MISSION
I'm Michael J. Luley, M.Ed., LPC, EMDR II, and I'm on a mission.
I see it as my duty to promote, suggest, extend, and facilitate the use of EMDR to as many people in need of traumatic pain relief as possible. Since my training and certification in 2005 in Chicago by Dr. Francine Shapiro trained professionals, I have been able to provide the benefits of this psychotherapy practice to many in need.
Today, a large number of people are experiencing anxiety due to the pandemic and the constraints it has placed on their lives. This pain can also be linked to their past traumatic experiences. The treatment of EMDR by a certified clinician can relieve this pain. The process does not mandate hours and hours of therapy for weeks and months and years before feeling relief like typical "Talk Therapy."
I have held my LPC license in Missouri since 2000 and worked with individuals, families, children, and couples ever since. Beginning with my work in 1997 for the Department of Corrections and for almost 10 years, I sought to help those in need. As the Chief of Mental Health at the Women's Prison in Vandalia I worked with many great clinicians and doctors to help incarcerated patients.
Additionally, I have worked with families, children, and couples to enhance communication and underlying trauma experiences with much success. Childhood "trauma" has its way of leaching out into adulthood behaviors and actions that can be resolved.
Over the past several years, I have had the opportunity to work directly with individuals suffering from addictions. In this work, I have witnessed that those suffering with addiction have underlying Trauma that sabotage their attempts to get and remain free from their addictive behaviors. Working with this group, I have seen that the “release” of this Trauma frees the person to recover and build a new productive life. Without this release, the trauma pulls them back, due to its pain, to the life of addiction. Addicts as a group, suffer with trauma and attempt to “mask” and cover up their “internal pain” yet this attempt to deny creates more internal and emotional pain that becomes, intolerable. EMDR has allowed many to free themselves from this pain.
Today, after 24 years of helping those in need, I am now primarily focused on relieving the pain of trauma as it is so relevant and pervasive, especially at this time.