About EMDR Intensives
- Lauren Dukes
- Aug 30, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 18
A cost effective approach to therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy is an approach that looks at past, present, and future concerns to address thoughts, emotions, sensations, and memories interrupting your life. EMDR uses different forms of dual attention stimulation, or activities that keep part of your awareness physically in the present, while allowing the other part of the brain to observe present stressors, challenges, memories, or fears of an imagined future.
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What is unique about an EMDR Intensive?
An EMDR Intensive
Is longer than the typical 50 minute session. Sessions may range from 75 to 360 minutes (6 hours).
Sessions may be scheduled multiple times within the same day, an entire day, several days in a row, and/or spread out within the same week.
Can address more than one challenge at a time and within a shortened time frame.
Although individual sessions are longer, the intensity allows for effectively addressing goals, decreasing distress, and increasing relief across fewer sessions.
Can be a less expensive therapy option over time; focusing on meeting your needs in several days or a week rather than months.
If you are already in therapy but are stuck on a certain issue, an intensive can enhance the current work you are already doing.
Helps to navigate challenges especially in areas of therapy where you have yet to see change.
Improves connecting adaptive beliefs your mind understands to be true but it does not fully feel like a true belief in your heart or body.
For example, there may be a thought "I deserve love." EMDR Therapy helps to bridge and strengthen the connection between heart and mind to really embody the belief.
Similar to regular talk therapy, we will follow up after the final session to check in on what you are noticing and make sure your therapy goals are met.
Because of the way that EMDR and especially EMDR intensives can be, I do not begin reprocessing without first creating safeness in relationship with a client. You deserve to heal while working with someone who will share the necessary information, enhance your natural grounding skills, work towards safeness, and collaborate with you through empowered choices to have a meaningful experience.
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