EMDR Therapy Intensives

Focused Support for When You’re Ready to Tend to What’s Beneath the Surface

You’ve Been Holding It Together, But At What Cost?

You’re the one others turn to. You keep things moving. You show up, even when it’s hard. But lately, the internal cost has grown too loud to ignore.

At work, you show up with strength and steadiness, even when your own capacity is stretched thin. At home, you're the caregiver, the planner, the one who anticipates everyone else's needs.

But somewhere along the way, you may have lost connection with yourself.

You might notice:

  • You’re constantly “on,” but underneath, you feel numb or anxious

  • It’s harder to be present with the people you love

  • You find yourself replaying old memories or stuck in loops of guilt, fear, or self-doubt

  • Rest doesn’t feel restorative, and even when you slow down, your body stays on high alert

Whether you're navigating burnout, grief, a history of trauma, or the quiet buildup of stress over time, it makes sense that something within you is asking for space to be witnessed, held, and worked through with care.

What is an EMDR Intensives?

An EMDR Intensive offers extended, uninterrupted time to gently explore and process the experiences that may be shaping how you feel, function, and relate. It’s an immersive, individualized experience that combines trauma-informed care with nervous system attunement.

Rather than stretching therapy across months or years, an intensive offers an opportunity to go deeper sooner. Some individuals find that this format allows for quicker movement through longstanding patterns or emotional material, while others simply appreciate the spaciousness to slow down and feel supported.

This isn’t about rushing or “fixing” yourself. It’s about coming into contact with the parts of you that have been protecting, bracing, or over-functioning, and offering them something new.

Why Choose an EMDR Intensive?

When life doesn’t give you much room to pause, intensives can provide a structured, supportive window to focus inward. This format is especially helpful when:

  • You’re stuck in patterns that no longer serve you and want to explore them more deeply

  • Your caregiving or leadership role leaves little time for weekly sessions

  • You’re feeling the impact of trauma, grief, burnout, or performance pressure

  • You’re ready to give yourself space to process, integrate, and reconnect with your internal compass

Using EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness-based tools, we’ll work with both your mind and body to tend to the places where your system may be holding stress, fear, or unresolved emotion.

Many individuals report feeling more clarity, relief, or internal spaciousness following this kind of focused support. While each experience is unique, healing doesn’t always have to take years, sometimes, when the timing is right and safety is in place, meaningful shifts can happen more quickly than expected.

Weekly Therapy vs. EMDR Intensives

Understanding the Difference

Weekly Therapy Might Be a Better Fit If You:

  • Are looking for consistent, long-term support

  • Want time between sessions to reflect, process, and practice

  • Are new to therapy and prefer to move gradually

  • Value the rhythm and continuity of ongoing weekly care

EMDR Intensives May Be a Better Fit If You:

  • Feel stuck or overwhelmed and want focused time to explore what’s underneath

  • Don’t have the flexibility for weekly sessions but still want deep support

  • Are facing a transition or life event that calls for extra care and clarity

  • Are ready to tend to unresolved experiences in a way that’s safe, efficient, and grounded

Both formats are valid and valuable. It’s just a matter of what feels most supportive for you right now.

What You Can Expect From an EMDR Intensive

Your intensive will be tailored to you; your nervous system, your capacity, your lived experience.

The Process:

Step 1: Free 45-Minute Consultation Call
We'll begin with a no-pressure conversation to explore what’s bringing you here, answer your questions, and determine if an intensive feels like the right next step for you.

Step 2: Personalized Planning + Intensive Workbook
If we decide to move forward, you’ll receive a trauma-informed EMDR Intensive Workbook to begin reflecting on your needs, experiences, and intentions. This helps lay the groundwork for your intensive and supports clarity around what you hope to explore. Together, we’ll co-create a structure and schedule that honors your time, capacity, and goals.

Step 3: The Intensive Session(s)
In our extended session(s), we’ll blend EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, IFS and mindfulness-based approaches to meet whatever arises with gentleness and skill. You’ll have space to pause, reflect, and integrate throughout the process, and we’ll continue using your workbook to support ongoing insight and grounding.

Step 4: Follow-Up Integration Call
1–2 weeks after your intensive, we’ll reconnect for a 45-minute follow-up call to reflect on your experience, check in with your system, and offer continued support. This session also provides space to clarify next steps, whether that’s additional integration, resourcing, or future work.

What People Often Experience

While every nervous system moves at its own pace, many people walk away from intensives feeling:

  • More grounded, centered, or connected to themselves

  • Greater insight into longstanding patterns

  • A sense of movement where there was once stuckness

  • Renewed access to clarity, calm, or choice

You may also notice a softening in your body, a deep exhale you didn’t know you were holding, or a sense of internal alignment beginning to return.

That said, EMDR Intensives are not a shortcut or a guarantee, they are simply a container for meaningful, compassionate exploration. Your system will let us know how deep we can go.

Financial Investment

Choosing to engage in an EMDR Intensive is a meaningful step, one that places your care, presence, and restoration at the center. While no therapeutic work can guarantee outcomes, many individuals report that the focused, immersive nature of intensives allows them to access and integrate material more deeply than in a traditional weekly format.

If you're contemplating this opportunity for deeper emotional growth, you're invited to begin with a free 45-minute consultation. There’s no pressure or commitment, just space to connect, explore your needs, and see if this offering resonates with you.

