Numerous therapists, myself included, are choosing to provide therapy intensive programs that utilize skills such as EMDR and/or Brainspotting. These intensive programs feature extended therapy sessions over a short duration, concentrating specifically on one or two main issues that you wish to explore. Because therapy intensives go beyond the structure of traditional weekly sessions, they offer a range of advantages to the client.

If you’re a woman over 40, and you’ve been curious about brain based therapies, like EMDR and Brainspotting, I have outlined here 5 of the more common circumstances under which you may look to start therapy and how EMDR and Brainspotting can help.

Brainspotting is a neuroexperiential model for psychotherapy, where it uses the connection between your visual perception and the brain’s subcortex in order to process emotional experiences, trauma and distress. Brainspotting can also be used for performance enhancement.

You’ve heard of EMDR therapy, and perhaps most recently have been hearing about EMDR therapy intensives. You’re curious and have done some research, but want to know more about what happens in an EMDR therapy session. In this article, I will explain the EMDR therapy framework step by step so you know what to expect when you go for EMDR therapy.