Private-pay extended psychotherapy • California telehealth
Flash & EMDR
Intensives
High-Impact Trauma Recovery.
Compressed Timeframes.
Accelerated Resolution.
Two ways to begin. One EMDR-trained treatment framework.
Private-pay extended-format psychotherapy for high-performing and high-responsibility adults who value privacy and concentrated clinical time. Flash-Focused and EMDR 2.0 are starting preferences; the treatment plan stays adaptable.
You do not have to tell the story. In Jillian’s Flash-focused work, the target remains private.
Jillian Ellison, M.A., LMFT 156597
EMDRIA Certified Therapist™
Advanced training in Flash Technique and EMDR 2.0
- Entirely private pay • No insurance • No superbills
- Telehealth only • Adults physically in California
The Intensive Application is required before a fit call is considered. Only selected applicants may be invited after clinical-fit review. Submission does not establish a therapist-client relationship, guarantee acceptance, reserve an appointment, or confirm that an intensive is clinically appropriate.
The meaning.
The person.
For the person behind the professional role
Still showing up.Not feeling like yourself.
You may be leading, treating, advising, creating, or caring for someone who depends on you. Your responsibilities keep moving—even when a memory, trigger, or emotional pattern keeps pulling you back.
This work is designed for high-performing and high-responsibility adults: professionals, executives, founders, healthcare providers, attorneys, clinicians, leaders, creatives, and caregivers. Neurodivergent and sensory-sensitive adults are welcome when an intensive is clinically appropriate.
You can seek specialized, concentrated trauma treatment without organizing your life around months of weekly appointments. Jillian assesses whether the format—not just the schedule—fits you.
How Jillian assesses whether an intensive fitsOne pathway • Your starting preference
Choose a starting preference.
You can name what feels most approachable without choosing a complete treatment protocol. All three selections use the same Intensive Application, duration-based packages, fees, and clinical-fit process.
Flash-Focused Intensive
You do not have to tell the story. You privately identify the target; conscious attention stays with a Positive Engaging Focus. Jillian guides the work verbally through a simple counting structure and asks what changed—not what happened.
No story. No light bar. No pulsators. No self-tapping.
Begin with Jillian’s Flash approach without committing to Flash-only treatment. Her delivery does not use bilateral stimulation. This simpler sensory experience may feel more workable if rapid visual tracking, buzzing devices, alternating audio, or repetitive tapping feel irritating, distracting, or overstimulating.
EMDR 2.0 Intensive
The selected target receives more direct attention than in Flash while working-memory demands are intentionally increased. Detailed storytelling is not the goal. The work may use eye movements and additional cognitive tasks, with sustained attention to a complex target or interconnected memory network.
EMDR 2.0 does not automatically require a light bar or pulsators. Jillian discusses, individualizes, and clinically guides any eye-movement or cognitive task, adjusting the demands and pacing through assessment, consent, and your response.
Help Me Decide
You do not need to determine the full protocol before applying. The application and clinical-fit review can clarify your goals, concerns about treatment, privacy needs, and sensory preferences.
Jillian can help determine which starting approach appears most workable—or whether an integrated plan may be clinically appropriate.
These buttons lead to the same application section. A starting preference is not a separate service, an appointment, acceptance, a promise to use one method exclusively, or a prediction of outcome. Preferences remain part of the clinical conversation.
What stays in the foreground
Different demands on attention.
Both approaches involve working memory—the limited-capacity workspace for information in the moment. The practical difference is what receives priority and stays in conscious attention.
Flash-Focused
The target is identified. It is not rehearsed. Jillian does not require narration, summarization, explanation, description, or disclosure of the event. The privately identified target receives lower priority while conscious attention remains with the Positive Engaging Focus.
In Jillian’s Flash-focused work, she does not use bilateral stimulation: no light bar or moving beam, finger tracking, vibrating pulsators, alternating tones, self-tapping, or butterfly hugs. Published Flash approaches vary; this describes Jillian’s delivery at Beneath the Surface Therapy.
EMDR 2.0
The target is engaged more directly. Working-memory demands are intentionally increased, potentially through eye movements and additional cognitive tasks. The target or interconnected memory network may remain the focus for more sustained work.
Jillian adjusts the approach and pace to the assessment, present stability, and treatment response. The no-bilateral-stimulation distinction belongs to her Flash delivery—not to every EMDR 2.0 application.
EMDR 2.0 brings the target more directly into the foreground. Flash identifies the target without asking you to keep it there.