EMDR Intensive Options + Rates:

Half-Day (3 hours): $525
Full Day (6 hours): $1,050
Two Days (12 hours total): $2,100
Three Days (18 hours total): $3,150

Each intensive includes personalized preparation, your EMDR Intensive Workbook to support insight before, during, and after the experience, and a 45-minute follow-up integration call 1–2 weeks later.

Payment Details:

  • At this time, EMDR Intensives are not covered by insurance.

  • HSA, FSA, and Credit cards are welcome forms of payment.

  • The balance for your first day of treatment is due at the time of scheduling.

  • Two weeks before your scheduled intensive, your card on file will be charged for the remaining balance.

What’s Included:

These intensives are shaped to meet the needs of your whole system, not just your symptoms. In addition to EMDR, you may be offered elements of:

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Somatic Experiencing® (SE)

  • Mindfulness and breathwork

  • Sand Therapy

  • Movement-based grounding practices

You’re never required to engage in any particular modality. Everything is offered invitationally, and you’ll be supported in choosing what feels most aligned for you.

You Don’t Have to Do It All Alone

As a therapist who works with high-capacity individuals, caregivers, and first responders, I understand the weight of responsibility you often carry. You’re used to holding space for others and this is a space for you to be held.

In our time together, you can expect:

  • A steady, non-judgmental presence

  • A somatic and relational approach that honors your pace

  • Creative, responsive support and not a one-size-fits-all process

  • Spaciousness for emotion, rest, and reflection

No pressure. No rushing. Just care that’s tailored to where you are and where you’re ready to go.

Is an EMDR Intensive Right for Me?

It might be, especially if you’re:

  • Feeling stuck and ready to explore more deeply

  • Navigating burnout or emotional overwhelm

  • Wanting to address unresolved trauma without committing to long-term therapy

  • Curious about what might be possible in a supported, focused container

It might not be the best fit if:

  • You’re in an acute crisis or navigating current safety concerns

  • You’re hoping for a quick fix or to bypass feeling difficult emotions

You don’t have to keep doing it all alone. Whether you’re ready to dive in or just exploring options, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

Ready to Begin?

Hello, World!

A 45-minute, no-pressure space to ask questions, explore fit, and imagine what support could look like.

FAQs

  • EMDR Intensives offer a dedicated space to go deeper than traditional weekly sessions allow. Instead of the standard 50-minute format, intensives are scheduled in half-day, full-day, or multi-day blocks, giving us uninterrupted time to focus on the parts of you that have been holding it all together.

    You'll be supported with EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness practices, and grounding activities.

    Prior to your intensive, you’ll also receive a guided workbook to help you clarify intentions and track insights before, during, and after your session.

  • You can absolutely participate in an EMDR Intensive while continuing to see your current therapist. Many people come to Meadow Grove Counseling for an intensive to focus on a specific issue or to deepen work they've already started in weekly therapy.

    I’m happy to collaborate with your existing provider (with your written consent) to support continuity of care and ensure the work we do together complements what you're already exploring.

    This experience is designed to support and not replace your existing therapeutic relationship.

  • If you’re feeling emotionally overwhelmed, stuck in patterns you can’t quite shift, or burnt out from carrying the needs of others while neglecting your own, this format may offer the focused space you’ve been craving.

    Intensives are especially supportive for individuals in caregiving and leadership roles (e.g., first responders, healthcare workers, therapists, and high-capacity professionals), who want a more immersive experience without the weekly therapy commitment.

  • It depends on your goals. Many people experience meaningful shifts in just one intensive, while others return for additional sessions or choose to integrate the work into ongoing weekly therapy.

    This is not a shortcut to healing, but it may allow you to access deeper material and feel movement in a shorter period of time. You’ll also receive a follow-up call 1–2 weeks after the intensive to support integration and explore next steps, if desired.

  • Each intensive includes:

    • A complimentary 45-minute consultation to explore your needs and ensure the format is a good fit

    • A personalized workbook to guide your reflection before, during, and after the experience

    • A half-day (3 hrs), full-day (6 hrs), or multi-day session tailored to your nervous system and pace

    • A blend of EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experiencing®, Sand Therapy, and body-based practices to support processing

    • A 45-minute follow-up call for integration and continued support

  • Current rates are:

    • Half-Day (3 hours): $525

    • Full Day (6 hours): $1,050

    • Two Days (12 hours total): $2,100

    • Three Days (18 hours total): $3,150

    Insurance does not currently cover EMDR Intensives, but HSA, FSA, and credit cards are welcome.

    Your first session is paid at the time of scheduling. Two weeks prior to your intensive, your card on file will be charged for any remaining balance.

  • That’s a beautiful and powerful place to be. Many people seek out EMDR Intensives not because they’re in crisis, but because they feel ready to explore something more deeply; an old belief that’s still lingering, a pattern that keeps showing up, or a subtle undercurrent of tension that never fully resolved.


    An intensive can offer space to gently revisit past experiences from a place of greater internal resourcing and perspective. When you're not in survival mode, your system may feel more available to engage in meaningful integration and embodied clarity.


    This work isn’t only for those in distress. It can also be a supportive next step for those who want to honor the progress they’ve made and feel even more grounded in their growth.

  • That’s completely okay. The 45-minute consultation call is a space to ask questions, feel into what’s possible, and take your time.

    There's no pressure or expectation to decide right away. If the intensive format doesn’t feel like the right fit, we can, depending on my scheduling availability, explore weekly therapy or other options together.