EMDR AND COUPLES INTENSIVES
Go Deeper, feel better faster
Online and In Person in Plano TX
What is an intensive?
Intensive Therapy is a powerful way to accelerate the healing that you would experience in a typical weekly therapy session. It provides an opportunity to devote 1 to 3 days to your healing or toward the transformation of your relationship. It requires a commitment, without distractions or excuses, and a willingness to do some hard emotional work.
For many people, traditional weekly sessions alone are too brief and infrequent to tap into the deeper, underlying issues that prevent change. Nor do they allow you to build enough momentum in session to translate insights into a change after the session is over. If you are at an impasse, the sustained, dedicated time an intensive can create the conditions to move you beyond the gridlock in your life.
Benefits of doing an intensive
✓ Get to the core issues faster so you can experience faster healing
✓ Fewer scheduling considerations/conflicts because it is concentrated into a few days versus once a week for several months
✓ Gain clarity around relational challenges that have persisted for years in just a few days
✓ Move directly into the working phase of therapy
✓ Cut your time in therapy down
how Does it work
EMDR Intensives
Prior to the EMDR Intensive, we meet for a Pre-Intensive Interview to determine the goal of our work together. We will look at what your life looks like now, your strengths, support system, stressors, ways you cope, and places where you want relief, growth, or to take a big step forward.
During the EMDR Intensive we focus on two things. 1) Make the painful stuff you are carrying hurt a lot less and 2) Help bring the good stuff closer to the surface so you can touch into its experience more. We will do this with EMDR and Somatic Therapy practices that often included guided meditations, movement practices designed to release the trauma held in the body, yoga, and breathing practices.
Depending on where you are in your healing journey, we may spend time working on your earliest relationships in life (i.e. attachment to your caregivers). For others, the focus is more on recent incidents that have occurred like discovery of a partner’s ongoing infidelity. This process can be very personal and customized to you.
After the EMDR Intensive, we meet for a Post-Intensive Interview to develop a plan to infuse the most meaningful parts of the experience into your life moving forward.
Couples Intensives
Perhaps a more in-depth couples experience is what you are looking for. Or you feel your relationship is on the brink of collapse and you need something to happen NOW. If so, consider doing a Couples Intensive. Over the course of two days, 5 hours each day, I will do a thorough assessment of your relationship struggles, identify painful and dysfunctional ways you’ve been reacting to one another, and teach new skills to move you out of your knee-jerk response and into a more collaborative way of relating.
A two-day Couples Intensive is the equivalent of 10 traditional couples therapy sessions typically scheduled over the course of 3-5 months. Progress is accelerated and amplified when therapy is offered in this concentrated, focused way.
Couples that decide to continue working with me post-intensive typically schedule 90-minute check-ins every 2-3 weeks for approximately 2-3 months.
Couples that choose not to schedule with me post-intensive will be offered suggestions to maintain their progress and support their new relational journey beyond the Couples Intensive in their follow-up session. This can be a powerful way to start your couples therapy journey and deeply beneficial when there has been long-term dissatisfaction in the relationship or sex addiction.
Please Note: Not every relationship is salvageable. But by the end of the two days, my hope is that you will have clarity about what to do next. I will do my very best to guide you toward relief and lay a path to relational health.
Jumpstart the healing process
FAQs
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Research on intensive-style therapy suggests several potential benefits. 1. Intensive therapy has been found to accelerate progress and lead to faster improvements compared to traditional therapy formats. The concentrated nature of the sessions allows individuals to delve deeply into their concerns, gain insights more rapidly, and experience significant changes in a shorter time frame.
2. Intensive therapy often increases client engagement and motivation. The immersive nature of the therapy experience, where individuals dedicate concentrated time to their mental health, can lead to heightened commitment and active participation in the therapeutic process. This increased engagement can contribute to more favorable outcomes.
3. Intensive therapy enables deep exploration and insight. The extended and focused duration of sessions provides an opportunity for individuals to thoroughly explore their concerns, gain self-awareness, and develop a deeper understanding of the underlying issues that contribute to their distress. Increased insight is associated with positive therapeutic outcomes.
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EMDR 1 Day Intensive $1300
6 face-to-face hours + pre-intensive resources/ assessments/ personalized treatment workbook + 60 min follow up session
EMDR 2 Day Intensive $1900
10 face-to-face hours + pre-intensive resources/ assessments/ personalized treatment workbook + 60 min follow up session
Couples 2 Day Intensive $2000
10 face-to-face hours + pre-intensive assessments + 90 min follow up session
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If your marriage is on the brink of ending a couples intensive can be the ideal approach. By investing in a couple of days you can figure out if your marriage is able to be saved or if the parting is the right path.
If you decide to separate as the result of what you learn during the intensive you can be supported through what the next steps look like.
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In-person at my office in Plano or online for residents of Texas.
Intensive sessions are similar to going on a personal growth retreat. It’s best to allow time outside of sessions to be unscheduled or filled only with self-care activities like exercise, bodywork (massage or yoga), or some form of creative expression.
For those traveling to Plano, I love to share a list of things to do to help you make the most of your time outside of the session.