• Intensive sessions include 4-6 hours of therapy per day (with breaks as needed) for multiple days. Without the interruptions of a regular 50-minute session once a week, EMDR intensives are a more succinct and focused way to work through trauma, symptoms, and other treatment goals.

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

  • Checking in at the beginning of each session

  • Addressing weekly crises and concerns

  • Focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that you won’t need after you heal fully

  • Helping you regain composure at the end of the session

• Before the intensive begins, we’ll meet for a Pre-Intensive Session to determine the goal(s) of the time we’ll spend together. We’ll examine what your life looks like now (symptoms, sources of stress, support system, coping skills, and resiliency factors), and we’ll identify areas where you want relief, growth, or transformation. We’ll collaborate on creating a treatment plan that will meet your needs.

• During the intensive itself, we will simultaneously work on decreasing the pain you’re feeling while also increasing your ability to connect with more enjoyable feelings, thoughts, and memories. We’ll do this with deep-level brain processing through EMDR, as well as identifying which specific coping strategies work best for you. This part of treatment is highly personalized. We can process relationships, events in the past or present, worries for the future, and more.

• The end of your EMDR intensive will include aftercare planning—how you’ll integrate the newly healed version of yourself into your life! 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 you can let these new insights permeate more of your life moving forward.

• Some reasons you may want to try an EMDR intensive include:

• You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your life, and you want to do it quickly.

• You’ve had a painful experience that is still impacting you today, long after it occurred.

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

• You’ve 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, a move, starting a new school or job, becoming a parent), so you can transition to the next stage of life free of old pain.

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

• You already go to weekly therapy, but you feel stuck or on the verge of a breakthrough that just isn’t happening. An intensive can be a supplement to your weekly therapy.

Let’s face it: weekly therapy can last a long time—months, or even years. The cost of those sessions can add up. This doesn’t even take into account the emotional cost of slow healing, and the toll of continuing to live with painful symptoms over the months or years that traditional treatment takes. EMDR intensives are some of the most cost-effective therapy interventions available. The cost can seem high upfront, but it saves you time, money, and pain in the long-term.

For more information, click here [link]. You can also read a study [link] published in the National Library of Medicine that found EMDR to be the most economically efficient treatment for adults with PTSD.

Personalized EMDR intensives are half-day to multi-day programs bulit around a customized treatment plan specific to your goals. Fees are based on your needs and the program design. You will always know the fees before your intensive starts, in accordance with the No Surprises Act [link].

Typically, intensive therapy is $210/hour. Intensive packages start at $840.

I offer a free phone or Zoom consultation to discuss your needs and whether an EMDR intensive is a good fit for you.

For current clients looking to add on therapy intensives to their regular care, please note your rate may be different.