EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a powerful therapy used for trauma recovery. At Recovery Solutions, our EMDR Intensive Therapy offers a focused, accelerated path to healing. Designed for deep transformation in a shorter time frame, these sessions suit clients ready to take concentrated steps toward recovery. If an intensive format is not right for you, we also offer regular weekly EMDR sessions and can tailor a plan to your needs.
Why Choose EMDR Intensive Therapy?
Traditional EMDR sessions may stretch over months. Intensive EMDR condenses the process into a focused format, allowing you to engage deeply, consistently, and with momentum.
An intensive format helps:
Shorten the timeline of healing
Maintain therapeutic momentum and emotional continuity
Reduce disruption from life’s ups and downs
Deepen processing with a safe container
Because you are working intensively, sessions are structured, paced carefully, and supported throughout.
How Our Intensive Programs Work
We offer different intensives tailored to your needs: single-session intensives and multi-day intensives.
Single-Session Intensives
You commit to a full intensive session (e.g. 4–6 hours) in one go. This is suitable for discrete traumas or focused processing blocks.
Multi-Day Intensives
Over two or more consecutive days, you engage in structured EMDR sessions, integration, and support periods for more complex or layered trauma.
Before beginning, your clinician will complete a detailed intake and planning session to determine pacing, safety, and structure.
Benefits of Intensive EMDR Treatment
Engaging in an intensive EMDR format can offer multiple advantages:
Quicker shift in emotional reactivity
Sustained processing with fewer external interruptions
Greater internal coherence and continuity
Deep trauma integration
Faster relief from intrusive memories, distress, and triggers
While not suited for everyone, for many clients it offers a more consolidated route to healing.
Who Can Benefit?
EMDR intensive therapy may be appropriate for those who:
- Have a clear trauma target and readiness to engage deeply
- Want to fast-track healing
- Have complex trauma or persistent symptoms
- Live remotely but can commit to condensed sessions
- Have prior counselling or EMDR experience
Your therapist will collaborate with you to assess suitability, emotional resources, and pacing.
What to Expect in an Intensive Session
Intensive EMDR sessions follow a careful, structured approach:
Preparation & Stabilisation:
Grounding tools, safety planning, emotional regulation practices
Target Selection & Assessment:
Clarifying memory, associated beliefs, emotional/physical responses
Desensitisation & Reprocessing:
Guided bilateral stimulation (eye movements, taps, or sounds) to process trauma
Integration & Installation:
Installing positive beliefs, ensuring resolution, mind-body integration
Closure & Aftercare Planning:
Self care strategies, breaks, check-ins, processing support
Preparation & Stabilisation:
Grounding tools, safety planning, emotional regulation practices
Target Selection & Assessment:
Clarifying memory, associated beliefs, emotional/physical responses
Desensitisation & Reprocessing:
Guided bilateral stimulation (eye movements, taps, or sounds) to process trauma
Integration & Installation:
Installing positive beliefs, ensuring resolution, mind-body integration
Closure & Aftercare Planning:
Self care strategies, breaks, check-ins, processing support
Your clinician ensures pacing and consent at every step. You are empowered to pause or slow when needed.
Getting Started with EMDR Intensive
- Contact us via the form below or phone to express interest in an EMDR intensive
- We conduct an initial consultation to understand your trauma history, pacing needs, and suitability
- We’ll match you with a qualified EMDR clinician experienced in intensive formats
- Sessions may be held in person in Albury Wodonga or via secure telehealth, depending on your location
- Follow-up care, integration, and check-ins are integral to the process
