EMDR Intensive Sessions

Feel better faster.

Accelerate your progress with EMDR Intensive Therapy.

Ready to Do the Deep Work?

You’re no stranger to therapy. You’ve done the talking, built insight, practiced skills, and reflected on your patterns—yet still feel stuck in familiar emotional loops and triggers.

You’re ready for something to shift at a deeper level. Not just managing symptoms or coping better, but changing the patterns that keep repeating. You want more ease in your body, a quieter mind, more trust in yourself, and the capacity to feel more connected, present, and alive in your life.

Intensive EMDR work creates space to go beyond cognitive insight and into the patterns held in the nervous system. We work directly with the parts of you that are caught in protective or painful cycles, using approaches that support integration, regulation, and lasting change.

This work can be intense. It can also be rich, deeply healing, and transformative.

EMDR intensives involve extended sessions over a condensed timeframe. While EMDR is the primary approach, I integrate additional methods—including parts work, somatic interventions, cognitive strategies, and the Flash Technique—as needed to support your process.

Why choose an intensive

Faster relief
Research and clinical experience both support concentrated EMDR: it can significantly reduce symptoms in less time and lower dropout rates in trauma therapy. Instead of waiting months to feel a shift, many people begin noticing real changes within days.

Deeper focus
Weekly therapy means shifting mentally from your day into trauma processing and back out again, which can feel jarring. An intensive gives you a protected container to focus on your healing, without the pull of your other roles and responsibilities. We stay with the work instead of reorienting each session, which allows deeper processing and stronger momentum.

Fits your schedule
If work, family, or travel make weekly sessions hard to sustain, longer sessions over a few days let you concentrate your time instead of stretching it across months. You cut down on the ongoing scheduling, commuting, and context-switching, and on the time off that comes with them.

Save time and money
The upfront investment is larger, but shorter overall treatment can mean a lower total cost in money, time, and energy.

Start sooner
Intensives have shorter wait times, so you can skip the waitlist and get to work.

A therapeutic getaway
You don't have to be local. Many clients travel for intensives, using the time away from their usual environment as a purposeful reset, in lovely, seaside Portland, Maine.

 An EMDR intensive may be a good fit if you:

  • Want to make significant progress on one or two clear issues you want to work through in a focused container

  • Want to go deep on a specific piece of your story

  • You’re self-aware and understand your trauma intellectually, but you still feel stuck

  • Look steady on the surface, maybe even like you’re thriving, but inside you know this is not how you want your life to feel

  • Have found that weekly sessions don't fit your schedule, travel, or caregiving load

  • Are a healer, helper, or high-functioning professional ready for your own deeper work

  • Are a parent (or hope to be) and want to interrupt intergenerational patterns and feel less reactive

  • Are neurodivergent, diagnosed or self-identified, and carrying the impact of environments that didn't understand or support you

  • Want to change how you show up in your relationships, work, or the things you're passionate about

  • You're in a relationship that isn't right, and you can feel it, but can't seem to move

  • You want more spaciousness to relax into the work

Are EMDR intensives for you?

EMDR intensives have helped my clients process

Painful childhood experiences, attachment wounds, and neglect (complex trauma)

Single-incident traumas (ex., accidents, medical emergencies, natural disasters, assault, etc.)

Recent traumatic experiences

Pre-verbal trauma

Relational or interpersonal trauma, including friendship wounds

Social defeat and experiences of alienation or not belonging

Anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, and OCD-related symptoms

Traumatic grief and loss

Issues with self-esteem and self-defeating patterns of behavior

Infidelity

Divorce and breakups

Life transitions and stuckness around big decisions

Signs you're ready for this pace:

  • Your daily life is stable, and you have people (ideally including a therapist) to return to after our work

  • You have a self-care practice with some capacity for big emotion, and you're willing to feel some discomfort along the way

  • You're motivated to explore the roots of what's hard, and open to change

An intensive may not be the right next step if you:

  • You're in crisis, or your safety is at risk right now

  • You don’t have a support system to return to after the intensive

  • You're newer to therapy and still building coping skills or support

  • You prefer the steady pace of ongoing weekly sessions

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  • "In the weeks following my intensive sessions with you, I had a number of people notice how much better I seemed to be doing.

    I told them about the treatment and always ended my spiel with “I feel unrecognizable yet somehow the most myself I have ever been.” I truly cannot thank you enough for getting me there. Things are far from perfect of course, but I am here living a life that I couldn’t have dreamed of until I worked with you, and I just wanted to tell you that. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for giving me the tools I needed to build a life I love. “ -former EMDR intensive client

  • "Working with Kate was a life changing experience for me.

