Melissa L Belding is a Counselor based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Anxiety, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Life Transitions, Relationship Issues, Spirituality, Stress, and Women's Issues. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
Experience a New Now by resolving your past. Most people don’t realize physical and mental health are intricately interwoven. Memory is encoded with the emotional and neurological information you experience at the time of the incident. These emotions and sensations are then released into the body when the memory is triggered. The survival functions of fight, flight or freeze shut down the immune system, thus undermining overall health. Using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the brain reprocesses these memories, releasing and metabolizing the distress, and placing the memory squarely into your past. Symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic and loss of concentration are rooted in unprocessed memories. Traumatic memories including not only violence but memories of abandonment, embarrassment, failures, verbal abuse, etc. can get “stuck” altering our beliefs and behaviors, undermining our experience of life and resulting in stress-induced ailments. PTSD is correlated with digestive disorders, heart conditions and chronic pain. EMDR engages the brain’s processing system to resolve the distress and release your now from the no-longer-relevant details of your history, thus releasing your body to heal. Why tolerate the distress any longer? Get started on a New Now today.