What is EMDR Intensive Therapy?

EMDR Intensive Therapy is a powerful way to accelerate your healing and relief that you would experience in a standard 50 minute EMDR session. Instead of going to counseling sessions weekly for an hour at a time and possibly losing the momentum week to week, you get to plan for a specific allotted time (A half day, full day, or multiple day intensive).

It is a concentrated way to get the effectiveness of EMDR therapy without having the time in between sessions. While everyone is unique in their experience, some have found they can do months to years worth of healing and work they would have gotten in weekly sessions into one or two intensive sessions.

How does EMDR Intensive Therapy Work?

Prior to your scheduled EMDR intensive, we will meet for a pre-intensive interview to determine your goal for our time together. We will look at and discuss what your life looks like currently (support system, current coping skills, stressors, places you want relief, healing , and/or growth/big steps forward. During the intensive, we will make the painful stuff in your life hurt less and help the good things in your life feel even better in powerful and transformative way.

We do this with EMDR reprocessing as well as various resourcing and grounding activities like visualization, guided meditation, breath work, tapping into all five senses, artwork, and whatever else feels good and grounding for you! I can teach you ways to regulate your nervous system and we will have opportunities to practice these skills as needed. We will incorporate the bilateral stimulation from EMDR to strengthen any of these resources for you. Depending on where you are on your healing journey and what you are wanting to work on, we can work on earlier memories and times in your life or focus more on the future. We can tailor this process to make it personalized and customized to fit your unique needs.