Online Intensive EMDR & Brainspotting Therapy For Women Over 40

What Is An EMDR / Brainspotting Therapy Intensive?

It wasn’t all that long ago that the only way to think of receiving EMDR or Brainspotting therapy was to travel to your therapist’s office for your weekly or bi-weekly session that would last 45-90 minutes.

For women like you, who juggle career and family responsibilities this traditional framework made it challenging to attend psychotherapy on an ongoing basis, or even at all.

Now, with the availability of online therapy your commute to a therapist’s office has been alleviated, and you have the flexibility of finding a psychotherapist located anywhere in your state. Progress! But perhaps for you, this progress still isn’t enough.

But the traditional model of psychotherapy is now shifting even further to meet your needs, by offering therapy intensives.

My passion is to share the powerful benefits of EMDR and Brainspotting with women over 40. Women who are ready to live the life they want, but have deeply held blocks to reaching their goals. Women who are ready to get to the root of, and heal, these blocks that are feeding a narrative of “I’m not good enough.”

If you’re someone who:

  • doesn’t have consistent or ongoing availability

    or

  • feels that just when you’re just digging in, it’s already time to end the session

    or

  • wants to supplement the work you’re doing with your coach or psychotherapist and is curious about doing an EMDR / Brainspotting intensive

    an EMDR / Brainspotting therapy intensive may be right for you.

Intensives allow you access to extended therapy sessions with a personalized treatment program that is designed to support your goals for your timeline.

An EMDR / Brainspotting intensive can be independent or be combined with the coaching or therapy you’re currently receiving.

You do not have to be in therapy currently or have ever attended therapy to do an intensive.

Your negative self-judgments don’t have to continue to infiltrate your personal growth.

Let’s explore how an EMDR / Brainspotting intensive can help you to move through past negative experiences and emotional barriers that keep you from fully embracing the life you want.

It is possible for you to discover the strength and joy that exists beyond the negative narratives and self-judgment that prevent you from living the life you desire.

Why Choose An Intensive?

  • You Want EMDR / Brainspotting as an Adjunct Therapy

    Perhaps you’ve had a nagging feeling that something profound has yet to change, but you’re not quite sure how to shift all the way into a new experience of yourself with your current coach or therapist. You’re curious about how intensive therapy can enhance your current work with your coach or primary talk therapist.

  • You Have a Demanding Schedule

    Perhaps you’ve been meaning to get into weekly therapy for a while now, but your schedule has been so hectic and demanding that a weekly therapy appointment feels more overwhelming than supportive.

  • You Want Help More Quickly

    Perhaps you’re seeking help, but don’t want to spend months in the traditional weekly model of therapy treatment to feel better. You’re interested in meaningful change but in a shorter timeframe.

  • You Prefer an Intensive Format

    Perhaps you are a current, weekly client who wants extra, focused support quickly, or you are a new client who just prefers to work intensively, or wants a hybrid of intensive and non-intensive therapy.

Contact Me For A Free Consultation

What Should I Expect From An EMDR / Brainspotting Therapy Intensive?

  • All EMDR / Brainspotting therapy intensives are conducted online.

    In my psychotherapy practice all sessions, including therapy intensives, are conducted online through the use of a HIPAA-compliant EHR video platform.

    I am happy to answer your questions about online EMDR and Brainspotting during your consultation.

  • EMDR / Brainspotting therapy intensives allow the opportunity to progress through your symptoms in a more succinct and focused way without the limitation of only having 50 minutes in a session.

    An intensive format may also decrease overall treatment time because fewer and lengthier sessions reduce the number of interruptions from having to stop at 50 minutes and overall time spent opening and closing each session.

  • For all new clients and returning clients who have not had an intensive with me, an intensive is a 15 hour program that looks like this:

    A free 30 minute phone consultation: to get an overview of you, your goals, answer your questions and determine if an intensive is right for you.

    If we decide to continue, we’ll meet via video for:

    A 90-minute pre-intensive session: This initial session prepares for the intensive. We will explore your current status and history in more detail. I will explain how EMDR and Brainspotting are conducted and answer your questions about the process. We will identify your goal for the intensive and pinpoint a starting point.

    Four 3-hour intensive sessions:

    EMDR and/or Brainspotting therapy are used to establish resources and reprocess the identified target(s).

    Each session starts with a debriefing from the previous session so we can continuously customize your intensive to meet your needs.

    Breaks are taken as needed.

    Along with EMDR and Brainspotting, other therapies are utilized as needed to support you. These therapies can include, but are not limited to, mindful awareness, parts work, and insight oriented therapy.

    In approximately the last half hour of each of these four sessions, we will check in and apply resources and mindful awareness skills to ensure you feel grounded and ready to end the session. An unfinished target will be “bookmarked” for our next session.

    A 60-minute post-intensive session: to debrief from your final reprocessing session, assess your therapy intensive experience, and identify the next steps to support applying positive changes from the treatment to your life.

