EMDR Therapy

Are you feeling overwhelmed by past trauma or a difficult life experience?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) offers a path to true healing. Proven and rigorously tested, EMDR doesn’t just mask symptoms; it addresses the root cause of your pain. Based in neuroscience EMDR works faster than traditional talk therapy, helping you move past hurt and reclaim your life quickly. EMDR allows you to reprocess and break free from painful memories, difficult feelings, and find lasting peace. If you’re exhausted from carrying the weight of your struggles, EMDR can unlock a future where you’re no longer defined by your past.

Interested, but not sure how EMDR can help you? Sessions are customized to meet your specific needs, so let’s begin a conversation and start mapping out your goals.

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EMDR Intensives

Condense Your Healing Journey with EMDR Intensives.

Conventional psychotherapy involves weekly or bi-weekly 50-minute sessions and may extend over months or even years. Therapy goals can be challenging to achieve due to scheduling conflicts, vacations, and unexpected life events interrupting appointments.

On the other hand, intensive treatment offers longer therapy sessions, lasting several hours, within a condensed timeframe of a few weeks. This approach saves time and resources, achieving quicker results. The immersive nature of this treatment helps address core issues rapidly and safely, producing profound and lasting changes.

6 Hour Package

  • 90-minute history & goals assessment interview to identify targets, prepare for treatment.
  • 3 Hours of EMDR Processing 
  • 90-minute follow-up to evaluate progress and implement positive changes.

9 Hour Package

  • 90-minute history & goals assessment interview to identify targets, prepare for treatment.
  • 6 Hours of EMDR Processing 
  • 90-minute follow-up session to evaluate progress and implement positive changes.

12 Hour Package

  • 90-minute history & goals assessment interview to identify targets, prepare for treatment.
  • 9 Hours of EMDR Processing 
  • 90-minute follow-up session to evaluate progress and implement positive changes.

All Packages Include the Following Assessments

In order to save time collecting important information that usually requires multiple sessions to gather, electronic assessments via my secure client portal is offered.

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • History of Abuse 
  • Communication Style 
  • Beliefs Inventory
  • Family Rules 
  • Co-Dependency
  • Developmental Stages
  • Emotional Triggers

Coaching & Personal Development

As a therapist integrating a coaching style approach, I combine therapeutic and coaching techniques to help you achieve your personal and professional goals. This blend offers you the best of both worlds:

  • Clarity and Focus: Coaching helps you gain a clear vision of your goals and the steps needed to achieve them.
  • Strategic Planning: Together, we’ll develop practical strategies that are tailored to your desired goals.
  • Intentionality: You’ll learn to act with purpose, making each step count towards your end goals
  • Accountability: Regular check-ins ensure you stay on track and adjust your approach when needed.
  • Insight and Healing: Therapy helps you understand and resolve the emotional issues blocking you from meeting your goals.

Combining these approaches, you’ll gain deeper insights and healing while actively creating the life you envision, whether it’s in your career, relationships, or personal development.

Let’s create a clear action plan by breaking down your big goals into manageable steps. With regular check-ins and accountability measures, you’ll stay on track and motivated, ensuring you are successful in turning things around.

Common goals I help people achieve 

  • Preventing burnout
  • Improving your parenting skills
  • Creating and maintaining structure and self-care in your life
  • Learning to recognize and replace a critical inner dialogue
  • Developing time management skills, habits, and routines
  • Overcoming procrastination
  • Finding work-life balance
  • Becoming more assertive and improving communication skills
  • Conquering imposter syndrome
  • Strategies for managing stress and anxiety
  • Enhancing creativity and productivity

If you are ready to meet the goals you desire, let’s get started in helping you fulfill what matters most to you.

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Expressive Art Intensives

Expressive Arts Intensives offers a unique opportunity to explore creativity without the pressure of being an artist or having any artistic talent. It’s all about the process, allowing yourself to freely express emotions, thoughts, and ideas through various artistic mediums. The focus is on the journey of self-discovery and expression, rather than the final product. However, you might be pleasantly surprised by how much you enjoy what you create along the way.

In these longer more immersive sessions, you can explore and tackle emotional and mental health challenges through a selection of the following creative art therapy options while releasing what no longer serves you.

  • sunAcrylic painting, paint pouring and drawing to improve mood, promote relaxation, and mindfulness.
  • sunCreation of resource or vision boards, to calm, motivate, and inspire
  • sunSongwriting and poetry to use metaphors to release and transform feelings that are hard to articulate.
  • sunJournaling with art techniques to encourage introspection.
  • sunJewelry making to channel emotions into tangible forms using beads and wire to represent your inner world.
  • sunMusic to shift your mood and evoke a range of emotions.
  • sunMovement, somatic exercises to release physical tension and regulate your nervous system.
  • sunMixed media art projects combined with therapeutic techniques
  • sunRediscover your inner child and parts of yourself while creating images and stories using miniatures in a sand tray.

Benefits of Expressive Arts Intensives

Neuroscientific research provides support for the benefits of expressive arts therapy techniques. Studies show that engaging in creative activities can activate various brain regions associated with emotional regulation, memory, and sensory processing.

Engaging in artistic activities enhances neural connectivity, particularly between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This increased connectivity supports neuroplasticity, allowing the brain to adapt and reorganize itself in response to new experiences, which is helpful for recovery from trauma or mental health challenges.

Creative activities have been shown to reduce the levels of cortisol, the body’s primary stress hormone. This reduction helps in managing stress, anxiety, and related symptoms, promoting a sense of calm and well-being.

Participating in expressive arts can activate the brain’s reward pathways, releasing dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and motivation. This helps enhance mood and fosters a sense of accomplishment, contributing to improved mental health.

Neuroimaging studies have shown that expressive arts therapy activates areas of the brain involved in emotional processing, such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. This activation supports the processing of complex emotions, leading to better emotional regulation and insight.

Engaging in expressive arts can activate the hippocampus, the brain region associated with memory formation and retrieval. This is particularly beneficial in trauma therapy, as it allows individuals to process traumatic memories in a non-verbal, symbolic manner, potentially reducing the intensity of traumatic memories.

Creative activities stimulate the brain’s frontal lobe, which is responsible for executive functions such as decision-making, problem-solving, and planning. This stimulation can enhance cognitive function and improve overall mental agility.

Therapeutic Beach Intensives

Let’s make the most of having the ocean right in our backyard here in Southern California by incorporating its natural elements into a holistic therapeutic experience.

Imagine a day at the beach that leaves you feeling uplifted, invigorated, and ready to tackle the daily grind with renewed enthusiasm. Experience the peaceful sight and sound of waves crashing, and the feeling of warm sand underfoot. These sensory experiences trigger the brain to release dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, euphoria and tranquility. This natural high foster a deep sense of relaxation and happiness.

Join me for a unique customized experience you won’t find anywhere else.

I will set up camp at the beach for a half or full day of self-care. This will include a combination of therapeutic techniques that focus on nurturing your mind, body and spirit.

  • Mindfulness exercises to reduce stress, calm emotions, and improve mental clarity.
  • Grounding and self-soothing techniques
  • Oceanic breathing exercises 
  • Somatic awareness techniques to calm your nervous system.
  • EMDR to resolve a problem or focus on integrating something positive!
  • Custom yoga flow geared toward your intentions.
  • Journaling and writing exploration for self-care and insight awareness.
  • Clay sculpting, drawing, or painting for gaining insight and connecting to emotions.
  • Refreshing and healthy food.

If the idea of doing therapy on the beach resonates with you as much as it does with me, I’d love to hear from you! Let’s create an afternoon of insight and renewal.

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