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EMDR Therapy Intensives in Austin, Texas & Colorado
Accelerated, effective therapy to help you work towards meaningful shifts…in less time.
Feeling like traditional 50-minute therapy just isn’t cutting it anymore?
You’ve talked about it, learned the skills, and understand the patterns but you still feel the same.
You want more flexibility than the traditional model of therapy
EMDR intensives offer a different pace and structure. Instead of stretching therapy out over months, intensive EMDR therapy condenses the work into focused blocks of time so you can make meaningful progress without the stop-and-start rhythm of weekly sessions.
This approach is especially helpful for those who want the “now what?” and want dedicated time to move beyond insight and into deeper therapeutic work.
What is an EMDR intensive?
An EMDR Intensive is a powerful, accelerated form of EMDR therapy designed to support more profound healing from trauma and anxiety - fast.
An EMDR intensive is an accelerated format of EMDR therapy that gives you extended, focused time to work with trauma, anxiety, and patterns that continue to show up despite insight or previous therapy.
Instead of fitting the work into a traditional 50-minute weekly session, an intensive takes place over a concentrated period of one to three days. The extended format gives us more time for preparation, processing, regulation, and integration without having to repeatedly stop and restart the work each week.
To prepare, we’ll meet for a Pre-Intensive Interview to:
Clarify your goals
Identify your support system
Understand how you manage stress
Pinpoint the specific memories, patterns, or beliefs we’ll work on
This helps us use our time intentionally while making sure the intensive is tailored to your needs, goals, and readiness for deeper work.
During your intensive, you’ll engage in extended EMDR sessions designed to:
Make old wounds feel less painful and less charged
Strengthen supportive, empowering beliefs that help you move forward
Support your brain in processing memories that still feel emotionally charged or unresolved
This focused work gives us room to go beyond simply understanding your patterns and work with what keeps them going, whether that’s anxiety, old experiences, protective responses, or beliefs that no longer fit.
This concentrated EMDR therapy approach gives you extended time to process difficult memories, experiences, and patterns without the constraints of a traditional 50-minute session.
EMDR intensives for trauma and anxiety aren’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Depending on your goals, we might focus on:
Early life experiences or attachment wounds
Specific traumatic events
Present-day triggers
Future challenges you want to feel more prepared for
Every intensive is tailored to you.
After your EMDR intensive, we’ll meet for an integration session to reflect on what you noticed or what may have shifted, highlight your biggest takeaways, and explore how to carry the work forward into your daily life.
EMDR for High-Functioning, “In-Your-Head” Clients
EMDR intensives can be especially helpful for clients who tend to overthink, intellectualize, or feel pressure to “do therapy right.”
My approach prioritizes nervous system safety, clear orientation, and flexibility, allowing the work to unfold without forcing insight, emotion, or performance. We slow things down when needed, adjust when the brain stays busy, and work with protective strategies rather than against them.
An EMDR intensive might be a good fit if:
You’ve tried therapy before and understand your patterns, but still feel stuck in them.
You’re motivated, reflective, and curious about your inner world.
Weekly therapy doesn’t fit your schedule or you want more dedicated time than a traditional 50-minute session allows.
You have 1–3 days you can intentionally dedicate to therapeutic work and recovery.
You’re ready to work more deeply with painful memories, old beliefs, or patterns that continue to affect you.
Depending on your history, goals, and what feels most important to address, an intensive may focus on:
Painful childhood experiences, attachment wounds, and complex trauma
High-functioning anxiety, chronic overthinking, and burnout
People-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt
The persistent feeling that you’re never quite “enough”
Relational trauma and painful relationship experiences
Low self-worth and a harsh inner critic
Anxiety and phobias
Grief, loss, and major life transitions
Shame and unresolved past experiences
Medical trauma, accidents, injuries, and experiences related to chronic illness
Burnout and emotional exhaustion in helping professionals
We’ll decide together what makes sense to focus on based on your goals, readiness, and the time we have available.
What can we work on in an EMDR intensive…
If you’re wondering whether an EMDR intensive might be a good fit for you, you’re welcome to schedule a consultation to talk it through.
what to expect
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Before the intensive, we’ll spend time understanding your history, current concerns, and what you hope to work on. We’ll identify potential areas of focus, assess whether an intensive is an appropriate fit, and talk through what you can expect so you feel prepared going into the experience.
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During the intensive, we’ll have extended time to work with the memories, beliefs, emotions, and patterns connected to what’s bringing you to therapy. We’ll use EMDR alongside grounding, nervous system support, and plenty of flexibility, adjusting the pace based on what you need throughout the process.
