What are EMDR Healing Intensives?

Research on how we heal has recently revealed the model of weekly one-hour sessions may not be the most effective strategy for long term change.

New research suggests that short, but intense, treatment may actually result in more gains. 

Healing Intensives at Head and Heart Collective are for individuals looking for an intensive experience that is effective towards transformational change.

A healing intensive is a way to deliver the treatment in an intense but short period of time. Multiple longer sessions are preformed over multiple days, weeks or within a month. This helps maximize the amount of healing and reduce treatment time.

We offer three options:

• Retreat intensive (1-4 days, 6 hours/day)

• Weekly intensive (3 hours/week for 8 weeks)

• Monthly intensives (5 hours/month)

In these customized sessions, we focus on unblocking foundational trauma memories which have created their negative core narrative. Our goal would be to target as many core trauma wounds as possible to make new meaning from past experiences. Because of the healing effects of EMDR, as well as the option of Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Therapy, an Intensive can work in ways that are not possible utilizing standard talk-therapy techniques in a very short amount of time. This work is intense, but also very healing.

EMDR focuses on the brain’s ability to constantly learn by tapping into neuroplasticity. A past experience becomes updated with present information.

Adaptive learning is constantly updating memory network systems.  It helps break through the interference of past painful experiences.

EMDR uses a set of procedures to organize your negative and positive feelings, emotions, and thoughts. We use bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, buzzers, or alternating tapping, as the way to help you effectively work through painful past experiences and make new upgraded meaning about the past.

What is the structure of an EMDR healing intensive?

Healing Intensive structure and timeline recommendations are on a case by case basis according to treatment goals and best practices.

We offer three options: Retreat intensive (3-5 days, 6 hours/day); Weekly intensive (3 hours/week for 8 weeks); or Monthly intensives (5 hours/month). Each intensive has a different level of intensity and schedule. Scroll below view our intensive offering packages.

All options are rooted in offering a structure that helps to maximize the amount of healing in a reduced treatment time.

What are the benefits of an EMDR Healing Intensive?

Intensives eliminate the need for months of living with trauma symptoms and the impacts they have on daily life and general wellbeing.

Therapy goals can be achieved in a shorter period of time. While there is a larger upfront cost, the shorter duration of treatment over all can save money.

What is unique about Healing Intensives at Head and Heart Collective?

This type of therapy intensive is custom-made for depending on your treatment needs. A combination of EMDR therapy, Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Therapy, Psychedelic-Assisted therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, meditation, breath work, aromatherapy practices and additional tools of journaling can be utilized for optimal integration, depending on the clients interest and treatment goals.

Rachel understands the complex challenges of having to navigate what it means to be a human in this day and age; and how our own unique histories have contributed to our abilities and gifts.

These intensives are customized to address a variety of challenges you may be experiencing. We will focus on unconscious wounds that need tending to and once healed can help us to become the authentic human that we seek to be.

Our fundamental goals for any healing intensive include:

• Create a space and experience that can feel safe and free of responsibility

• Engage in a relational dynamic where both parties (therapist and client) can be their most authentic and unfiltered selves - human to human.

• To intentionally create disconfirming experiences of memories associated with the identified theme.