EMDR is a powerful therapy, and Green Circle Collective’s EMDR intensives amplifies the power of EMDR through a short-term, collaborative therapy experience. This allows you to experience relief from symptoms of traumatic stress.
Feel better, faster
Whether you’ve recently experienced a traumatic event, or you’ve been living with the pain of trauma for a long time, my EMDR intensives help you break through emotional and relational barriers so you can live the life you want. Through a series of customized assessments, we’ll identify core negative beliefs to focus on.
EMDR Intensive Pricing
The EMDR Intensive Package starts at $3000. Payment plans are available.
Most of my clients fall into at least one of three categories, and people I work with can often relate to being in more than one of these categories:
Recent Traumatic Events
Accidents
Violent crime
Breakups, natural disasters
School shootings, terrorism
Violence or rejection due to identity (racism, sex or gender discrimination, xenophobia, etc)
Previous Trauma
Unresolved childhood issues
Emotional or physical neglect
Domestic violence
Sexual assult or molestation
Absent parents
Rejection or bullying
No Specific “trauma”, but currently struggling
Feeling not good enough
Perfectionism
Constantly worrying
Imposter Syndrome
Avoiding triggers
Increased aggigation or frustration with others
All potential clients get a free 20-30 minute video or phone consultation call. This call helps to ensure that I am the right fit for you as a therapist, that an EMDR intensive is the right fit for you, and you feel comfortable and confident going into the experience. We briefly discuss what’s bothering you and how it’s impacting your life and then I share about EMDR intensives, how it’s different from other therapy you may have done before, and how it can help with the issues you want to work on. I’ll also share about myself - experience and expertise to help you decide if this is right for you.
If you decide that an EMDR intensive isn’t for you, I’ll provide you with referrals to other great therapists in my personal network. If you decide that an EMDR intensive IS the right direction for you, we can schedule your appointments, and I send you the necessary paperwork to get the process going.
Your intake begins even before your first session. You’ll get access to your private client portal to complete assessments and tell me more about yourself and your history. I look through the paperwork before our appointment and ask follow-up questions as needed in our meeting. This first appointment allows us to get to know each other better, for me to better understand you and your specific needs, and for you to share more about what you want to get out of the process. In EMDR, this is considered the beginning of Phase One.
This session, which can be its own hour-long session or part of the first intensive session, allows you to experience EMDR’s Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) to help enhance positives and create “resources” for you to utilize in your reprocessing sessions. We will also complete exercises to help us identify the past memories, present triggers, and future templates that we will reprocess in sessions. Those memories become our treatment plan and roadmap for how we approach the intensive sessions. This session can also be wrapped into and done at the beginning of your first intensive session. These exercises completes Phase One and Phase Two of EMDR.
Intensive sessions are when we reprocess the past memories, present triggers, and install future templates. Using Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) we utilize your brain’s own healing and clearing mechanism to help you neutralize the impact of traumatic stress on your past, present, and future. Your brain’s desire to heal and my experience as an EMDR therapist help you reprocess trauma and stress so that your mind and body sync up to help you experience your life from a newer, safer, healed perspective. EMDR therapy utilizes BLS to reduce distress and negative associations about yourself in relationship to your trauma and stress, and then enhances a more realistic and accurate belief. These sessions are intense but the feedback I get from clients is overwhelmingly positive.
Between sessions we’ll do a check-in to help you process your experience, make meaning out of the new insights you have between and after reprocessing is completed, and explore other ways you can capitalize on post-traumatic growth. This isn’t a “good vibes only” kind of session. It’s about you getting used to the new, more open landscape of your brain and exploring the capacity you have now that you’re no longer burdened by trauma and traumatic stress.
Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team (CREST) of the Northern Ireland Department of Health
Dutch National Steering Committee for Health Care
French Haute Autorite de Sante (French National Authority for Health)
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Israeli National Council for Mental Health
United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS)
United States National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
From intake to intensives, to final check-in session, these are some of the most powerful and productive hours of therapy you’ll ever have.
Clients often get referred to me by other therapists, doctors, or professional that sees a need for trauma treatment. Part of the intensive process is coordinating and collaborating with those other providers to ensure you have the best care from me during your intensive, and your care continues to be effective when you go back to work with them.
Intensives are not a one-size-fits all model. I carefully assess your needs and utilize both standardized assessments and tools I’ve created from my experience with EMDR to help us get the results you desire. Once we get to the intensive sessions I share about the different protocols we can utilize for your treatment and allow you to make an informed choice about how you’d like to proceed. Your treatment in an intensive is unique to you.
Payment plans are available, and superbills for out-of-network reimbursement with your insurance company can be provided.
The answer is simple - EMDR is all I do.
My entire individual client caseload is EMDR intensive clients. I no longer take on long-term talk therapy clients because I love doing EMDR intensives. Doing EMDR, working with clients to help them get relief in the short term, and collaborating with their other providers is the most fun and rewarding way I’ve ever done therapy work. I am passionate about getting quality results for my clients.
In addition to my singular focus on EMDR for my work with individual at Green Circle Collective, I have also gone the extra mile to obtain advanced credentials in EMDR. I am Certified in EMDR by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). This means that in addition to initial EMDR training, I’ve completed hours and hours of EMDR under while working with expert consultants that are also registered with EMDRIA.I’ve also taken continuing education trainings to ensure my knowledge and skills adhere to the highest standards for your safety and benefit.
Regardless of my education, experience, and credentials, I know EMDR intensives work from my personal experience. I’ve completed EMDR intensives as a client because in the fall of 2021 I was in a severe car accident that left me feeling vulnerable, anxious, and depressed. I worked with an EMDRIA Certified therapist in two four-hour intensive sessions and had incredible results. Space in my mind, body, and emotions opened up where it used to be filled with fear, dread, and avoidance. I was able to drive again without being triggered or feeling panic, I was able to reduce and eventually discontinue taking an anxiety medication, and I was able to focus on my goals and look to the future for the first time in moths after my intensive sessions. My experience is not atypical or particularly stunning. Most of my clients have this kind of transformation as well.
