It’s time to enjoy your life, free from the pain. Try an intensive for faster relief
EMDR Intensives in Lompoc, CA and online — accelerated trauma healing in 1–3 focused days. Ideal for busy schedules.
Book a free consultation with Shuriee Gioieni, LMFT.
Are you tired of sitting in weekly therapy sessions and you still feel stuck and like not much has change for you?
It’s time to try a EMDR Intensive
What an EMDR Intensive Session Actually Feels Like
I want to be honest with you about what an Intensive is — and what it isn't.
It is not overwhelming. It is not a marathon of sitting in your hardest memories for hours on end. It is not something that leaves you more broken than when you arrived.
An EMDR Intensive is a carefully held, deeply supported experience. We go deeper than a 50-minute session allows — but we do it with intention, structure, and a constant eye on your nervous system's capacity to heal.
Before we begin:
We start with a full pre-intensive interview. This is where we get to know each other, clarify your goals, and map out exactly what we'll focus on. I customize a personal workbook for you based on your history, your strengths, and what you're carrying. Nothing about the Intensive is generic — it's built entirely around you.
During our intensive days:
Each day, we typically work for about three hours together. We begin slowly — grounding, settling, checking in with how you're feeling in your body. From there, we move into the EMDR reprocessing work: gently revisiting the experiences or beliefs that have been causing pain, using bilateral stimulation to help your brain process what it couldn't before.
Throughout our time, I'm watching. I'm tracking how you're doing. I'm checking in. We move at whatever pace is right for you — and if we need to slow down, we slow down. Your safety always comes first.
We weave in somatic practices, breathwork, parts work, and nervous system regulation as needed — because healing trauma isn't just a cognitive process. It happens in the body, too.
At the end:
We close each day with integration — making meaning of what shifted, returning to solid ground, and preparing you to carry that healing into your everyday life. Our post-intensive session gives us space to reflect on the full arc of your work and plan what comes next.
Many clients describe the Intensive experience as the first time they've truly felt heard at the depth they needed. Some come in braced for difficulty and leave surprised by how held they felt throughout. Others arrive relieved — finally, after years of weekly sessions that felt like they were circling the same drain, something moved.
Healing at depth is possible. And you don't have to do it alone.
Benefits of an EMDR Intensive
More Flexibility for Busy Schedules
Intensives are ideal for individuals who can’t commit to weekly appointments. Because we work over one to three days, there’s no need to rearrange your life, take weekly time off, or worry about gaps in your progress.
Cost-Effective & Time-Saving
Many clients experience more healing in a few days of intensive work than in months of weekly therapy. This makes EMDR Intensives both efficient and cost-effective, especially for those ready for focused, meaningful change.
An EMDR Intensive Is for You If You’re:
Seeking relief and transformation at an accelerated pace
Struggling with recent or long-standing trauma affecting your daily life
Preparing for a major transition and want emotional clarity and resilience
Too busy for weekly therapy due to work or family responsibilities
Experiencing recurring themes, insecurities, or patterns you can’t break
Already in weekly therapy but feeling stuck or on the verge of a breakthrough
Motivated and ready for deep reflection, healing, and growth in a short period of time
If you’re ready for powerful, focused healing that can create real and lasting change, an EMDR Intensive may be the right fit for you.
Choose Your Healing Package
Package 1
1 hour Pre-Intensive Interview
1 day, 3 hour Intensive session
1 hour Post-Intensive Interview
Workbook included
Price $1500
Package 2
1 hour Pre-Intensive Interview
2 day, 3 hour Intensive session
1 hour Post-Intensive Interview
Workbook included
Price $2000
Package 3
I hour Pre-Intensive Interview
3 day, 3 hour Intensive session
1 hour Post-Intensive Interview
Workbook Included
Price $2500
With an EMDR Intensive, you can…
Experience the benefit of accelerated healing
Work through negative beliefs about yourself that are holding you back.
Work through trauma that is keeping you stuck
Prepare yourself emotionally and mentally for big events like getting married, going to college, sports performance, medical procedures, having a baby, and much more
Questions?
FAQs
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There are many reasonsito try an EMDR Intensive . I would say the common are: if you don’t have time in your busy schedule for weekly therapy sessions, you want faste relief because you can’t move forward from something traumatic that happened, and it cost less for an EMDR Intensive than months of weekly therapy sessions.
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With a regular therapy session you are getting about 30 minutes of deep work in because the first 10 minutes your catching up the therapist on the week you had and the last 15 minutes of a session you’re wrapping up session . Now , with an Intensive you will have at least 3 hours and up to 9 hours of deep work which means faster relief and you can be done with therapy faster
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Everything we do together will be tailored to your specific needs and done at a rate you can handle. You will be taught skills to help regulate emotions and calm yourself down if needed. I am very client centered so I will be checking in with you a lot.