An EMDR Intensive is an intensive form of treatment for depression, anxiety, stress, or trauma, in a shorter amount of time. Typically, an EMDR session lasts 1 hour and happens once a week. EMDR intensives are typically 1, 2, or 3 days, and anywhere from 2 hours each day to 8 hours each day.
In a typical EMDR therapy session, one target is processed, and if that target is not finished then that target is put in a container for the next session, which is typically in a week. If 10 targets are identified, it can take 10 or more sessions to process all those targets, which could be 10 or more weeks. While this is still a revolutionary therapeutic experience compared to traditional “talk therapy,” EMDR Intensives can condense those 10 targets down to a weekend compared to 10 weeks or more.
Benefits of EMDR Intensives
How do you get started?
- Clients who are interested usually begin with several “normal,” therapy sessions to build rapport with the therapist, gather intake information such as history and other necessary data, complete resourcing, as well as create a treatment plan or list of targets for the EMDR session.
- While you are completing the initial sessions, if you desire, you can use your insurance. As of right now, insurance does not pay for EMDR Intensives. We offer payment arrangements for EMDR intensive sessions that can be made in a time schedule that is convenient for you. Please ask your therapist about this.
- Once your payments have been made for the EMDR intensives, or you make your upfront lump sum payment, the intensive will then be scheduled.
- If you are coming from out of town, we will assist in helping to arrange a room for your trip. as well as help you with access to information about local restaurants, etc.
- Your therapy session on the first day will be given a start and end time. For example, most of our intensives begin on Saturday or Sunday and start at 10 am and end at 4 pm. You will have an hour four lunch. This would be 5 hours of processing, but these times can vary per person.
- By the time you begin your intensive, a treatment plan with targets will be identified already, and processing will begin with the targets on your treatment plan.
- The day-long session will end with a period to ground so you feel stabilized when you leave. Depending on the plans you made with your therapist you may be done, or you may return the next day to finish your targets.
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.