EMDR Intensives
EMDR intensives are personalized treatment plans that zone in on specific treatment goals and are designed to fit into your preferred schedule and timeline to reach your goals.
Sometimes it’s obvious that a trauma or loss is causing ongoing distress. You may be walking around with grief, pain, intrusive thoughts or images, or perhaps related stress, sadness, anxiety, or anger. Or you might be struggling without being sure why. Often, past trauma or loss experiences are the cause, even if you can compartmentalize and not think about those memories. Whether the trauma/loss memories are the obvious focus of your distress, or the invisible cause, an EMDR intensive enables you to heal from the hurtful memories and eliminate (or greatly diminish) the symptoms.
EMDR intensives support those who feel like traditional talk therapy would be too disruptive to their already hectic lives and those who need to feel better now
Whatever the reason that weekly sessions just won’t work for you, an EMDR Intensive is an incredible opportunity to feel better faster and have accelerated therapy all at once.
EMDR Intensives are a more flexible model of therapy to provide you with the support you need quickly and effectively
- Perhaps you’ve had a felt sense that something profound has yet to change, but you’re not quite sure how to shift all the way into a new experience of yourself with your current therapist.
- Perhaps you’ve been meaning to get into weekly therapy for a while now, but your schedule has been so hectic and demanding that a weekly therapy appointment feels more overwhelming than supportive.
- Perhaps you’re needing help —- and a lot of it—- right now, and you don’t want to spend months in the traditional weekly model of therapy treatment to feel better.
- Perhaps you need more efficient support as the busy parent with kids doing virtual learning and/or the working professional who has a lot on your plate.
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During EMDR intensive sessions we can often address:
- Very specific traumatic events
- Recent traumatic events (within the past 6 months)
- Other significant events that currently cause you distress.
- Accelerated resourcing and coping skills development
- More extensive or persistent traumatic events
- Complex trauma
- Negative cognitions / beliefs
What does an EMDR intensive look like:
EMDR Intensives are extended sessions. This allows us sufficient time to dive deep into the issues and get a lot of work done in one session before sending you on your way. When we can do this for two, three or four sessions that's MONTHS of traditional 1-hour weekly therapy sessions progress within just a few days time. EMDR Intensive Programs are specialised to meet your needs.
What is included in an EMDR Intensive Program:
- A brief 15-minute pre-consultation interview to assess for suitability and to figure out if an EMDR intensive is the right fit for you; if it is not the right fit, we will provide you with suggestions for other therapy options.
- A 90-minute Intake assessment to understand the unpleasant beliefs, body sensations, emotions, or images from which you are seeking relief.
- A customized treatment program with targeted treatment goals. Therapy with Samantha is done either in person or virtually. Typically, an EMDR intensive program consists of 1 – 5 intensive (3 hour) sessions.
- Post-treatment follow-up appointment (50-minutes) to assess and support your adaptation to positive changes from treatment.
- Personalised treatment workbook, which allows you to work on your treatment goals before, during, and after our intensive sessions.
1-3 Day Intensives are useful for:
- A single incident or issue to target
- A recent event
- Focus on an ongoing or prolonged issue that happened in adulthood?
- Vicarious trauma from work
- Focus on a medical trauma experience
- Prolonged or complicated grief or a traumatic loss experience?
- Performance enhancement or behaviour change
3-5 Day Intensives are useful for:
- Attachment issues and childhood trauma?
- A “story clearing” intensive where all events in life are targeted
- A big trauma history and low resources
- Dissociation requiring more time and resourcing
- Ongoing intensive therapy is available if you are wanting long-term support toward several treatment goals
Who can benefit from an EMDR Intensive?
- Individuals of ANY age [EMDR therapy is effective for children too]
- Individuals who feel ready to intensively address a specific treatment goal
- Individuals seeking accelerated healing from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, phobias, and other emotional challenges.
- Individuals who prefer an immersive and concentrated approach to therapy.
- Individuals who feel highly motivated to do this work
- Individuals who do not require, or already have, other regular therapy sessions e.g. weekly/fortnightly/ monthly therapy
- Individuals who have previously experienced the benefits of standard EMDR therapy and wish to delve deeper.
This model is may not best for you if you…
- Are looking for supportive counselling/’ talk-therapy (rather than structured change therapy)
- Need an ongoing therapy relationship and do not have one yet
- Have difficulties that need stabilising first, such as a suicidality, self-harm, substance abuse, significant dissociative difficulties, or current life crises
- Are not ready for change
My goal as an Intensive EMDR therapist is to help you get relief more efficiently, so that you can get back to living your life instead of spending months or years in therapy.