Client Experience Comparisons

EDMR vs Rewiring?

Shared Goals

Both EMDR and Anxiety Rewiring seek to resolve the emotional charge of distressing memories. The aim is the same: reprocess the past without re-traumatizing the client, restoring calm, clarity, and coherence in the present.

Client Experiences with EMDR

In EMDR, clients are asked to fully engage with a target memory. This includes not just the images, but also the physical sensations, emotional states, and negative self-bleifs associated with that event.

An EMDR session typically involves:

  • Selecting a trumatic or distressing memory

  • Rating its distress level

  • Activating the memory

  • Beginning bilateral stimulation, e.g. eye movements, tapping

  • Reporting changes in emotion, imagery, or sensation between sets

The experience can be intense. Many clients report high emotional reactivation, also known as lymbic overwhelm, in the form of panic, grief, fear, somatic discomfort, i.e. tight chest, nausea, trembling, a sense of being “back in the scenee, and temporary emotional exhaustion after sessions.

When reprocessing is successful, distress drops sharply, but in-process sessions can feel vulnerable, overwhelming, or emotionally raw, especially for clients with complex or physical trauma.

Client Takeaways in EMDR

EMDR excels when:

  • Clients are willing and able to recall emotionally charged memories directly, even if distressing

  • The client has strong emotional resilience or is well-supported in moments of activation

  • The client feels ready for a modality that engages the body and memory in tandem, rather than through story alone

But it can stall if:

  • Emotional flooding arises, and the client feels overwhelmed or exposed without adequate support

  • The client has difficulty tracking inner experience while simultaneously engaging in bilateral stimulation

  • The process becomes mechanical or repetitive, and the emotional significance of the memory feels diluted rather than resolved

  • The client feels pressured to find change within the protocol, rather than feeling emotionally ready

“I was crying, shaking, reliving it — but I was still in the room. It felt like a rollercoaster I had to ride to get free.”

If you identify with this statement, you might benefit from the Anxiety Rewiring modality.

Anxiety Rewiring

Client Experiences with Anxiety Rewiring

Anxiety Rewiring clients are not asked to build tolerance to emotional discomfort. Instead of re-entering the memory at full intensity, the process is based on graduated emotional distance and sequential insight, allowing healing to occur without persistent exposure-based activation.

An Anxiety Rewiring session will specifically include:

  • Identifying a target problematic emotional pattern

  • Revisiting an inciting moment for that pattern

  • Reducing your stress responses with imagined, grounded distance

  • Inviting clarity, compassion, and self-support

  • Gradually closing in on the root memory, gaining insight at every step

The process is gentle, precise, and entirely client-paced. There is no trauma re-exposure therapy in which clients are expected to build tolerance, and no requirement to “feel the fear” in order to resolve it.

Client Takeaways in Anxiety Rewiring

In Anxiety Rewiring, clients engage with emotionally significant memories from a calm, imagined distance. At each stage, they’re invited to inquire of themselves what they need to know in order to move forward from the emotional and cognitive impact of the trauma at that distance. The process is structured, internally guided, and emotionally grounded — centered on healing, not exposure therapy.

Clients often describe the experience as:

  • Emotionally spacious and grounded

  • Insight-led, not sensation-led

  • Centered in self-guided understanding rather than therapist-driven reframing

“I didn’t have to relive it. I saw it from far away. Once the pain softened and I learned how to support myself from that distance, I moved closer, until I was able to close the door on the traumatic experience.”

If you want to identify with this statement, you might benefit from the Anxiety Rewiring modality.

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