EMDR Therapy Intensives are personalized based on your treatment goals, history, and the amount of focused therapeutic work recommended. I offer a complimentary consultation call before scheduling your first appointment so we can discuss your concerns, answer your questions, and determine whether an EMDR Intensive is the right fit for your goals.
Session Rates
For many clients, I recommend dedicating 9 to 18 total hours to the intensive process. This allows time for thorough preparation, EMDR processing, and integration while creating the continuity needed for meaningful therapeutic work.
Estimated Investment
The recommended number of hours varies from person to person and is based on your unique history, goals, and presenting concerns. Some clients benefit from fewer hours, while others choose to continue beyond their initial intensive depending on their progress and treatment needs.
No. My practice is exclusively private pay, and I do not accept insurance.
A private-pay model allows me to provide personalized EMDR Therapy Intensives with a focused, individualized approach to your care. Rather than working within the requirements of an insurance company, my focus is on helping you create meaningful and lasting change through a treatment plan designed around your unique goals and needs.
If you have questions about fees, payment options, or whether an EMDR Intensive is the right fit for you, I invite you to schedule a complimentary consultation. I’m happy to answer your questions and help you determine whether this approach aligns with your goals.
Yes. I am an approved CareCredit provider and accept CareCredit as a payment option for EMDR Therapy Intensives.
CareCredit is a healthcare credit card that allows qualified applicants to pay for healthcare services over time through monthly payments. If you are interested in spreading the cost of your intensive over time, CareCredit may be a helpful option.
To learn more about CareCredit, check your eligibility, or apply, please visit the CareCredit website.
If you have questions about payment options or the investment involved in an EMDR Therapy Intensive, I am happy to discuss them during your complimentary consultation.
EMDR Therapy Intensives are offered in person at my office in Scottsdale, Arizona, and virtually for adults who are physically located in Arizona at the time of their sessions.
If you choose an in-person intensive, we’ll meet in a comfortable, private office designed to support focused therapeutic work. If you choose a virtual intensive, you’ll participate from a quiet, confidential location within Arizona where you can fully engage in the process.
If you are unsure which format is the best fit for your needs, we can discuss your options during your complimentary consultation.
Scheduling a consultation is the first step toward determining whether an EMDR Therapy Intensive is the right fit for your needs and goals.
I offer a complimentary consultation call where we’ll discuss what brings you to therapy, the concerns you’d like to address, your treatment goals, and whether an EMDR Intensive is the most appropriate approach. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the intensive process, scheduling, and what to expect.
If we decide that an EMDR Therapy Intensive is a good fit, we’ll schedule your Pre-EMDR Intensive Assessment where we’ll work together to develop a personalized treatment plan and schedule your sessions.
You can schedule your complimentary consultation by contacting me through the Begin Today page on my website. I look forward to connecting with you and helping you determine the next best step for your healing journey.
EMDR Therapy Intensives are a focused format of EMDR therapy that provides extended time for preparation, processing, and integration within a shorter timeframe. Instead of meeting for traditional weekly sessions, intensives allow dedicated time to focus on your treatment goals and the experiences that continue affecting your present.
EMDR Therapy helps the brain process experiences that feel unresolved, including trauma, distressing memories, negative beliefs, emotional triggers, and patterns that feel difficult to change. During an intensive, we begin with a thorough assessment and preparation process, then develop a personalized plan based on your history, goals, and readiness for EMDR processing.
The intensive format is designed to create continuity and momentum while maintaining the pacing and preparation needed for meaningful therapeutic work.
Traditional weekly therapy can be helpful for many concerns, but some individuals benefit from a more focused and immersive approach. EMDR Therapy Intensives provide dedicated time to work through specific concerns without the interruptions that can occur when sessions are spaced out over weeks or months.
Many clients who seek intensives have already spent time developing insight through therapy, reflection, or personal growth, yet still feel impacted by unresolved experiences, emotional patterns, or beliefs that continue affecting their lives.
An intensive format allows for deeper focus, greater continuity between sessions, and a personalized structure designed around your goals and needs.
Each EMDR Intensive is personalized based on your history, goals, and the concerns you want to address. The process begins with preparation, including understanding your experiences, identifying treatment goals, and developing the resources needed to support effective EMDR processing.
During the intensive, we may focus on processing specific memories, emotions, beliefs, or patterns that continue to affect your present. We also incorporate time for integration and reflection so that the work feels intentional and manageable.
EMDR Intensives are not about rushing the process. They are designed to create protected time for focused therapeutic work while maintaining a pace that supports meaningful change.
The length of an EMDR Therapy Intensive varies depending on your goals, treatment history, and the concerns you are seeking to address. Unlike traditional weekly therapy, EMDR Intensives provide extended, focused time for preparation, processing, and integration within a more concentrated timeframe.
