Are intensives right for you?
EMDR is a well researched treatment method that processes through disturbing events from the past. Once worked through, the brain is primed to focus on positives and strengths moving forward.
Traditional therapy and insurance companies prescribe a schedule of meeting once a week for 50 minutes. Significant progress is achievable using this format, although it can take months. However, with EMDR intensives, we can have longer sessions, generally in 2 hour increments. We can also meet more than once in a single day, or for several days in a row, so that we will achieve more immediate improvement.
Potential Benefits include:
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Intensives are as effective as traditional EMDR in a weekly setting
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Flexibility in scheduling while minimizing time away from work
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Prompt symptom relief
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Resolving your symptoms over a few days, rather than a few months
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Focuses use of therapy time (weekly sessions waste time saying hello’s, checking in and saying good-bye’s; Intensives use more time to concentrating on treatment goals)
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Focused therapy time is more cost effective
Potential Risks Include:
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Processing difficult life experiences triggers strong emotional reactions
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Processing continues for up to 48 hours after the session is over, it may leave you more irritable, prone to experiencing dreams, and forgotten memories may resurface
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The human brain is unpredictable, the Intensive may not go as smoothly as expected. Should you run into a detour, your therapist will return you to the main road. Any issues that do arise, would also surface in the weekly format.
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May impact any legal proceedings in which you will be called to testify (you may not be as emotional of a witness as the prosecution would like, details of the incident may change with processing). Also true of the weekly format.
What you can expect:
- Services from an experienced and professional therapist
- If you have a strong emotional response, your therapist provides responsive support to meet your immediate needs. Then, at the end of the Intensive, they ensure you’re in a stable emotional state before returning to your life
- Your therapist meets you where you are, putting you in control. If something feels uncomfortable for you, you’ll explore it, and your preferences honored.
What is expected of you:
- Honesty in all phases of treatment as it allows your therapist to work with you appropriately
- Forthcoming with your goals and your experiences in the Intensive
- Willingness to be vulnerable and expose the darkness is necessary, so that it can be processed effectively
- Sharing any history of dissociation, past or present
- Therapist will be aware of all medications you are use, you will be free of alcohol, street drugs, and narcotic medication.
- The time set aside for the Intensive will be without interruptions, meaning to phone calls or personal business to tend to
- It is important to allow at least 24 hours to rest following the final session.
- Participation in a one week follow-up
Contact us with questions or to book your Intensive today!
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Are you looking for FAST relief? Is the model of hour long weekly sessions not right for you? Intensives may be the answer you need! Receive the same, quality EMDR treatment, in a fraction of the time!