When your body still reacts, even though you understand why.
Maybe you look like you have it all together on the outside, but internally you feel:
- Your body freezes, tenses, or shuts down around medical care or reminders of a hard experience
- Constantly anxious or on edge
- Caught in cycles of overthinking
- Controlled by a fear or a phobia, including needles, procedures, or medical settings
- Driven by perfectionism or self-criticism
- Unable to fully relax, even when things are going well
- Affected by past experiences that still feel emotionally present
- Frustrated that you've done the work but don't feel much different
You may understand your patterns intellectually, but that doesn't always mean you know how to change them.
How EMDR Therapy Can Help
EMDR isn't only for processing major traumatic events. It can also help address the experiences underlying anxiety, fear, and patterns that continue to affect your life.
Medical & Reproductive Experiences
Distressing medical experiences, fertility treatment, pregnancy loss, birth, and health-related anxiety can leave a lasting mark regardless of whether things turned out okay or not. You may relive moments, dread appointments, or feel your body shut down when you think about what's ahead.
EMDR can help you process these experiences so they have less hold on your present, and prepare for what's coming next.
Fear & Phobias
Sometimes you know logically that you're safe, but your body reacts as though you're in danger. This can show up around procedures, needles, medical settings, or other specific fears.
EMDR can help you work through specific fears, phobias, and experiences that continue to trigger a strong fear response.
Anxiety & Overthinking
When your mind is constantly scanning for what could go wrong, it can be difficult to feel present or at ease.
EMDR can help address the experiences and beliefs that may be contributing to persistent anxiety and worry.
Perfectionism & Self-Criticism
You may have learned that being successful, useful, productive, or “good enough” requires constantly pushing yourself.
Together, we can explore what is underneath those patterns and work toward a more grounded relationship with yourself.
Learn more about EMDR therapy in Washington and how it can help you work through medical and reproductive trauma, anxiety, fear, phobias, and patterns that keep you feeling stuck.
Past. Present. Future.
EMDR isn't only about what happened in the past.
The goal isn't simply to understand what happened to you.
It's to help you feel more grounded in your present and more confident about your future.
Who I Work With
I work with adults whose health or medical experiences still feel present in the body, including:
- Frightening or distressing medical experiences or traumas
- Procedures or medical care where you felt unheard, dismissed, or judged
- Fertility struggles, IVF, or pregnancy loss
- Difficult birth or postpartum experiences
- Fear of needles, procedures, or medical settings
- Health-related anxiety
- Anxiety, perfectionism, and fears that keep you on high alert, even when life looks fine from the outside
How I Work
We start with what brought you in. That might be an upcoming treatment, a difficult memory, or a fear that's affecting your life.
Before we begin processing, we make sure you have tools to stay grounded. You're always in the lead.
Sometimes earlier experiences or relationship patterns connect to what you're feeling now. When they do, we can work with those too, at a pace that feels safe.
We'll also process any lingering fears or anxiety you may have about future situations that may feel similar, so you can go forward feeling as calm, grounded, and confident as possible.
Some clients choose longer sessions or intensives. We can talk about whether that fits during your consultation.
EMDR may be a good fit if:
- You are curious about why you respond the way you do.
- You've gained insight but still feel stuck.
- You're ready to look beneath the surface of your symptoms.
- You have some tools that help to ground yourself.
- You're willing to notice emotions and sensations in your body.
- You want to participate in your healing actively.
- You're tired of managing the same patterns over and over.
- You want meaningful change through processing—not just a place to talk about what happened.
You don't have to know exactly what needs to change before you begin.
You just need to be open to exploring what might be underneath it.
Meet Angela
I'm Angela Fruhner, an EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ and Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. My background in clinical health psychology, nutrition, trauma therapy, and EMDR allows me to take an integrative approach that considers the connection between your experiences, emotions, thoughts, and body. I especially enjoy working with people whose bodies still carry the stress of medical experiences, such as frightening procedures, fertility treatment, pregnancy loss, birth, illness, or feeling dismissed in medical settings.
My approach to therapy is grounded in the belief that you are the expert on your own life. My role is to help you understand what's happening, make sense of the patterns you're experiencing, and create the conditions for meaningful change.
I don't believe therapy should be about endlessly analyzing what's wrong with you.
It's about helping you understand yourself with compassion—and giving you the opportunity to experience something different.
What if you could feel different?
You don't have to spend the rest of your life managing the same anxiety, fear, or patterns.
If you've gained insight but still feel stuck, you may be ready for a different approach.
Let's talk about what you're experiencing and whether working together feels like the right fit.
Virtual EMDR therapy for adults throughout Washington State.
Let's Explore Whether EMDR Is Right for You
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