, or freeze response.
Use Unhelpful Coping: Rely on unhealthy behaviours (like avoidance or lashing out) to escape overwhelming feelings.
Feel Emotionally Numb: Experience a disconnect or emptiness (often a form of the freeze response).
Emotional dysregulation is a common challenge, whether it stems from situational stress or deeper experiences like CPTSD or a history of neglect or abuse.
““Healing doesn’t erase the past—it removes its grip on the present.”
~ Unknown
The Benefits of Emotional Regulation through EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy focused on emotional regulation provides a roadmap for developing reliable internal controls. The goal is to feel steady and confident in your ability to handle whatever life brings.
Emotional Regulation Therapy can help you:
Stabilize Your Nervous System: Learn specific techniques to move your body out of the fight, flight, or freeze responses and into a calm, centered state.
Reduce Anger and Reactivity: Decrease the frequency and severity of intense emotional reactions, especially anger and frustration.
Manage Triggers: Identify your personal triggers and practice techniques to respond thoughtfully instead of automatically reacting.
Improve Self-Awareness: Deepen your understanding of what you feel, why you feel it, and what you truly need.
Increase Resilience: Build inner resources so you can navigate periods of high stress without becoming emotionally overwhelmed.
My Approach to Emotional Regulation using EMDR
I use structured, compassionate approaches that teach you how to change your emotional experience, not just why you have it. I blend grounded expertise with a gentle pace, ensuring you feel empowered every step of the way.
Mindfulness and Grounding
Creates space between a feeling and a reaction, soothing the nervous system.
Somatic Techniques
Directly addresses stored stress and trauma patterns in the body.
Cognitive Restructuring
Identifies and shifts the intense, all-or-nothing thinking that fuels emotional spirals.
“What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.”
~ Brené Brown
Who Is Emotional Regulation Therapy For?
Emotional regulation therapy is highly beneficial for individuals who feel dominated by their emotions and are seeking practical, daily tools for change.
It is particularly helpful for those dealing with:
High-Intensity Emotions: Clients whose feelings of anger, sadness, or anxiety feel disruptive and uncontrollable.
Relational Conflict: People struggling with relationship patterns due to attachment wounds or reactive emotional outbursts.
Trauma Aftermath: Individuals with symptoms of PTSD or CPTSD who need to soothe an easily triggered nervous system.
Managing Chronic Stress: Anyone overwhelmed by persistent daily stress that leads to burnout or emotional collapse.
Coping with Depression/Anxiety: Those who need concrete skills to interrupt the cycles of worry or hopelessness associated with anxiety and depression.
I am here to help you move from a reactive state to a thoughtful, intentional way of responding to life's challenges.
Taking the Next Step with Online EMDR Emotional Regulation Therapy in British Columbia
Online sessions make practicing these new skills simpler, as you can learn and integrate them in the environment where you need them most: your home. Our confidential platform ensures a safe and comfortable space for this focused work.