The birth. The loss. The NICU stay. It's over, so why does your body still feel like it's happening?
EMDR Intensives for birth trauma, pregnancy and infant loss, infertility, NICU experiences, and other moments that still live in your body.
In person in San Diego and virtual across California and Arizona.
Sometimes the path to healing requires more than an hour a week
When trauma runs deep, whether it is birth trauma that still takes your breath away, childhood wounds that surfaced when you became a mother, or the complex grief of fertility struggles, weekly therapy can feel fragmented. Just as you are settling into the work, the session ends and the momentum is lost. For those navigating postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, or the lasting impact of a traumatic birth in San Diego, the weekly therapy model often cannot keep pace with what you are carrying. EMDR intensifies offer a different path.
My weekend EMDR intensives take place in my centrally located San Diego office or virtually anywhere in California or Arizona. As a PMH-C certified perinatal therapist, I offer concentrated trauma processing designed specifically for the perinatal journey, including birth trauma, postpartum anxiety and depression, pregnancy loss, and NICU experiences.
This is not about rushing your process. It is about honoring it. It is about giving your trauma the dedicated time and attention it deserves to be witnessed, processed, and integrated.
What to expect
Before We Begin
We start with a 60 to 90 minute preparation session to ensure you feel ready and supported. During this time we clarify your goals, identify the memory or theme you want to focus on, and establish personalized safety protocols that honor your unique perinatal experience.
Weekend Intensive
The core work takes place over two consecutive four hour sessions, typically Friday evening and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday. We work with one specific experience such as a birth trauma, pregnancy loss, NICU stay, or postpartum event and move through all phases of EMDR including stabilization, reprocessing, and integration. Mindful breaks are woven throughout the intensive to support rest, reflection, and nervous system balance.
Extended Sessions
Trauma work does not always move on a fifty minute schedule, and for many of my ongoing clients, extended sessions become a regular part of how we work together. The weekend intensive is designed for situations that call for a concentrated, immersive push, often when there is real time pressure (a pregnant client wanting to process a prior birth trauma before giving birth again, for example) or when regular weekly sessions have not been enough to move something that clearly needs a bigger container. Extended sessions are for clients already in ongoing therapy who hit a specific target, a traumatic birth memory, a hard moment from a NICU stay, a point of fear or shame that keeps resurfacing, that needs more room than a standard hour but not the full weekend format. We schedule a two to three hour session to move all the way through it. This is not a one time add on. As new targets come up over the course of our work, we return to this format as often as it is needed, so nothing is left half processed between sessions.
Integration Support
About one week after your intensive, we meet for a 60 minute integration session to help your system continue processing, deepen insights, and ensure you leave feeling grounded, steady, and complete in your healing process
Why one trauma focus?
One Step at a time
During an intensive we intentionally focus on one central experience rather than trying to process everything at once. This allows your mind and body to stay fully present and move through a complete healing cycle without becoming overwhelmed or scattered.
In perinatal work, one experience often holds threads that reach into many others. A birth trauma may touch old feelings of powerlessness. A miscarriage may reawaken grief from earlier losses. By tending to one focal point with tenderness and precision, the healing often ripples outward into many areas of life.
Focusing deeply on one trauma is not about minimizing everything else you have lived through. It is about honoring the depth your healing deserves, one meaningful step at a time.
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Invest in your healing
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You’re ready to focus on a specific experience or pattern
You want to move through something more efficiently
You have limited time (work, childcare, travel) and need a more contained format
You’ve done prior therapy and feel ready for deeper, more immersive work
You’re looking for a focused, high-impact experience
Intensives allow us to stay engaged in the work without the start and stop of weekly sessions, often leading to meaningful shifts in a shorter period of time.
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Individuals navigating perinatal trauma, including birth trauma, postpartum anxiety, pregnancy loss, infant loss, infertility, and NICU experiences, who want focused, supported processing in San Diego or virtually across California and Arizona.
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Focusing on a single memory allows your nervous system to process fully and safely. Ripple effects often bring relief in related areas of your life.
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The intensive includes a 60 to 90 minute preparation session, two consecutive 4-hour EMDR processing sessions held over a weekend at my San Diego office or virtually, and a 60 minute integration session approximately one week later. Breaks are built in throughout to support safety and nervous system regulation.
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Not necessarily! The weekend intensive is built for situations with real time pressure, like a pregnant client wanting to process a prior birth trauma before giving birth again, or for when regular weekly sessions have not been enough to shift something that needs a bigger container. Extended sessions are for clients already in ongoing therapy who hit a specific target that needs more room than a standard hour but not a full weekend. Many of my clients use this format more than once, returning to it whenever a new target comes up that calls for extra time.
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You do not need to have done EMDR before. Many clients come to their first intensive having done prior talk therapy and feeling ready to go deeper.
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Full EMDR Intensive
$3,000 total
$1,500 deposit
$1,500 due day of
Ketamine add-on
+$900
Interested in adding ketamine to your intensive? Learn more about ketamine-assisted EMDR.