Virtual EMDR ServicesEMDR Therapy Intensives in Pasadena, Los Angeles and throughout California
What is an EMDR intensive?
EMDR intensives are set up to provide multiple sessions of EMDR over a 1, 2 or 3 day period.
I offer EMDR intensives to busy women and birthing people who want to find relief from symptoms and traumatic distress more quickly than ongoing weekly EMDR sessions can provide.
EMDR intensives can be an adjunct to talk therapy if you’re working with another therapist.
How do I schedule an EMDR intensive?
The first step is to contact me to set up your free 30-minute phone or video consultation. During the consultation, we’ll discuss what you wish to accomplish in your EMDR intensive to determine if an intensive is right for you. To make sure we’re a good fit, I encourage you to ask any questions you have- no question is too small.
How do I prepare for an intensive?
As much as you can, approach your perinatal EMDR intensive as a wellness retreat: make the arrangements necessary to create time to focus on your emotional and psychological wellbeing. This time is for you.
Benefits of EMDR Intensives
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Cost Effective
EMDR intensives are more cost effective. The up-front costs are greater, but EMDR intensives provide the equivalent of weeks or months of ongoing weekly therapy.
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No More Weekly Sessions
Intensive sessions are completed in 1, 2 or 3 days. This reduces the need to find childcare or arrange your schedule around therapy every week.
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Get Results More Quickly
Process through your traumas or distressing experiences in a shorter period of time; achieve your therapy goals and feel more settled, present and connected more quickly.
Perinatal EMDR Therapy
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EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a therapy developed to help people heal from the symptoms and distress caused by traumatic or disturbing life experiences. EMDR has been extensively researched and found to be effective for the treatment of PTSD and other effects of trauma.
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EMDR is used to treat many kinds of trauma and PTSD. In my practice I use EMDR therapy to:
Process and heal past traumas (childhood traumas, attachment wounds, abuse and neglect
Alleviate the distress/PTSD symptoms from previous pregnancy & birth related traumas
Help prepare you for labor, deliver, fertility treatment and postpartum life
Diminish fears/phobias of pregnancy and birth
Teach you skills to build up your inner strengths, calm your body and mind and keep you grounded in the present.
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Yes, EMDR has been shown to be an effective treatment for depression by addressing negative thoughts and beliefs, painful emotions, and other symptoms of depression that can cause you to feel overwhelmed, stuck or hopeless.
How can an EMDR intensive help during the perinatal period?
Reduce symptoms and distress following birth related trauma
Alleviate fears of pregnancy and childbirth
Prepare yourself emotionally and psychologically for fertility treatments, labor and delivery
Preparing to return to work
Process and heal pregnancy losses (miscarriage, termination, TFMR)
To process and heal the trauma and grief of baby loss
To treat postpartum depression and anxiety
To treat PTSD and past traumas that resurface during pregnancy and postpartum
Common Questions
Research shows that EMDR therapy during pregnancy can reduce distress and PTSD symptoms, help diminish fears of childbirth and build confidence about going into labor and delivery.
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EMDR helps to diminish the effects of a traumatic experience, reducing trauma symptoms that can interfere with caring for yourself and your family. EMDR works to provide relief from trauma symptoms including nightmare, flashbacks, depression, intrusive thoughts, and fears.
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Perinatal trauma is any traumatic or disturbing event that occurs around the time of conception, pregnancy, during childbirth and postpartum. Common experiences that families find traumatic including fertility challenges/treatment, pregnancy loss, termination and TFMR, NICU stays, medical complication during pregnancy/postpartum and the death of an infant. But the most important thing determining whether your experience was traumatic? If you feel your experience was traumatic then it was.
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You may have felt scared, helpless or unheard and unseen during labor and delivery. Afterward, it’s common to feel shocked, numb or disconnected, to feel guilty or angry about what you went through. The most important factor determining if giving birth was traumatic is how you feel about it. If you feel your experience was traumatic, then it was.
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EMDR helps to diminish the effects of a traumatic experience, reducing trauma symptoms that can interfere with caring for yourself and your family. EMDR works to provide relief from trauma symptoms including nightmare, flashbacks, depression, intrusive thoughts, and fears.
Wondering if an EMDR intensive is right for you? Schedule your free 30 minute consultation today, I’d love to talk to you about how I can help.
