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EMDR Intensives
The EMDR Intensive Program
The traditional model of weekly psychotherapy is shifting to meet your needs. Now more than ever, we need flexibility in how we get support.
- Perhaps you’ve had a felt sense that something profound has yet to change, but you’re not quite sure how to shift all the way into a new experience of yourself with your current therapist. Maybe you now cognitively understand new things, yet your body is still confused, so you’re curious about how adjunct EMDR therapy can help.
- Perhaps you’ve been meaning to get into weekly therapy for a while now, but your schedule has been so hectic and demanding that a weekly therapy appointment feels more overwhelming than supportive.
- Perhaps you’re needing help —- and a lot of it—- right now, and you don’t want to spend months in the traditional weekly model of therapy treatment to feel better.
EMDR intensives support the busy parent with kids, the working professional, or the client who needs help now. Whatever the reason that weekly sessions just won’t work for you, EMDR intensives are available to support you during times you need help the most.
I offer EMDR intensives for my current clients when they are needing extra support, as well as new clients who prefer to work intensively.
EMDR is not just for trauma; it is also used for performance enhancement to excel in areas such as athletics, business, and relationships.
EMDR intensives are personalized treatment plans that allow you to skip the waitlist by giving you faster access to select spots, and are designed to support your preferred schedule and timeline for your treatment goals.
Your EMDR Intensive includes:
- Pre-consultation interview to assess for candidacy, as well as target unpleasant beliefs, body sensations, emotions, or images from which you are seeking relief.
- A customized treatment program with targeted treatment goals.
- Post-treatment interview to assess and support your adaption to positive changes from treatment.
Research on EMDR Intensives is positive
- 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.
- Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame.
- An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD.
- The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time, because of time not spent on a) checking in at the beginning of each session, b) addressing current crises and concerns, c) focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that the client won’t need after trauma healing, or d) assisting the client in regaining composure at the end of the session.
Benefits of an Intensive
- Giving yourself a dedicated chunk of time allows you to go deeper on the memories and symptoms that brought you into therapy, knocking out the “real” work.
- It is more efficient. With multiple sessions compacted into one day you reduce the time spent opening and closing each session and therefore increase the amount of progress you can make.
- For many, a recent or single incident trauma can often be resolved in one 1-3 day intensive.
- After an intensive, many experience a significant decrease in the symptoms that brought them in which allows for a reduction of traditional therapy, and in some cases, eliminates it completely.
- For many, no more weekly appointments. This translates to more free time for yourself and others.
- Resume or additional progress in other therapy modalities, like couples therapy, after being “stuck” prior.
What happens after an EMDR Intensive?
- Some clients can complete an Intensive and then return to their lives ready to move forward.
- Others benefit from an ongoing relationship with a therapist following the intensive. This can be an established therapist if doing adjunct EMDR work or a new therapy relationship. I will assist you with referral options if needed at the end of the intensive.
- Clients with a more complex trauma history will likely need to schedule additional intensives to fully process and heal. In addition, a weekly therapist to help support them between Intensives may be recommended or required. This will be thoroughly assessed and discussed in the consultation call as well as during the intensive.
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Collaboration: EMDR as Adjunct Therapy
We’ve all had those moments in therapy where we feel stuck or loop on issues related to negative life experiences. It can be discouraging for both the client and the therapist. Often times, when the primary therapist and client collaborate with an EMDR therapist, this partnership can help move treatment forward.
I partner with primary therapists and their clients to target their clients’ specific memories, body sensations, or limiting beliefs with EMDR. By narrowly targeting specific traumatic memories or intrusive material, brief adjunct EMDR can accelerate progress in traditional therapy, help the client and the primary therapist to resolve stuck points, and enrich their ongoing work.
Adjunct therapy does not replace or interrupt ongoing therapy; it is supplemental to the primary therapeutic relationship. With adjunct EMDR therapy, clients continue to receive treatment with their primary therapist. Usually adjunct therapy is short term (4-12 extended sessions) and desensitizes single incident trauma or simple phobias that interfere with the client’s therapeutic gains.
Treatment is scheduled in an intensive format.
The success of treatment is based on clearly defined goals for the EMDR therapist, defined in collaboration with the primary therapist and client.
Fees
Fees are based on your needs and program design, and are communicated ahead of time in accordance with the No Surprises Act. Typically intensive EMDR rates range from $350 to $450 an hour.
I do not offer free phone consultations. You may request a 50-minute initial session/assessment to see if we wish to work intensively together. The rate for our first session is $450.