EMDR Trauma Healing Intensives
Healing on your terms, at your pace.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing in multi hour sittings to experience faster results, with less over all time spent in therapy.
imagine if you…
Spend less time recovering
EMDR is an emotionally intensive healing modality. Many clients report feeling better after an intensive because there is time to work all the way through painful memories allowing you to leave sessions feeling tired, but grounded and feeling relieved. You are less likely to run out of time in session, having to leave the rest of the work until next week’s appointment.
Spend less time in therapy all together
One 3 day intensives is 18 hours of EMDR and equal to 6 months of weekly therapy!
Instead of schedule weekly sessions, interrupting your weekly routine for heavy healing work, you can set aside one 3 day portion of time for focused, deep healing, reducing the overall hours spent in therapy.
Say good bye to weekly appointments
EMDR Intensives
EMDR intensives allow you more freedom in your life week to week by condensing treatment into longer sessions. Requiring less time in treatment overall and less time recovering from the emotional intensity of sessions.
Results in days, not months or years.
EMDR can be conducted in half-day, full-day, or multi-day treatment intensives. Bringing you relief, faster. There’s less starting and stopping the work and therefore you process so much more material in one sitting. Bringing relief faster.
Intensives with Nikki
Nikki Yardy, LCPC
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Nikki provides EMDR in multi hour healing intensives to make it easier to work through complex clinical issues and give you TIME to process at your own pace without feeling rush.
Nikki offers time limited EMDR (6-12 sessions) for recent major traumas (available on a limited basis)
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Nikki’s specialty areas include individual with complex and developmental traumas, individuals who experienced challenging or abusive childhoods or unsupportive families as well as sexual abuse and asexual assault. Nikki also has specialized training for utilizing EMDR to prevent the development of PTSD for recent traumatic experiences.
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Nikki is certified in EMDR, and EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and HAP facilitator in training and offers EMDR healing intensives in Maine and New York. She both provides clinical support and treatment for clients and trains clinicians in EMDR and trauma treatment. Nikki is also a person in long term recovery from Complex PTSD and an EMDR client herself.
Nikki has additional training in treating Complex PTSD and challenges stemming from family or origin and early childhood issues, including attachment trauma, sexual trauma, as well as somatic approaches to bring the body in to the healing process more intentionally.
We will cater our time in your intensives to your unique goals, ensuring you get the most out of your experience.
What an EMDR Intensive Look Like?
Getting started
First we schedule a free phone consultation to ensure that intensives are the right fit for you. We will discuss what has been going on in your life, your personal history, and how intensives could help. We will have time to answer any questions you have.
A client workbook and intake paperwork is provided in advance so you are ready to hit the ground running at your first appointment. We will go through your history, discuss the challenges you are facing now, identify memory targets for reprocessing, and then get started.
What’s an intensive?
Intensives are an alternative to traditional 50-60 min therapy sessions. These longer sessions are conducted half day, full-day, or multi-day intensives to allow for faster processing.
In our first meeting, we will identify your treatment goals, I will ask you a series of questions to create a treatment plan for EMDR. We will identify the past experiences and present day concerns for reprocessing with EMDR. You don’t need to worry about this in advance, we will do this process together. We will ensure you are ready for the work we will do together and then begin reprocessing. Intensives allow for more time processing memories, allowing you to resolve a single issue faster.
We systematically work through the relevant past memories and present day triggers. We go at the pace that feels right for you. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and can be taken as needed. If you experience any dissociation, disconnection, or overwhelm, we will pause and get you regulated before moving on.
Half-day intensives are scheduled for 4 hours, full days and 3 days are scheduled from 9:00-4:00 or 10:00 -5:00. A 1 hour lunch break is scheduled and shorter breaks are taken as needed.
Take your time
Take the time to process emotionally charged material without the ticking clock on your mind. In traditional one hour EMDR, you check in, get the work started, and then close the session down. Having the full day helps take the pressure off of getting through memories before the hour is up, allowing you to relax into the process and go at the pace that is right for you.
faqs
Common questions EMDR and Intensives
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My hourly rate is $175, multi hour intensives are offered at a discounted hourly rate.
Intensives are half day, full day, or 3 multi-day hour days, Wed-Friday.
one half day: 3 hours $525, 4 hours $675
3 half days $2200
3 Full days is $2800
Multiday sessions are scheduled in one week, multiple days in the same week. Come for one multi day intensive or as many as you want to achieve your goals.
a 50% nonrefundable deposit is required to book your intensive.
If cost is a barrier and you are interested in financing, there may be options available to you.
Additional follow up sessions may be scheduled as needed. A 50% deposit is required to book the appointment.
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Insurance does cover EMDR in one hour sittings but does not cover intensives.
Insurance companies limit the amount of time we can spend in session. This limits the quality of care and the amount of progress you can make in each treatment session.
For that reason, we do not work with insurance companies for the EMDR Intensive Program. Our goal is to provide the highest quality of care for you.
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EMDR is a healthcare service and you should be able to use your HSA or FSA account. Check with your program administrator to be certain.
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Individuals who have good emotional regulation and coping skills, good internal resources and social support.
It’s important that your current day to day life is stable and secure and you are not experiencing current or ongoing significant stressors.
Alert your provider if you have a history of seizures, eye pain, a Dissociative Disorder, or are pregnant.
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Intensives are available on Thursdays and Fridays.
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This varies person by person and will be discussed further during a phone consultation. How much EMDR you need will depend on your personal goals and history . Some clients will only need one intensive and other’s will need a few. The more complex your history is, for example if your caregivers were not emotionally available and you didn’t feel safe as a child, there may be more history to work through.
You should experience some results even with one intensive.
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For folks doing half and full day intensives, I ask that you commit to at least 1x every 4 weeks to hold your spot and work through material in a timely manner. Multi day intensives can be done just once or as often as you need.
Find out more.
Schedule a free phone consultation with Nikki today