If trauma, anxiety, or painful memories have been holding you back, EMDR therapy in Yuba City offers a powerful, evidence-based path forward. At Everyday Counts Therapy Services, EMDR therapy helps your brain reprocess distressing experiences so they lose their emotional grip — allowing you to move through life with more calm, clarity, and freedom. Whether you're carrying a single traumatic event or years of accumulated pain, EMDR therapy meets you where you are and helps you heal at your own pace.
What Makes EMDR Therapy in Yuba City So Effective?
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — an approach developed in the late 1980s and now recognized by the World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association as a leading treatment for trauma and PTSD. Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR doesn't require you to describe your painful experiences in exhaustive detail or spend years analyzing the past.
Instead, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation — typically guided eye movements, gentle tapping, or audio tones — to help your brain do what it naturally wants to do: process difficult experiences and file them away as ordinary memories rather than active threats. When trauma gets "stuck" in the nervous system, it can feel as immediate and overwhelming today as the day it happened. EMDR helps your brain finish that unfinished processing.
What EMDR Therapy Can Help With
While EMDR is best known as a trauma treatment, its applications reach much further. At Everyday Counts, EMDR therapy is used to help clients with:
Many clients discover their struggles are interconnected — trauma feeding depression, or past abuse and trauma driving complex PTSD. EMDR therapy addresses these roots directly.
How EMDR Therapy Works: The Eight Phases
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash — free to use under the Unsplash License
EMDR therapy follows a structured, well-researched protocol. Your therapist guides you through eight phases — from history-taking and preparation, through the actual reprocessing of target memories, to closure and reevaluation. Crucially, extensive stabilization and safety-building come before any deep processing begins. You're never pushed further than you're ready to go.
For a closer look at each stage, see our detailed guide on how EMDR therapy works and how it can help you heal.
In-person and virtual EMDR: Everyday Counts offers EMDR therapy both in-office at our two Yuba City locations and online. Virtual EMDR uses the same proven protocol, with bilateral stimulation guided through your screen — and many clients find the comfort of their own home deepens their sense of safety.
Why Choose Everyday Counts for EMDR Therapy in Yuba City?
With 20 years of clinical experience, Kendra Davis (LCSW) and the Everyday Counts team have helped countless people across the Yuba-Sutter region reclaim their lives from trauma. Our practice offers a warm, non-judgmental environment, two convenient Yuba City locations, flexible in-person and virtual scheduling, and acceptance of most insurance.
We specialize in trauma, EMDR, anxiety, depression, and dissociation — meeting every client with respect and care. Explore our full range of services or read our Therapy FAQ to learn more.
Ready to experience the healing power of EMDR therapy?
Everyday Counts Therapy Services is accepting new clients in Yuba City. In-person & virtual sessions available.
Serving Yuba City and the Greater Sutter County Area
Everyday Counts Therapy Services provides EMDR therapy to clients throughout Yuba City, Marysville, Linda, Olivehurst, Live Oak, and the broader Sacramento Valley. Healing is possible — and it's closer than you think. Reach out today to begin.
Everyday Counts Therapy Services · 1445 Butte House Road, Suite A & 1007 Live Oak Blvd, Suite B-1 · Yuba City, CA 95993 · (530) 770-1242 · Most insurance accepted · In-person & virtual sessions available.
If you or someone you know is in a life-threatening or urgent situation, please call 911 or the 24-hour Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health crisis line at 888-923-3800.
