EMDR Intensives

EMDR Intensives are concentrated therapy sessions designed to help clients make significant progress on trauma-related issues in a shorter time frame than traditional weekly therapy. During these intensives, a client works closely with a trained EMDR therapist to process distressing memories, reduce emotional intensity, and strengthen adaptive coping skills. These sessions often last several hours over one or multiple consecutive days, allowing for deeper focus, faster desensitization of triggers, and more rapid integration of healing experiences. EMDR Intensives are structured to provide a safe, supportive, and paced environment, tailored to each client’s needs, while ensuring stabilization and self-regulation throughout the process.

Why intensives?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Intensives are specialized, focused therapy sessions designed to help clients address trauma and distressing life events more rapidly than traditional weekly sessions. Unlike standard therapy, which typically meets once or twice a week, EMDR Intensives condense multiple sessions into longer, consecutive blocks of time—often several hours per day over one or more consecutive days—allowing for concentrated processing of traumatic memories.

During an EMDR Intensive, a trained therapist guides the client through the structured EMDR protocol, helping them safely access and reprocess distressing memories while simultaneously maintaining dual awareness of the present. This process reduces the emotional intensity of past traumas, resolves maladaptive beliefs, and strengthens adaptive coping mechanisms. Clients often experience accelerated relief from triggers, increased emotional regulation, and enhanced resilience compared to a traditional weekly schedule.

EMDR Intensives are highly individualized: the therapist assesses the client’s readiness, ensures sufficient stabilization skills are in place, and structures the sessions to balance deep trauma processing with safety, pacing, and self-regulation. These intensives are particularly beneficial for clients with complex trauma, prolonged grief, PTSD, or those who prefer a more immersive, focused approach to therapy.

In addition to processing personal trauma, EMDR Intensives can integrate consultation for professionals, allowing therapists, clinicians, and support providers to receive guidance on applying EMDR techniques effectively and safely within their own practices.

EMDR Intensives: Tailored for Your Needs

EMDR Intensives are designed to meet clients where they are, whether addressing a specific issue or engaging in deep trauma processing. Shorter sessions, like a 3-hour intensive, focus on a single memory, trigger, or specific challenge, helping clients reduce emotional charge, practice coping skills, and gain clarity around a targeted concern.

Longer intensives, such as a 12-hour session, provide a more immersive experience for clients with complex or deep-seated trauma. These extended sessions allow for processing multiple trauma networks, resetting intense emotional patterns, and installing adaptive coping strategies in a safe, supported environment. Intermediate lengths—6- or 9-hour intensives—offer flexible options for clients needing more than a targeted session but not a full-day immersive experience, balancing depth of processing with pacing and self-regulation.

This format is also ideal for clients who need to travel to Arizona for services. The intensive structure allows us to work safely and effectively in a concentrated period, maximizing progress while ensuring stabilization and support throughout the process.

Each intensive is carefully tailored to the client’s needs, ensuring safety, stabilization, and meaningful progress—whether the goal is resolving a specific issue or achieving a profound emotional reset.

EMDR Intensives

Why intensives?

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In addition to processing personal trauma, EMDR Intensives can integrate consultation for professionals, allowing therapists, clinicians, and support providers to receive guidance on applying EMDR techniques effectively and safely within their own practices.

This format is also ideal for clients who need to travel to Arizona for services. The intensive structure allows us to work safely and effectively in a concentrated period, maximizing progress while ensuring stabilization and support throughout the process.

Each intensive is carefully tailored to the client’s needs, ensuring safety, stabilization, and meaningful progress—whether the goal is resolving a specific issue or achieving a profound emotional reset.

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