    Sessions can be scheduled on a weekly basis or twice a week (with at least a 24-hour break in between each session), as scheduling allows.

    A 30-minute follow-up approximately 2-4 weeks after the intensive to check in and see how you have been and touch base on any changes you may have noticed since completing the intensive.

  • Yes!

    Therapy intensives can be helpful in overcoming deeper mental or emotional blocks that are stagnating your growth when working with your therapist or executive coach.

  • Yes!

    If you see me for weekly 50 minute sessions and would like an intensive, just let me know at our next session and we can discuss it.

    If you have already completed the full 15-hour intensive program, you are welcome to continue or return for one or more 3 hour intensive sessions.

    However, if it has been a year of more since our last session, or you have experienced an adverse life event, or have any significant change in your mental health since your intensive program, we will first meet for a 60 minute session to review your status and goals prior to starting any intensive sessions.

  • While significant healing can occur in an intensive, those who have multiple traumas or more extensive trauma history, also known as Complex PTSD, deserve more treatment than one intensive program. Many of my clients who experience Complex PTSD may continue to work on their trauma histories through monthly, bi-monthly, or a quarterly intensive session.

  • My 15 hour intensive program for new clients and returning clients who have not done intensive work with me is $6,525.

    The fee for each 3 hour intensive sessions for previous intensive program clients and current non-intensive psychotherapy clients is $1305.

    Please be aware that each intensive session requires a 50% non-refundable deposit and a minimum of 48 hours notice of your absence in order to be made up.

    Forfeit of your deposit and ability to make up the session will occur without the proper notification.

    An outright cancellation of an intensive appointment at any point will also result in a forfeit of your deposit.

    Not showing up for your intensive appointment, or canceling after your session time has begun will result in your being charged the full fee for the session.

    A credit card is kept on file and payment is processed via Stripe through my HIPAA compliant EHR at the end of each session. I accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, HSA, and FSA

  • I am an out-of-network provider with all insurance companies and do not directly contact or submit claims to an insurance company.

    If you have out-of-network benefits with your insurance plan, at your request, I will provide you a superbill to submit for potential reimbursement.

    As of January 2023, insurance companies will no longer reimburse for extended psychotherapy sessions. Any potential reimbursement would be for the first hour of each intensive session only.

    Please note all insurance carriers require a diagnosis on any superbill you submit.

    Please be aware that having out-of-network benefits does not guarantee that claims will be approved. Please contact your provider directly for the coverage and limits of your plan.

    You can see my FAQ on my Services page for more information about insurance and questions to ask your insurance carrier.

  • I have a no-cancellation policy/consistency policy. If you need to be absent from a session, you can make up a session seven days before or after your original appointment.

    Please be aware that each intensive session requires a 50% non-refundable deposit and a minimum of 48 hours notice of your absence in order to be made up.

    Forfeit of your deposit and ability to make up the session will occur without the proper notification.

    An outright cancellation of an intensive appointment at any point will also result in a forfeit of your deposit.

    Not showing up for your intensive appointment, or canceling after your session time has begun will result in your being charged the full fee for the session.

    I will make every effort to find a time for you to make up a session.

  • You can set up a free 30-minute consultation on my contact page. You’ll be brought to a calendar with my availability where you can request an appointment.

    I will confirm your request and send a brief consultation questionnaire that is required to be completed before we speak. Our consultation will be rescheduled if the form is not completed by 2 hours prior to our scheduled consultation time.

    Please clarify any insurance related questions with your insurance carrier prior to our consultation.

Please See My Services Page For Answers To FAQs About Non-intensive Therapy And Other General Information

An intensive offers a multitude of resources and can help to either increase confidence or significantly decrease the effects of a single-event trauma (i.e. negative thoughts, disturbing emotions, and body sensations).

Participating in an EMDR / Brainspotting therapy intensive may create impactful change more efficiently than just weekly, 50-minute sessions. We will identify what format is best for you during your pre-intensive session.

Therapy Intensive FAQs

By providing EMDR and Brainspotting therapy, along with other advanced psychotherapy approaches, we partner to:

  • Identify and broaden your coping skills and resources to manage stress, anxiety, and potential discomfort during this process

  • Uncover the foundational experiences of your negative self-judgments and limiting beliefs (i.e. “I’m not good enough” or other similar beliefs)

  • Reprocess those foundational experiences so they are adapted in a healthy way and no longer feel front and center in your life

  • Update those negative self-judgments and limiting beliefs with a new positive narrative about who you are and how you now view yourself in relation to your reprocessed experience

  • Alleviate mental and emotional obstacles to your goals and success through a positive, growth-oriented process

Supporting Research

  • Intensive application of trauma-focused therapy seems to be well tolerated in patients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results, while reducing the risk that patients drop out prematurely. Learn more here and here.

  • Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame. Learn more here.

  • An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD. Learn more here.