EMDR Intensives
Intensive EMDR Sessions from an EMDR Certified Therapist
Available In-Person or Remotely in Florida, Virginia and DC
Why Would a Client Consider Intensive EMDR Sessions over weekly therapy?
The benefits of EMDR are far reaching and there is evidence to back this up. But why consider intensive vs. weekly, hourly EMDR therapy? Or perhaps consider integrating EMDR intensives into your current treatment.
While Nodelman Counseling & Psychotherapy has and continues to help many people overcome disturbing memories and reverse the impacts of negative core beliefs with EMDR, doing so in the context of hourly sessions can take time and, therefore, depending on your particular insurance plan, be costly.
Jordan offers the opportunity to, potentially, reduce your time in treatment by offering EMDR in an intensive, multi-hour format. Intensives are also held for existing, weekly clients who want to deep dive into topics for greater insight and clarity than 60 minute sessions may afford.
This option is available in-person or remotely. Though there is no minimum or maximum commitment, most clients find that blocks of three hours at a time are most impactful.
Who can benefit from EMDR Intensives?
The truth is most anyone can; however, you must first have an assessment session to gauge if an intensive session is indicated for your concerns and symptoms.
Can I be guaranteed I can be seen for intensives after an intake?
Unfortunately, it depends. EMDR is not appropriate to be started immediately for all persons.
For example, clients with dissociative symptoms or dissociative disorders would not benefit from immediate intensive EMDR sessions and some clients with significant trauma histories also require significant prep time before diving into EMDR work. That said, each case is unique. Those persons who have experienced a single-incident trauma (click here for more information on single-incident traumas) are more likely to benefit from EMDR intensives.
Finally, existing clients who are already deep in EMDR work and seeing the benefits of hourly EMDR sessions, but want to accelerate their healing, will likely also benefit from extended sessions.
If you are not from the area and think this may be a good fit for your needs, there are plenty of hotels in the area that can make you comfortable for your EMDR journey with Jordan. He does work with out-of-town clients in this multi-hour format.
EMDR Certified Therapist and Why It Matters
Jordan Nodelman, LCSW is aย Certified EMDR Psychotherapist, certified by EMDRIA International EMDR Association. 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. 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. He has also conducted 1,000s of EMDR sessions. Finally, Jordan continues to seek consultation for complex client situations, 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 is a course of treatment like?:
There are eight phases to EMDR therapy treatment in traditional EMDR. Please note there are many variations in EMDR and Jordan is versed at the art of EMDR.
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.
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
-LGBTQI specific issues rooted in negative belief patterns
-Adults feeling stuck in life: work, relationships, feeling blue
-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
EMDR can be provided by telehealth 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.)