Healing Minds, Transforming Lives

Empowering individuals through trauma recovery and somatic healing

Enhancing providers' abilities to help their clients heal more quickly and gently

Innovative methods of healing from trauma
quickly and gently

Healing is more than just moving through pain. It's finding the resources to thrive. My approach is rooted in empathy and professional excellence. For individual clients, it is providing a safe space for you to reclaim your resilience. For professional providers, it is training in a non-retraumatizing, brain-based, somatic and sensory intervention of healing.

Multichannel Eye Movement Integration (MEMI) is a new way of helping people heal from difficulties in their lives, including trauma and other adverse life events.

MEMI is especially suitable for those who have not been able to complete other therapies (like Cognitive and Exposure therapies) or they have avoided seeking treatment due to the need to talk about their experiences. MEMI is faster and less distressing than EMDR.

MEMI is a sensory and somatic based evolution in trauma therapy. It uses the entire visual field to facilitate brain processing of traumatic events and maximizes client safety during the session. Clients do not have to recite details of events. This not only enhances client safety but also reduces the burden of secondary traumatization that providers experience.

By focusing on sensory and somatic elements of events while following several different eye movements, the amygdala is deactivated, patterns are disrupted and memories are consolidated. This allows the symptoms of trauma to diminish. Clients report, sometimes after just one session, that they feel like they have their lives back.

We provide specialized training programs designed for mental health practitioners. Our curriculum focuses on advanced trauma recovery techniques, somatic healing, and building resilience in clinical practice.

Empathy in Every Session

The Heart of Healing

I'm Dr. Maria Gear Haugen, PhD, MBA. During my ten years of service as a Clinical Psychologist with PTSD survivors at VA residential facilities, people starting calling me Dr. H. In my practice as a trauma therapist, prior to discovering Multichannel Eye Movement Integration, I offered traditional trauma therapies, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), to my clients with PTSD. With MEMI I have found that clients, often with complex presentations, respond quickly with profound changes in their symptomology and their lives.

Unlike cognitive approaches, MEMI focuses on sensory elements of traumatic memories and does not require the recitation of the details of events. This, and additional techniques used in this protocol, enhance client's safety and ability to successfully complete trauma therapy. As a provider, I also appreciate that this has shielded me from secondary trauma and burnout.

I have found that clients who have been unsuccessful with other trauma therapies have been able to find significant relief from their trauma(s) with MEMI. The simplicity, effectiveness and effeciency of this therapy makes it a great fit for generalist providers and trauma specialists alike.

"If you are looking for a straightforward and effective approach to working with trauma, MEMI fits the bill... I've trained in a few modalities specific to treating trauma, and MEMI is by far the 'simplest' to implement with my clients. Dr. Maria is open to all questions because she wants all trainees to understand MEMI as much as possible by the end of the training. She approaches the training both pragmatically and with humor, which helps the time go by very quickly. Five stars, highly recommend."

-Cynthia Chen, PhD

"If you are looking for a straightforward and effective approach to working with trauma, MEMI fits the bill... I've trained in a few modalities specific to treating trauma, and MEMI is by far the 'simplest' to implement with my clients. Dr. Maria is open to all questions because she wants all trainees to understand MEMI as much as possible by the end of the training. She approaches the training both pragmatically and with humor, which helps the time go by very quickly. Five stars, highly recommend."

-Cynthia Chen, PhD
"Dr. H’s teaching style is engaging, clear, and very practical. She is able to explain complex concepts in a simple way, constantly connecting theory with hands-on demonstrations. This approach makes eye movement techniques easy to understand, accessible, and simple to integrate into therapeutic work."

- Dr. Massimo Amabili
“I recently attended Dr. H’s MEMI training, and I can confidently say it was a highly valuable learning experience. As a psychotherapist working with neurofeedback, integrative approaches such as EMDR and Flash Technique, and behavioral neuroscience, I found the program extremely well organized, grounded in solid theoretical foundations, and—most importantly—immediately applicable in clinical practice."

Dr. Alessandro Di Domenico
"Don’t miss the opportunity to be trained in Multichannel Eye Movement Integration by Dr. Maria Gear Haugen. Maria brings her clear instruction, calm presence and extensive clinical experience treating severely traumatized people to guiding colleagues in the pivot to MEMI. After decades of using EMDR in my private practice, consultation from Maria enabled me to shift quickly and easily to MEMI, bringing astonishingly more impactful care to my clients. "

-Margit Henderson, Ph.D.

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