EMDR Psychotherapy & Intensives

This work may be considered when assessment identifies concerns such as:

• Trauma, PTSD, complex or developmental trauma, and attachment injury
• Intrusive replay, rumination, avoidance, or persistent emotional activation
• Sexual trauma, betrayal, grief, moral injury, or relational wounds
• Shame, self-doubt, disrupted self-trust, or difficulty reading internal signals
• High-functioning overresponsibility, burnout, or emotional shutdown
• Fear responses that remain intense despite logical understanding

Insurance boundary: Eligible weekly individual psychotherapy is the only service that may be billed to an accepted insurance plan. EMDR or the Flash Technique may be incorporated when clinically appropriate; no particular intervention is guaranteed in advance.

Extended-format psychotherapy offers more uninterrupted time for preparation, processing, regulation breaks, closure, and integration. Intensives may be considered for an individual or couple when clinically appropriate.

Readiness matters: Significant dissociation, acute instability, ongoing danger, insufficient post-session support, or a need for broader stabilization may make a slower ongoing format safer. Intensives are private pay and are not submitted to insurance.

The Flash Technique may offer a lower-intensity entry point when direct focus on a distressing memory feels too activating. A target is identified and monitored while conscious attention remains with a positive engaging focus rather than prolonged immersion in the memory.

• Selected according to fit, consent, readiness, and safety
• May be used as part of preparation within a broader treatment plan
• Does not require detailed narration of the target
• Is not memory erasure, guaranteed painless treatment, or a substitute for trauma assessment

EMDR is a structured, eight-phase, trauma-focused psychotherapy rather than an eye-movement exercise used in isolation. Assessment, case conceptualization, preparation, target selection, reprocessing, closure, and reevaluation remain part of the work.

A diagnosis, symptom, or traumatic history does not make one protocol automatically appropriate. Preparation, medical collaboration, crisis support, another treatment, or referral may need to come first.

• Complex and developmental trauma
• Attachment injury and recurring relational triggers
• Chronic shame, self-doubt, and difficulty trusting internal signals
• Pursuit, withdrawal, control, pleasing, avoidance, shutdown, or overresponsibility
• Experiences that remain active despite substantial insight

• Sexual trauma and memories affecting body connection, intimacy, boundaries, or choice
• Persistent grief, identity disruption, and experiences that changed how safety is understood
• Betrayal and relational wounds
• Moral injury, cumulative exposure, and conflict between values and lived experience
• Shame or self-blame that continues after the event has ended

Therapists and helping professionals may be skilled at assessing, containing, and remaining functional while other people depend on them. Personal psychotherapy provides a different relationship from consultation: the focus is you, not only your clinical work.

• Burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary or vicarious trauma
• Cases, losses, or cumulative exposure that remain emotionally present
• Moral injury, ethical strain, perfectionism, or professional overfunctioning
• Difficulty receiving care without performing competence
• Personal trauma, relationships, sexuality, grief, identity, or intimacy concerns
• The cost of continually being the regulated and useful person in the room

Currently accepted for eligible individual psychotherapy:

• UnitedHealthcare
• Magellan Health
• Cigna / Evernorth

Credentialing in progress—not yet accepted: Blue Shield and TRICARE West.

Benefits and participation must be verified before insurance-based treatment begins. Intensives remain private pay even when a client has an insurance plan accepted by the practice.

Psychotherapy and EMDR intensives are scheduled and clinically managed through SimplePractice.

• Visa
• Mastercard
• American Express
• Discover
• JCB
• Diners Club
• Debit cards
• Eligible HSA cards
• Eligible FSA cards
• Zelle for approved balances

Clients are responsible for confirming HSA/FSA eligibility. Zelle instructions are provided privately after agreements are completed. Do not include clinical information in a payment memo.

Standard 60-minute appointments

At least 24 hours’ notice is required. Appointments canceled, rescheduled, or missed with less than 24 hours’ notice are charged the full scheduled fee.

EMDR intensives

At least 72 hours’ notice is required. With less than 72 hours’ notice, 30% of the total reserved intensive fee is charged.

• 3-hour intensive: $202.50 late-cancellation amount
• 5-hour intensive: $337.50 late-cancellation amount
• Three-day intensive: $1,012.50 late-cancellation amount

• Services are offered by telehealth for now.
• Psychotherapy clients must be physically located in California at the time of the session.
• Current clients should use the secure SimplePractice portal for clinical communication.
• Do not send records, diagnoses, insurance identification numbers, or detailed trauma history through a public website form.
• Website forms are not monitored for crisis support. Call 911 for immediate danger or call/text 988 in the United States.

1. Choose ongoing 60-minute psychotherapy or request an intensive consultation.
2. Review the fee, insurance boundary, payment methods, and cancellation policy.
3. Use the secure therapy pathway for ongoing individual psychotherapy.
4. Use the private-pay inquiry form for an EMDR intensive.