EMDR Intensives

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for 3 to 6 hours at a time versus weekly therapy

We meet for 3 to 6 hours at a time, which allows us to explore a concentrated block of therapeutic work. This approach is designed to provide a continuous and effective journey without the start and stop nature of weekly therapy.

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Why an EMDR Intensive?

  • More Time to Live your Life Fully

Intensives can eliminate weeks/months of living with trauma symptoms.  Devoting every minute of every session to EMDR is the hard part of weekly therapy.  Things come up in daily life and sessions are often spent problem solving, safety planning, and understanding emotions about situations, which are important but do not necessarily relieve symptoms of trauma.

  • Saves Money

1 intensive segment is equivalent to 6 to 8 weeks of weekly therapy

  • More Focused Therapy

Process one significant trauma or multiple traumas in a shorted timeframe without the impacts of life stressors that can occur over a 6 – 8 week period.

  • Rapid Results in  Symptom Reduction 

Some studies show that 84-90%of single-trauma victims no longer have PTSD after 3 sessions of EMDR.  End sessions with lower levels of distress and with potentially fewer side effects following treatment sessions due to the intensive format.

  • Unlock Truths about Yourself

Intensives allow you to make rapid connections between your current symptoms, past experiences and core beliefs developed throughout your life.  This process allows clients to unlock aspects of themselves to understand their responses from a completely different perspective.

Who Am I?

Hi! I’m Marie, what truly defines my approach is my dual identity as a therapist and a yoga instructor. I have a deep passion for helping my clients find change through top down (conscious to unconscious) and bottom up therapy modalities (unconscious to conscious). My expertise lies in intuitively moving through EMDR processing with clients and providing the necessary grounding techniques needed to support rapid trauma processing. I incorporate IFS, somatic and polyvagal theory into my therapeutic work daily.

The Benefits

Enhanced Trauma Resolution

EMDR’s rapid trauma memory processing and advanced protocols assist me in facilitating profound and lasting trauma resolution for clients.

Bottom-Up Therapy

EMDR taps into the innate healing capacity of the body and the nervous system. EMDR allows you to access and release emotional charge associated with disturbing memories. It bypasses conscious thinking mind and direct targets the underlying neural networks involved in trauma processing.

Enhanced Stability and Regulation

Through the nervous system transformation that occurs from desensitizing memories allows for a calmer emotional baseline. EMDR can help you cultivate a sense of safety within yourself and in your relationships.

Specialties

I treat a variety of presenting concerns, including but not limited to the following needs of our clients: (ages 5 to 75)

  • Complex PTSD
  • Phobias
  • Chronic Overwhelm and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Grief
  • Children
  • Teens
  • Attachment Trauma
  • Medical Trauma
  • Infertility

FAQs

Once we receive your completed contact form, Marie will reach out to you to schedule an initial 60 minute session via email.  We will need consent and payment completed BEFORE the session is scheduled.  

During the intake, Marie will create a tailored plan with you for your needs and schedule the intensive.  She generally schedules intensives on Fridays. 

At the initial appointment, Marie will also schedule your 2 week follow-up appointment. 

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Each intensive requires a one hour target planning session, a 3 hour intensive session, and a 30 minute follow-up in 2 weeks.  The cost is $550.

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Each intensive requires a one hour target planning session, a 6 hour intensive session which includes a 2 hour lunch break taken on your own, and a 30 minute follow-up in 2 weeks.  The cost is $1100.

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Please complete the contact form and I will let you know if I feel like I have adequate knowledge to provide support.

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Yes!  I have advanced training in utilizing EMDR techniques with ages 4 and up.

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We require 24 hours notice or you will be charged $250 for the scheduled time of the EMDR Intensive.  We will accept documented emergencies aka doctor’s notes with diagnosis of illness, etc. to waive payment for late cancellations.  There is no fee waiver for no showed appointments.

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Adjunctive EMDR means you are seeing another therapist and you want to use EMDR as an add-on therapy to help process specific issues.

Yes, I offer adjunctive EMDR in an intensive format.  These sessions would be highly focused and short-term.  I encourage clients to maintain their relationship with their primary therapist throughout the EMDR treatment and request an ROI so that I can collaborate care with the client’s primary therapist.

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We are able to offer sessions in person or virtual.

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“I love using EMDR Intensives with clients because it allows us to process through large amounts of content and pain quickly with the least pain possible.”
Marie Luna, LPC-S, EMDR Certified

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Coaching Versus Therapy

 

These are two VERY different experiences.  You get to choose what serves you best in your life today.

As a therapist, Bethany listens and uses evidence-based approaches that she's learned in school and in trainings.  It's such valuable work.  We dive deep in the trauma and the pain of the past, and we explore different ways to frame and shape those experiences.  As a therapy client, you will gain psycho-education and knowledge of current research-based practices and be challenged to implement changes in your thoughts, feelings and actions.

As a coach, Bethany is a mirror: reflecting and channeling.  She is a vessel and uses her energetic responses and embodied experiences to support you.  As a coaching client, we focus on upleveling your experience through energetic, embodied practices, accessing your consciousness through accessing the collective healing of the Universe.

Bethany is the same person, but these are two VERY different healing experiences she uses to support you.  As a therapist, Bethany does not discuss religion or spirituality without prompting; however, as a coach, our entire work is focused on accessing the energies of the Universe and ourselves.

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Artistic Truths

 

The logo of Phoenix Moon Healing is in the shape of a moon to signify our connection to the earth and our spirit animals.  It is a call to remember to access the parts of us that the world has quieted with its structure, rules and bullshit.  A call to howl at the moon and access our aligned self that is raw and vulnerable, to bring the yin and the yang of the feminine and masculine energies.  The phoenix signifies our constant evolution, becoming and unbecoming, all the same and all different.  The phoenix is our steady energetic signature of strength as we activate and access our highest self.

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