EMDR Therapy for High-Achieving Adults
A space for you to be seen, heard, and supported with compassionate care and practical help.
EMDR Therapy for High-Achieving Adults
You look like you have it all together. But inside, you're exhausted.
You're capable, responsible, and successful. You're the person other people count on.
But underneath it all, you may be exhausted from overthinking, carrying too much, struggling to relax, or feeling like you always have to hold everything together.
Maybe you understand your past—but you still don't feel free from it.
EMDR therapy can help you process what your mind and body haven't been able to fully let go of.
Online and virtual therapy for adults in North Carolina.
You may be:
Overthinking conversations, decisions, or relationships
Feeling responsible for everyone else's emotions
Struggling with perfectionism or people-pleasing
Experiencing anxiety that doesn't seem to have an obvious cause
Carrying the effects of difficult childhood experiences
Struggling after a painful relationship or major life event
Experiencing anxiety related to pregnancy, birth, parenthood, or other major transitions
Knowing something from your past still affects you, even though you thought you were "over it"
You may have spent years learning how to cope.
Therapy can help you move toward actually healing.
You don't have to keep managing the same patterns.
Understanding your past isn’t always enough.
Talk therapy can help you understand yourself. But sometimes you can understand exactly why you feel the way you do and still find yourself reacting as if the past is happening in the present.
EMDR is a structured, evidence-based approach that can help you process distressing experiences and reduce the emotional intensity associated with them.
EMDR isn't about endlessly retelling your story. Instead, we'll work together to process experiences that may still be influencing how you feel, think, and respond today.
You don't have to have PTSD to benefit from EMDR.
You may not think of yourself as traumatized. Maybe nothing about your story seems "bad enough." Maybe you simply know that certain experiences continue to affect how you respond to yourself, your relationships, or the world around you.
EMDR can be used to help process a range of distressing experiences—not just traditional trauma.
How it works
So what’s the process like?
Schedule a consultation
We'll talk about what's bringing you to therapy, your goals, and whether EMDR may be a good fit.Build safety and stability
Before processing difficult experiences, we'll make sure you have the skills and support needed to feel grounded and prepared.Begin processing and moving forward
When you're ready, we'll use EMDR and other evidence-based approaches to help you process experiences that continue to affect you today.
A therapy approach that’s both compassionate and purposeful.
I'm Marissa Skipper, an EMDR-trained Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
My approach is warm, relational, and trauma-informed. I don't believe therapy should be about endlessly analyzing what's wrong with you.
Together, we'll work to understand the patterns that are keeping you stuck and identify what needs to change.
Depending on your goals, I integrate approaches including:
EMDR
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
You don't have to figure everything out before you come to therapy.
That's what we're here to do together.
Imagine feeling less controlled by your past:
Not immediately assuming you've done something wrong
Being able to tolerate uncertainty without spiraling
Setting a boundary without spending hours feeling guilty
Feeling less controlled by old experiences
Trusting yourself more
Responding to life instead of constantly bracing for it
Feeling present instead of living in your head
Being able to move forward without needing everything to feel perfect first
Healing doesn't mean becoming someone different.
It means having more freedom to be yourself.
Ready to start?
You don't need to know exactly what's wrong before reaching out.
A free consultation gives us an opportunity to talk about what's bringing you to therapy, answer your questions about EMDR, and determine whether we might be a good fit.