A Focused, Immersive Path to Healing — Beyond Weekly Therapy

Some of the most meaningful shifts in therapy don't unfold one hour at a time. EMDR Intensives are designed to help you move through deeper material in a focused, intentional way — while still prioritizing safety, pacing, and your nervous system. Rather than working only in weekly sessions, intensives create space for meaningful shifts to unfold over a shorter period of time. This approach may be especially supportive if you feel stuck in familiar cycles, want to process specific memories or core beliefs, or prefer a more in-depth therapeutic experience.

About Our EMDR Intensives:

At Decades, we offer EMDR Intensives as a structured, three-part experience — designed to give your nervous system time to prepare, process, and integrate. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a research-backed approach that uses gentle bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tapping, or sounds) to help your brain process and integrate experiences that feel unresolved.The intensive package includes three sessions across three days
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Day 1 — Preparation Session (90 minutes):
A thoughtful, supportive session where we clarify your goals, identify treatment targets and underlying patterns, assess readiness, build grounding and regulation tools, and offer guidance for caring for yourself between sessions. This step allows us to move into the intensive with clarity, safety, and intention.
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‍Day 2 — EMDR Intensive (3 hours):
This is where deeper processing unfolds — with support, flexibility, and space to move at a pace that feels right for you. Includes guided EMDR processing using bilateral stimulation, support working through memories, patterns, or triggers that feel unresolved, ongoing attunement to your pace and nervous system, breaks as needed, and time for reflection, integration, and gentle closing.
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‍Day 3 — Integration Session (90 minutes):
This phase helps support the shifts from your intensive so they can carry more fully into everyday life. We reflect on what has shifted emotionally, mentally, and physically, make meaning of your experience, strengthen new supportive beliefs, build tools for continued regulation and growth, and discuss next steps.

‍Investment: $550 for the full intensive package. Payment plans available.

Why choose us?

We believe effective EMDR intensive work comes from both clinical expertise and a deep respect for your pace. Here's what sets us apart:

EMDR-Trained Clinicians: Our intensive providers are specifically trained in EMDR therapy and experienced in adapting it to the intensive format.
Safety and Nervous System First: We approach intensives with a strong emphasis on safety, regulation, and attunement — never rushing the process.
Collaborative and Client-Led: We move at your pace, honor all parts of you that show up, and create the conditions for your brain and body to naturally heal — without pushing.
Structured for Real Integration: Many intensives leave clients raw at the end of a long day. Our three-session format builds in dedicated preparation and integration so the work actually lasts.

Flexible scheduling — designed around the intensive format

We offer Preparation and Integration Sessions on Mondays and Tuesdays, and 3-hour Intensive Sessions on Wednesdays and select weekends. We recommend in-person sessions for intensive work whenever possible, but virtual options are available for clients who need them.

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Is this right for you?

EMDR intensives may be a good fit if you feel ready to explore deeper layers of your experience, have some ability to stay present with support (we'll assess this together), are open to a focused immersive process, or feel stuck in patterns that haven't shifted with traditional weekly therapy.

If you're not sure, that's exactly what the free consultation is for.

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Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between EMDR Intensives and weekly EMDR therapy?

Weekly EMDR sessions run 50–60 minutes and unfold over many weeks or months. Intensives compress the work into a focused three-day format — a 90-minute preparation session, a 3-hour processing session, and a 90-minute integration session. The extended processing time allows your brain to stay in a working state without weekly resets, which many clients find creates faster, deeper movement.

Do I need to have done EMDR before?

No. The Day 1 Preparation Session is designed to assess readiness and build the resources you need, whether or not you've done EMDR previously. Some clients come to their first EMDR experience through an intensive; others have done weekly EMDR and want to go deeper.

How much does an EMDR Intensive cost?

The full three-session intensive package is $550. Payment plans are available.

Do you offer virtual sessions?

We strongly recommend in-person sessions for the 3-hour intensive itself — the environment matters for deeper trauma work. Preparation and Integration Sessions can be done virtually if needed. We have an office in downtown Austin for in-person sessions.

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