EMDR Therapy intensivesWhat If You Didn't Have to Stretch Your Healing Across Months?
EMDR Intensives are immersive, multi-hour therapy experiences designed for women who are ready to go deeper — and who want to feel meaningful shifts without waiting weeks between sessions. This is focused, body-based, culturally grounded healing in a single, supported container.
What Is an EMDR Intensive and How Is It Different?
If you've been in weekly therapy before, you know the rhythm. You arrive, settle in, start doing the work — and just as things begin to open up, the session ends. You leave carrying whatever came up and spend the next week sitting with it until the next appointment.
An EMDR Intensive changes that rhythm entirely.
Instead of 50 or 90 minutes once a week, we work together for 3 to 6 consecutive hours in a single day. This creates a more spacious, focused container — one where we don't have to rush. We can move through the full arc of the work — opening, processing, and closing — without the interruption of stopping mid-way and picking up a week later.
For many clients, this means less time carrying heavy emotions between sessions, more continuity in the process, and shifts that would typically take weeks or months of weekly sessions happening in a fraction of the time.
This isn't about speed. It's about depth without interruption.
This Isn't Just EMDR in a Longer Format
Most EMDR intensives are simply longer sessions back to back. Mine are different — as both a therapist and a 500-hour certified yoga teacher, I weave body-based practices directly into the structure of the day.
Here's what that looks like:
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Yoga & Meditation to Open
We begin by settling your nervous system. Before we do any processing, I guide you through yoga-informed practices designed to help you arrive in your body, feel grounded, and feel safe.
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The Full 8-Phase EMDR Protocol
The core of the intensive follows the same structured, evidence-based EMDR process I use in all my work — history, preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure, and reevaluation.
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Somatic Check-Ins Throughout
We don't just push through. I check in with your body regularly, breathwork, grounding tools, gentle movement, so your nervous system has space to process without becoming overwhelmed.
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Restorative Yoga to Close
We end off your day with a curated Restorative Yoga session with yoga props incorporated. This provides an intentional time and space for integration, that you can implement on your own at home. Your body needs space to settle after deep processing, and this practice helps support that.
Is an Intensive Right for You?
EMDR Intensives at Black Lotus tend to be a strong fit for women who:Have tried weekly therapy and gained insight, but feel ready for something more focused and immersive.
Are high-functioning — managing work, family, and life — but quietly stuck in patterns, anxiety, or the aftermath of past experiences that keep resurfacing.
Have a specific experience or set of memories they want to process in a concentrated, supported way.
Want to move through the EMDR process more efficiently without stretching it across months.
Are curious about body-based healing and want an experience that integrates yoga, meditation, and somatic practices alongside EMDR — not separately.
Have busy schedules that make weekly sessions difficult to maintain, and prefer a deeper, less frequent commitment.
An intensive may not be the right starting point if you're currently in an active mental health crisis. In that case, we would focus first on stabilization and resourcing through individual sessions before moving into intensive processing. This isn't a gatekeeping measure — it's a safety one. EMDR intensives work best when your nervous system has the foundation to process deeply and recover well.
If you're not sure where you fall, that's exactly what the consultation is for.
Two Ways To Do EMDR Intensives
Half-Day Intensive$840
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Discovery Consultation
Phase 1 of the 8-phase EMDR Protocol, which is History & Treatment Planning.
Our 15-30 minute call will include:
Understanding your goals for your EMDR Intensive
Assessing whether a half day or full day Intensive works best for your needs
Discussing a payment plan that works best for you, whether you have insurance or not
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Before the Intensive
Phase 2 & 3 of the 8-phase EMDR Protocol which is Preparation & Resourcing as well as Assessment & Targeting.
Our 90-minute virtual pre-planning session will include:
Identifying the target concerns we will work on your Intensive Day
Assess the resources you already have in your toolkit, and equip you with a few more
Review the pre-assessment forms provided to you in your provided Intensive Workbook
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The Intensive Day
Phase 4-7 of the 8-phase EMDR protocol with a focus on Desensitization & Reprocessing broken down into 3 hours:
15 min yoga-informed meditation session to open and ground your body
Standard EMDR desensitization and reprocessing, broken into two one-hour blocks
Somatic check-in breaks and resourcing woven throughout
Curated half-hour Restorative Yoga session for closure
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After the Intensive
Phase 8 is Reevaluation of the 8-phase EMDR protocol:
1-hour virtual post-intensive follow-up session done 1–2 weeks after
Assessing together what went well, what's shifted, what's come up,
Reviewing any key takeaways, further support and next steps
Also includesFree ongoing access to Sit With It: Monthly Nervous System Reset — ongoing group support to continue the somatic practices and nervous system integration we began in your intensive.
