dr. marianne dumond

Together we work in an intensive format to more rapidly address the issues you would like to work on. Our work will be tailored to your specific goals and needs. My specialties include trauma, complex trauma, moral injury, self-medication, and symptoms that accompany these issues.

We work as a team to define your goals and the route we will take to achieve them. We install a lot of resources before we move into reprocessing. My goals are to help you help yourself, which I am certain you can achieve. My clients primarily include First Responders, Active Duty Military, Veterans, and their family members.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is an Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model with targets (issues you define) through Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) that works a lot like REM sleep when our eyes move back and forth, right and left. BLS can be through eye movements, pulsars you hold in your hands, tones played through a headset, tapping, or a combination thereof. EMDR engages the right and left hemispheres of our brains, creating new neuronal pathways linking pieces of traumatic experiences and simply paying itself forward reducing the volatility of the next target we work on.

EMDR can bring up painful, volatile memories and can be rather uncomfortable to work through. It can also bring relief and release from burdens you’ve carried around way too long. Change can happen rapidly when working in an intensive format. We work for consecutive hours (5-8 per day with breaks to decompress and for lunch) four days in a row mobilizing strengths and assets that have gone overlooked, undiscovered or forgotten to help you reach your goals. We accomplish in a short amount of time what often takes months or years of hourly sessions, which can be and is often much more expensive. I have witnessed how remarkable EMDR is for my clients! Witnessing their progress continues to make me more confident that I can help my clients reduce or eliminate their pain.