In Person in Murrieta & online throughout California
EMDR Intensives in Murrieta, CA + Online
For adults who prefer to protect their energy by doing the deep work all at once, rather than stretching that vulnerability out over time.
change the pace of healing
An intensive is like booking a direct cross-country flight. It’s therapy without the layovers, delays & friction.
An intensive is EMDR therapy in one concentrated block of time: a single 3-hour session or three 3-hour days, with a planning session before and an integration session after. EMDR is the approach; an intensive is the format.
You take off, get up to cruising altitude, and stay there. Your brain gets a long, uninterrupted stretch of time to travel exactly where it needs to go before landing. By dedicating a half-day or weekend to your healing, you skip the weekly disruption and emotional set-up of traditional therapy.
If you'd rather do standard EMDR or therapy sessions, I offer those too.
Learn more about emdr therapy →What’s different about an emdr intensive?
You get deep, uninterrupted focus
In traditional therapy sessions, part of every hour goes to catching up, determining our focus, and we may need to close things down just as you are getting to the core of the issue. In an intensive, we stay with what we are working on so that every hour builds directly on the last without interruption.
The work is planned around you
Following your initial planning session, your companion workbook becomes a living, customized treatment plan tailored specifically to your goals. Its reflection prompts, questionnaires, and rating scales help us map out exactly what we will target, allowing us to spend less time on paperwork and more time on deep processing.
There is a clear, defined endpoint
Healing doesn’t need to feel like an endless commitment. With an intensive, you choose your dates in advance and we close with a dedicated integration session, giving you a clear structure and a defined destination.
WHAT INTENSIVES HELP WITH:
SINGLE INCIDENT TRAUMA
Recent or past acute events, such as car accidents, medical emergencies, natural disasters or specific assaults.
ANXIETY & PANIC
The physical and emotional triggers that keep your nervous system stuck in worry, hyper-arousal or worst-case thinking.
LIMITING BELIEFS
Core beliefs like "I am unsafe," "I am not enough" or "I have to be perfect" that you understand but you still can’t fully let go of.
COMPLEX OR LAYERED TRAUMA
Stubborn, painful memories or specific life chapters that continue to trigger strong emotional reactions, or overwhelm today.
ATTACHMENT WOUNDS
Patterns left by childhood neglect, a volatile upbringing or adult betrayals that keep you insecure or on guard in relationships.
PERSISTENT DEPRESSION
Unresolved grief, shame or old survival strategies that show up as numbness, exhaustion or feeling stuck.
PERFORMANCE BLOCKS
Specific anxieties or emotional blocks that get in the way of your work, growth or creative expression.
Is an intensive right for you?
An intensive may be a good fit if you are:A busy professional, parent or leader who can set aside one block of time more easily than a weekly appointment.
Facing a major life transition, like parenthood, grief, divorce or a career shift, and want focused time to process what's happened.
A therapy veteran who's hit a plateau and wants a targeted way to work on a block talk therapy hasn't reached.
Seeking specialized trauma support while staying with a therapist you already love.
Tired of talking it through. You understand your patterns and want your nervous system to process them, not just analyze them.
Ready for focused treatment without the momentum you lose between weekly sessions.
When weekly therapy is a better fit
An intensive isn't the right first step if you're in a suicidal or self-harm crisis, have had a suicide attempt or psychiatric hospitalization in the past 3 months, are experiencing psychosis or mania, aren't safe at home, or often lose time or feel detached from your body without reliable ways to feel safe again. In that case, we'd start with weekly sessions to build your grounding skills first, or I'll help you find a better fit.
If you're currently in crisis, call 911 or text 988 for immediate support.
Intensives for neurodivergent and highly sensitive nervous systems
A consolidated treatment timeline doesn’t mean we rush the process.
An intensive is designed to feel spacious, and protective of your energy.
If you navigate life with an autistic, ADHD, or highly sensitive nervous system, the thought of a multi-hour session might sound like a recipe for sensory burnout. In practice, the extended time block creates the exact opposite effect. This format allows for a slow, gentle pace where we never have to rush through your day or force a breakthrough.
This structure offers you more control over the environment and pacing of the work. We can build in unscripted downtime, sensory decompression breaks, and somatic grounding directly into our time together. You are free to move, stretch, step away at any time during the process so you never have to push past your nervous system’s natural capacity.
Stacking your care into a single container eliminates the executive drain of weekly transitions. Traditional therapy formats require mental energy to repeatedly open up, pack back up, and transition back into your daily routine. An intensive handles that emotional setup just once, protecting your baseline from the constant disruption of starting and stopping.
An intensive format honors the natural way sensitive and neurodivergent minds prefer to process—deeply, thoroughly, and without interruption. This format gives your brain a steady runway to fully explore and integrate things at its own speed. You can lean into your innate capacity for deep focus, knowing you won't be abruptly jarred by a buzzer just as you are hitting your stride.
You don’t have to figure it out alone…
Start with a free 20-minute call. We'll talk about what you want to work on and which format fits best.
Your Intensive Therapist
Clinical expertise meets a gentle, guided approach to healing.
I’m Tana, and I bring over 17 years of experience in helping people move through and heal from complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and emotional blocks.
Since 2018, I have used Attachment-Focused EMDR (trained through the Parnell Institute) with hundreds of clients to help resolve both acute events and deeply rooted, chronic symptoms.
