EMDR ALONGSIDE YOUR ONGOING THERAPY
Adjunct EMDR Therapy in Redondo Beach
Collaborative EMDR therapy that complements — not replaces — your primary therapist.
Adjunct EMDR allows you to work with one of our EMDR therapists on specific experiences, memories, fears, or patterns while continuing ongoing therapy with your primary therapist. Your existing therapeutic relationship stays in place while EMDR provides focused support for the areas you’ve identified together.
In-person in Redondo Beach, CA • Online throughout California
What is Adjunct EMDR?
Adjunct EMDR is targeted EMDR therapy delivered alongside the ongoing care you receive from another clinician. Instead of replacing your primary therapist, an EMDR therapist from our team works with you to process specific experiences, memories, fears, or patterns you and your primary therapist have identified for focused treatment. Your primary therapist continues to support your broader therapeutic goals while adjunct EMDR provides dedicated time and expertise for concentrated EMDR processing.
With your permission, we coordinate closely with your primary therapist before and throughout adjunct EMDR work to ensure treatment remains aligned with your overall goals. This collaboration can include clarifying the targets you wish to address with EMDR, sharing relevant clinical considerations, and providing updates on progress. When finished, you return to ongoing therapy with your primary therapist, where there is dedicated space to integrate new material and continue the broader therapeutic work.
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45-Minute Sessions
Focused EMDR within a traditional session length. This can be a good fit for more contained work or when shorter sessions feel most supportive for your needs and pace.
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90-Minute Sessions
Extended sessions provide more uninterrupted space for preparation, EMDR processing, and integration while keeping the work focused on the goals identified with your primary therapist.
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2-Hour Sessions
Two-hour sessions offer additional time to settle into the work, process at a comfortable pace, and allow space for integration before returning to your ongoing therapeutic work.
OUR APPROACH
Complimentary EMDR therapy to improve calm, safety, and emotional processing.
Our approach to adjunct EMDR integrates EMDR’s evidence-based protocols with complementary somatic, cognitive, and mindfulness-based techniques to support deeper processing and sustainable change. We tailor adjunct interventions—such as bilateral stimulation variations, body-focused resourcing, breathwork, and interoceptive awareness—based on each client’s nervous system state, history, and goals, ensuring safety and titration to prevent overwhelm. Throughout treatment we emphasize stabilization, skill-building, and collaborative pacing, weaving in psychoeducation about trauma physiology and strategies for self-regulation so clients leave sessions with practical tools. By honoring the mind–body connection and integrating adjunct methods thoughtfully, we aim to enhance EMDR’s effectiveness while promoting resilience, emotional regulation, and long-term symptom reduction.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Adjunct EMDR provides dedicated space to work through stuck points.
EMDR can be used to target traumatic memories, persistent anxiety, specific phobias, unwanted beliefs, and other distressing symptoms that interfere with daily life. It fosters deeper, more lasting healing by accessing and integrating the cognitive, emotional, and somatic components of suffering, helping people process experiences more fully and regain a greater sense of safety and resilience.
✓ Trauma, PTSD & difficult past experiences
✓ Anxiety, worry & panic attacks
✓ Phobias & persistent fears
✓ Intrusive thoughts & distressing memories
✓ Health anxiety & somatic fears
✓ Specific triggers that continue to feel activating
✓ Experiences that still feel unresolved despite understanding them intellectually
✓ Focused areas identified within your ongoing therapy
EMDR Therapists
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Catherine Alvarado
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist 134744
EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Clinical SupervisorProviding focused adjunct EMDR for trauma, anxiety, panic, phobias, intrusive thoughts, and unresolved experiences while collaborating with your primary therapist to support continuity of care.
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Monika Arana
Registered Associate MFT 140548
EMDR Trained TherapistProviding adjunct EMDR for trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, and difficult past experiences while working collaboratively with your primary therapist to complement your ongoing therapy.
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Arielle Harris
Registered Associate MFT 161691
EMDR Trained TherapistProviding adjunct EMDR for trauma, anxiety, relationship patterns, and difficult past experiences through compassionate, attachment-focused care that complements your ongoing therapy.
Heal Trauma, Restore Balance, Reclaim Your Life.
GETTING STARTED
Adding EMDR to your care can feel simple.
If you’re interested in adjunct EMDR, start by sharing a little about what you’re hoping to work on and the therapy you currently have in place. We’ll help you determine whether adjunct EMDR may be a good fit and match you with a therapist based on your needs and goals.
We offer in-person adjunct EMDR in Redondo Beach and online adjunct EMDR throughout California, with 45-minute, 90-minute, and 2-hour session options depending on your needs and the work you’re focusing on.
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