BASED IN NEWPORT BEACH, SERVING ALL OF CALIFORNIA
Online EMDR Intensives
Focused, immersive therapy designed to create deeper momentum and meaningful change.
Sometimes weekly therapy is the right pace.
Other times, you may feel ready for a more immersive and intentional approach.
My EMDR intensives are extended 3-hour therapy sessions designed to help you stay engaged in the work long enough for meaningful emotional shifts to happen. Rather than stopping and restarting each week, intensives create space for deeper processing, nervous system regulation, insight development, and integration in a more focused and connected way.
This approach can be especially helpful for individuals who feel emotionally stuck, overwhelmed by recurring patterns, or ready to move through important work with greater depth and momentum.
What is an EMDR Intensive?
An EMDR intensive is an extended 3-hour therapy session that allows us to focus more intentionally on specific experiences, emotional patterns, triggers, fears, or goals.
Unlike traditional weekly therapy, intensives reduce the disruption that can happen between shorter sessions and create more continuity within the healing process. This often allows for deeper emotional processing, greater nervous system regulation, and stronger momentum toward meaningful change.
EMDR intensives are highly personalized and tailored to your emotional readiness, goals, nervous system capacity, and therapeutic needs. The process is collaborative, flexible, and paced in a way that feels supportive and manageable for you.
EMDR Intensives may be a good fit if you:
Feel stuck in recurring emotional, relational, or behavioral patterns
Want a more focused and immersive therapy experience
Have already developed insight in therapy but still feel emotionally reactive
Are motivated and ready to actively engage in deeper work
Have a busy schedule that makes weekly therapy difficult
Want support preparing for an important upcoming event or transition
Are seeking meaningful movement in a shorter period of time
Want to stay engaged in the work long enough for deeper shifts to occur
What can EMDR Intensives help with?
Performance anxiety and public speaking
Grief and loss
Self-esteem and confidence struggles
Emotional regulation difficulties
Fear of flying or other phobias
Burnout and emotional exhaustion
Major life transitions or emotionally significant events
EMDR intensives may be helpful for:
Trauma and distressing memories
Anxiety and panic attacks
Attachment wounds and relationship pain
Limiting or “blocking” beliefs
Chronic stress and nervous system overwhelm
Social anxiety and fear of judgment
Why choose an intensive format?
Focused momentum
Traditional weekly therapy can sometimes feel emotionally fragmented when important processing pauses between sessions. Intensives create the opportunity to remain engaged in the work longer, often allowing for deeper momentum and continuity.
Nervous system-focused healing
Healing is not only intellectual — it also involves helping the nervous system feel safe enough to respond differently. Extended sessions create more space for regulation, grounding, emotional processing, and integration without feeling rushed.
Highly personalized support
No two intensives are the same. Every intensive is customized to your specific goals, experiences, emotional capacity, and therapeutic needs.
Deeper emotional processing
Intensives allow us to move beyond surface-level coping and spend more intentional time addressing the underlying experiences, fears, emotional wounds, and patterns contributing to distress in the present.
What is a 3-hour EMDR Intensive like?
EMDR intensives are designed to feel supportive, grounded, and manageable — not emotionally overwhelming.
Before beginning reprocessing work, we spend time:
identifying goals and treatment targets
understanding your history and current challenges
strengthening coping skills and nervous system regulation tools
creating emotional safety and readiness for deeper processing work
During the intensive, we use EMDR techniques such as bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or sounds) to help the brain and nervous system process unresolved experiences and reduce emotional distress.
Breaks, grounding exercises, hydration, movement, and nervous system regulation are intentionally incorporated throughout the session. You remain fully aware and in control during the entire process and may pause at any time if needed.
The goal is not to force healing, but to create the conditions where meaningful healing and change can happen more effectively.
Intensives for upcoming events
EMDR intensives can also be incredibly effective for preparing for emotionally significant or high-pressure events.
This may include:
weddings
public speaking
travel
performances
career transitions
difficult conversations
medical procedures
major life changes
Even positive experiences can activate anxiety, perfectionism, fear of judgment, family stress, or unresolved emotional wounds. Intensives can help reduce emotional overwhelm while strengthening confidence, regulation, and your ability to stay fully present during important moments in your life.
Story Time…
I thought I needed help with public speaking anxiety. It turned out to be much deeper than that.
One of the reasons I became an EMDR client myself was because of Maid of Honor speeches. Every time one of my best friends would ask me to be their Maid of Honor, my reaction was, of course, genuine excitement and happiness… but also coupled with the zing of internal panic: NOT ANOTHER SPEECH.
The anxiety leading up to public speaking would completely overshadow the joy of the wedding itself. Instead of being fully present and enjoying such an important moment, I would spend months overthinking, anticipating, rehearsing, and dreading the speech.
After doing an EMDR intensive focused on public speaking anxiety, I noticed a huge shift. For the first time, I felt like I actually had permission to enjoy myself at weddings instead of mentally preparing for disaster the entire time.
What surprised me most was the realization that my fear of public speaking wasn’t really just about public speaking. Through the process, I uncovered deeper experiences and negative core beliefs I had been carrying for years — beliefs connected to judgment, pressure, perfectionism, and fear of rejection and getting things wrong that were affecting many other areas of my life, too.
I may have started EMDR for public speaking anxiety, but the process ended up being incredibly eye-opening, healing, and transformative far beyond the speeches themselves. That experience is also a huge part of why I went on to add EMDR to my own work as a therapist. I experienced firsthand how powerful it can be to not only understand something intellectually, but to truly help the mind and body stop reacting from those old patterns in the first place.
Who is a good candidate for EMDR Intensives?
EMDR intensives are often a strong fit for individuals who:
feel emotionally ready for deeper work
want a more immersive and intentional therapy experience
are motivated to actively engage in the healing process
have developed some emotional regulation or coping skills
are seeking more focused momentum than weekly therapy currently allows
Because EMDR can access emotionally intense material, emotional safety and nervous system stability are important parts of the process. In some situations — including active addiction, severe dissociation, or ongoing unsafe or highly unstable living environments — EMDR may be contraindicated.
The process is always collaborative, individualized, and paced in a way that feels emotionally safe and manageable.
EMDR Intensives can help you:
Process unresolved trauma and painful experiences
Reduce emotional and physical distress
Feel less reactive and overwhelmed
Shift long-standing emotional patterns and limiting beliefs
Improve nervous system regulation and emotional flexibility
Strengthen confidence and self-trust
Feel more grounded, present, and emotionally connected
Build momentum toward meaningful and lasting change
Sometimes deeper healing requires more space, intention, and support than weekly therapy allows.
You don’t have to continue carrying painful experiences, anxiety, or emotional patterns alone. Meaningful healing becomes possible when the mind and body finally have the opportunity to process what has remained unresolved with depth, intention, and support.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation
Let’s talk about whether a 3-hour EMDR intensive may be the right fit for you.