When you book an intensive, you aren't just getting a faster timeline—you are getting a seasoned clinician who knows how to safely navigate and hold space for deep, multi-layered healing.
Because we stay with the work for a longer block of time, my top priority is ensuring you always feel safe and in control. I bring my Level 1 training from the IFS Institute (Internal Family Systems) directly into our intensives. If we hit an emotional block or a protective part of you feels hesitant, we stop and work with it. We never bulldoze through your boundaries or rush your process. Instead, we listen to what your system needs, ensuring your intensive remains comfortable, respectful, and adapted to your natural rhythm.
I see intensive clients in my Murrieta office and online across California.
From consult to integration
What To Expect
Here's an example of how a half-day intensive comes together, from your first call to your follow-up session.
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Free 20-minute consult
We'll talk about your goals and see if an intensive matches your needs. If a different approach or resource fits better, I'll point you to it.
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Book your dates
A $500 deposit holds your planning, intensive and integration dates, and counts toward your package.
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Planning session
We pinpoint the specific targets we'll work on, map out the negative beliefs holding you back, and identify the positive beliefs you want to install in their place. We'll also practice your calming resources so your system feels steady and prepared.
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Your workbook
After planning, I prefill your companion workbook with what's specific to you and assign the pages to complete before your intensive, like rating the beliefs that feel true, noting your triggers, identifying your calming resources and writing your treatment goals. You'll also keep a short dream log the week before. You send your pages back so I can review them before we meet.
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Your intensive
A private, uninterrupted block for processing. A sample half-day:
- 15 minCheck-in. We go over your workbook pages, confirm your goals and the first target, and settle in with grounding.
- 75 minProcessing. Gentle tapping (online, you'll tap for yourself), focused on the memory we chose together. The workbook stays closed while we process.
- 15 minBreak. Stretch, have a snack and step away.
- 60 minProcessing. We continue, and as the distress comes down, we strengthen the belief you want in its place.
- 15 minClosing. We use your grounding tools so you leave steady, and I let you know which workbook pages to do next.
You can pause at any point. A 3-day intensive follows the same rhythm over three days. Between days, you'll complete a few short pages, like logging triggers and dreams and noticing how your resources helped, and we go over them the next day.
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Integration session
In the days following, short workbook prompts help you track how your system is settling. You'll compare your old story about what we worked on with your new one, log triggers and dreams, and note anything that still needs attention, then send those pages back before we meet. Together, we'll evaluate your progress, check if any parts of the target still carry a charge, and use your pages to map out your next steps.
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Keep using your workbook
Your workbook is yours to keep. Your calming resources, your commitments to yourself going forward and your notes on what still needs attention stay in one place, so you can come back to them whenever you need to. If you see another therapist, you can share it with them so your care stays connected.
intensive Options & Investment
Half Day
5 contact hours
60 min integration session · 1 (3-hour) day of EMDR · 60 min planning session
Includes: Personalized companion workbook to use before, during, and after your intensive + access to my resource library
Best for:
Single-event trauma: an accident, assault, medical trauma or sudden loss
Performance, creative or confidence blocks
Intrusive thoughts or body sensations tied to one experience
Our time together: One half-day can make a real difference with a single, focused target. Layered histories usually need a series of half-days or a 3-day intensive.
Weekday $1,440 (M-Th) · Weekend $1,872
3 Day
12 Contact hours
90 min planning session · 3 (3-hour) days of EMDR · 90 min integration session
Includes: Personalized companion workbook to use before, during, and after your intensive + access to my resource library
Best for:
Complex or layered trauma: developmental trauma or several traumatic experiences
Long-standing reactions that need sustained attention
People who lose ground between regular sessions
Our time together: Three close-together days let us move from one memory to related ones while the work is still active. Layered histories often need follow-up, which we’ll plan at integration.
Weekday $3,456 (M-Th) · Weekend $4,493
FAQS
EMDR Intensives in Murrieta, CA
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Yes, for clients located in California. Online intensives follow the same structure as in person, with the same planning session, workbook, and integration session. Online days may be split into shorter blocks with longer breaks, since screen time is more tiring. You'll need a private, quiet space where you won't be interrupted.
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A $500 deposit holds your dates and counts toward your package. Half the remaining balance is due 2 business days before your planning session, and the rest 7 days before your intensive. You can reschedule your intensive once at no charge with 14 or more days’ notice; with less than 7 days’ notice, the full fee is due. Zelle is preferred, and a card on file is required. You’ll get the full terms and a Good Faith Estimate when you book.
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II’m out of network, so I don’t bill insurance directly. I’ll give you a superbill/receipt for the therapy time to submit yourself. Many plans reimburse only one 50 minute session a day, so check with your insurer first. HSA and FSA cards are accepted.
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That's common, especially with complex PTSD. People with layered histories often schedule follow-up half-day intensives monthly, quarterly, or as needed. We'll assess after your first intensive and create a plan that makes sense for you.
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Comfortable clothing, water, snacks, and anything that helps you feel grounded (a journal, a comfort object, headphones for breaks). If we're working online, a private, quiet space where you won't be interrupted.
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After your planning session, I’ll send you a digital copy of your personalized companion workbook with the pages to complete before your intensive. I review them before we meet, and your timeline above walks through the rest.
ready to change the pace of your healing?