Abrah Sprung, PhD

You can tell patient/clients:

“Dr. Sprung uses an integrative approach - EMDR + IFS + somatic therapy + relational therapy - that works with the entire mind-body connection to get to the root level of what’s going on for you. This kind of therapy is especially helpful for complex trauma, overwhelm, and relationship patterns that won’t shift. It is not the kind of therapy where you get some coping tools, surface-level symptom management, or even just talk therapy alone.

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 Sysytems) - 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 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 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.

This integrated approach - EMDR with IFS, somatic therapy & relational therapy - is for people who are holding it all together on the outside while carry a heavy weight on the inside, and who want to do the deep work of real change - not more tools to manage, but healing what actually underlies the struggle.”

Currently accepting new clients.

Patients/clients can contact me directly through my website: parkview-counseling.com , where they can self-schedule a complimentary 20-minute initial consultation, or you can share the patient/client handout provided on this page.

They can also access my website to self-schedule a consultation or learn more about my practice using the QR code at the bottom of this page.

Treatment typically lasts 6+ months, depending on the complexity of presentation and treatment goals. This is depth-oriented, transformational work rather than brief symptom-focused intervention.

Active or recent psychiatric crisis, active or recent acute suicidality, active substance use disorder, or individuals seeking brief solution-focused intervention.