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.
FAQs
Is an intensive a replacement for ongoing therapy?
Sometimes.
Some clients complete their work in one or two intensives; others use them to break through a plateau in ongoing treatment.
Can intensives be done online
Yes — full and half-day intensives are available via telehealth across California, with structured breaks.
Do you coordinate with my current therapist?
Yes! Adjunct intensives with coordinated care are welcome. If you are working with an ongoing therapist, I will consult and coordinate with them before and after the intensive.
One day of focused work can move what a year of managing couldn't.
Request a consultation to explore whether an intensive fits.