EMDR Intensives are prolonged EMDR sessions aimed at increasing the efficiency of memory processing. EMDR intensives can help you feel less distress around traumatic events or adverse life experiences rather quickly while simultaneously helping you learn skills to manage nervous system dysregulation. For some, the idea of EMDR intensives may sound intimidating, and that's understandable!
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy guides us back to the wisdom of our core Self, allowing us to reclaim a life of balance and fulfillment. This approach is especially powerful for mental health professionals, who so often pour their energy into others while neglecting their own inner world.
By acknowledging the parts of us that have been tirelessly managing past traumas, we create space for them to release their burdens. Rather than running the show, these parts can return to their natural role—supporting, rather than steering—so that our Self can lead with clarity, confidence, and compassion.
Brainspotting Intensives offer a unique opportunity to delve deep into issues that may have been lingering unresolved. This extended format allows you to unpack all parts of the issue without worrying about if there is enough time to get to it all. There's no rush to address sensitive topics that you might typically avoid in an hour-long session knowing that you need to get back to your day right after.
If you need help right now, and you don't want to spend months in the traditional weekly model of therapy treatment to feel better, the intensive treatment might be right for you. An intensive approach enables faster symptom reduction and is more efficient.
Intensives usually are scheduled over 1 day for 3 hours per day with a break or 2 days for 3 hours per day. Don’t worry--you won’t be trauma processing the entire time! You might take a break from processing to do some nervous system regulation strategies such as yoga or breathing exercises or you might just take a break to get tea and take a walk.
This session serves multiple purposes, including determining if an EMDR or Brainspotting intensive is a good fit for you and setting intentions and specific goals for the EMDR or Brainspotting intensive. This creates an opportunity for a customized experience during your intensive that is targeted towards your specific intentions and goals. An example may be, “An example may be, “I want to have better relationships with people.” After establishing that intention, we would specifically look at traumatic memories and negative core beliefs that are blocking you from attaining that specific goal and process those memories during your intensive.
In traditional talk therapy, you may spend time exploring your thoughts and feelings about current and even past situations, but in an EMDR or Brainspotting intensive, you can rapidly make connections between your present symptoms, past experiences, and core beliefs developed throughout life. This process can be very eye-opening for clients. You may leave feeling as if they unlocked aspects of themselves for the first time and understand themselves and their responses from an entirely different perspective.
EMDR or Brainspotting intensives can eliminate weeks or even months of living with trauma symptoms. The hard part of weekly therapy is devoting every single minute of every session to actually doing EMDR or Brainspotting. Things come up in daily life, and sessions are often spent problem-solving, safety planning, or trying to understand emotions about situations, which are essential but do not necessarily relieve trauma symptoms.
One-day Intensive: Total 5 clinical contact hours: $1250
Two-day Intensive: Total 10 clinical contact hours: $2500
A non-refundable deposit of $100 is required to schedule a consultation to determine if you are a good fit for an EMDR or Brainspotting intensive. Please note Intensives are for individuals with trauma and/or PTSD only, other diagnoses are more appropriate for individual counseling and not intensives. Sessions must be prepaid at the beginning of the EMDR or Brainspotting intensive or prior.
If follow-up EMDR or Brainspotting sessions are desired those will be billed at $195/hr.
Note: Insurance does not cover the cost of EMDR or Brainspotting intensives. Please expect that this will be a cash-pay service that is not reimbursed by your insurance company. However, you are able to use HSA cards and flex spending cards.
Also Note: If it is determined you are not a good fit for an EMDR or Brainspotting Intensive, your payment will be refunded minus the deposit.