Abrah Sprung, PhD
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
My Approach
I use an integrated approach that combines four evidence-based modalitites. Each one addresses a different dimension of healing, and together they create the conditions for genuine, lasting transformation.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) is central to this work. It’s a therapy supported by 30+ years of research that is especially helpful in processing and healing emotional trauma and overwhelm. EMDR uses a technique called bilateral stimulation (such as moving your eyes back and forth, tapping, and sounds), that is based on what we’ve learned about how the brain and body naturally process experiences in a healthy way, like what happens in REM sleep. EMDR helps your nervous system process and file away emotional trauma and overwhelm that it’s been holding in unprocessed form, so you’re no longer staying stuck and getting triggered by what’s happened to you.
IFS (Internal Family Systems)
IFS (Internal Family Systems) - also called parts work - helps you understand and integrate all the different parts of you - parts that drive you forward, parts that hold you back or shut you down, protective parts, and parts that hold pain. These parts of yourself often originally developed to protect you during difficult or challenging circumstances in your past. IFS work helps you shift from strategies that are overly rigid or don’t serve you well, and helps you to adapt more flexible and effective responses instead.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy targets the physical fallout stored in your nervous system - the emotional pain and distress that shows up as tension and bracing, freezing, and emotional exhaustion and numbness. We now understand that emotional trauma and overwhelm lives on in your body, too - not just your mind - and this work helps your body let go of what talk alone can’t reach.
Relational Therapy
Relational therapy addresses the patterns that keep showing up in your relationships - why you repeat painful dynamics, why intimacy feels scary, why connection feels so hard. This work helps you understand and shift how you relate to others, and to yourself.
My integrated approach - EMDR with IFS, somatic therapy & relational therapy - is well-suited for high-functioning adults who are holding it all together and managing well on the outside while carrying a heavy burden on the inside, and who want to do the deep work of real change - not more tools to manage, but healing that reaches all the way down to the core.
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