    I have experienced trauma and that manifested in an anxious attachment and at times an activation in the present that felt like I was back in the past. Her kind, gentle, supportive and intentional approach of EMDR and talk therapy has brought me to a place where I am no longer feeling as if my system is being emotionally hijacked when activated. Her space feels safe and welcoming. Her attunement allowed for the sessions to flow in a way that felt organic and instinctual. I have been in talk therapy on and off for over 15 years and felt more healing from my 4 intensive sessions with Kate. I will be forever grateful to her and would highly recommend anyone looking to heal their trauma.” -former EMDR intensive client

  • "I never thought I would have freedom from my suffering.

    I was skeptical but am extremely thrilled with the results. Kate is wonderful! EMDR works!!” -former EMDR intensive client

  • "This has been amazing!

    Kate provided a welcoming and safe environment. All of the plants made me feel right at home. Kate's presence made me feel seen, heard, and understood. I was amazed at what memories and stories were linked together for me and unwinding those made such a huge difference! Kate is a talented therapist who will help you navigate your inner world so that you can face what needs to be faced in a safe and supportive environment.” -former EMDR intensive client

  • “As helpful as EMDR therapy can be, it is also challenging, overwhelming and at times painful. Kate is a wonderful guide in this process, ensuring that I feel comfortable and safe.” -EMDR client

  • "Kate is one of the most understanding people and she does it with the kindest intententions.

    I genuinely felt cared about by her. If you are looking for a therapist who is willing to try multiple strategies or types of therapy to help find what works best for you without pigeonholing you into something that doesn’t work, Kate is a great fit.” -Former client

  • “Working with Kate transformed my inner landscape more than any therapist, book, or single experience. She is collaborative, kind, and insightful.” -Former EMDR intensive client

  • “I feel I am able to confront some of the challenges I have had in my past in a way that feels constructive and meaningful. I feel that my overall outlook has improved and I am able to implement the tools and resources we developed together. Kate creates a safe environment, there is nothing but loving support when you work with her. I felt seen and understood.” - former intensive client

  • “I came to understand how past experiences are affecting my behaviors now, to overcome self-criticism and fears. I have more freedom--feel less trapped and less burdened by my concerns. Kate is kind, easy to be with, intelligent, and compassionate.” -former intensive client

  • "I have so many tools with me now on how to deal with my anxiety when it arises.

    I am able to confront people more easily and am able to put myself and my happiness first over pleasing other people. Kate is a wonderful therapist. She has helped me through so many problems and completely changed my life because of it. She harbors such a safe space which allows you to truly feel comfortable in opening up. She is so knowledgeable in many different tools and techniques on how to achieve a better quality of life, due to decrease in anxiety and stressors.” -former client

  • "Kate made me feel validated, heard, and gave me feedback that really works for me. In all my years in therapy, Kate is my number one. Highly highly recommend.” -former client

How it Works

The Investment: $4500

Includes:

  • 20 hours of 1:1 therapy

  • The intensive workbook

  • Coordination of care calls with up to two of your providers (primary therapist, medication prescriber, etc)

1. Reach out
Send me a message through the contact form. Tell me a little about what's bringing you here, and there's no need to share details. I'll get back to you within 2 business days to set up a time to talk.

2. Consultation (30 minutes)
We talk about what you're hoping to work on, what an intensive involves, and whether this is the right fit for you right now. There's no commitment, and it's a chance to see whether we click.

3. Intake session (2 hours)
If we both feel it's a fit, we take a deeper look at your history, get clear on the one or two issues we'll focus on, and make sure you have the resources you need going in. By the end, you'll know what to expect and what your intensive days will look like.

4. The intensive (three 5-hour days)
Longer, uninterrupted sessions let us go further than a 50-minute hour allows, without having to stop just as something starts to move.

4. Integration and follow-up (3 hours, about one month later)
After deep work, things need time to settle, so we let them. When we meet again, we take stock of what has shifted, revisit anything that's still asking for attention, and think through how you'll carry the changes forward. I've built in a full session on purpose. The weeks after are where much of the work takes hold, and this final session is your chance to reinforce it and build on the progress you've made.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes, I offer ongoing intensive therapy to those who want to continue working with me. If you want to continue working with me, we can customize our session cadence and length to meet your needs.

    For example:

    • a half-day (3-hour) intensive once a month

    • a full day (5 hours) once a quarter

    • A multi-day intensive once or twice a year

  • I have some limited availability for people who want shorter weekly or biweekly sessions.

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  • Yes! Intensive work pairs well with ongoing therapy, and I’m happy to collaborate with your primary therapist to support your progress. Many clients come to EMDR alongside or following their work in talk therapy.

  • Yes! While in-person sessions for intensive work is preferable, I also offer sessions remotely for those who prefer or live out of town.

  • No! One of the lovely things about intensive work is that it can be done over the course of several days, rather that on an ongoing weekly basis for months or years. Clients are invited to travel to Maine for several days for a retreat style Intensive experience of your own design. This allows you to remove yourself from the daily responsibilities and distractions of your daily life so you can focus on your healing without distraction.

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