EMDR · Somatic · AEDP
Work that reaches beyond words alone.
Training & supervision
EMDR-trained
EMDRIA-approved basic training curriculum
AEDP-trained
AEDP Institute
IFS-informed
Internal Family Systems
MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Master's level clinician
Practicing under qualified supervision
Supervised by Karin Witte, LMHC #MH13488
Currently practicing at Genesis Counseling, Boca Raton.
What is EMDR, somatic, and AEDP therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a research-supported, eight-phase clinical protocol that uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain process stuck experiences. Somatic therapy works with body, breath, posture, and sensation to address patterns that talk therapy alone cannot reach. AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) names the therapeutic relationship itself as the change agent. Hannah Lee, RMHCI in Boca Raton, FL, integrates all three under qualified Florida supervision.
Talk therapy can be meaningful, but it is not the whole picture. Anxiety, trauma, and long-standing emotional patterns often live in places that words alone struggle to reach. The body holds memory. The nervous system has its own logic. Working with these layers alongside conversation can support a kind of change that feels different from insight on its own.
What is EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
EMDR is a structured, research-supported therapy originally developed for trauma. It uses bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements, to help the brain continue processing difficult experiences that may still be shaping how you feel and react today.
You do not need to relive every detail. EMDR, the way I practice it, works with how memories are stored, not with how good you are at describing them. Many people find it helpful for experiences they thought they had already moved past, and for patterns like anxiety, low self-worth, and reactive moments in close relationships.
EMDR is not a quick fix. It is a methodical, paced process. Before any reprocessing begins, we spend time making sure your nervous system has the resources it needs to do the work safely.
Somatic Therapy
Listening to what the body knows.
Somatic therapy works with the body, breath, posture, sensation, and movement as a real part of the therapeutic process. The body holds patterns of tension and protection that the thinking mind alone cannot always reach.
In sessions, we may slow down and notice what you feel physically when a memory or familiar pattern comes up. We work gently. Nothing is forced. The goal is not to dramatize what you feel, but to help your body experience that the past is no longer the present moment.
For many people, weaving somatic work into talk therapy is what finally lets old patterns begin to soften.
AEDP
Where the work is deeply relational.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a relational therapy model that believes trauma and emotional pain often come from ruptures in important relationships, especially with caregivers. Because wounds happen in relationships, healing also happens through healthy, safe relationships. AEDP focuses on creating a secure space where clients feel deeply heard, supported, and emotionally safe. Through the therapist's attunement and presence, clients can process emotions without feeling alone, which is where healing, transformation, and lasting change begin to happen.
Why this approach
What the science actually says.
Trauma and chronic stress are not stored only in memory. They live in the body and the nervous system — in the limbic structures that learned a response, in the muscles that learned to brace, in the autonomic loops that learned to stay alert. Insight alone can name these patterns; it often cannot move them.
EMDR is one of the most rigorously researched approaches to trauma in clinical practice. Bilateral stimulation appears to help the brain process and reconsolidate stuck memories so they no longer drive present-day reactions. Somatic work engages the body's own capacity for regulation through breath, sensation, and movement — the bottom-up channel that reaches what top-down talk cannot. AEDP holds the relational layer where new emotional experience becomes possible.
None of this is magic. It is evidence-informed clinical work, paced around your safety, that supports change in the brain, body, and nervous system at the level where the response actually lives.
An invitation
Wondering if EMDR or somatic work could help?
The free 15-minute consultation is a no-pressure place to ask questions. You can describe what you're working with, and I can share whether this approach is likely to be a fit.
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