Many clients complete between 9-18 total hours of EMDR Intensive work, although the recommended number of hours is personalized based on your individual needs and treatment goals. Some individuals may need fewer hours, while others may benefit from additional sessions depending on the complexity of the experiences being addressed.
EMDR Intensives can be scheduled in different formats, including concentrated experiences completed over several days or ongoing intensive sessions scheduled over a longer period of time. During your complimentary consultation, we will discuss your goals and determine the structure that best supports your healing process.
Yes. Some individuals choose to complete an EMDR Intensive while continuing with their current therapist. An intensive can be used as a focused opportunity to address specific experiences, patterns, or concerns while your ongoing therapist continues providing support.
With your permission, collaboration with your existing therapist may be discussed to support continuity of care and ensure the intensive fits well within your overall treatment goals.
During your consultation, we can discuss your current therapy, what you hope to address through EMDR, and whether an intensive format is the right fit.
Research on EMDR Therapy Intensives continues to grow, with emerging studies suggesting that concentrated EMDR treatment can be an effective option for many individuals when it is thoughtfully planned and delivered. Studies have shown promising outcomes for concerns such as post-traumatic stress, while additional research continues to explore how intensive formats may benefit a broader range of experiences.
An important distinction is that an EMDR Intensive is not simply a longer therapy session. Effective intensives involve careful assessment, treatment planning, preparation, regulation, pacing, and integration to support focused therapeutic work while maintaining safety throughout the process. Current research and clinical guidance emphasize that the intensive format should be individualized based on each person’s goals, readiness, and clinical needs.
If you’d like to learn more about the intensive treatment model and the current research, I encourage you to read EMDRIA’s article, Looking Beyond Session Length: Understanding EMDR Intensives.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals process experiences that continue to affect their present thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors.
Many difficult experiences are naturally processed by the brain over time. However, when an experience feels overwhelming or does not fully integrate, it can continue to influence how you respond to certain situations, relationships, or stressors.
EMDR Therapy helps support the brain’s natural ability to process and integrate these experiences so they feel less distressing and no longer carry the same emotional intensity. The goal is not to erase memories, but to help you relate to them in a way that feels more adaptive, grounded, and manageable.
EMDR Therapy is based on the understanding that unresolved experiences can continue to affect the way we think, feel, and respond in the present. Through a structured process, EMDR helps the brain reprocess experiences that may have become stuck, allowing new perspectives, emotions, and beliefs to develop.
EMDR includes several phases of treatment, including history-taking, preparation, identifying treatment targets, processing, and integration. During the processing phase, bilateral stimulation is used while focusing on aspects of an experience, such as memories, emotions, body sensations, or negative beliefs.
Rather than repeatedly analyzing or talking through an experience, EMDR helps support the brain’s ability to process what has remained unresolved.
Each EMDR Therapy Intensive is personalized based on your history, goals, and the experiences you want to address. While the intensive format provides focused time for therapeutic work, the process remains grounded in the structured eight-phase EMDR therapy model to support safety, preparation, effective processing, and integration.
Phase 1: History and Treatment Planning
We begin by developing a deeper understanding of your history, current concerns, and goals for therapy. Together, we identify the experiences, patterns, beliefs, and emotional responses that may be contributing to your current struggles and develop a personalized treatment plan for the intensive.
Phase 2: Preparation and Resourcing
Before processing begins, we focus on building the skills and resources needed to support effective EMDR work. This may include developing grounding strategies, increasing emotional awareness, strengthening your sense of safety, and learning tools to help regulate your nervous system throughout the process.
Phases 3-6: Assessment, Processing, and Integration
Once adequate preparation has occurred, we identify specific memories, emotions, body sensations, and negative beliefs connected to the concerns you want to address. Through EMDR processing, bilateral stimulation supports your brain’s natural ability to reprocess experiences that feel unresolved.
Rather than repeatedly analyzing what happened, EMDR helps reduce the emotional intensity connected to past experiences while supporting the development of more adaptive beliefs and perspectives.
Phase 7: Closure and Stabilization
At the end of each session, we focus on returning to a grounded state and ensuring you have the tools needed to transition back into daily life. Because intensives involve deeper therapeutic work, intentional closure and integration are important parts of the process.
Phase 8: Reevaluation and Continued Treatment Planning
As the intensive progresses, we regularly evaluate your response to treatment and determine the next appropriate steps. This may include continuing with additional intensive sessions, focusing on additional treatment targets, or completing integration work after the intensive.
An EMDR Intensive is not simply multiple therapy sessions combined together. It is a carefully structured process that creates protected time for focused therapeutic work while maintaining the pacing, preparation, and clinical judgment needed for meaningful change.
