EMDR Consulting

I Built A Business Around Mental Health & Grew It To $1.8M/Year

October 21st, 2021

save

Roy Kiessling

Founder, EMDR Consulting

$150K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

EMDR Consulting

emdrconsulting.com

from Portland, OR, USA

started June 2013

$150,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

Discover what tools recommends to grow your business!

social media tool-icon

Vimeo

Discover what books Roy recommends to grow your business!

Want more updates on EMDR Consulting? Check out these stories:

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Greetings, my name is Roy Kiessling, founder of EMDR Consulting, an international training organization specializing in teaching the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) psychotherapy to master's level and above mental health professionals.

I imagine many of you are not familiar with EMDR. Francine Shapiro developed EMDR in 1989 and, shortly after that, began teaching it to mental health professionals. It is a sophisticated, interpersonal form of therapy that helps reduce intense emotional anxiety generated by past childhood disturbing experiences and current traumas such as rape, assault, and natural disasters. The dynamic emotional shifts are neurological, not just cognitive, which sets EMDR apart from most forms of psychotherapy. Clients report feeling different, not just thinking differently.

Rapid eye movements and other forms of distracting activity seem to activate our adaptive processing system, something that automatically occurs during the REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep. Therefore, the phrase "Let me sleep on it." is accurate! In addition, EMDR's treatment procedures are more focused;...

Sorry, you need to login and/or become a member to view the rest of this content.