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EMDR intensives are specialized treatment plans for healing that give you all of the benefits of EMDR therapy condensed into 3-5 days of targeted support. This model is an excellent supplement to the traditional 45-60 minute session and offers numerous benefits:
- Accelerated Healing: Intensive sessions allow for deeper and more sustained therapeutic work, often leading to faster progress.
- Reduced Overall Therapy Time: With concentrated effort, you may achieve your therapeutic goals in a shorter overall time frame.
- Focused and Personalized: Intensive sessions are tailored to your unique needs, allowing for a highly individualized approach.
- Deeper Connections: Extended sessions foster a stronger therapeutic relationship and a more profound connection with the healing process.
If you’ve been in therapy and value the insights it brings but still feel stuck—like something just isn’t clicking fast enough—you’re probably right AND you’re not alone. Here’s why an EMDR Intensive might be the solution you’ve been looking for:
- Insight alone isn’t enough.
Many people find that traditional therapy gives them deep insight into their issues, but that insight doesn’t always lead to change. Why? Because while understanding why you’re struggling is important, it doesn’t always update the emotional and physical reactions that keep you feeling stuck. - Therapy on your lunch break isn’t cutting it.
Picture this: You head to therapy during your lunch break, and just as you’re getting into the good stuff—bam! Time’s up. You feel stressed out, emotionally drained, and now you’ve got to walk back into work and deal with a supervisor who has no idea you’re paying for therapy to heal from the stress they cause in the first place. (It’s okay to laugh; we get it!) - 60-minute sessions aren’t designed for deep healing.
Standard therapy sessions are often 60 minutes because that’s what insurance companies like, but deep healing isn’t confined to an hour. Longer, focused sessions allow for the accelerated results that many people want and need to truly move forward. - Therapists aren’t at fault—the system is.
Many therapists are doing great work, but the system is broken. Insurance companies dictate short, fragmented sessions, leaving little time for integrated therapy that follows what the brain really needs to heal. What’s worse, clinical programs don’t often train therapists on how to provide healing that goes deeper than gaining insight or coping skills. As a result, therapist is required to seek out costly, specialized training in order to be more effective–which is not always accessible for therapists whose income is often limited by meager insurance reimbursement rates.
Who is an Ideal candidate for EMDR Intensives?
Our EMDR intensives are designed for individuals who are ready to make significant progress in their healing journey. You might be an ideal candidate for EMDR intensives if:
- You Have a Busy Schedule: Intensives can be more accommodating for those with demanding schedules who prefer to dedicate specific periods to their healing. We offer 90 minute, half day, and 3-day programs to address your needs.
- You’re Facing Specific Issues: If you have targeted concerns or specific issues you want to address comprehensively, EMDR intensives can provide the necessary focus.
- You’ve Experienced Trauma: Whether it’s a single event or complex, ongoing trauma, EMDR can help process and integrate these experiences in an intensive format, meaning you can experience relief
- You’re Stuck in Traditional Therapy: If you feel like traditional weekly sessions aren’t moving you forward quickly enough, an intensive might be the catalyst you need. Plus you don’t have to fire your therapist! Many individuals receive adjunct therapy intensives, allowing you to keep your primary therapy while using intensives to address a specific goal or aspect of your healing.
Why EMDR Intensives Work: A Holistic Approach to Healing
An EMDR intensive isn’t just about quick fixes. It’s about getting to the root causes of your challenges so you can make meaningful, lasting changes in your life. Here’s what makes it different:
- Comprehensive assessment: You’ll go through a thorough evaluation to create a targeted plan that addresses the challenges causing the biggest disruption in your life—not just offering coping skills for the daily whirlwind.
- Integrated therapy: EMDR works by addressing all aspects of memory (thoughts, images, emotions, body sensations), which is key to updating the emotional and physical responses that control your reactions when you’re stressed or triggered.
- Focused, extended sessions: Unlike standard therapy sessions, which often end right when you’re getting to the core of your problem, EMDR intensives offer longer sessions to deeply process and integrate your healing, leaving you with a sense of closure after each step.
Evidence Base: Research in support of EMDR Intensives
- 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, 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.
- Learn more here.
HOW EMDR Intensives CAN HELP: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH to wellness
Intensives combine in depth assessment, treatment planning and preparation outside of the session, and extended therapy time to accelerate progress towards your goals. Our Intensive programs include a blend of EMDR and holistic mental health approaches that allow you to experience deep healing and breakthroughs while meeting the demands of your busy schedule. Plus with access to exclusive time slots and extended session lengths that may eliminate the need for weekly sessions, this is a format suited for your busy professionals who struggle to find weekly time for treatment and for those who are ready to accelerate progress towards your wellness goals.
Below are EXAMPLES of an approach to EMDR intensives to address specific challenges/goals.
- Specific Trauma
- Workplace Stress
- Performance & Travel Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorders
- Childhood Trauma
- Relationship Issues
- Sleep Disturbances
- Self-Esteem Issues
Specific Traumas
- Diminishes emotional charge from traumatic memories.
