EMDR INTENSIVES
Newcastle NSW AustraliaDo You Want to Fast Track Your Progress?
EMDR intensives offer transformative healing and personal growth in a condensed time-frame. Immersive sessions enhance your psychological well-being by allowing you to process distressing emotions, limiting beliefs, and unresolved adverse events more efficiently than traditional weekly sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based modality used to treat trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), however, it is also highly effective for addressing a host of psychological issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship difficulties.
FAQs
What is an EMDR intensive?
An EMDR intensive is a condensed therapy format that delivers multiple EMDR sessions over one to two consecutive days. It’s designed for clients who want faster progress, deeper trauma resolution, or are unable to commit to weekly sessions. This format allows for focused, uninterrupted healing.
Who is an EMDR intensive suitable for?
EMDR intensives are ideal for people experiencing PTSD, betrayal, childhood trauma, complex grief, anxiety, or stress-related conditions. They’re also great for busy professionals, caregivers, or anyone seeking efficient, focused therapy with lasting results — especially when weekly sessions aren’t practical.
How long is an EMDR intensive and what does it include?
EMDR intensives typically run from one to three days, with 3–6 hours of guided therapy each day (with breaks). Sessions include an intake assessment, customised treatment planning, trauma reprocessing, and follow-up resources to support integration and ongoing wellbeing.
What are the benefits of doing EMDR in an intensive format?
Compared to weekly therapy, intensives offer faster breakthroughs, deeper focus, and a more immersive healing experience. Clients often report significant relief from trauma symptoms in just a few days — saving time and reducing emotional disruption between sessions.
What if I do a one day intensive but need more therapy?
If you choose to add another day of EMDR you can pay the difference between the cost of a one day and two day intensive.
EMDR Therapy has more clinical studies supporting it as a trauma treatment than any other therapy including over thirty randomised trials. A study done by HMO Kaiser Permanente, reported that 100% of victims with a single trauma and 77% of victims with multiple traumas lost all criteria for PTSD after only six 50-minute sessions. Another study found that 77% of combat veterans lost all criteria for PTSD in 12 50-minute sessions.
‘The goal of EMDR Therapy is to achieve the most profound and comprehensive treatment effects possible in the shortest period of time, while maintaining client stability within a balanced system.’ ~ Francine Shapiro
EMDR intensives provide the conditions for profound insights and self empowerment with more immediate results than drawn out sessions. I offer two EMDR Intensive format options, the right option of which can be established in the assessment stage based on a client’s history.
EMDR INTENSIVE
OPTION 1Pre assessment questionnaire
55 minutes assessment session (online or phone)
Customised treatment plan
6 x 55 minute EMDR Therapy within one week (usually 3 x 2 hours) – in person or online
Post assessment questionnaire
EMDR INTENSIVE
OPTION 2Pre assessment questionnaire
55 minutes assessment session (online or phone)
Customised treatment plan
10 x 55 minute EMDR Therapy within two week (usually 5 x 2 hours) – in person or online
Post assessment questionnaire
FACE TO FACE OR ONLINE
I offer EMDR Therapy Intensives face-to face in my Newcastle therapy room or online via zoom.
PAYMENT
A deposit of $1,000 is to be made when booking an Intensive with full payment to be made two weeks prior to treatment.
A refund minus $200 can be made up to 48 hours prior to treatment. Cancellation within 48 hours incurs a fee of $1000 per day.
ACCOMMODATION
If you are coming from outside of Newcastle, I recommend you stay at the newly built and beautiful Little National Hotel which is 7 minutes walk from my office. It offers both rooms and appartments, cafe, bar and gym. I offer a 20% off discount code if you stay here as I believe this is the most convenient and reasonably priced hotel with a fresh and inviting ambience.