What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy designed to help people heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences. When disturbing events are unresolved distress remains. EMDR therapy helps the brain and body desensitize and reprocess the distress, reducing the emotional charge and allowing the trauma to heal. For many clients, signs of trauma will diminish or disappear once EMDR therapy is complete. The experience is still remembered, but the trauma response is resolved. Clients of EMDR therapy often report the memory feels more distant and less vivid and the intense emotional response to recalling the memory has subsided.
What are EMDR Intensives?
EMDR Intensive are longer, focused therapy sessions, typically ranging from 90 minutes to 3 hours of focused therapy per day, over several days or weeks. Intensives are designed to speed up healing by reducing the time between sessions and the duration of overall care. EMDR intensives offer the opportunity to deepening the healing processing by allowing extended time to work through traumatic memories while providing flexibility for clients who are seeking rapid relief.