Peak Performance EMDR

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Remove the invisible blocks. Reach peak performance.

  • Performance EMDR helps athletes in the following ways:

    -Improved focus

    -Reduced anxiety

    -Improved self confidence

    -Psychological recovery

    Improved speed and accuracy

  • Performance EMDR benefits creatives in the following ways:

    -Resolve emotional blocks that prevent you from connecting to your creativity.

    -Improve your relationship to your creative outlet. Create from a place of joy and meaning with renewed insights and purpose.

    -Establish and utilized positive resourcing strategies to address imposter syndrome and burnout

  • Performance EMDR can help leaders:

    -Improve focus to manage emotional challenges that can impact performance.

    -Navigate conflict by developing emotional resiliency and clarity

    -Ease public speaking fears by specifically address the blocks that arise through processing.

    -Reduce fear of failure-EMDR processing helps to desensitize the targeted fears which allows leaders to better manage the discomfort of pursuing big goals.

Peak Performance EMDR uses an eight phase process to identify hidden and often unconscious blocks and negative beliefs. These hidden blocks can create major issues in athletic, creative and professional performance.

Peak Performance EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to process those obstacles to performance so they no longer create a glitch in performance. EMDR gets to the root of the issue, identifies it and processes it.

Peak Performance EMDR not only addresses performance obstacles, but it also uses targeted interventions to identify and strengthen the positive traits and experiences. This helps to strengthen the positive neural networks providing a deep and stable base for the future.

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Performance EMDR benefits:

Reasons Youths Drop Out of Sports

#1 Not fun anymore

#2 Injury or Fear of Reinjury

#3 Pressure from Coaches, Parents or Teammates

— Wallace K. (2016) How to make your kid hate sports without really trying

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Modalities We Use:

  • Biofeedback Training with Heartmath

    HeartMath training uses breathing techniques coupled with real time biofeedback to help you change your heart rhythm pattern and create physiological coherence. This is a state where your mind, emotions, and body are in harmony and order.

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  • EMDR

    EMDR targets and processes the blocked stuck image, emotions and body sensations that are held hostage by our nervous system. EMDR acts as a limbic system "gear shift" which dislodges the stuck images, emotions and sensations, freeing them up.

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  • Internal Family Systems

    IFS recognizes that we are have different parts of ourselves that show up in our daily lives. Through IFS exploration you will gain a better understanding of your internal landscape, including parts that may be working against peak performance.

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