Michelle Croyle, LPC is a Pittsburgh-based, EMDR-certified trauma therapist who specializes in providing faith-informed counseling and therapy intensives for Christian women in Carnegie, Pittsburgh, and across Pennsylvania. She offers in-person and virtual trauma therapy, as well as multi-day intensives for clients willing to travel to Pennsylvania. Areas of specialty include anxiety, church hurt, childhood abuse, betrayal trauma, grief and loss, PTSD and complex PTSD (C-PTSD), developmental and narcissistic abuse recovery, self-esteem healing, and emotional wounds resulting from traumatic experiences.
EMDR therapy in person in Pittsburgh, PA and throughout Pennsylvania via Telehealth
You’ve tried everything you can think of to feel better, but nothing’s resolved the hurt down deep inside.
Maybe you’ve been to therapy before, but found that the therapist just sat there and expected you to talk without giving you any guidance on how the therapy process works. Or, perhaps you feel like you’ve done the talk therapy route and know that there must be something deeper you can experience because you recognize the depth of your hurt or struggle is so much more than you’ve ever been able to get to just by talking or thinking differently. This is because trauma is not stored in the brain and body like typical experiences. Trauma is processed by different parts of the brain with different nervous system activation than the everyday experiences that are not traumatic in nature. EMDR therapy can help.
when you’re still feeling…
Triggered by certain people, situations, words, or experiences.
Disconnected or reactive in relationships.
Overwhelmed by feelings and thoughts that cause disturbance in your life.
EMDR therapy can help you to eliminate the source of distressful feelings.
EMDR therapy is an evidence-based method that helps you to process the traumatic experience in a safe and regulated way so that the disturbance of the triggering event is neutralized. You will still remember the experience or feeling, but you won’t feel the same disturbing charge after completing EMDR. After EMDR, your brain and body will know how to process and file the experience so that it registers as something that happened in the past rather than something that continues to feel present. …And you experience peace.
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EMDR consists of 8 phases that include tools for reducing disturbance, identifying negative core beliefs, selecting target(s) to process, assisting your processing through all channels of memory: brain, body, emotions, spirit, and adaptive information, resulting in freedom from disturbing experiences through new, healthier, and more helpful processing experiences.
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You can expect a comprehensive assessment of your needs and goals as they relate to your lived experience and disturbance points. Together, we will select the targets you would like help to process, and the support for each phase of EMDR processing that you complete.
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EMDR can help you to gain deeper insights, heal unresolved trauma and pain, and develop new tools and awareness so that you can live more free, peacefully, and show up more present and empowered in your life.
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EMDR Therapy Intensives include:
A client workbook of assessments to provide a more complete intake picture of your current needs, goals, and related history.
A customized treatment plan of focal point targets that will be addressed during our time working together.
Resource preparation as needed for stabilization prior and during EMDR processing.
Clinical processing days and hours as discussed and agreed upon.
End of each day debriefing time and plan for the future.
Follow-up recommendations at the end of your intensive.
In-person clients also have access to snacks and beverages in the office.
While each experience is customized to your specific needs and goals, examples of EMDR Intensive Package Rates are as follows…
6 Hours = $1800.
8 Hours = $2400.
10 Hours = $3000.
12 Hours = $3600.
15 Hours = $4500.
We also accept Care Credit and can help you with applying for it, which allows you to make affordable monthly payments, if that is desired.
We do not contract with insurance for therapy intensives. However, you may request a receipt that you can try to submit to your insurance to see if they will reimburse any portion of the intensive costs. We do not have any involvement with insurance, and the likelihood of them reimbursing any portion is not guaranteed.
We do accept Health Savings Account payments as well as personal credit cards for payment.
At the end of the day, I want you to know:
Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, if it’s not good, God’s not done yet.
Is EMDR right for you?
EMDR therapy is a good fit for you if you…
Have experienced a one-time devastating event
Are struggling with the impact of abuse, neglect, or betrayal
Feel stuck by something you just can’t seem to get past
Experience flooding and overwhelming sensations from triggering words, places, things, or people
What we’ll work on
With EMDR therapy, you can…
Improve your ability to be at peace within your own mind and body so that you so that you no longer feel hijacked by stress or triggers, and can instead move through life with confidence and clarity.
Learn how to break free from the patterns that keep you stuck so that you finally feel free to show up authentically, speak your truth without fear, and enjoy relationships where you don’t have to perform or shrink.
No longer feel overwhelmed by the things you just can’t express well enough with words so that you can live fully in the present, enjoy deeper rest and connection, and respond to life’s challenges without constantly bracing for impact.
Gain new coping skills to have grace and compassion toward yourself and your experiences so that you feel empowered to care for yourself without guilt, protect your energy, and create the life you no longer have to numb or escape from with EMDR therapy.
Your story is welcome here.
Your story is welcome here.
Questions?
FAQs
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Utilizing short sets of bilateral stimulation through eye movements, butterfly taps, hand pulsars, or audio sounds while focusing on a disturbing targeted experience, the therapist assists you as you stay aware of both the present moment while processing past experiences and unhelpful beliefs so that you can experience breakthrough results by accessing more helpful information and experiences that are in your nervous system but that you’ve had difficulty connecting to your stuck points due to the overwhelming nature of trauma or negative beliefs.
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You cannot do EMDR wrong. As a certified EMDR therapist, I will help you to prepare for the experience, guide you should you get stuck, and assist you in keeping your focus on the helpful information from each processing “set.” Your job is simply to notice what happens during each “set” and provide me with most noticed part at that moment…a thought, body sensation, feeling, memory, etc…. There is no “right” or “wrong” in EMDR, it is simply noticing what comes up between beginning processing on a target of disturbance and resolution of the disturbance through reprocessing.
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EMDR is a scientifically evidence-based therapy modality proven to be effective in the treatment of PTSD as well as enhancement of more helpful mindset beliefs which can help you to engage in life from a more empowered and peaceful sense of self, more grounded in your nervous system.