- Enhances coping mechanisms for traumatic stress.
- Fosters resilience and emotional healing.
- Learn & Practice Breathwork practices to support regulation
Workplace Stress and Anxiety
- Alleviates stress responses linked to work environments.
- Increases resilience against professional pressures.
- Improves focus and emotional regulation in workplace settings.
Performance & Travel Anxiety
- Decreases fear and anxiety in performance situations.
- Mitigates travel-related anxieties and phobias.
- Enhances calmness and focus in stressful scenarios.
EMDR for Anxiety Disorders
- Reduces anxiety triggers and physiological responses.
- Promotes relaxation and stress management techniques.
- Builds confidence in handling anxiety-provoking situations.
Childhood Trauma
- Attachment sensitive EMDR with ideal parent resourcing
- Processes and neutralizes childhood trauma impacts.
- Reshapes negative beliefs formed in early years.
- Restores a sense of safety and emotional balance.
Relationship Issues
- Helps heal emotional wounds from relationship troubles.
- Rebuilds trust and self-worth post-relationship.
- Provides strategies for healthier future relationships.
Sleep Disturbances
- Reduces nightmares and trauma-related sleep issues.
- Improves overall sleep quality and relaxation.
- Breaks the cycle of stress affecting sleep patterns.
Self-Esteem Issues
- Positively alters self-perception and internal dialogue.
- Increases feelings of self-worth and competence.
- Reduces self-criticism and enhances self-acceptance.
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Intensives Pricing
We offer three packages for intensives.
- Extended EMDR session
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$
225
session
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90 min. session
Traditional EMDR session extended to 90 minutes
- Half-day Intensive
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$
847 - 1,247
package
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6 Contact hours
- 90-minute interview before intensive
- Assessment and Treatment Planning
- 1 half-day (3-hour) intensive
- 90-minute follow up
- Optional Customized Self-Study Course + Workbook
- Optional Holistic Mental Health Intensive Integration
- In person option available*
- 3-day Intensive
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$
1,447-2,047
package
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12 contact hours
- 90-minute Interview before intensive
- Assessment and Treatment Planning
- 3 half-day (3-hour) intensives
- 90-minute follow-up interview
- Optional Self-study Course
- Optional Customizable Workbook
- Optional Holistic Mental Health Integration
- In-person or virtual format options*
Q: Is EMDR therapy effective for everyone?
A: While EMDR has shown significant effectiveness in treating a wide range of mental health issues, it is important to assess your unique needs during an initial consultation. During your consultation, we will determine if EMDR is the right fit for you and discuss alternative therapies if needed.
Q: Will EMDR therapy retraumatize me?
The EMDR process is specifically designed to minimize the risk of re-traumatization. We provide a comprehensive assessment to learn about your experiences and potential difficult or potentially “sticky” areas that are higher risk for retraumatization. Then through a process called resourcing we support you with developing the tools and skills needed to navigate processing. We create a safe and supportive environment and monitor affect throughout processing to help you stay within your “window of tolerance”. Finally, we provide follow up and after care to help your transition into the rest of your day. Ultimately, EMDR aims to reprocess traumatic memories in a controlled and empowering way, leading to healing and resolution.
Q: How long does EMDR therapy take to see results?
A: The duration of EMDR therapy varies depending on individual circumstances. While some clients may experience significant improvements in a few sessions, others may require more time. This depends on the nature of your goals and experiences. In general, specific, recent experiences will see faster results than generalized concerns with roots in repeated childhood experiences. We work collaboratively with you to develop a personalized treatment plan and set realistic expectations for your healing journey.
Q: WHAT IS THE COST PER SESSION?
These are the self-pay rates for sessions.
- Intake Assessment (60 minutes) – New clients start here $150
- Individual session (50 minutes) $150
- Extended EMDR session (80 minutes) $225
- EMDR mini intensive package (4.5 hrs) (1 50-60 minute + 1 3 hr intensive + 15 minute follow up) = $700
- EMDR Intensives Package (9 hrs) = schedule consult for pricing
Self-pay clients have the right to a “Good Faith Estimate” of costs for out of pocket services. We also have a limited number of sliding scale (reduced fee based on income) options available upon request. If you plan to use insurance for sessions, the actual price you pay (often called the client responsibility) ranges from $0 to the full self-pay fee for each sessions. It all depends on your specific coverage and service type.
Q: DO YOU ACCEPT MY INSURANCE?
A: Healing Insight LLC is currently an In-Network Provider for the following insurance companies:
- United Healthcare
- Oscar
- AvMed
- United Medical Resources (UMR)
- Oxford
- Cigna HMO & PPO
- Aetna
- Out of network benefits*
Please note. We do not accept insurance for EMDR intensives at this time
Begin your Journey of Healing:
Schedule a clarity call
If you are seriously considering EMDR intensives as a next step for your healing and wellness, I invite you to schedule a clarity call with me below.
Together we’ll explore your needs and determine if an EMDR Intensive is right for you. We’ll review your goals, answer questions, and determine which program options will meet your needs — including scheduling, location, payment options, and more.