EMDR Telehealth Intensives
It's hard for a busy professional like you to take the time you need to work on stuff from the past that might still be impacting you.
Why should you schedule An EMDR intensive?
Scheduling a series of EMDR intensive sessions is a way to make the space to work through the sticking points that continue to impact your performance and quality of life in a hyper focused way as opposed to unbounded weekly sessions.
Who is best suited for intensive sessions?
We will not know completely until we begin our work together how your brain and body process and exactly what the path to the past looks like. Everyone is different. However, those who tend to work well with intensives are:
Able to affect shift from sad to positive states, meaning, if intense emotions come up in the session, they are able to ground and leave without feeling terrible
Have been in therapy before and have an understanding of the process and themselves
Can manage the range in emotions that might occur when thinking about a past memory
Have had positive experiences in their lives that they can call upon to feel grounded
Benefits
Offered Friday-Sunday, which allows flexibility with work commitments
2-4 hour periods of time to maximize results and allow for enough time to move through multiple stuck points/memories/triggers
Move through your stuck points and past your past to be able to live your full life without years of weekly therapy
Challenges
This work can be emotionally exhausting, especially in larger chunks
As with any therapy, you might feel worse before you feel better - As with any therapy, you might feel worse before you feel better
Higher cost initially, however, when viewed in the terms of weekly therapy, is more cost effective
NEXT STEPS
What does the process look like?
Initial Meeting
Two hour telehealtinitial meeting
An in-depth review of your history
Planning around target memories/triggers that will be a focus of the work together
Teaching/practicing of grounding techniques
Engaging in the EMDR FLASH technique, which is a gentler way to dip into past memories without overwhelm and allows us to see how your brain and body respond to EMDR therapy
Follow-up
30-minute follow-up
A review of how the initial meeting went and how you're feeling about the process
A decision of whether or not to move forward or to refer you to a different type of support
A plan about what continued work might look like
Intensives
A series of 2 to 15 intensive sessions, ranging from 2-4 hours each, focused on the plan that we create together
The number of sessions will depend of several factors, including the amount of stuck points, memories, and triggers present