EMDR-Intensives
EMDR Intensives: Fast-Track Your Healing Journey
EMDR Intensives offer a powerful solution for those ready to tackle unresolved trauma, anxiety, or emotional blocks in a concentrated timeframe. If you’ve been struggling with past experiences holding you back or feel stuck despite previous therapy, an intensive EMDR engagement with Jordan could help you break free faster.
Through multiple hours of focused EMDR therapy in one or a few days, you’ll process trauma more efficiently and experience transformative results—often with lasting change in a fraction of the time.
This accelerated approach is also ideal for high performers seeking rapid growth while maintaining their demanding schedules.
Available In-Person in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Available Virtually, Statewide in Florida, Virginia and Washington DC and Vermont
More About EMDR
The benefits of EMDR are far reaching and there is evidence to back this up.
EMDR is a tool that helps people overcome disturbing memories and reverse the impacts of negative core beliefs (sometimes referred to as unhelpful cognitions/thoughts). It helps reduce triggers that cause unhelpful and automatic responses, including undesired behaviors.
In addition to being the gold standard for trauma treatment, EMDR can also be utilized for most presenting reasons someone may seek therapy.
- EMDR can bring relief from unhelpful or intrusive thoughts.
- It can bring balance to your life.
- It can help where traditional talk therapy hasn’t worked for you.
- It can help with depression & anxiety.
- It can even help those who have been through years of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) but still find reframing isn’t enough.
EMDR-Certified Therapist by EMDRIA–Why It Matters
Jordan Nodelman, LCSW, BCD is a Certified EMDR Psychotherapist, certified by the EMDRIA International EMDR Association. Additionally, he is also an EMDRIA Consultant to other EMDR Therapists. Why does this matter?
Anyone who attends Level 1 EMDR training can say they are a trained-EMDR therapist. Certified EMDR Therapists meet the highest standards in the EMDR clinician community. Jordan has completed Level 1, Level 2, Completed 30 hours of EMDRIA Approved Consultation Hours with a high-level, EMDR Consultant who has been in the field since EMDR’s inception. Additionally, as a Certified EMDR Professional, Jordan is required to complete a minimum of 12-hours of Continuing Education specific to EMDR every certification renewal cycle, though he completes much more than the minimum. As of 2025, Jordan has conducted over 5,000 hours of EMDR sessions and/or EMDR crisis interventions. In addition, Jordan is now an EMDRIA Consultant, meaning he has demonstrated the capacity to train other clinicians seeking EMDRIA Certification.
Jordan continues to seek consultation for complex client situations from other clinicians in the EMDR community, assuring you that you will be working with an EMDR therapist who is knowledgeable, comfortable with different protocols and insightful into states, such as dissociation, which make EMDR processing challenging and more nuanced.
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What does a basic/traditional EMDR course of treatment look like?
The following information outlines the basic protocol for EMDR. There are many protocols and ways EMDR Clinicians build upon this basic protocol. Consider the following information as the foundation of EMDR.
EMDR is an art, built upon this foundation.
There are eight phases to the foundation of EMDR therapy treatment.
The traditional 8-Phases are:
Phase 1: History taking and making sure EMDR is suitable for your specific needs, including looking at past events that have created the current issues in your life, current triggers and any needs you have in your future.
**History taking will include screening tools to gauge if you have dissociative symptoms that may require more preparation before addressing the issue(s) you are looking to work through.
Phase 2: Preparation for processing may include educating the client on connections between past and present, including the integration of techniques for the client to be able to regulate themselves.
Phase 3: Assessment where the therapist accesses the target (issue ) to be processed and baseline measurements using scaling, negative and more adaptive beliefs identified, and emotions and body sensations discussed.
Phase 4: Desensitization* phase where processing toward a state of no distress, allowing the client to gain insights, work through the emergence of emotions and physical sensations and memories.
Phase 5: Installation of the desired, positive belief and integrate that into your memory network, assisting your neural network to think differently about the memory/issue that was desensitized.
Phase 6: Body Scan to rid your body of any residual physical sensations.
Phase 7: Closure where you and the therapist discuss expectations and plan for between-session time, including (if necessary) meditations to stabilize (in case desensitization was not possible during a session).
Phase 8: Reassessment will start at the next session to make sure EMDR is effective and that you are able to integrate insights and having positive outcomes.
*The desensitization phase (Phase 4) can take multiple sessions depending on the complexity of the issue(s) being processed.
At Nodelman Counseling & Psychotherapy, EMDR has been shown to help those suffering from the burden of trauma, self-esteem issues, depression, phobias and stressful life events. More recently, Jordan has worked with adults living with ADHD, ADD and Learning Differences who have found themself in repeated cycles of anxiety, procrastination, and lowered esteem. EMDR has been transformative for many people living with ADHD, ADD and Learning Differences shift unhelpful thoughts.
It has also been shown to be highly effective as a way of helping clients looking to shift out of negative beliefs and negative self-evaluation that are holding them back from living a fulfilling life.
Most clients report being at peace with the issue they came into therapy with, gaining insights about what happened to them and are able to move on from therapy feeling more free and less burdened by the issue that brought them here.
EMDR works because it assists the brain in retrieving distressing memories during therapy and gaining new insights on them. In the process, your brain and body stores the memories tied to stressful life events and negative core beliefs in a way that becomes more adaptive and less stressful than it was prior to therapy. The result is you will feel less triggered and think more adaptively about the events and similar events moving forward.
We offer EMDR counseling to adults seeking help for:
-Life transitions
-Shifting negative self-evaluation to positive self-evaluation
-Specific issues rooted in negative belief patterns
-Adults feeling stuck in life: work, relationships, feeling blue
-Adults (especially established professionals) who are living with ADD, ADHD or Learning Differences and who have been living with shame and developed unhelpful thoughts such as self-doubt, negative comparisons with peers, and exhaustion caused by perfectionism.
-Clients suffering from Acute Stress Disorder, PTSD, Complex-PTSD (c-PTSD) or Vicarious Trauma (First Responders)
–Survivors of a traumatic event or series of traumatic events
-Clients who have experienced childhood trauma, including physical, emotional or sexual abuse
-Clients who were betrayed and traumatized and “stuck” because of the experience
-Individuals looking to overcome awful memories
-Mild to Moderate Depression
-Client who have been through talk therapy and still find they are perpetually negative or stuck
EMDR can be provided by telehealth (Real-Time Virtual Video) and we have had many success stories with Telehealth EMDR (a video feed is mandatory and a laptop or large monitor is preferable though not necessary.)