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EMDR Intensives.

EMDR intensives are longer, individualized sessions designed to help you work through trauma, phobias, or challenging behavioral patterns in a concentrated and safe way. Lasting 4–6 hours each day, and often scheduled over 1–2 days (which can include weekends), these sessions provide focused time for processing, stabilization, and skill-building. This approach can help you make significant therapeutic progress more quickly than traditional weekly sessions, supporting your healing efficiently while pacing the work to your needs.

Who can benefit?

  • Individuals dealing with trauma or complex trauma

  • People struggling with phobias, anxiety, or persistent patterns of behavior

  • Those who want to accelerate progress and make therapeutic breakthroughs in a shorter time frame

How it works

  • Assessment & Goal Setting – Each intensive begins with a detailed clinical assessment to understand your history, current symptoms, and therapy goals. This helps ensure the session is tailored to your needs.

  • Building Safety & Stabilization – Before processing trauma, the focus is on establishing emotional and nervous system safety, teaching grounding, coping strategies, and resources to support you throughout the session.

  • EMDR Processing – Once safety is in place, the work engages in structured EMDR processing using bilateral stimulation to help your brain integrate distressing memories and reduce symptoms.

  • Integration & Psychoeducation – The session includes ongoing psychoeducation, reflection, and stabilization techniques to help you process experiences safely and support long-term healing.

  • Pacing & Breaks – The session is carefully paced with breaks as needed, ensuring that intense material is handled in a manageable and trauma-informed way. Sessions begin with an assessment, brief check-in, and stabilization, ensuring you feel safe and supported.

  • The bulk of the session focuses on EMDR processing, which involves structured bilateral stimulation to help your brain integrate and resolve stuck or distressing memories.

  • Psychoeducation and coping strategies are integrated throughout to support nervous system regulation and long-term stability.