Brainspotting & 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.

Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives allow the opportunity to progress through your symptoms and concerns in a more succinct and focused way without the interruption of a 50-minute session. Sessions during the Intensive would be 3-4 hours per day (1.5 to 2hrs at a time) for multiple days.

An intensive format may decrease overall treatment time because of time not spent on:

• checking in at the beginning of each session

• addressing current crises and concerns

• focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that clients won’t need after healing

• assisting clients in regaining composure at the end of the session because this is built into the work and at times not even needed

Before we get into the Intensive (the part where you’ll engage in Brainspotting & EMDR), we’ll meet for a Pre-Intensive Interview to determine the goal(s) of the time we’ll have together. We will look at what your life looks like now (what things are currently stressful in your life, what does your support system look like, how do you cope when you’re overwhelmed with big emotions and uncomfortable physical sensations), and places that you want relief, growth, or to take a big step forward.

During the Intensive we simultaneously work on decreasing the pain you’re feeling while also increasing your ability to connect with more enjoyable feelings, thoughts, and memories. We do this with deep-level brain processing in Brainspotting & EMDR, and learning which specific coping strategies work best for you.

Depending on where you are in life and your goal(s) for the Intensive, we may spend time processing relationships and events of your past or present, or your worries for the future. This process is very personal and customized to you.

After the Brainspotting & EMDR Intensive, we’ll meet for a Post-Intensive Interview to reflect on what you processed and learned, what was meaningful to you, and how do you let these new insights and shifts permeate into more of your life moving forward.

• You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your life quickly.

• You had a painful or uncomfortable experience that is still impacting you today.

• You have some time off of work or school, and you want to use some of your time for a mental spa day.

• You have done Brainspotting or EMDR before and found it helpful for healing and moving through life without feeling weighed down.

• You want to prepare yourself for a big life event (a wedding, moving somewhere new, becoming a parent, starting a new job or school).

• You already go to weekly therapy and you feel stuck or on the verge of a break through. You may want to do an Intensive as a supplement to your weekly therapy.

• 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. Learn more here and here.

  Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame. Learn more here.

  An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD. Learn more here.

  The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time. Learn more here.