When You've Made Peace With the Loss, But Your Body Hasn't

You know the story of what happened. You can tell it clearly, even calmly. But certain things still pull you under without warning: a song, a date on the calendar, the smell of a hospital hallway, an empty chair at the table. Your mind has processed the loss. Some other part of you hasn't caught up.

Grief isn't a problem to solve, and this isn't about rushing you past it. But when grief gets stuck, when the same moment keeps replaying or your body still braces for news that already came, that stuck place responds differently to EMDR than it does to talking it through again.

What EMDR Actually Does With Grief

EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a structured therapy that helps your brain finish processing experiences that got stuck along the way. With grief, that's often the final moments, the phone call, the diagnosis, the goodbye you didn't get to say the way you wanted to.

During a session, you bring one of those moments to mind while following a guided movement, most often with your eyes. This mirrors what your brain naturally does during REM sleep, letting the memory settle into the past instead of staying lodged in the present. EMDR is recognized by the American Psychological Association and the World Health Organization, and it's widely used for complicated grief, sudden or traumatic loss, and grief that talk therapy alone hasn't moved.

Why This Practice

At Coalescence Health, grief work isn't handled as a generic add-on to anxiety or depression care. Every therapist on the team is trained in EMDR, and the practice takes an attachment-based, integrative view of loss, treating it as something that lives in the body and the relationships around you, not just a diagnosis to manage.

Founder Sarai Trujillo, MA, LPC, has been an EMDR Certified Therapist since 2019 and now trains and consults other clinicians in the method. She's also Perinatal Mental Health Certified, which means grief connected to pregnancy loss, infant loss, or the loss of the parenthood you imagined is territory she works in directly, not a footnote.

  • EMDR-trained clinicians across the practice, led by an EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDR Consultant-in-Training
  • Perinatal Mental Health Certified care for pregnancy loss, infant loss, and grief tied to major life transitions
  • Serving Salida, Buena Vista, Leadville, and Fremont County in person, with virtual sessions across rural and remote Colorado

What to Expect

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Your first session

We talk through your loss, what it's changed, and which moments still feel the sharpest. No pressure to relive anything before you're ready.
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Building your plan

We map out which memories or moments to target first, always at a pace your nervous system can handle.
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Feeling it shift

Most people notice the sharp, intrusive moments soften before the grief itself resolves, often first in the smallest everyday triggers.

What Changes With EMDR Therapy For Grief

The replay loses its grip: The moment that keeps intruding, uninvited, starts to sit in the past instead of pulling you back into it.

Anniversaries get easier to carry: Dates, songs, and places that used to flatten you become something you can move through instead of around.

Grief and guilt separate: If guilt, anger, or unfinished words have tangled up with the loss itself, EMDR helps untangle them so grief can move the way it's meant to.

Support that travels with you: Whether you're in Salida or connecting virtually from anywhere in Colorado, the same EMDR-certified care is available.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Grief can get stuck without a single dramatic trigger. Ongoing caregiving loss, a slow decline, or grief that's mixed with relief or regret can all be targeted with EMDR just as effectively as a single traumatic memory.

Yes. Sessions are available virtually across Colorado, including rural and remote areas, in addition to in-person sessions in Salida.

It varies by person, the loss, and how long it's been carried. Your therapist builds a plan around your specific history rather than a fixed timeline. Many people notice initial shifts within the first several sessions.

Let Grief Move the Way It's Meant To

You don't have to keep bracing against a loss that already happened. EMDR for grief works with your nervous system, not just your thoughts, and it's offered by an EMDR Certified Therapist who is also Perinatal Mental Health Certified. Sessions are available in Salida or virtually anywhere in Colorado. Book online in a few minutes, or reach out with questions first if that feels better.

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