Treatment approach · EMDR
EMDR therapyin Orange County.
EMDR therapy here is processing inside PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach. Not a weekly clinic and not a referral out.
Located in Laguna Beach, California
(949) 670-9345- The weekPHP or IOP
- StartSafety first
- ThenProcessing
What this page is
EMDR sits in the program week.
EMDR therapy here is processing inside trauma-informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach, not a weekly clinic you add later. We do not open with the worst memory. Processing sits next to substance use and personality work when they belong in the same week. It is not a hospital or a locked unit.
The target sits in this week. Not a later clinic.
Processing inside the week
How EMDR sits in a PHP or IOP week.
An EMDR day at Exist runs the whole model. Group for the pattern. 1:1 for the history. Processing when a target is ready. Somatic work for the body that still holds it. Distress skills when the hour will not wait. Psychiatry when medication is part of it. You go home at night — or to Truth House if you are already in the program. The day is not a weekly EMDR hallway. Trauma, personality, and use sit in the same groups when they are part of the week.
Body
Breath, settling, the skill that makes a target possible. The week starts in the body when the mind cannot.
Mind
The thought that still runs, the image that will not leave. We work the reaction before asking you to change the life.
Brain
What sits under the night — trauma, use, and personality read as one history, in a safe room.
Session
Processing with your own clinician in the same PHP or IOP week. Not a hallway that waits until you are “stable enough.”
Who holds the week
CCTP in the room. Not a later referral.
Dr. Courtney Tracy · Founder and chief clinical officer
Processing belongs in Courtney’s week, next to the rest of the plan. We do not send EMDR down the hall.
Founder
Dr. Courtney Tracy
In the room
LCSW · PsyD · CCTP
Clinic
Joint Commission PHP / IOP
What processing holds
The names in the room. Same week.
This is not a directory of other modalities or a grid of program intensities. Those live on their hubs. These are the ways the night still arrives here — treated together, not after each other.
What we treatTrauma
A body that still treats the past as now. Safety first, then the target. The trauma page holds that name.
- PTSD
- Processing
The target
A memory, an image, a night that will not leave. Not a lecture. Not a weekly hour you add later.
- EMDR
- Same week
Use as relief
Alcohol, prescriptions, the night that needed a way through — treated with the memory, in the same week.
- Dual diagnosis
- Same week
The rest of the plan
DBT skills and somatic work sit in the same PHP or IOP week when they belong. Not a later clinic.
- DBT
- Somatic
Three steps to a start date.
- 01
Reach out
Call (949) 670-9345 or send the form. You talk to the clinic — not a call center.
- 02
We verify
We check your benefits and map EMDR against PHP, IOP, and outpatient — honest about which fits.
- 03
A start date
We recommend a level of care and set a date — and talk through Truth House if you’re coming from out of town.
Questions about EMDR therapy, answered plainly.
Trauma processing inside trauma-informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach — next to substance use and personality work, not a referral out. Groups, 1:1, processing when a target is ready. Nights at home or at Truth House. We are not a hospital and not medical detox. Call (949) 670-9345.
Something we didn’t cover? Call (949) 670-9345 — you talk to the clinic, not a call center.
Processing does not wait in a later clinic.
Call Exist at (949) 670-9345 or send the admissions form. We’ll say honestly whether PHP, IOP, outpatient, or a referral is the right level — and what your benefits actually cover.
Clinically reviewed by Dr. Courtney Tracy, LCSW, PsyD · Reviewed September 2026