What if you could begin to take back your life and ease your suffering? To truly start living a joyful life.

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EMDR for Love & Relationships

How EMDR Can Improve Relationships


Heal Past Relationship Wounds – Unresolved conflicts, betrayals, or emotional neglect can create triggers in current relationships. EMDR helps process these experiences so they no longer impact your connection.

Reduce Emotional Reactivity – If you find yourself shutting down, withdrawing, or overreacting in conflicts, EMDR helps you regulate emotions and respond instead of reacting.

Break Patterns of Avoidance or Over-Control – Many high-achievers struggle with vulnerability or over-controlling relationships as a defense mechanism. EMDR rewires these patterns to foster healthy emotional engagement.

Improve Communication & Trust – By processing past disappointments, fears, or attachment wounds, you can communicate with clarity and emotional intelligence—leading to deeper trust and connection.

Address Performance Anxiety in Relationships – Just like in finance, perfectionism and high expectations can create pressure in relationships. EMDR can reduce self-doubt, anxiety, and fear of failure in love.

Address Performance Anxiety at Work. – Is your relationship consuming your thoughts and impacting you at work? Enhance your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) with EMDR and watch how your mental blocks at work disappear.


Who Can Benefit From EMDR

  • High-achieving professionals who struggle with emotional connection

  • Individuals with past relationship trauma (betrayal, infidelity, divorce, neglect, etc.)

  • Couples experiencing repetitive conflicts, trust issues, or emotional disconnection

  • Those who feel emotionally distant or shut down but want deeper intimacy

What an EMDR Sessions Looks Like

  1. Identify Triggers – Pinpoint the moments where emotional pain, avoidance, or reactivity show up in your relationship.

  2. Reprocess Past Wounds – Use EMDR techniques to desensitize and rewire old emotional patterns.

  3. Integrate New Beliefs – Replace old fears and self-protective behaviors with healthy relationship dynamics.

  4. Strengthen Connection – Develop tools to improve emotional intimacy, trust, and communication.

You have prioritized your career now it’s time to invest in all you have to offer in a relationship. 

Get more out of love and life.


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Contact me.

Sarah Nunes LCSW, PC: Relationship and Trauma Therapist

sarahnunes@therapyemail.com
(585)-332-3289