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EMDR Intensives in La Quinta (and Telehealth in CA)

If you’re experiencing persistent rumination, intrusive replay, trauma-bonded relationship patterns that feel difficult to exit, or irrational fears you want control over—EMDR can help reduce the emotional charge and retrain the brain’s threat response so you can move forward with clarity.

My intensives offer focused, accelerated trauma therapy for meaningful change in a structured container.

Book a Free 15-Minute Intensive Call

Open access. We’ll confirm fit, answer questions, and recommend the right container and next steps.

New to EMDR?

EMDR is a structured therapy approach used to treat difficult life experiences that keep the mind and body stuck in loops—rumination, reactivity, shutdown, avoidance, and intrusive replay. If you’d like a clear overview before we talk, you can watch the short EMDR videos in the Healing Library. Visit Healing Library →

How EMDR Intensives Work

  1. Free 15-minute call to confirm fit and clarify what you’re seeking.
  2. Assessment + target planning so the work is paced, structured, and clinically intentional.
  3. Intensive session(s) with regulation breaks and resourcing built in.
  4. Integration plan to stabilize gains and support real-life follow-through.

Who Intensives Are For

  • Persistent rumination, intrusive replay, or feeling “stuck” despite insight
  • Trauma-bonded relationship loops that feel difficult to exit or emotionally unhook from
  • High-functioning burnout, cumulative stress, and identity erosion
  • Irrational fears (phobia-like responses) you understand logically but can’t control emotionally
  • Grief, betrayal, moral injury, or difficult experiences that still activate your nervous system

Intensive Packages & Investment

Intensives are private pay and billed at $225 per hour. During your free call, we’ll identify the most appropriate container based on fit, readiness, and the scope of what you want to address.

Insurance note: Due to session length and structure, EMDR intensives are private pay and are not billed to insurance.

3-Hour Intensive

Best for a defined target: a specific trigger loop, fear response, single incident, or a contained relational pattern you want to interrupt with clarity and structure.

  • Target clarification + readiness check
  • Resourcing + regulation supports
  • EMDR processing with clinically paced breaks
  • Stabilization + next-step plan

Investment: $675

5-Hour Intensive

Best for more complexity: linked targets, entrenched rumination, trauma-bonded relational loops, or nervous system reactivity that requires more preparation and pacing in one extended day.

  • Expanded assessment + target map
  • Phase-oriented preparation + resourcing
  • Extended processing with structured regulation breaks
  • Integration plan to support consolidation

Investment: $1,125

3-Day Intensive (5 hours/day)

Best for complex trauma histories, dissociative features, moral injury/cumulative exposure, or cases that require phased stabilization and multiple processing blocks to support depth without overwhelm.

  • Structured preparation + pacing plan
  • Three processing blocks across three days (5 hours/day)
  • Integration plan to stabilize gains between days and after completion
  • Optional coordination with an existing therapist (with consent)

Investment: $3,375

10-Session Package (60-minute sessions)

For clients who prefer consistent weekly work rather than an intensive format. This package offers a reduced overall rate for committed treatment over time.

Investment: $2,000 (includes $250 savings)

Advanced EMDR Training & Clinical Skill Set

Intensive work is grounded in standard EMDR therapy and informed by advanced training in complex trauma, moral injury, and crisis/early intervention. Specific interventions are selected based on clinical fit, readiness, and safety.

View advanced EMDR trainings
  • EMDR for Moral Injury (Warriors/First Responders/Medical Professionals) — integrating EMDR for moral injury repair, including existential and spiritual rupture, identity injury, and the aftermath of high-stakes responsibility.
  • EMDR Early Intervention & Crisis Response (EEI Suites) — advanced disaster/crisis-response training integrating 4 ELEMENTS, G-REP, G-TEP, R-TEP, ASSYST, IGTP-OTP, and PRECI protocols; structured triage; levels of care; and field-adapted EMDR for high-intensity crises, disasters, and unstable environments.
  • Flash Technique (advanced strategy) — used when clinically appropriate to reduce initial disturbance and support stabilization, particularly when clients feel overwhelmed, avoidant, or prone to shutdown before moving into deeper reprocessing.
  • EMDR-AIP Intervention for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) — applying the Adaptive Information Processing model to address developmental trauma, attachment injury, and associated negative core beliefs.
  • EMDR Treatment of Complex PTSD — phase-oriented stabilization and reprocessing for chronic trauma histories, dissociative features, and entrenched relational/identity impacts.
  • Engaging Teens’ Protective Parts to Reprocess Traumatic Memories — parts-informed strategies to work collaboratively with adolescent protectors and improve access to trauma targets with consent and safety.

Additional advanced frameworks integrated into intensive work

  • Implicit vs. Explicit Memory (AIP-informed) — differentiates implicit body-based activation from explicit narrative memory to guide precision treatment.
    • Targets “felt-sense” loops when insight isn’t shifting physiology.
    • Informs target selection, pacing, and intervention choice.
  • Defenses & Avoidance (Phase 2 readiness) — treats avoidance as protection—not resistance—so processing stays safe and effective.
    • Assesses function/cost of defenses before pushing processing.
    • Uses stabilization + titration to stay within the window of tolerance.
  • Dissociation Continuum (assessment + pacing) — uses a continuum framework to tailor EMDR for dissociative features and fragmentation risk.
    • Screens for dissociation and adjusts history-taking/processing load.
    • Prioritizes resourcing + careful target sequencing to reduce flooding/destabilization.

Techniques are chosen clinically—not automatically—so your treatment remains paced, structured, and safe.