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After the intensive, we’ll reconnect to talk about how you’ve been feeling, what you’ve noticed since our work together, and anything that may still need attention. This gives us space to reflect on the experience, support integration, and discuss recommendations or next steps when needed.
Deep work, done differently.
Deep work, done differently.
Let’s do something different.
You’re not meant to stay on auto-pilot.
what you’ll get From an EMDR Intensive:
Research-backed EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Anxiety
EMDR is a well-researched therapy designed to help the brain process distressing experiences that continue to influence how you feel, think, and respond in the present. Rather than focusing only on managing symptoms, we’ll work with the experiences and patterns that may be contributing to what keeps showing up.
Pre-Intensive Prep Guide & Customized Treatment Plan
Before your intensive, you’ll receive a pre-session guide to help you feel prepared and supported. We’ll co-create a treatment plan tailored to your history, goals, and what’s most important to you so your time is intentional and impactful.
A Safe, Comfortable Environment
You’ll do deep work in a calming, supportive space designed to support nervous system regulation, with soft lighting, grounding tools, and plenty of snacks and drinks to keep you nourished.
Choose the right format for you
EMDR intensives are offered in flexible formats depending on your needs, goals, and availability.
1 day
8 hour program
6 face-to-face hours
Resources, assessments, & personalized treatment workbook
Available Mon, Tues, Sat
$1,650
2 days
11 hour program
9 face-to-face hours
Resources, assessments, & personalized treatment workbook
Available Mon, Tues, Sat
$2,400
3 days
14 hour program
12 face-to-face hours
Resources, assessments, & personalized treatment workbook
Available Mon, Tues, Sat
$3,100
What we’ll work on
What EMDR Intensives Can Help You Work Through…
01 go deeper than insight
You may already understand why you feel the way you do. An EMDR intensive gives us extended time to work with the memories, beliefs, and experiences underneath patterns that continue to show up in your life.
02 create space for focused processing
Instead of stopping when the 50-minute session ends, we have dedicated time for preparation, processing, regulation, and integration, with flexibility to slow down or adjust based on what you need.
03 work with what’s been holding you back
Explore painful experiences and long-standing patterns while building a different relationship with the beliefs and protective responses that may have developed around them.
FAQS
Have Questions about EMDR intensives?
Have questions about what it’s like to work together? Check out these frequently asked questions. If you don’t see your question here, click here to get in touch.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy approach that helps you work with distressing memories and experiences that may still feel emotionally charged in the present.
During EMDR, we use bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements, tapping, or sounds, while working with aspects of a memory, including thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and body sensations. The goal is to support your brain’s natural processing so that past experiences can feel less connected to the reactions and patterns showing up in your life today.
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EMDR intensives use the same therapeutic approach as EMDR in traditional therapy, but the format is different. Instead of working within a 50-minute session and returning to the work the following week, we have an extended block of time dedicated to preparation, processing, regulation, and integration.
For some clients, having several uninterrupted hours allows us to stay with the work without the repeated stopping and restarting that can happen in weekly therapy. Intensives may also be a practical option if you have limited availability for ongoing weekly appointments.
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An EMDR intensive may be worth considering if you’ve done therapy before but continue to feel stuck in familiar patterns, want dedicated time to focus on a specific concern, or find that traditional weekly sessions don’t fit your needs or schedule.
An intensive isn’t the right fit for everyone. Before scheduling, we’ll talk about your history, current supports, goals, and readiness for intensive work so we can decide together whether this format makes sense for you.
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EMDR intensives can be used to work with painful past experiences, attachment wounds, trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-doubt, grief, relationship experiences, shame, and other patterns that continue to affect how you feel or respond in the present.
The focus of your intensive will depend on your history and goals. Rather than trying to address everything at once, we’ll identify what feels most important and appropriate to work on within the time we have together.
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Before your intensive, you’ll complete intake and assessment materials and meet with me for a pre-intensive session. We’ll talk about your history, current concerns, support system, goals, and the experiences or patterns that may be important to address.
You’ll also receive a personalized treatment workbook to help you prepare for our work together. You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what memory to target or how the intensive should unfold, we’ll figure that out together.
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The first step is scheduling a free consultation. We’ll talk about what’s bringing you to EMDR, what you’re hoping to work on, and whether an intensive might be a good fit for your needs.
If it feels like the right next step, we’ll talk through scheduling, preparation, and which intensive format makes the most sense for you.
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