-EMDR Client Experience

The EMDR Intensive with Arise helped me to heal from the traumatic experiences in my past. These experiences caused me to be insecure and lack confidence and feel worthless, depressed and ashamed. The pain once connected to those experiences  has been healed. I can now remember them without emotional and physical distress. I realize that prior to this EMDR experience, my spirit, soul and body were disconnected because I was only concerned about the spiritual part of my life and had disregarded my soul - heart, mind - and my body. I thought that I was whole, but I was numb. I had suppressed memories to avoid the emotional and physical pain associated with them. Going through this process has helped me to walk through that pain under the guidance and safety of an experienced therapist. Consequently, I can now recall those events without pain and anxiety. I am now more confident; I know and understand that I am valuable; and I have more courage to face things that I once dreaded. I am more aware of how my body and heart feel and speak to me when good or unpleasant situations occur. In addition, I can now feel!!! I feel liberated, happy and calm. I now allow myself to feel sad or angry. I am still on my healing journey, but I am grateful that I now have insight and tools that will help me to have a wholistic lifestyle - healthy in spirit, soul, and body. 

 -EMDR Client Experience

In the past 7 months EMDR therapy has helped me heal from a lot of unresolved and unaddressed trauma. A lot of the trauma I worked through was life altering and I didn't take notice to it until I went through EMDR. Because of this therapy I feel healed, focused, stronger, wiser, and more tolerant for all the ups and downs life brings. And as a young black woman in college, doing this therapy has helped me fight against the stereotype that black people don't need therapy. It has helped me deal with the rough experience's college brings and it has helped shape me into a more focused and stronger college student. I feel like all college students, especially young black women can benefit from therapy because the reality of the situation is that college isn't easy. It's a lot on an individual mentally and taking care of your mental space with consistent therapy can greatly benefit you because it greatly benefited me. I now feel like a brand-new young woman, who is healed, and stronger.

-EMDR Client Experience

I have suffered from anxiety and depression most of my life. I have tried talk therapy and medication and though it dulled my symptoms but never really "helped" them. When my therapist suggested EMDR therapy I jumped at the chance. I did the  intensive session. It has changed my life for the better. I finally have relief from issues that have been bothering me, again, for most of my life. I would recommend EMDR to anyone who is suffering from mental health issues. I cannot say enough good things about the process. A special thank you to Arise Psychotherapy and Coaching. Especially to Tamera Brown. Thank you for all you do!

-EMDR Client Experience

"Being the eldest daughter in a Mexican family is a role I carry. I had never made the connection as to what that role meant to my body and mind. I have always struggled with trying to be the person everyone can rely on, fixing outside issues before the inside ones and thinking I do not need help since it is a "me" issue. My family has been skeptical of therapy and the idea that “only people with real problems" do it, but I knew my anxiety and depression was starting to feel debilitating and physically impact me. I was also apprehensive but as a woman who works in Research, I knew I had to give it a try. My EMDR experience was about 6 months long. I initially started to feel a difference mentally; I felt calmer and more confident in myself. I was absolutely blown away when I started having physical changes. My normal feeling of a panic attack was no longer happening! I felt it was routine to feel tense, but the feeling stopped occurring. The fact that there was a complete absence of the physical part of having a panic attack blew me away. To finally feel "normal" was an interesting moment. I am eternally grateful for taking a leap into EMDR and for the incredible support from my therapist. EMDR was the light at the end of my dark tunnel.me!"

Life Coaching Client Experience

Coach Tamera J is anointed to unlock the mental strongholds that keep us from the life we truly desire and deserve. Since I’ve been therapeutically coached by her, I’m now able to intentionally show up for myself and take steps in the direction of my greatest desires. Coach Tamera equips you with the tools necessary to create the life you want, whole and free!

-R. Baker!

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Life Coaching Client Experience

"Since our first therapeutic-coaching session I have been getting those small pause breaks where I inhale and release and I speak within over myself. And when I first get home from work, my first 30 minutes is me just sitting and meditating. You really took me somewhere with you coaching and I would love to experience it again. I also do feel it drew me even closer to God. I got something’s to work on and work though but those inhaling and exhaling helps me. It was something I had begun and stop but this time with your help, I gain clarity as to why God started me that way.  I can share so much with you but at the end of it I would say THANK YOU!" 

-Shameeka! 

Life Coaching Client Experience

There are some things you just have to experience for yourself. Words can not quite do it for you. I had the pleasure to be therapeutically coached by Coach Tamera J within a group and each time we met together she was able to create a virtual atmosphere as if it was just her and I. She created a safe space for you to exhale and search within to bring awareness to any parts that had gone unattended.  The words she spoke were life and healing.

Her sessions were so powerful and empowering that you wanted to just sit with the experience for some time after the session was over. If you have the opportunity to be coached by her, don't hesitate to get on her calendar. 

Thanks again,

-Kessa