EMDR Intensives

Alternatives to Weekly Trauma Therapy in Lancaster, PA and Online

If you’ve been in therapy for a while and still feel triggered, reactive, or emotionally pulled back into the same patterns, you’re not doing anything wrong. Weekly therapy is powerful, but it’s also structured to move slowly. Sessions end just as things begin to open. You regulate, you leave, and then you come back and start again the next week.

EMDR intensive therapy is different.

They create the space to stay with a memory, a belief, or a pattern long enough for your brain and your body to actually process through it, not just understand it.

This is a good fit if:

  • You’ve done therapy but feel stuck

  • You understand your trauma but your body still reacts

  • You want focused deeper work, not more surface level coping

  • You have a specific experience, or set of experiences, you want to process (medical trauma, birth, assault, relationship trauma)

  • You have a window of time where you can prioritize this work

Intensives can be half-day, full-day, or multi-day.

You don’t have to stay in the loop of understanding something intellectually while your body keeps reacting like it’s still happening. Sometimes the work needs more space. This is one way to create it.

Time Frame and Pricing

Half Day: $500

Full Day: $1000

Multiday Intensives available

Weekend Day: $1350

All intensives are individualized to you and timeframe will be discussed prior to scheduling.

What’s Included

Initial Consultation

All prep-work, including an intake session and integration session

Intensive EMDR

FAQs

What is an EMDR Intensive?

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An EMDR intensive is a longer format therapy session designed to allow for deeper, more sustained trauma processing than is often possible in weekly therapy. Rather than working in 50-minute sessions, intensives provide extended time for preparation, processing, and integration in a more focused and immersive format.


How is an EMDR intensive different from weekly therapy?

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Many clients find that just as they begin accessing deeper emotions, memories, or nervous system responses in weekly therapy, the session ends. EMDR intensives create more continuity and momentum, allowing us to stay with the work long enough for deeper processing and integration to occur.

EMDR intensives are not “faster therapy” in the sense of rushing healing. Instead, they offer concentrated support and dedicated space for meaningful therapeutic work.


Who are EMDR intensives best for?

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EMDR intensives may be a good fit for adults who

  • feel stuck in weekly therapy

  • are navigating trauma, anxiety, burnout, or attachment wounds

  • have insight into their patterns but struggle to create emotional change

  • want focused support around a specific memory, event, or theme

  • have limited availability for ongoing weekly sessions

  • are seeking deeper momentum in their healing work


Are EMDR intensives covered by insurance?

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EMDR intensives are private pay services and are not covered by insurance. If appropriate, a superbill may be available for possible out-of-network reimbursement


How long are EMDR intensives?

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Intensives are offered in several formats depending on your goals and needs. Options may include shorter focused intensives, full-day sessions, or multi-day formats. We will discuss recommendations together during consultation.