EMDR Intensives - In Clarkston

Supporting your needs when the traditional model of weekly therapy won’t work for your schedule.

EMDR intensives offer busy people the support and help they need right now. I offer EMDR intensives when people need extra support and when people want to work more intensively on a shorter timeline.

EMDR is not just for trauma; it is also used for anxiety, relationship triggers, and other issues.

EMDR intensives are personalized to your needs and designed to support your goals as well as your schedule.

Why Intensives?

EMDR intensives are personalized treatment plans that allow you to have accelerated therapy and are designed to support your preferred schedule and timeline for your treatment goals.

  • 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 intensive EMDR therapy can help as you work with your primary talk therapist.

  • 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.

  • Perhaps, with COVID, you need more efficient support as the busy parent with kids doing virtual learning and/or the working professional who has even more on their plate since the pandemic.

  • Perhaps you are a current, weekly client who is needing extra, focused support quickly.

  • Perhaps you are someone who just prefers to work intensively.

  • Perhaps you are a current, weekly client who is needing extra, focused support quickly.

EMDR intensives support the busy parent with kids doing virtual learning, the working professional who has even more on their plate since COVID, 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.


Research on Intensive EMDR 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.

YOUR EMDR INTENSIVE INCLUDES:

  • Consultation and assessment to assess whether EMDR is a good fit for your needs and to identify the thoughts, beliefs and emotions from which you are seeking relief.

  • A customized treatment program with targeted treatment goals.

  • Post-treatment follow up, to support you in continued healing.

One-day Intensive: Total 5 clinical contact hours: $999

  • 60 minute pre-intensive assessment/consultation

  • 3 hours of therapy for the half day

  • 60 minute post-intensive therapy session

Two-day Intensive: Total 10 clinical contact hours: $1899

  • 60 minute pre-intensive assessment/consultation

  • 4 clinical hours of therapy each day (total of 8 hours)

  • 60 minute post-intensive therapy session

A non-refundable deposit of $100 is required to schedule a consultation to determine if you are a good fit for an EMDR intensive. Please note that this is for individuals with trauma and/or PTSD only, other diagnoses are more appropriate for individual counseling and not intensives. Sessions must be prepaid at the beginning of the EMDR intensive or prior.

If follow-up EMDR sessions are desired those will be billed at $150/hr.

Note: Insurance does not cover the cost of EMDR intensives. Please expect that this will be a cash-pay service that is not reimbursed by your insurance company. However, you are able to use HSA cards and flex spending cards.

Also Note: If it is determined you are not a good fit for an EMDR Intensive, your payment will be refunded minus the deposit.