This is a comparison of the clinical experience, not proof of a specific neurological mechanism or a claim that Flash is universally safer or superior. Neither approach is a self-treatment exercise.
Clinical adaptability
The method follows the treatment plan.
Flash began within the broader EMDR framework. Flash-Focused and EMDR 2.0 are possible starting preferences—not commitments to stay with one technique regardless of your needs.
You are not trapped inside a technique. The method follows the treatment plan—not the other way around.
A Flash-Focused preference does not promise Flash-only treatment. Jillian may remain with Flash, slow the work, narrow or contain a target, transition into EMDR 2.0, or integrate another clinically appropriate EMDR-based strategy.
Any change follows assessment, target response, present stability, informed consent, and clinical judgment. Jillian discusses adjustments; your preferences and consent continue to matter. A transition is not a failure of Flash or of the client, and it is not automatic or forced.
Preparation, processing & integration
- 01 • Prepare
Map the work.
Jillian uses the Intensive Application and, when offered, the initial fit call to begin preliminary target mapping. Within the intensive, she refines that map through assessment and preparation and establishes ways to pause, stay present, and communicate.
- 02 • Process
Protect the momentum.
Uninterrupted processing blocks reduce week-to-week fragmentation. The reserved time includes clinically appropriate breaks, reprocessing, and integration—not pressure to process without pausing.
- 03 • Integrate
Review what changed.
Integration is part of reprocessing. One included 45-minute post-intensive follow-up reviews how change unfolded, any remaining disturbance or new material, and whether another intensive is appropriate.
EMDR, the AIP model & the Flash Technique
A whole approach, not just eye movements.
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is an eight-phase psychotherapy that includes history taking, preparation, assessment, processing, closure, and reevaluation. Eye movements and other dual-attention tasks can be part of EMDR-based treatment; they are not part of Jillian’s Flash-focused delivery.
The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model guides Jillian’s understanding of connections among experiences, present triggers, emotions, body sensations, and beliefs. Treatment considers both distress and the adaptive experiences and resources available to support you. AIP is a clinical framework, not conclusive proof of one neurological mechanism.
Flash within the same framework.
In Jillian’s Flash work, assessment, preparation, consent, and communication about current needs do not require disclosure of the target’s story. Between sets, she asks about changes and remaining disturbance. A target may become foggy, distant, less vivid, smaller, emotionally neutral, or easier to observe without feeling trapped inside it.
The broader treatment plan still includes target mapping, pacing, closure, and reevaluation. Neither approach erases memory or guarantees a particular outcome.
The target and the wider treatment plan
What may change.
What may need more time.
A defined memory, image, trigger, or reaction can be a focus. The complexity of its connections—and what remains afterward—helps shape the treatment plan.
What may be addressed in an intensive?
Distressing memories & persistent triggers
Distressing experiences, intrusive replay, rumination, phobic fear, avoidance, or emotional and body-based reactions that remain intense despite understanding what happened.
Negative beliefs & identity disruption
Shame, self-critical beliefs, anxious anticipation, or emotional shutdown where painful experiences remain connected to self-trust or a sense of identity.
Grief & relationship injuries
Loss, betrayal, attachment injuries, sexual trauma, or experiences affecting trust, intimacy, and choice. The aim is not to erase grief or put a deadline on mourning.
Therapists & helping professionals
Intensive psychotherapy for the person behind the role: cumulative exposure, professional burnout, moral injury, grief, and systemic or ethical pressures that may warrant clinical attention.
These are possible areas for assessment, not diagnoses or promises of fit. Not all burnout is trauma, achievement is not proof of trauma, and not all relationship distress calls for trauma processing. Neurodivergence, consensual kink/BDSM, CNM, polyamory, sexuality, and identity are not presumed pathology or evidence of trauma.
How target pace can shape the block
In Jillian’s clinical work, some specific trauma targets have moved from highly distressing to neutral in less than five minutes. This is a target-specific, practice-based observation—not a universal timeline, guaranteed response, or proof that the entire treatment plan is complete.
Jillian has observed that Flash-focused work may sometimes allow several discrete, defined targets to be addressed within one reserved block when individual targets shift efficiently. EMDR 2.0 may devote more sustained time to one complex target or an interconnected memory network. This is her clinical observation and treatment-planning distinction, not a published universal formula.
