Raquel Molina, LCSW

12/02/2025

EMDR is unique because it works on both levels of the brain:

🌿 Bottom-Up: EMDR addresses the body and nervous system, helping release the physical tension, sensations, and emotional charge stored from past trauma.

🌿 Top-Down: It also engages conscious processing, allowing the mind to reframe memories, beliefs, and thought patterns that keep you stuck.

By integrating both approaches, EMDR helps you process trauma including the body, mind, and emotions - so you can move forward with safety.

Healing isn’t just about thinking differently; it’s about feeling safe in your body and mind again. ✨

11/26/2025

🧠 EMDR therapy reduces the emotional intensity of past memories, helping you feel more regulated in the present.

11/16/2025

How EMDR therapy rewires traumatic memories, distress in the body and supports long-term healing.

Link in bio to book a session with me.

08/06/2025

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🧠 Healing doesn’t mean forgetting the past - it means helping every part of you feel safe again 🧠 ⁣
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As a therapist I integrate IFS (parts work) and EMDR to guide clients in understanding the complex layers of shame, guilt and trauma- not by pushing parts away but welcoming them with compassion. ⁣
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❤️‍🩹 This integrated approach allows clients to feel more whole and present- free from the burdens they’ve carried for too long. ⁣
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🤔 Every part has a story. Every memory holds wisdom. Together I we hold space for healing that’s lasting and transformative. ⁣
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Ready to connect with your inner self/inner child and reclaim your life? Send me a message for an appointment ♥️⁣
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08/02/2025

🧠 AMYGDALA ACTIVITY INCREASES ⁣
The amygdala acts as an alarm signal⁣
for stressful events to help protect ⁣
us from danger. Trauma can cause the⁣
amygdala to stay overactive, which can ⁣
lead to feelings of being in danger when⁣
we’re not. ⁣
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🧠 HIPPOCAMPUS SHRINKS ⁣
The hippocampus helps with learning ⁣
and memory storage, including how to ⁣
stay safe. Trauma may cause this area⁣
to shrink. Cues to calm the amygdala ⁣
are weakened, which may cause ⁣
flashbacks or confusion around the ⁣
trauma memory.⁣
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🧠 PREFRONTAL CORTEX SHRINKS ⁣
This area manages decision-making, ⁣reasoning, thoughts, and helps us⁣ control our emotional response to ⁣events. Normally, this area helps us ⁣decide that a situation is okay. Trauma⁣ can weaken the signals from this area,⁣ allowing negative emotions from the trauma memory to take over the pre-⁣frontal cortex’s reasoning ability. ⁣
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💡 EMDR therapy helps the brain process traumatic memories, allowing improved healing communication to resume. After successful EMDR therapy, the fight, flight, or freeze response from the traumatic event is resolved. ⁣
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03/30/2025

Ever look back and realize how much you worried about things that never even happened?⁣
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Here’s to all the stuff I stressed about that actually turned out fine. Letting go of unnecessary worry one step at a time. ✨It starts with awareness ✨⁣
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03/11/2025

Losing a loved one to su***de is difficult and can come with a lot of complicated emotions. There is support available to help survivors of su***de loss like you, your friends, and family cope with…

03/11/2025