Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching as both a phychotherapist and a spiritual advisor.

Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching
with both a phychotheraputic and spiritual orientation.

Client Examples

CAUTION: NO ONE SHOULD TRY EMDR WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING AND SUPERVISION.

A woman worked on a painful memory of her brother yelling at her a year before. The intensity of the memory was at an "8" on a "0" to "10 " scale with "10" being the worst. After seven sets of guided eye movements in two sessions, the intensity dropped to "2.5".One sensory change in the memory that had was that the actual volume of the voices dropped. Since this occurred very spontaneously, it was a very good indication that the traumatic memory had also been reduced in intensity.

You may wonder how eye movement can be done over the phone. It is harder to do than in person. I usually have the person hold a pen in front of their face and move it back and forth, 40 to a hundred times.

Another client had a painful memory of a relative choking her. The intensity was at an "8" her memory. After two sets of eye movements, the attacker in her memory started fading away. The upset dropped to a "5" after the second set and in her memory the attacker walked out the door. She felt that that was sufficient change for her to be able to go on comfortably with her life.

Another client had been harassed by her superior in a very negative and destructive way over a long period of time. We did 13 interventions in three sessions. Her upset dropped from a "9" to a "2" in that time. She also felt the changes in her body as her throat, heart, and stomach felt more comfortable. She now felt the positive affirmations, "I can succeed" and "I am successful" were much more true than when she started.

Another client actually felt the anger toward her Mother draining out of her arms and legs. She had felt very strongly that her Mother had not acted correctly during a family crisis.

Another woman discovered, after two long sets of EMDR, that a new way for her to handle work stress was to give more of the issues over to management.

A woman who had a painful memory of her father abusing her brother, found that after the first set of EMDR , the picture of the abuse became foggy and move farther away from her.

Another woman had a lot of anxiety that went with a fear of the unknown. It started at a "6.5" and then came down to a "0". She had the experience of feeling that once the negative stuff had been processed out, there would be room for the positive memories and feelings to come in.

Another person, a man, had a real dread about going to work because he didn’t like the sales work that he was doing. In one session, the tension dropped from "7" to "2".

Larry Stephens, LCSW
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Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching
with both a phychotheraputic and spiritual orientation.