Intensive Therapy

An Accelerated approach.

Intensive EMDR therapy may be a good option for you if:

  • You are looking for a short-term therapy option

  • Your schedule won’t permit ongoing, weekly sessions right now.

  • You are ok with a higher up front cost, knowing the sum is less overall than weekly therapy.

  • You want expedited change. Get relief weeks or months sooner.

  • You want the flexibility of doing therapy on a weekend.

What’s included?

  • a 50 minute intake appointment

  • a 4 hour intensive session

  • A follow up session

An alternative to weekly sessions.

  • Free consultation - 20 minutes

    First we will talk in a free 20 minute phone call or video session to get your questions answered and determine if we are a good fit to work together.

    If we decide to work together we can move forward with scheduling.

    Intake session (50 minutes)

    During your initial session(s) we will identify your needs and goals, introduce eye movements & tapping options, practice skills for reducing distress levels, & review more about EMDR.

    Preparation is personalized and will increase your confidence moving forward.

    After the initial session I will make a customized plan tailored to your needs and goals that we will use during your intensive session.

    Intensive Session (4 hours)

    The intensive session is where the majority of the healing with EMDR takes place. During this time we address the past experiences or stuck points using Bilateral Stimulation.

    Follow up Session (50 minutes)

    At the end we will establish a plan for communicating about how you are doing and you will get support integrating the newly learned information.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidenced based therapy proven to provide relief and help people recover from distressing and painful experiences.

    EMDR is a structured, but personalized therapy that is used to change the way traumatic information and experiences are stored in the brain. EMDR involves bringing to mind distressing events while simultaneously using Bilateral Stimulation (BLS). BLS is done with sets of repetitive back and forth movements in the form of visual eye movements, tactile self-tapping or hand held buzzers, and/or auditory sounds.

    EMDR is not hypnosis, not does EMDR make one forget the painful experiences. After EMDR however, the memories will become far less upsetting. This occurs because during EMDR the experiences will be “repackaged” and stored in the brain differently so they are recognized as part of the past, instead of being relived over and over as though they were happening in the present; you will be able to recall them but without the painful emotional charge.

    EMDR allows us to connect with more positive beliefs about ourselves and/or the world. In doing so shame and other difficult feelings related to the specific past experiences are much less intense, if not resolved completely.

    If you already have a therapist, but are interested in EMDR, look into work with Kate using Adjunct EMDR.

Intensive EMDR therapy typically uses sessions that are longer, and/or scheduled for multiple days in a row.

Intensive sessions allow time to go deeper to resolve things at the root level, without repetition from week to week.