EMDR Intensives: Months of Progress, Concentrated
Now offering an accelerated format for women who want depth without the long runway.
An EMDR intensive replaces months of weekly 50-minute sessions with extended, focused blocks — half-day or full-day — designed to take one stuck pattern and work it through to resolution.
Why intensives exist:
Weekly therapy has a hidden cost: every session spends time re-entering the work before it can advance, and the week between sessions lets life scatter the momentum.
Intensives remove the start-stop.
With three or six uninterrupted hours, we move through preparation and reprocessing in continuous arcs — which is why intensive formats consistently produce progress that surprises even therapy veterans.
Who intensives fit:
High-achieving women whose schedules make weekly therapy unrealistic — but who can protect a day
Clients already in therapy (with me or elsewhere) who are stuck on a specific target: a fear food, a body image wound, a memory that won't move
Women outside Orange County who want to travel in for concentrated in-person work, with online follow-up
Anyone who has done the insight work and wants the reprocessing done with focus
Formats & structure:
Pre-intensive assessment (90 minutes): history, target mapping, resourcing, and a plan.
Half-day intensive (3 hours): one focused target or theme.
Full-day intensive (6 hours, with breaks): a deeper theme or connected cluster of targets.
Integration session (50 minutes, ~1 week later): consolidating what shifted and mapping what's next.
Intensives and eating disorder recovery — a note on fit
Intensives are powerful for eating disorder and body image work, but pacing and medical stability come first — that's non-negotiable.
The pre-intensive assessment determines honestly whether an intensive serves you now or whether weekly work should come first.