EMDR Intensive
EMDR therapy—short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing—is a psychotherapy approach designed to help people process and heal from traumatic or distressing experiences. It’s especially known for its effectiveness in treating PTSD, though it’s also used for anxiety, depression, phobias, and more.
Trauma is not the event itself — it is the impact of that event on your inner world, your nervous system, your psyche. It’s the moment your body and mind go into survival mode, disconnecting from your emotions, your needs, your true self in order to cope. It is the wound that gets buried deep within, where the pain goes unacknowledged, repressed, or split off, but shapes everything moving forward in both conscious and unconscious ways.
Trauma is a deep disconnection—not just from others, but from the very core of ourselves. When we are triggered, it's like a door opens to a past wound that hasn’t fully been met, a place in us where the pain is still alive, still waiting to be acknowledged. We can feel it in our bodies—tightness, fear, urgency—and our emotional reactions become disproportionate, because we’re not just responding to what's in front of us; we’re responding to the unfinished business of our past.
EMDR offers a way to gently guide the nervous system back to safety. Through the rhythmic, bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps us to release the grip trauma has on our body and psyche, allowing the stored emotions and memories to surface, be felt, and ultimately be integrated. It’s like giving the body the chance to complete the incomplete—to process what was too overwhelming in the moment so that it no longer dominates the present. Through this process, we create a new relationship with the past, one that allows us to live more freely and respond with awareness, rather than reaction.
Healing is about returning to a place of presence, where we can feel the hurt but no longer be consumed by it.
eye movement Desensitization and reprocessing therapy
Processing is where we go back in time to the experience and use a specific eight step protocol to walk you through healing anything leftover from that time, whether that is somatic sensations, emotions, or limiting core beliefs.
Processing
Resourcing allows us to build adaptive networks within you so that you have safe places and safe people inside of you prior to processing. The first component of resourcing is taking you through exercises in order to create anchors of safety for you to use throughout processing, as well as throughout your entire life.
Resourcing
Individuals must meet for a debriefing or check-in session to reflect if necessary or tidy up any lasting questions or concerns. Individuals also must schedule with their personal therapist to continue to debrief in length if necessary. We will be discussing the content and process of the intensive with your personal therapist in order to create well-rounded and holistic care for you.
What To Expect
Individuals will be administered the Dissociative Experiences Scale to assess levels of Dissociation with the understanding that those with higher rates of dissociation will not safely meet the clinical requirements for these intensives.
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A good candidate for EMDR is someone with specific traumas or limiting beliefs, emotional readiness, a support system and ability to self-regulate. It is ideal for those wanting deeply focused support around specific barriers.
Common Questions
Who are good candidates for intensives?
Can this be covered by insurance?
We are not accepting nor at liberty to take insurance for this service.
How long does an EMDR intensive last?
This sacred pause will require you to take a whole day for yourself. The session is roughly three hours long.