No fixed target count or particular pace can be predicted. Target complexity, interconnected memories, present stability, the reserved duration, and individual response all matter. A rapid change in one target does not complete every connected symptom, belief, body response, or treatment need, or guarantee permanent change.
Formats & fees
Compare the formats.
Know what is included.
One pathway, with fees determined by reserved duration—not by starting preference. Beneath the Surface Therapy is entirely private pay, with no insurance acceptance, billing, or superbills. Jillian and each applicant agree on the format after clinical-fit review.
3-Hour Intensive
$675 total70% reservation deposit: $472.50
Remaining 30% balance: $202.50
5-Hour Intensive
$1,125 total70% reservation deposit: $787.50
Remaining 30% balance: $337.50
Multi-Day Intensive
$3,375 total70% reservation deposit: $2,362.50
Remaining 30% balance: $1,012.50
The reservation deposit is credited toward the total. It is not an additional charge. For card payment, only the remaining 30% balance is collected automatically 72 hours before the intensive under your written authorization.
Every package includes:
- Jillian’s pre-session review of your Intensive Application and the selective no-cost 15-minute initial fit call when offered after clinical-fit review.
- Preliminary target mapping using the Intensive Application and, when offered, the initial fit call.
- Approximately the first 30 to 60 minutes within the intensive for assessment, preparation, and refinement of the treatment map, depending on the intensive length, complexity, and clinical need.
- Target mapping, clinically appropriate breaks, and reprocessing.
- Integration within reprocessing—not a separately priced add-on.
- One 45-minute post-intensive follow-up, including with the three-day package.
The listed review, preparation, mapping, integration, and included follow-up are covered by the package price. Assessment and preparation occur within the reserved intensive; the call is not automatically offered to every applicant. The three-day package includes one follow-up in total, not one per day. No starting-preference surcharge or separate assessment, integration, or follow-up fee is added.
You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges. You may request one before scheduling. Learn about self-pay cost estimates (opens in a new tab).
Practical details
Questions before
you begin.
Details about location, continuity of care, payment, and follow-up.
How is clinical fit determined?
Jillian considers your goals, current circumstances, emotional and physical needs, ability to remain present during activation, available resources, and support after treatment. Individualized assessment determines clinical fit, preparation, pacing, and the amount of treatment needed. Sensory needs, neurodivergence, privacy, and caregiving responsibilities belong in that conversation.
Needing more preparation is not a personal failure. Significant dissociation, ongoing danger, or severe instability may point toward more preparation or a different treatment plan. Jillian discusses a different pace, additional support, or another level of care rather than trying to fit you into a preset program.
An intensive is not crisis or emergency care, a substitute for every form of treatment, or a promise to resolve every concern within a set number of hours. No uniform clinical outcome is guaranteed.
Where do Flash & EMDR Intensives take place?
Flash & EMDR Intensives and the included follow-up are offered by telehealth only. You must be physically located in California during every clinical appointment, with a sufficiently private space and reliable connection.
Preparation includes considering your environment, sensory and accessibility needs, comfort with the technology, and a plan for interruptions or loss of connection.
Mailing correspondence: 74801 Hovley Ln E #10253, Palm Desert, CA 92260. This is a mailing address only—not a clinical office. No in-person appointments take place there.
Can an intensive complement an existing therapist’s work?
Yes. An intensive may complement an existing therapy relationship when clinically appropriate. With your authorization, Jillian can coordinate the focus, timing, and follow-through with your therapist. Professional consultation is a different service from receiving therapy yourself.
What happens after the intensive?
Every package includes one 45-minute post-intensive follow-up. Jillian reviews how integration unfolded, any remaining disturbance or new material, and whether another intensive may be appropriate.
If more clinical work is appropriate afterward, the next option through this practice is another agreed 3-hour, 5-hour, or multi-day intensive. The practice does not offer standalone individual or couples psychotherapy, single-session follow-up bookings, or weekly/recurring care. Further treatment is not booked automatically or guaranteed to be appropriate.
When a different approach or level of care is needed, Jillian discusses coordination or referral. With your authorization, an intensive may also complement work with your existing therapist.
How do payment, cancellation, and rescheduling work?
Reservation and balance. For card payment, an authorized card is kept on file. The 70% reservation deposit secures an agreed intensive and is credited toward the total. Only the remaining 30% is collected automatically 72 hours before the intensive under your written authorization—not the full fee again.
Without a card on file, full cash payment is required to schedule.