EMDR Therapy can help individuals process a wide range of experiences and concerns that continue affecting their emotional well-being. While EMDR is widely recognized for treating trauma and PTSD, it can also be helpful for many other concerns related to unresolved experiences and patterns.
EMDR may support individuals who are experiencing:
EMDR is not only about what happened in the past. It is about understanding and addressing the experiences that continue shaping how you feel, respond, and relate to yourself and others today.
No. You do not need to have experienced a single, defining traumatic event to benefit from EMDR Therapy.
Many people seek EMDR because of experiences that shaped how they see themselves, others, and the world. This may include childhood experiences, relationship patterns, attachment wounds, moments of rejection or criticism, difficult transitions, or repeated experiences that contributed to feelings of fear, shame, self-doubt, or not feeling safe.
Some clients come to EMDR because they feel stuck, even though they have insight into their experiences and have spent time working on themselves. EMDR can help address the underlying experiences and beliefs that continue influencing the present.
The focus is not on whether an experience “counts” as trauma. The focus is on whether something continues to affect your life in a way you would like to change.
EMDR Therapy may be a good fit if you recognize that certain experiences, emotions, beliefs, or patterns continue affecting your life, even when you understand why they are there.
Many people who seek EMDR have already gained insight through therapy, reflection, or personal growth but still notice recurring emotional reactions, anxiety, relationship struggles, self-doubt, or feeling stuck in patterns they want to change.
EMDR may be helpful if you are looking for a deeper approach that goes beyond understanding your experiences and focuses on processing what continues to influence your present.
The best way to determine whether EMDR Therapy is right for you is through a consultation. Together, we can discuss your history, goals, and whether EMDR Therapy or an EMDR Intensive is the best fit for your needs.
EMDR Therapy is an evidence-based treatment approach with a strong body of research supporting its effectiveness in helping individuals process trauma and other distressing life experiences.
Research, including multiple randomized controlled trials, has demonstrated that EMDR Therapy can reduce symptoms related to trauma, including emotional distress, intrusive memories, negative beliefs, and physiological responses connected to difficult experiences. Studies have also shown EMDR to be an effective and efficient treatment approach compared to other trauma-focused therapies.
Research has also explored the role of bilateral stimulation, including eye movements, and its relationship to reductions in the emotional intensity and vividness of distressing memories.
For those interested in learning more about the research supporting EMDR Therapy, you can explore the research summaries and resources provided by EMDRIA.
I work with adults who are ready to create meaningful change through a focused, depth-oriented approach to therapy. Many of my clients come to me because they feel stuck in patterns they understand but have not been able to change through insight alone.
I specialize in working with adults who are navigating:
My practice is exclusively focused on EMDR Therapy Intensives, providing a personalized format for adults who are ready to dedicate focused time toward healing, growth, and meaningful change.
You may be a good fit for my practice if you are looking for a focused, personalized approach to therapy and are ready to dedicate meaningful time toward creating lasting change.
Many of the adults I work with have already spent time understanding themselves through therapy, reflection, or personal growth, yet still feel impacted by unresolved experiences, anxiety, relationship patterns, perfectionism, or major life transitions.
An EMDR Therapy Intensive may be a good fit if you are looking for more than insight alone and want to address the experiences, beliefs, and patterns that continue affecting your present.
The best way to determine whether we are a good fit is through a complimentary consultation. During this conversation, we will discuss your goals, history, and whether an EMDR Intensive is the right approach for your needs.
My approach combines EMDR Therapy with an attachment-focused, relational, and depth-oriented understanding of how past experiences shape present-day thoughts, emotions, and patterns.
I believe meaningful change happens when we move beyond simply understanding why something is happening and begin processing the experiences that continue influencing how you respond today. Our work is tailored to your unique history, goals, and needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach.
Through EMDR Therapy Intensives, I provide focused time to help you process unresolved experiences, strengthen your connection with yourself, and create change that feels meaningful and lasting.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Arizona, an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. I have completed advanced training in EMDR Therapy and specialize in using EMDR with adults experiencing trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, relationship concerns, perfectionism, and feeling stuck despite previous therapeutic work.
In addition to providing EMDR Therapy Intensives, I support other therapists in developing their clinical skills through EMDR consultation and training. My work with both clients and clinicians allows me to remain deeply engaged with the science, structure, and application of EMDR Therapy.
EMDRIA Certification is a designation provided by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) to therapists who have completed specialized EMDR training, consultation, and additional requirements demonstrating competency in EMDR Therapy.
Working with an EMDRIA Certified Therapist means you are working with a clinician who has pursued advanced training beyond the foundational EMDR training required to begin practicing EMDR. Certification reflects ongoing commitment to developing skill, clinical judgment, and ethical application of EMDR Therapy.
As an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant, I continue to deepen my understanding and application of EMDR Therapy through ongoing consultation, training, and clinical practice.
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