EMDR Therapy for Women Standing in Their Own Way
Your Inner Critic Has Built a Bulletproof Case
You've been the prosecutor, the jury, and the accused.
EMDR Therapy for Women Standing in Their Own Way
You've been the prosecutor, the jury, and the accused.
A coworker blinks a few too many times, and your stomach drops.
Maybe it was me. Maybe I said the wrong thing.
A friend texts back “Sure.” instead of “Sure!!” and your brain logs it as evidence.
One small mistake, and by lunch you’ve filmed a full-length documentary about why you’re a terrible person.
You’d never talk to anyone the way you talk to you.
You’re Exhausted From Being Your Own Worst Enemy
What if the case against you was never true to begin with?
You’ve read the books. You understand where this comes from. And still the feeling hasn’t budged.
That’s because these beliefs about yourself don’t live in the thinking part of your brain.
They’re rooted in earlier experiences your nervous system never finished processing.
EMDR helps your brain go back and reprocess them, so the old “I’m bad” loses its charge.
We map your story, symptoms and goals together, and you’ll learn calming skills so you feel steady before EMDR begins. You’ll know where we’re going.
This is the heart of the work. Using EMDR, we find and reprocess the earlier experiences still feeding the shame, so those memories lose their charge. The past feels like the past.
The changes show up in real life. Situations that once triggered you feel manageable, and you meet yourself with more compassion. Real change you feel and keep.
I’m Megan Quigley, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and EMDR therapist in Portland. I work with women who look completely put-together on the outside while quietly running a nonstop highlight reel of everything they’ve done wrong.
Having been to therapy myself, I know exactly how nerve-wracking that first call can feel. So here’s what to expect when you make it: a warm, knowledgeable therapist who will probably make you laugh, help you feel a real sense of safety, and help you gradually come to know your own worth as a person.
You’re welcome here exactly as you are, whoever you love and however you identify.
Megan Quigley, LCSW
I use EMDR to reprocess the earlier experiences fueling your shame, so change reaches deeper than insight alone ever could.
Warmth and a little humor are part of how I work, because healing shame shouldn’t feel like sitting in a courtroom.
As an LCSW who has sat in the client chair myself, I make that first, slightly scary call a whole lot less scary.
Talk therapy helps you understand the shame. EMDR helps your brain actually reprocess where it started, so it loses its charge instead of just making sense.
Many women come to EMDR after years of insight that never quite reached the feeling. Getting to the root is often where the shift they’ve been waiting for finally happens.
It varies for everyone, but many women feel the shame get quieter within the first several sessions of reprocessing. We’ll track your progress together as we go.
That voice feels permanent because it’s old, not because it’s true. EMDR helps you separate the belief from the fact, and most people are surprised how much quieter it gets.
Imagine going to dinner and actually being there, not scanning every face for proof you’ve let someone down.
Imagine making a mistake at work and letting it be just a mistake.
That version of you isn’t a fantasy. She’s who you are underneath the noise, and EMDR helps you get back to her.
Let’s finally close the case against you, for good.
Send a message and I will be in touch, usually within one business day.
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Out-of-pocket payment accepted. Superbills available for HSA/FSA reimbursement and out-of-network insurance reimbursement.