Getting sober is one of the most radical things a person can do.
It’s an act of survival, rebellion, hope, and courage all at once. But sobriety doesn’t erase the wounds that lived underneath the addiction. For many people, especially those several years into recovery, there comes a point when staying sober is no longer the finish line—it’s the foundation for something deeper.
That’s where trauma work begins.
Long-term recovery often uncovers what the addiction helped to mask: deep grief, abandonment wounds, relational trauma, emotional neglect, shame, and the chronic sense of not being safe in your own skin. These patterns aren’t moral failings. They’re adaptations your nervous system made to survive when connection, safety, and regulation weren’t available.
EMDR & IFS for Long-Term Recovery
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) offers a path to finally process the stuck memories and emotions that made substances feel like the only escape. EMDR doesn’t require you to retell your story over and over—it meets your nervous system where it’s still carrying pain. Through bilateral stimulation (like tapping or eye movements), we help your brain unstick the frozen places where trauma lives, allowing old emotional wounds to finally move through instead of being endlessly managed or suppressed.
Imagine being able to feel an emotion—grief, fear, joy—without it being overwhelming. That’s the freedom EMDR opens up.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) brings another essential layer to recovery work. In IFS, we meet the parts of you that carried the addiction—not as enemies to be defeated, but as protectors who did what they had to do. The part that numbs out. The part that lashes out. The part that hustles to prove your worth. In IFS, we honor these parts and work with them—not against them. We help them lay down the burdens they’ve been carrying for far too long.
Together, EMDR and IFS create a different kind of recovery—one rooted not just in abstinence, but in integration, compassion, and real nervous system healing.
This work isn’t about being “good enough” at sobriety. It’s about building a life where you no longer need to survive by disconnecting from yourself.
If you’re years into sobriety and still feel stuck in cycles of emotional numbness, hypervigilance, shame, or self-sabotage, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed at recovery. It means your system is ready for deeper healing. It means you’ve built enough stability to finally go back and tend to the parts of you that survived the only way they knew how.
In this space, we move slowly. Gently.
Always respecting your internal pacing. No flooding. No retraumatization. Just a steady building of trust—inside yourself and inside the therapy process.
We honor the victories you’ve already fought hard for. We honor the resilience it took to get this far. And we honor the possibility that there’s still more healing available to you—not because you’re broken, but because you deserve to feel whole.
Therapy to Support Long Term Recovery
Sobriety is the beginning. Healing is what comes next.
You don’t have to white-knuckle your way through your life anymore. You don’t have to live in permanent survival mode. You can build a relationship with your body, your emotions, and your story that feels safe, connected, and alive.
EMDR and IFS are not about fixing you. They’re about helping you reclaim the parts of yourself that addiction tried to bury—and offering them something better.
You already did the impossible by choosing to stay. Now it’s time to choose yourself, fully.
