Intensive Therapy

Are you looking for a breakthrough?

It’s time to approach therapy
differently.

Are you frustrated by the 50 minute session? Do you feel like you’re just getting started and then it’s time to go? Do you feel like you have so much to work on that you’re going to be in therapy for years to see the results you want?

Maybe you have already been in therapy for months or years with little movement towards your goals. Maybe you’ve tried a couple different therapists or approaches, but nothing seems to click. You’ve expressed feelings and gained insight into your worries, but it’s not enough. You’re still stuck in the same mental, emotional, and relationship patterns. You’re repeating the same cycles you are determined to break.

You’ve tried the self-help route, going down the YouTube rabbit hole to see what you can glean from free content. There’s some good stuff there, yet it’s still not enough. You’ve cried and prayed for a change. Where is God in all of this?

To get different results, you have to be willing to do something different, something a little uncomfortable.

How about going to therapy for a day instead of an hour?

Intensive Therapy is the Answer

By giving your brain the gift of time, you are able to unlock places in your mind that are guarded during a 50 minute session. Maybe you want to go deep, but you know you have to return to work, pick up the kids, or re-enter the chaos of life. You may start deeper level work with your therapist, but then get de-railed by other life things that come up you feel you should talk about. Meanwhile, your symptoms continue day after day after day.

Who decided that life change in therapy has to be achieved in one hour a week over months or years?

Processing negative life experiences or trauma with EMDR doesn’t require time in between sessions. In a longer session, you are able to give your brain the time and space to loosen what is physiologically and emotionally stuck. Things will come to the surface that you haven’t thought about in a long time or didn’t realize were relevant to today.

A longer session allows you to get to the root of your issues. The thread that has woven itself through your life is much easier to see when we don’t have to stop and start the work.

If therapy or EMDR hasn’t worked for you before, you can still achieve the results you are looking for in intensive therapy.

I love to help people breakthrough!

  • 20 years of experience as a therapist and 5 years of doing intensive work.

  • EMDR Consultant — the highest level of training in EMDR.

  • My clients describe me as calm, compassionate, and direct.

Why EMDR therapy?

If you’re tired of telling your life story in therapy, walking out feeling worse than when you walked in, EMDR is for you! EMDR therapy works at a brain level to align your mind, emotions, and body sensations. By the end, your mind and body will feel calmer.

If you have memories that haunt you, EMDR therapy will help you process these memories into the long term storage area of the brain, so they don’t continue to come back up as an intrusive memory or flashbacks. Past clients have told me they thought they would never be able to feel better about certain memories, but they did after EMDR therapy. You can remember what happened to you without being overwhelmed by it.

What are people saying about EMDR intensive therapy?

“I tried talk therapy, and it didn’t help. EMDR is a good method of getting out of your head and into your emotions. It was helpful not to have time constraints. I couldn’t have done this in a 50 minute session.”

Complex trauma survivor

Intensive therapy client

“My brain needed the space to move at its own pace. This was self-care for me.”

Client who worked through a phobia

Intensive therapy client

“If you’re willing to be totally open and vulnerable, do it. You have to be at a place where you want the healing. It’s intense for a reason. You gotta dig deep.”

Trauma abuse survivor

Intensive therapy client

What does an intensive day look like?

9:00am

Settle in and set the direction

We will engage in an activity to help you settle your mind, and we will briefly review what you desire to accomplish for the day — mapped out in the initial consultation.

Morning

Build on your strengths, then choose targets

The first part of the day involves identifying and building upon your strengths. We will be using EMDR to strengthen positive connections in your brain. Then, we will determine which memories or experiences to target with EMDR. We may start some EMDR before lunch.

12:00pm

Lunch

We will break for an hour, from noon to 1:00pm.

Afternoon

Past, present, and future

We will pick up where we left off with the EMDR. We want to clear out things from the past in your nervous system that are connected to present day issues, process present triggers, and work through how you would like to respond in the future.

4:00pm

Gains and a plan forward

Towards the end of the day, we will discuss gains and develop a plan moving forward. If the intensive spans multiple days, we will have activities to begin and end each day with more time for reprocessing or integration of other therapy models that might be needed.

Intensive therapy will be tailored to you. Whether you are trying to heal from childhood trauma, process a recent traumatic event, or learn skills to get out of OCD rituals, we will develop a plan based on your goals. You will have the full freedom to integrate therapy with your Christian beliefs, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide you through the process.

I want to find out more!

Please fill out the intensive pre-screening form. Once I receive it, I will reach out to you about scheduling an initial intensive consultation.

Frequently Asked Questions

After you fill out the pre-screening form, myself or my assistant will call and email you regarding setting up a 50 minute paid consultation. I will send you a variety of paperwork to fill out prior to the consultation, which will guide our conversation in developing a customized plan for your EMDR intensive experience.

Clients who are only wanting to reprocess 1-3 specific memories with EMDR often only need one day while clients with more in depth trauma histories or relationship issues benefit from longer intensive experiences. Clients traveling from out of state find a three day intensive helpful, and attend therapy Wednesday through Friday.

You don’t have to live here, but you do have to travel here. Middle TN is a great place to visit for a therapy retreat. We have hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, and parks all close to the office for your convenience. We are happy to provide recommendations in regards to travel arrangements. 

Virtual intensives are now available in Indiana. I do not have practice privileges in other states at this time.

I will give you guidance on what I believe the next steps of your treatment should be. If I think you would benefit from a different type of therapy, I will let you know that. I don’t take on anyone that I do not think would be appropriate for this type of experience. I want everyone who goes through the intensive to have a good experience and refer their friends!

At the end, we will discuss recommended next steps. Some clients feel good and want to see how day to day life goes. Some clients follow up with an individual weekly or biweekly therapist. Some clients prefer the intensive experience, feel like they have a lot more to process, and decide to schedule another intensive experience.

Absolutely! As long as you sign a release of information, I’m happy to communicate with your therapist before and send notes afterwards.

No. I wouldn’t have enough space in my schedule to record a podcast, write a book, pursue speaking, sell my online self-help course, and spend time with my family.

Intensive therapy costs $1500 per day. Half of the fee is due as a deposit to secure the date and the remainder of the fee is due the first day of the intensive.