EMDR Therapy Intensives in CA for Childhood Trauma, Reproductive Loss, & Birth Trauma
Helping you move through trauma, loss, and difficult experiences so they no longer take up so much space in your daily life.
You can’t stop bracing for the next bad thing to happen.
Maybe you keep replaying a birth experience that felt terrifying or out of control. Maybe the grief of a pregnancy loss still catches you off guard weeks later. Or perhaps becoming a parent has brought childhood wounds, fears, or patterns to the surface in ways you did not expect.
You may find yourself having flashbacks, feeling emotionally reactive, overwhelmed by intrusive thoughts, or unable to stop researching and preparing for the next bad thing to happen.
For some people, the loss itself happened months or years ago, but the grief, guilt, unanswered questions, or fear of it happening again still feel painfully close.
It could be that you:
Feel emotionally stuck despite previous talk therapy
Are worn out by white-knuckling life through anxiety, grief, or hypervigilance
Want more than just getting through–you’re ready to actually heal
Years of weekly therapy is not the only path to healing trauma.
EMDR therapy intensives offer an opportunity to make meaningful, long-term change on unresolved topics in a short period of time. Rather than spending months or years touching on difficult experiences for 50 minutes at a time, an intensive allows us to stay with the work long enough to build momentum, move through emotional blocks, and process experiences more fully and completely. For many clients, this format feels less fragmented and more productive than revisiting painful material week after week without enough time to reach deeper resolution.
What Is EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based trauma therapy that helps the brain process distressing experiences that continue to feel emotionally charged or unresolved.
EMDR is recommended by leading health organizations including the American Psychological Association (APA), World Health Organization (WHO), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the treatment of trauma and PTSD.
How EMDR Therapy Works
During EMDR, we use bilateral stimulation (eye movement side to side or tapping alternating sides of the body) while carefully processing traumatic memories, body sensations, and negative beliefs connected to past experiences. Over time, many clients notice that memories feel less overwhelming, triggers feel less intense, and they are able to move through daily life with a greater sense of ease.
Why Work With Me?
As a therapist who has lived experience and specialized training in childhood trauma, reproductive loss, and birth trauma, I understand that some experiences change the way you see yourself, your body, your relationships, and your sense of safety in the world.
My role is to help you process what feels unfinished with both attunement and structure, creating enough support for the work to feel manageable while helping you move toward meaningful healing.
Through EMDR intensives, we can spend dedicated time focusing on what matters most, so you can stop carrying it alone and begin moving forward with greater confidence and peace.
What an EMDR Therapy Intensive Looks Like
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The workbook is your starting point for your EMDR experience. It gathers your history, helps identify the experiences you want to target in EMDR, and introduces coping tools you'll draw on throughout the process. Coming in prepared means your sessions can go deeper, faster.
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Before any processing begins, we meet to review your history and what brought you here, develop coping tools you'll use throughout the process, and make sure you're set up so the EMDR sessions can get started without any time wasted.
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One-day intensive (3 hours) Best suited for single-event trauma. Sessions are done in 90 minute increments with a break, giving you space to process without being depleted.
Two-day intensive (6 hours) Best suited for complex trauma, multiple trauma events, or C-PTSD. Spreading the work across two days allows us to go deeper into experiences that are layered or interconnected, without rushing what needs room to unfold. Sessions are done in 90 minute increments with breaks.
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After processing, we meet within 2 weeks of your last EMDR session to reflect on what shifted, consolidate your gains, and make sure you leave with a clear sense of what comes next.
INVESTMENT
Two-Day Intensive — $2,800
Includes:
EMDR Intensive Workbook
90-minute preparation session
6 hours of EMDR processing
50-minute integration session
One-Day Intensive — $1,400
Includes:
EMDR Intensive Workbook
90-minute preparation session
3 hours of EMDR processing
50-minute integration session
An EMDR intensive can help you:
Spend less time consumed by anxiety, fear, or intrusive thoughts
Process painful experiences without becoming overwhelmed by them
Feel more present with yourself and the people you love
While every person's experience is different, clients often leave an EMDR intensive feeling like they finally got to the heart of something they have been carrying for a long time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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If you've been carrying something that feels stuck and you're ready to do focused, dedicated work on it, an intensive is likely a good fit. Most people who book have already tried talk therapy and want to go deeper, or they want to move through something without waiting months for weekly sessions to add up. The preparation session is designed to confirm readiness before any processing begins, so if the timing isn't right, that conversation happens before the intensive, not during it.
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When you book, you'll receive the EMDR Intensive Workbook, which covers your history, helps identify what you want to focus on, and introduces coping tools you'll use throughout the process. Completing it thoughtfully before your preparation session means we can use that time well and hit the ground running. Honest is more useful than polished.
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Plan for quiet time with no commitments after your EMDR sessions. You may feel tired and tender. This might look like clearing your schedule after the sessions, arranging childcare, and letting your significant other know what to expect and how to support you. This helps to give the work the conditions it needs to settle.
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This is one of the reasons the preparation session comes first. Before any processing begins, you'll have a set of coping tools that are specific to you and practiced in advance. Some emotional activation between sessions is normal and doesn't mean something has gone wrong; it often means the processing is continuing. I am available via email or text after your sessions are done to answer any questions or concerns you may have.
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For most people, the weeks after an intensive include a noticeable shift in how they relate to what they processed. Things that felt charged may feel quieter and less emotionally charged. Some people notice changes quickly while others notice them more gradually. The integration session is designed to help you understand what to expect and how to support yourself as things continue to settle.
