My Journey
I'm Lynn Scott, EMDR Therapist
And this is my story, too.
People often ask why I became a therapist after a 40 year career as an accountant.
I sat at my first Weight Watchers meeting at ten years old and saw a diet doctor at 11.
When I look at pictures of me then, I am average in size but my parents saw something different. My family of origin included many generations of people, mostly women, in very large bodies and my parents feared that would happen to me. They reacted early, with diets and doctors and close monitoring of my food intake as a child.
The restriction that followed fed the cycle it was meant to stop:
Lose weight, regain it, lose it again — this continued for decades.
I think often about what that cost me. How much of the joy of life I missed out on because I was pre-occupied by a decades-long fight with my own body.
That's why I do this work now. So other people can return to a joyful life a lot sooner than I did.
What I found had almost nothing to do with food, and everything to do with something more deeply rooted.
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Approach
Why EMDR, Why Intensives
EMDR gave me a way to work directly with how emotional pain lives in the body. Once I saw how much faster real change moved through focused, extended sessions, building my entire practice around intensives became the obvious next step.
Healing begins when your story is held with compassion, curiosity and care. This space was created for deep transformation, honest connection, and the reminder that you do not have to carry everything alone. I want more for you than understanding. You deserve healing.
My Focus on Self-Worth, Safety, and Autonomy
For many clients, what brings them to therapy has very little to do with food, even when food is where the struggle shows up. Years of dieting, restricting, or bingeing, and starting over are not a failure of willpower - rather, they are adaptations that develop, often early in life, and include addictions, eating disorders, people pleasing, or harsh self-criticism. These are not only symptoms but also trauma organized strategies and solutions designed to maintain emotional regulation, to keep us safe, to give the illusion of control and to avoid emotional pain.
I've lived this cycle myself, and doing the work of understanding my own adaptations and then making adjustments is what led me to this work and is the starting point for my work with clients.
My approach uses a non-diet lens, centered on listening to what your body has been trying to tell you, and using EMDR to work with the experiences underneath the pattern rather than managing the pattern itself.
Ready to take the first step?
A free consultation is the place to begin. It's a conversation — nothing more. Come as you are, bring your questions.