Dedicated time to process what happened—and make room for what comes next.

Maybe your birth keeps replaying when you want to be present with your baby. Maybe you’re considering another pregnancy after loss, but fear is making it hard to move forward. Or maybe you know you’re done having children, and you’re grieving that your last experience wasn’t the one you hoped for.

You deserve space to work through what you’ve experienced.

EMDR Intensives offer extended, individualized therapy sessions focused on the experiences that still feel painful, frightening, or unfinished.

Available on Fridays, in person or virtually. Sessions are tailored to your needs, with flexible pacing, breaks, and payment for only the time you use.

What is an EMDR Intensive?

An EMDR Intensive gives us a longer block of time to focus on a specific experience or concern, beyond the length of a typical weekly appointment.

EMDR—Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing—is a therapy that helps people process distressing memories and the beliefs, emotions, and physical reactions connected to them.

An intensive creates room for preparation, processing, breaks, and time to feel grounded before you leave. We work together to determine the focus and pace, with your needs guiding the session.

Why consider an intensive?

Sometimes there’s something specific you want to work through—and a meaningful reason you want to address it now.

An intensive may be a good fit if you need results now. For example: 

• You want to feel more present with your baby. Memories, anxiety, or panic are interfering with bonding or making maternity leave feel like something you’re surviving. You want to feel like you can actually enjoy maternity leave.

• You’re returning to work soon. You’d like dedicated time to address what happened before fielding questions about your birth or loss at work. Ideally, you'd like to not be breaking down in tears when asked about it. 

• You’re considering pregnancy after miscarriage or loss. You want to process your loss in a healthy way, but you also feel the pressure of the clock ticking. You want support with the memories and fear that come up when you imagine trying again.

• You’re preparing to pursue adoption after infertility or loss. You want space to honor what you’ve been through as you prepare for a new chapter. You want to walk into a new season having processed the grief from the prior season.

• You’re done having children, but the ending hurts. Your final birth, pregnancy, or fertility experience wasn’t what you hoped for, and you want greater peace around that ending.

• You haven’t felt the same since one frightening event. Maybe you received an incorrect medical diagnosis, experienced a panic attack that felt like dying, or watched your child have a seizure. Even when the immediate danger has passed—or you later learn there wasn’t a medical threat—the fear you felt was real. Thinking “I’m going to die” or “My baby might die” can leave you feeling shaken, on edge, or afraid it will happen again. I help clients process these experiences so the memory feels less overwhelming and they can feel more present in their lives.

How EMDR can help after birth trauma

You may know that the birth is over while still feeling frightened by reminders of it.

EMDR can help address distress connected to moments such as an emergency C-section, feeling unheard, fearing for your baby’s safety, unexpected medical interventions, or being separated from your baby.

Our work may focus on reducing the intensity of those memories, addressing guilt or self-blame, and helping reminders feel less overwhelming—so there is more room to connect with your baby and experience life now.

You can be grateful your baby is here and still need care for what happened to you.

Support for miscarriage, infant loss & infertility

Loss can hold both grief and trauma. Alongside missing your baby or grieving the future you imagined, you may be carrying distressing images, medical memories, guilt, or fear about what comes next.

EMDR can help us work with those distressing parts of your experience while making space for your grief.

The goal is never to erase your baby’s significance, rush acceptance, or make you “move on.” It is to help the painful memories feel less overwhelming, while honoring their life.

Whether you’re considering another pregnancy, pursuing adoption, or ending your family-building journey, there is room for both your loss and your future.

More time, with room to pause

An intensive offers:

• A clear focus: Dedicated attention to the experience or concern you want help with.

• More continuity: Longer stretches of therapeutic work, with fewer interruptions from the end of an appointment.

• Flexible pacing: Time for grounding, reflection, movement, and breaks as needed.

• A different scheduling option: Concentrated therapy time for people who find weekly appointments difficult to arrange.

An intensive may help you make meaningful progress in a concentrated period. The amount of preparation, processing, and follow-up you need will depend on your individual circumstances.

Friday sessions built around your needs

Your session doesn’t have to fit a preset package.

EMDR Intensives take place on Fridays. Together, we plan time around your goals, your capacity, and the breaks you need.

You only pay for the time you use. If a shorter session meets your needs, your fee reflects the time used. We’ll discuss pricing and how session time is counted before scheduling, so you know what to expect.

Sessions are available in person or virtually, depending on your location and clinical fit.

What to expect

Start with a conversation.
We’ll discuss what you want help with, your timeline, and whether an intensive is a good fit.

Make an individualized plan.
We’ll identify priorities, consider any preparation you need, and discuss session length, breaks, and cost.

Work at a pace you can manage.
Your session includes support for preparation, processing when appropriate, and grounding. You can ask to pause or adjust the pace.

Leave with next steps.
We’ll discuss what you noticed, how to care for yourself afterward, and whether additional support would be helpful.

Do I need to be ready to process everything?

No. You don’t need a perfectly organized story or certainty about where to begin.

We’ll start by understanding what’s happening now and what you hope will feel different. Some people need additional preparation or ongoing therapy before intensive processing is appropriate. We’ll make that decision together.

Make space for the experience that still needs care.

Whether you want to feel more present during maternity leave, approach another pregnancy with less fear, or find greater peace with how your family-building chapter ended, we can explore what support fits your needs.

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