EMDR and TraumaTherapy serving Fairfax, Virginia
You came into this world with a sense that you were different and don’t belong. You felt unseen, unloved, and neglected. Somewhere early on, life felt lonely, and your day-to-day existence felt disregarded by the people in your life who were supposed to love you unconditionally.
* You still carry the pain of everything you experienced which now feels like it’s too much to bear.
* You learned to look and to be strong because strength was the only thing that felt reliable although exhausting.
* You are not broken and you are good enough. You just had to learn to function before anyone ever taught you that needing someone and having your needs met was allowed. You are significant.
Meet Robin Jackson
Your EMDR therapist in Fairfax, Virginia
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Something brought you here today.
Maybe you're not entirely sure how to name it yet. A heaviness that's been with you for a long time. A pattern that keeps showing up no matter how hard you try. A sense that something underneath the surface has never quite healed and now you are ready to. Whatever brought you here today, I'm glad you found your way.
Hi, I'm Robin.
I help adults finally find their sense of self after experiences of abuse, neglect, or parental relationships that left them feeling like they were somehow not enough.
When a caregiver such as a mother or father criticizes you, wants you to be perfect, or holds unrealistic expectations rooted in their own childhood wounds, life can be hard and that hardship continues to be emotionally challenging even in adult years. When I work with clients who have had these experiences and carry the belief that they are less deserving, a disappointment or who have spent a lifetime sacrificing their own needs for others, it is refreshing to see them shift to a feeling of "I do matter". Witnessing that moment and seeing the client recognize their own strength in it is a gift.
EMDR therapy in Fairfax, Virginia
You can feel it in your body with a sense of knowing something inside you is still hurting.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a gentle but powerful therapy that helps your brain finally finish processing painful memories or distressing events that got stuck. Think of it like a file on your computer that never saved correctly. The memory is still there, and your brain never got the chance to store it in a way that feels resolved.
During EMDR sessions, we use guided eye movements or gentle tapping to help your nervous system revisit those stuck places in a safe and supported way. Over time, memories that once triggered overwhelming emotions begin to lose their grip, and you walk away feeling lighter, clearer, and more like yourself. You may be surprised by how much shifts without having to talk through every detail of what happened. Your mind and body do the healing work together.
Attachment-Focused EMDR Therapy in Fairfax, Virginia
Closeness feels like the thing you want most and fear most, with the quiet certainty that rejection is coming.
When your earliest relationships with caregivers feel unsafe, unpredictable, or emotionally unavailable, those early experiences shape how you may connect with yourself and others for years to come. These relationship wounds drive a range of symptoms including anxiety, inability to regulate emotions, hypervigilance, difficulty trusting others, low self-worth, and chronic feelings of shame or abandonment. Attachment-Focused EMDR targets these deep relational injuries at their root, helping you understand and process your early experiences.
Intensive EMDR therapy in Fairfax, Virginia
Something in you can feel you are ready for a breakthrough. You just need the right space to let it happen."
Intensive EMDR therapy creates deep, uninterrupted space that can shift years of pain within a single extended session. This approach can help you feel better than you may have thought possible this soon. Clients often walk out of one session feeling something they carried for decades begin to loosen. The session moves at your pace, with someone fully present and attuned to you every step of the way. Profound things can move within that space and you can begin to live life differently.
1 hr 30 min
275 US dollars2 hr 30 min
520 US dollars1 hr
225 US dollars
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571-310-0216
10560 Main Street, Suite 410-B Fairfax City, Virginia, 22030
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9am - 5pm
In compliance with the No Surprises Act, all uninsured and self-pay patients will receive a Good Faith Estimate upon request and/or prior to your scheduled appointment. For more information about the No Surprises Act and your right to a Good Faith Estimate, please visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call 1-800-985-3059.
