Online EMDR Intensives
Healing Deeply with EMDR Intensives
What are EMDR intensives?
If you’ve been searching for “EMDR intensives near me”, you may be searching for a deeper way to move through things like trauma, anxiety, or other emotional blocks without wanting to wait to feel that relief. An intensive EMDR program provides the depth and time to help you do exactly that.
EMDR intensives are a focused and accelerated approach to trauma therapy. Unlike traditional weekly therapy sessions, EMDR intensives allow you to spend extended time—anywhere from a few hours to most of a day—working through the things that have been holding you back. This is an intensive EMDR format that allows you to make faster, more meaningful progress in a shorter period of time.
Wanting to learn more about online EMDR therapy in general? Visit our general Online EMDR Therapy page where you can learn all about this evidence-based modality and the healing it can bring! Click here to watch a short video that does an amazing job at explaining a little bit more about EMDR.
Why choose EMDR Intensives?
Why choose EMDR Intensives?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, evidence-based therapy that has been around since the 1980s. It remains one of the gold standards of trauma treatment, although, we can use EMDR to support with a wide variety of issues. It helps people heal from emotional distress, trauma, and negative thought patterns.
Each EMDR intensive begins with a thorough assessment to understand your needs and goals. Together, we will create a customized plan that fits what you are hoping to tackle and how we get there.
Intensive EMDR sessions provider a longer time in which we are able to get through not only our plan, but also identifying coping skills and starting to process what you are wanting to work on in the course of a single session.
In an EMDR intensive, you are typically able to get through what it would otherwise take several weeks or months to get through which leads to deeper healing and most flexibility for busy lives! Instead of spreading out therapy over several months, which can sometimes leave individuals in the middle of the trauma curve (read more about that here!), instead, EMDR intensives condenses the work into a few powerful sessions designed to fit your goals and your availability.
Some benefits of EMDR intensives include:
Faster relief from trauma symptoms and emotional distress
Flexible scheduling (hello weekends!)
Personalized treatment plans tailored to your specific needs and wants
Time to truly dive into your healing
Being able to start feeling worthwhile again on your timeline
Where you are struggling with PTSD, anxiety, or overwhelm, EMDR Intensives can help you create lasting change in a shorter amount of time. You will receive the same high-quality care as in traditional EMDR therapy, but in a more focused, immersive format.
Benefits of EMDR Intensives
What to Expect During EMDR Intensives
Each online EMDR therapy intensive starts with building a target plan—a customized plan of what you are wanting to work on and how we work on it. We work to support with developing coping skills and strategies so that you can stay grounded and within your window of tolerance during the entirety of the EMDR therapy intensive.
We then start doing bilateral stimulation to work on desensitizing the things you came in with. This supports with getting rid of the negative things we have been carrying around or telling ourselves and work on feeling good enough, again.
During EMDR intensives, your therapist will make sure that you are feeling okay, grounded, and supported during the entirety. They will also make sure that you get a break to breathe and move your body.
At the end of an intensive EMDR session, the therapist will make sure that you have a plan of what comes next and what to expect.
What to Expect During EMDR Intensives
Finding EMDR Intensives Near Me:
If you have been thinking about EMDR intensives, you likely found yourself Google searching “EMDR intensives near me”. Well, you’re in the right place! We provide EMDR intensives online to clients in MN, CA, WI, CO, VT, FL, SC, & DE, making EMDR intensives accessible no matter where you are. Inside our EMDR intensives, you can expect a very warm, confidential, and supportive environment.
Wanting EMDR intensives but not located in a state that we serve? Or maybe you took a peak at our bios and just want something different? EMDRIA (the international association of EMDR) has a great therapist directory that you can access here. If you have more questions or need more support finding someone that may be a fit for you, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will try to answer all of the questions!
Begin Your Healing Journey Today with EMDR Intensives
You don’t have to stay stuck in the patterns of your past. EMDR intensives offer an opportunity to heal deeply and starting feeling worthwhile again.
Ready to learn more about EMDR intensives? Schedule your complimentary 15-minute consultation to learn more!
How to Find EMDR Intensives Near Me
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes! Some clients actually find EMDR to be more effective online due to being able to be in their own space and being able to decompress at home afterwards. We can use the same range of bilateral stimulation that we would in person via online EMDR therapy. We have online EMDR therapists in MN, CO, WI, FL, VT, DE, SC, & CA.
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Online EMDR therapy does not make you forget the memory, but rather supports in that memory losing it’s emotional charge. Instead of thinking of a memory and having strong emotional reaction to it such as fear, anxiety, or overwhelm, you would just simply remember it in the way you would other memories that are neutral such as what you had for dinner last night.
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This is a great question and one that is very hard to answer because it depends on the individual. Most individuals find that online EMDR therapy leads them to find healing quicker than traditional talk therapy, but all depends on how much someone is coming in with, how frequent they are seen, and how their brain responds to processing.
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EMDR was initially created and researched while utilizing 90 minute sessions. Online EMDR therapy intensives are simply longer sessions, sometimes up to several hours, in which you are meeting with your therapist and doing online EMDR therapy. The benefit to online EMDR therapy intensives is that individuals typically find healing a lot faster. Intensives can be especially useful if you are limited on time, want to progress through treatment quickly, or if you just need more time with your clinician. We offer online EMDR therapists in MN, CO, WI, CA, VT, SC, FL, & DE.
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EMDR is used to treat a wide variety of concerns such as:
Intrusive thoughts
Overwhelm
Flashbacks
Childhood trauma
Intrusive thoughts postpartum
Postpartum anxiety/depression
Birth trauma or pregnancy loss
Traumatic loss of a loved one
And much more!