EMDR Intensives

EMDR Intensive Therapy is a fast track for healing

What is EMDR Intensive Therapy

EMDR Intensive Therapy represents a robust way to expedite the healing process, improving the benefits typically observed within a standard EMDR session. Instead of the customary weekly hour-long counseling sessions, participants allocate a dedicated timeframe—spanning three-four hours for one or three full days—for an immersive therapeutic engagement. This concentrated format enables individuals to harness the full potential of EMDR without prolonged intervals between sessions. By facilitating a deeper exploration and fostering expedited emotional recovery, it offers a pathway for individuals to experience profound improvement more swiftly.

How it works

Before diving into the EMDR Intensive, we conduct a Pre-Intensive Interview to clarify your goals. We'll delve into your current life situation—your support network, stressors, coping mechanisms, and areas where you seek relief, growth, or advancement.

During the EMDR Intensive, our focus is twofold: 1) Alleviating the pain of past experiences and 2) Enhancing the joy of positive aspects in your life. We achieve this through EMDR Reprocessing and various resourcing activities such as guided meditation, grounding activites, or artwork—all designed to integrate the bilateral stimulation employed in EMDR. Depending on your stage of personal development, we may explore early life relationships (e.g., attachment), or concentrate on future-oriented goals.

This journey is deeply personal and tailored to your specific needs. Following the Intensive, we schedule a Post-Intensive Interview to reflect on the most impactful aspects of the experience and how you intend to integrate them into your life moving forward. I strongly encourage sharing insights with your loved ones, empowering them to support you and join in celebrating your progress!

Why do an EMDR Intensive

You seek profound therapeutic interventions capable of transformative impact on your life in a shorter duration of treatment.
Lingering effects of a deeply distressing experience continue to influence your present.
Past experiences with EMDR have proven beneficial for your overall healing and wellness.
You aim to mentally and emotionally ready yourself for significant life milestones such as marriage, parenthood, medical procedures, career transitions, or relocation.
While engaged in regular therapy sessions, you feel a plateau or anticipate a breakthrough on the horizon.

EMDR Intensive Therapy can help with:

Addiction
cPTSD & PTSD
Postpartum mood disorders
Attachment trauma
Single-incident traumas (accidents, life events, witnessed violence, experienced single-incident violence, work experiences, etc)

What does a 1-3 Day EMDR Intensive Include?

Customized Intensive Treatment Program

The EMDR Intensive sessions are scheduled as follows:

90-minute Pre-Intensive Interview (a few weeks ahead of the intensive)
The individualized resourcing and reprocessing focused part of the intensive is 1-3 days, consecutively, for 3 hours per day
90-minute Post-Intensive Debrief

Pre-Intensive Interview

This interview is a 90 minute session to determine the goals of the EMDR Intensive. During this session we begin to identify the specific painful memories, beliefs, or emotions that you want to heal from.

Personalized Treatment Workbook

The workbook contains assessments and exercises designed to ready you for the Intensive. It serves as a tool for tracking your progress towards treatment goals both prior to, during, and following our sessions.

Resourcing and Reprocessing Intensive Session(s)

This part of the Intensive is 1-3 days for 3 hours per day. It is offered in both the North Canaan and Winsted locations. If appropriate, this can also be offered virtually. These sessions include resourcing activities customized for skills you need to manage distress and targeted treatment to address painful memories currently limiting your healing.

Post-Intensive Debrief

This is a 90-minute session scheduled for a few weeks after your Resourcing and Reprocessing Session(s). This session is used to debrief the experience of the intensive and discuss new insights, relief, and transformations you've noticed since the intensives. We will also create a plan for your continued healing as you move into your future.

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Frequently Asked Questions About EMDR Intensives

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What does the research say about EMDR Intensives

Intensive implementation of trauma-focused therapy demonstrates promising tolerance among PTSD patients, facilitating swifter symptom alleviation with comparable, if not superior, outcomes, thereby diminishing premature dropout rates.

Intensive EMDR treatment proves viable and yields substantial improvements in PTSD symptoms within a condensed timeframe. Additional information is available here.

An intensive regimen utilizing EMDR therapy emerges as a potentially safe and efficacious treatment avenue for complex PTSD.

The economic argument is compelling: compared to traditional trauma therapy approaches, the intensive format may streamline treatment duration by minimizing time allocated to a) session introspection, b) addressing immediate crises, c) cultivating stabilization and coping skills rendered unnecessary post-trauma healing, or d) assisting clients in session closure.

Where are EMDR Intensives Offered?

In person at my North Canaan or Winsted offices or virtually throughout Connecticut. It is recommended to treat the days of these Intensives like a personal retreat, spending the time outside of the office on those days focused on self-care activities.

What is the cost of EMDR Intensives?

One Day (Weekday) EMDR Intensive is $2,000

- 6 hours face-to-face total (3 hour intensive is offered on Thursday), plus resources, assessments, and a personalized treatment workbook

One Day (Weekend) EMDR Intensive is $2,500

- 6 hours face-to-face total (3 hour intensive is offered on Friday or Saturday), plus resources, assessments, and a personalized treatment workbook

Two-Day (Weekday) EMDR Intensive is $3,000

- 9 hours face-to-face total (6 hours of intensive treatment is two days, 3 hours each, and take place on Thursday and Friday), plus resources, assessments, and a personalized treatment workbook

Two-Day (Weekend) EMDR Intensive is $3,500

- 9 hours face-to-face total (6 hours of intensive treatment is two days, 3 hours each, and take place on Friday and Saturday), plus resources, assessments, and a personalized treatment workbook

Three-Day EMDR Intensive is $4,000

- 12 hours face-to-face total (9 hours of intensive treatment is three days, 3 hours each day, and take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday), plus resources, assessments, and a personalized treatment workbook

Can insurance cover the cost of an EMDR Intensive?

We do not accept insurance for EMDR Intensives. Insurance companies do not cover the cost of intensive sessions.

Is an EMDR Intensive worth the time and money?

EMDR Intensives allow you to recieve the benefit of months of therapy in a short period of time. Instead of waiting months, you receive the benefits and relief of treatment in just a few days. The investment is similar to what you would pay over time for weekly therapy except with an intensive you receive immediate results in days.

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

EMDR Intensive Therapy is a fast track for healing

What is EMDR Intensive Therapy

How it works

Why do an EMDR Intensive

EMDR Intensive Therapy can help with:

What does a 1-3 Day EMDR Intensive Include?

Customized Intensive Treatment Program

Pre-Intensive Interview

Personalized Treatment Workbook

Resourcing and Reprocessing Intensive Session(s)

Post-Intensive Debrief

Let's Get Started!

1 Day Intensive Program

8 Hour Program

2 Day Intensive Program

11 Hour Program

3 Day Intensive Program

14 Hour Program

Frequently Asked Questions About EMDR Intensives

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

EMDR Intensive Therapy is a fast track for healing

What is EMDR Intensive Therapy

How it works

Why do an EMDR Intensive

EMDR Intensive Therapy can help with:

What does a 1-3 Day EMDR Intensive Include?

Customized Intensive Treatment Program

Pre-Intensive Interview

Personalized Treatment Workbook

Resourcing and Reprocessing Intensive Session(s)

Post-Intensive Debrief

Let's Get Started!

1 Day Intensive Program

8 Hour Program

2 Day Intensive Program

11 Hour Program

3 Day Intensive Program

14 Hour Program

Frequently Asked Questions About EMDR Intensives

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