EMDR Full-Day Intensive$1120
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Discovery Consultation
Phase 1 of the 8-phase EMDR Protocol, which is History & Treatment Planning.
Our 15-30 minute call will include:
Understanding your goals for your EMDR Intensive
Assessing whether a half day or full day Intensive works best for your needs
Discussing a payment plan that works best for you, whether you have insurance or not
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Before the Intensive
Phase 2 & 3 of the 8-phase EMDR Protocol, which is Preparation & Resourcing as well as Assessment & Targeting.
Our 90-minute virtual pre-planning session will include:
Identifying the target concerns we will work on your Intensive Day
Assess the resources you already have in your toolkit, and equip you with a few more
Review the pre-assessment forms provided to you in your provided Intensive Workbook
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The Intensive Day
Phase 4-7 of the 8-phase EMDR protocol with a focus on Desensitization & Reprocessing broken into 6 hours:
Yoga-informed half-hour meditation session to open and ground in your body
Standard EMDR protocol with a focus on reprocessing, broken into 1.5 hrs at a time
Half-hour breaks to allow for check-in and resourcing
Half-hour lunch break
Curated 1-hour Restorative Yoga session to close. This intentional integration space helps your body and nervous system feel supported before the day ends.
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After the Intensive
Phase 8 is Reevaluation of the 8-phase EMDR protocol:
1-hour virtual post-intensive follow-up session done 1–2 weeks after
Assessing together what went well, what's shifted, what's come up,
Reviewing any key takeaways, further support and next steps
Also includesFree ongoing access to Sit With It: Monthly Nervous System Reset — ongoing group support to continue the somatic practices and nervous system integration we began in your intensive.
Why My Clients Choose Intensives
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Rather than stopping just as things begin to unfold, we stay with it and move through it more fully. There's no "we'll pick this up next week" — we see it through together.
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Extended time allows us to work through experiences gently without the interruption of ending a session mid-way through a memory.
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With more focused sessions, there's less time spent holding onto difficult emotions or activation between appointments. We process and close within the same day.
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This isn't just talk therapy for more hours. Yoga Nidra, meditation, breathwork, and restorative yoga are built into the day so your nervous system is held — not just your mind.
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Time is intentionally built in to help your body and nervous system settle before you leave. You don't walk out mid-process. You walk out grounded.
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If maintaining weekly sessions feels difficult with your schedule, an intensive lets you do meaningful, deep work in a concentrated timeframe.
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While intensives are a higher upfront cost, many clients find that the depth and efficiency of the work reduces the need for longer-term weekly therapy over time.
Ways to work togetherYou Don't Have to Stretch Your Healing Across Months
If you've been carrying something heavy and you're ready to move through it — not around it, not over it, but through it — an intensive might be exactly what you need. One day. Focused. Held. Yours.
Questions About Intensives
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It might sound like a lot, but the day is carefully structured with breaks, body-based practices, and grounding built in. You're not doing 6 straight hours of intense reprocessing — there are natural rhythms to the day, and I'm checking in with your body and nervous system throughout. Most clients tell me they're surprised by how held and supported they feel by the end.
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Yes. The pre-planning session is specifically designed to prepare you — whether you've done EMDR before or not. We build your resource toolkit, explain every step of the process, and make sure you feel ready before the intensive day.
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Both are effective. Weekly sessions offer a steady, ongoing rhythm. Intensives offer depth and continuity in a shorter timeframe. Some clients prefer the immersion. Others prefer the gradual pace. If you're not sure, the consultation is the best place to talk it through — I'll give you my honest recommendation based on where you are.
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Rest. The day after, keep things gentle. Your nervous system will be processing, and you may notice things continuing to shift over the next few days. I'll give you specific guidance during our closing, and the post-intensive follow-up is there to support you through integration
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Absolutely. Some clients do a single intensive and feel complete. Others return for additional intensives to work through different targets. We'll discuss this in your follow-up session.
