EMDR Intensives are personalized treatment plans that allow you to skip the waitlist by giving you faster access to select spots and are designed to support your preferred schedule and timeline for your treatment goals.

EMDR Intensives allow the opportunity to progress through your symptoms and concerns in a more succinct and focused way without the interruption of a 50-minute session. Sessions during the Intensive would be 4-6 hours per day (with breaks as needed) for multiple days.

An intensive format may decrease overall treatment time because of time not spent on:

• checking in at the beginning of each session

• addressing current crises and concerns

• focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that clients won’t need after healing

• assisting clients in regaining composure at the end of the session because this is built into the work and at times not even needed

Before we get into the Intensive (the part where you’ll engage in EMDR), we’ll meet for a Pre-Intensive session to determine the goal(s) of the time we’ll have together. We will look at what your life looks like now (what things are currently stressful in your life, what does your support system look like, how do you cope when you’re overwhelmed with big emotions and uncomfortable physical sensations), and places that you want relief, growth, or to take a big step forward. We will collaborate on the best treatment plan to meet you needs.

During the Intensive we simultaneously work on decreasing the pain you’re feeling while also increasing your ability to connect with more enjoyable feelings, thoughts, and memories. We do this with deep-level brain processing in EMDR, and learning which specific coping strategies work best for you.

Depending on where you are in life and your goal(s) for the Intensive, we may spend time processing relationships and events of your past or present, or your worries for the future. This process is very personal and customized to you.

The end of your EMDR Intensive will include after care planning - this will answer the question of how to integrate the newly healed verson of yourself into your life and then after the EMDR Intensive, we’ll meet for a Post-Intensive Interview to reflect on what you processed and learned, what was meaningful to you, and how do you let these new insights and shifts permeate into more of your life moving forward.

• You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your life quickly.

• You had a painful or uncomfortable experience that is still impacting you today.

• You have some time off of work or school, and you want to use some of your time for a mental spa day.

• You have done EMDR before and found it helpful for healing and moving through life without feeling weighed down.

• You want to prepare yourself for a big life event (a wedding, moving somewhere new, becoming a parent, starting a new job or school).

• You are dealing with performance insecurities with your job, sports, school or your sex life.

• You already go to weekly therapy and you feel stuck or on the verge of a break through. You may want to do an Intensive as a supplement to your weekly therapy.

The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time. Learn more here.

A study published in the National Library of Medicine found that Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) appeared to be the most cost-effective intervention for adults with PTSD. Learn more here.