You’ve contacted a therapist but heard that it may take multiple months for your anxiety, depression, PTSD, panic, trauma, or other distressing symptoms to be reduced. While an option, you’d rather make progress sooner and feel relief.
EMDR Therapy Intensives are one way that you can accomplish this. In two separate research studies, researchers Rothbaum (1997) and Wilson et al (1997) found that between 84% and 90% of people with single-incident traumas did not experience PTSD following three 90-minute EMDR sessions.
So, what happens during these intensive sessions?
First, you and your clinician identify your goal for the intensive. For example, you may be seeking relief for a specific situation or relationship, such as, “I want to feel good enough at my job,” “I want to have confidence in myself,” or “I want to know that I have worth.” Once this goal is established, you and the clinician will work together to identify memories you have and thoughts you tell yourself to begin to remove the barriers that make you feel this way.
As part of a EMDR Therapy Intensive, you will learn ways to manage your discomfort or distress. These strategies equip you with effective tools for when those feelings potentially arise, during, or as a result of processing. You will also receive education about the brain and what happens to the brain during EMDR processing.
When processing does occur, it is performed in 45 minute intervals that permits for breaks and check-in time with your clinician. During the processing portion of the intensive, you and your clinician review distressing and/or traumatic memories affecting you. You will begin to neutralize those memories and change your commonly negative relationship with those memories, to a positive relationship. Processing can bring up uncomfortable memories or situations and you may experience feelings of distress, as processing is fluid and travels along the neural networks that store your experiences. Unfortunately, it is difficult to say how long a memory will take to be processed. However, as you stick with the processing, you can find relief. Once neutralized, you begin to build in a new, affirming, and positive belief about yourself.
Would you rather spend weeks upon weeks, or even months upon months working through your trauma one 50-minute session at a time, or concentrate your time and effort to make changes and feel more empowered now?
Many clients can experience the same results of an EMDR intensive as those who attend 4 months of therapy.
Option 1
Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday
9:30 am to 1:30 pm
Option 2 Schedule
60-minute interview
3 half day intensives (9 hours total, with breaks)
60-minute post interview
Cost: $3,300
Option 2
5 Wednesdays from
9:30 am to 1:30 pm
(every week for 5 weeks)
Option 2 Schedule
60-minute interview
5 half day intensives (15 hours total, with breaks)
60-minute post interview
Cost: $5,100
