EMDR Intensive

1 hr | $1,750-3.000

Welcome to the EMDR Intensive Retreat page! Do you have a felt sense that something needs to change in your life but just not sure how to move forward? Is it difficult to come in once a week for therapy and maybe you're looking for something intensive to feel better sooner? Are you not able to function in your daily life due to overwhelming present triggers and want to get back to a sense of wholeness sooner? The Intensive Treatment format is developed to help clients receive accelerated care that is faster/more efficient than doing weekly sessions. The efficiency of this format can support your Return to WholenessWelcome to the EMDR Intensive Retreat page! Do you have a felt sense that something needs to change in your life but just not sure how to move forward? Is it difficult to come in once a week for therapy and maybe you're looking for something intensive to feel better sooner? Are you not able to function in your daily life due to overwhelming present triggers and want to get back to a sense of wholeness sooner? The Intensive Treatment format is developed to help clients receive accelerated care that is faster/more efficient than doing weekly sessions. The efficiency of this format can support your Return to Wholeness.

How do I work?

My approach to treating clients is to look at the whole person as a unique individual who has a human system that is designed to heal. I use a Somatic and Attachment-Focused EMDR which understands how negative, scary or traumatic experiences get stored in the body while always holding a lens of attachment. How we successfully bond to our primary caregivers or how that gets interrupted. Attachment trauma relates to the experience between a caregiver and the infant. When the bond between the caregiver and infant does not adequately form or is disrupted, the infant is at risk of experiencing attachment trauma. This can lead to all kinds of symptoms to include anxiety, depression, codependency, addiction, and the sense of feeling inherently flawed. Your EMDR Intensive will be customized to you and what you are most needing to feel a sense of wholeness.

There is a lot of information here for you to discern if this would be right for you. I always welcome an initial session to understand what you are looking for and how I can best support your healing journey as we customize your EMDR Intensive. You have taken the first step which is the kindest thing you can do for yourself. - A Return to Wholeness.

Why an EMDR Intensive?

The traditional model of weekly psychotherapy is shifting to meet your needs. Now more than ever, we need flexibility in how we get support.

EMDR is a treatment modality that helps to integrate negative experiences and allows distance from things that have been traumatic and/or less nurturing in our lives. It is kind of like a rewire of our experiences so that the brain can integrate them adaptively. My approach is to work together to explore what is underneath the strategies that help keep us out of pain, navigate the chaos and stay in attachment relationships. EMDR facilitated intensely can be profoundly healing with a lot of integration.

The Research

EMDR intensives are personalized treatment plans that are designed to support your preferred schedule and timeline for your treatment goals

Intensive application of trauma-focused therapy seems to be well tolerated in patients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results, while reducing the risk that patients drop out prematurely. Learn more here and here.

Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame. Learn more here.

An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD. Learn more here.

Compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease 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 the client won’t need after trauma healing and/or assisting the client in regaining composure at the end of the session.

Service Description

Before an Intensive, we’ll schedule a 60-90 minute Pre-Intensive Interview, during which we’ll talk about your needs and goals, your support, your history and what you’ve already tried. This information will help me to customize your Intensive experience and help to ensure that it is clinically safe for us to move forward. You will also have a chance to ask any questions about the process or what to expect at this time.

Take a look below to see the structure of what a session may look like. All of this is subject to shift depending on individual needs, accommodation and support. The length of your intensive will also be dependent upon what kind of trauma you are looking to resolve. We will discuss what length would be a good fit for you during the Pre-Intensive Interview.

One-day Intensive: Total 7 clinical contact hours: $1,750

60 minute pre-intensive assessment/consultation
60 minute Target Planning
60 minute led Somatic Body Movement
Lunch is provided
Two 90 minutes EMDR processing sessions
60 minute led Integration/gathering activity

Two-day Intensive: Total 14 clinical contact hours: $3,500

60 minute pre-intensive assessment/consultation/check in
60 minute Target Planning
60 minute led Somatic Body Movement
Lunch is provided
Two 90 minutes EMDR processing sessions
60 minute led Integration/gathering activity

Week-long Intensive: Total 4 days, 28 hours $7,000

60 minute pre-session Integration session
60 minute Target Planning
60 minute led Somatic Body Movement
Lunch is provided
Two 90 minutes EMDR processing sessions
60 minute led integration/gathering activity

A non-refundable deposit of $300 is required to get scheduled or put on our waitlist. Sessions must be prepaid at the beginning of the EMDR intensive or prior

If follow-up EMDR sessions are desired those will be billed at $180/hr.

Note: Insurance does not cover the cost of EMDR intensives. Please expect that this will be a cash-pay service that is not reimbursed by your insurance company.

Also Note: If it is determined you are not a good fit for an EMDR Intensive, your payment will be refunded minus the deposit.

Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend a session, please make sure you cancel at least 24 hours beforehand. Failure to provide 24 hours’ notice may result in a $75.00 cancellation fee. Clients who fail three (3) appointments may face termination of services. Unless otherwise arranged, failure to schedule a session for three weeks in a row will result in termination of counseling relationship for legal and ethical reasons.