Cancellation at least 72 hours before: receive a full refund of all amounts actually paid, whether that is the deposit alone or full payment. No cancellation fee is retained. Exactly 72 hours is timely.
Rescheduling at least 72 hours before: all amounts paid transfer to the replacement appointment, with no fee, forfeiture, or new deposit. If only the card deposit was paid, the remaining 30% is collected under the written authorization at the replacement intensive’s 72-hour deadline. A fully paid package transfers in full, with no further original balance due.
Cancellation fewer than 72 hours before: 30% of the total reserved intensive fee is retained and the remaining 70% is refunded.
Rescheduling fewer than 72 hours before: 30% of the total reserved intensive fee is retained, 70% transfers to the replacement intensive, and another 30% payment is required to restore full payment.
Cancellation refunds are processed within five business days of cancellation. For card payments, refunds return to the original payment method. The retained 30% is calculated from the total reserved intensive fee—not from the deposit. Late-change accounting assumes the full payment due before the intensive.
Full terms are provided in the signed financial agreement. These summaries concern the reserved intensive block; they do not create a separate penalty for the included follow-up or professional consultation.
What happens if a fully paid intensive is missed?
When no individually reviewed emergency exception applies, 30% of the total intensive fee is retained. The remaining 70% may be refunded, with the refund processed within five business days, or applied to a rescheduled intensive. Card refunds return to the original payment method.
If the 70% is transferred, another 30% payment is required to restore full payment for the replacement intensive. There is no separate no-show surcharge. The same funds are not both refunded and transferred.
What if an emergency affects attendance?
Contact Jillian as soon as reasonably possible. Emergency exceptions are reviewed individually; a fee waiver, full refund, or free rescheduling is not automatic.
Routine proof is not required solely to preserve refund or rescheduling consideration. After hospitalization, discharge documentation may be requested to determine when a return to intensive treatment is clinically appropriate—not simply to prove entitlement to a financial exception.
The practice is not an emergency response service. Immediate danger and crisis support require the urgent resources listed below.
Intensive Application
Apply first.
Then assess the fit.
An Intensive Application is required before a fit call is considered. After clinical-fit review, selected applicants who appear potentially appropriate may be invited to a no-cost 15-minute initial fit call.
From Intensive Application to an agreed intensive
Submit an Intensive Application.
Share your goals, current needs, location, and availability through SimplePractice. You do not need to narrate the traumatic event.
Clinical-fit review.
Jillian personally reviews the application for apparent fit. A call is not automatically offered to every applicant.
An initial fit call, when invited.
Jillian uses the Intensive Application and, when offered, the initial fit call for preliminary target mapping. The no-cost 15-minute call is not therapy, an open-access introductory call, a reservation, or acceptance for treatment.
Discuss the format.
Jillian and the applicant discuss the appropriate duration and starting preference, then review the treatment plan and written agreements.
Direct scheduling.
When an intensive is clinically appropriate and agreed, Jillian coordinates scheduling directly. The agreed reservation and payment arrangements secure it.
One shared Intensive Application
Begin with the same application.
Flash-Focused, EMDR 2.0, and Help Me Decide use this same application and review process. Share high-level goals, present symptoms or triggers, and what you want help addressing. Do not include a full trauma narrative, graphic details, clinical records, insurance identification numbers, or payment-card information. Trauma narration is not required. You can discuss starting preferences with Jillian; these buttons do not submit a preference.
Submitting an Intensive Application does not establish a therapist-client relationship, guarantee acceptance, reserve an appointment, or confirm that an intensive is clinically appropriate.
- Entirely private pay. No insurance or superbills.
- Intensive format. One 45-minute post-intensive follow-up included.
- California telehealth. Adults physically in California during every appointment, including the follow-up.
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From the Journal
Understand the work
before you begin.
Explore the clinical ideas, research, and distinctions behind EMDR, the Flash Technique, and attachment-related patterns.
Read the EMDR, Flash & attachment guides
What Is EMDR Therapy?
How the approach works, what its phases involve, and what to expect from treatment.
Read the EMDR article → Flash TechniqueWhat Is the Flash Technique?
Jillian’s no-story, verbally guided Flash delivery, its relationship to EMDR 2.0, and the distinction between clinical observation and research.
Read the Complete Flash Guide → AttachmentChildhood Trauma and Adult Attachment
Childhood trauma, attachment adaptations, and the patterns that can continue into adult relationships.
Read the attachment article →Meet Jillian • General contact • Current client portal (opens in a new tab)
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