In-person EMDR Intensives in San Antonio and virtual intensives throughout Texas and Alabama.
EMDR Therapy Intensives for Betrayal, Trauma and Loss
When Moving Forward Feels Harder Than It Should
Ready to move forward—but still carrying what happened?
You may understand what happened intellectually, yet still find yourself replaying it, feeling triggered, grieving, or reacting as though the pain is still happening.
An EMDR Intensive gives you focused, dedicated time to work with the experiences that continue to affect you—without being limited to a traditional weekly session.
At Breath of Hope, we integrate EMDR with IFS-informed parts work to address both the painful experience and the ways you learned to protect yourself afterward.
EMDR helps us process the experience. Parts work helps us understand the protection.
What is an EMDR Therapy Intensive?
An EMDR Intensive is an extended therapy session focused on a specific area of healing. Rather than working within a traditional weekly 50-minute session, you set aside a larger block of dedicated time—such as several hours or multiple days—for focused therapeutic work.
The extended format allows us to spend less time stopping and restarting the therapeutic process and more time working with the memories, beliefs, emotions, and protective responses connected to what is keeping you stuck.
Together, we identify what you most want to change and create an intensive personalized to your story, your nervous system, and your goals.
Which Pathway fits your story?
Which EMDR Intensive Pathway Fits Your Story?
Every intensive is personalized to you. These pathways simply help identify what you are carrying and where you most want healing.
1. Betrayal & Relationship Trauma
When someone you trusted became the source of your pain.
Infidelity, deception, abandonment, or other relationship wounds can leave you replaying what happened, questioning yourself, struggling to trust, or still feeling emotionally connected to someone who hurt you.
EMDR helps process the painful memories and triggers, while parts work helps us understand the protective responses that developed afterward.
2. Divorce & Relationship Loss
When the relationship is over—but emotionally, you don’t feel free yet.
You may know the relationship was unhealthy or could not continue and still miss the person, grieve what you hoped it would become, or struggle with rejection, anger, unanswered questions, or letting go.
Healing does not mean erasing the relationship. EMDR and parts work can help the past become something you remember without continuing to relive it.
3. Grief & Traumatic Loss
When grief feels like more than sadness.
Sometimes the circumstances surrounding a loss—the final days, a difficult memory, guilt, regret, or something left unsaid—remain painfully charged.
EMDR can help process the traumatic aspects of the loss while allowing your love and meaningful memories to remain. The goal is not forgetting—it is carrying the love without carrying the trauma in the same way.
4. Past Trauma & Emotional Triggers
When the past keeps showing up in your present.
You may notice strong reactions to rejection, criticism, conflict, uncertainty, or closeness—or patterns such as people-pleasing, overfunctioning, shutting down, or always expecting something to go wrong.
Parts work helps us understand what these responses are trying to protect, while EMDR helps process the experiences and beliefs underneath them.It always does.
What is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.
EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.
The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes. To learn more about EMDR, visit our trauma therapy page and scroll down to bottom of page titled Methods
Why do an EMDR Intensive?
Research supports its efficacy over traditional weekly sessions. Explore the research behind Gottman Couple Intensives and EMDR Intensives.
Weekly therapy can be extremely valuable. But sometimes a traditional 50-minute session ends just as you are reaching the deeper work.
An EMDR Intensive gives you a larger block of dedicated therapeutic time, allowing us to spend less time stopping and restarting the process and more time focused on the memories, beliefs, emotions, and patterns you want to change.
An EMDR Intensive may be a good fit if:
A painful experience is still affecting you today. You may understand what happened, but memories, triggers, grief, fear, anger, or relationship patterns continue to feel emotionally charged.
You feel stuck in weekly therapy or on the verge of a breakthrough. An intensive can provide additional focused time to work more deeply on a particular therapeutic goal.
You already have a therapist and want to supplement your ongoing work. An EMDR Intensive can give you dedicated time to focus specifically on trauma processing while continuing your regular therapy.
You have experienced EMDR before and found it helpful. You may want a longer period of time to continue working with a particular memory, belief, or experience.
You are preparing for an important life transition. Becoming a parent, starting a new job, relocating, entering a new relationship, attending an important family event, or beginning another significant chapter can bring old experiences and emotions to the surface.
Your schedule makes weekly therapy difficult. A break from work, medical leave, time between commitments, or another period of greater availability may give you an opportunity to intentionally devote time to your healing.
There is something specific you do not want to keep carrying forward. Rather than trying to address everything at once, we can identify a focused therapeutic target and begin there.
An intensive does not mean rushing healing or trying to resolve every painful experience in one day. It means creating protected, concentrated time for the work that matters most to you.
You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your life.
You had a painful experience that is still impacting you today.
You have done EMDR before and found it helpful for your healing.
You want to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for a big life event: becoming a parent, embarking on a new job, relocating or attending a wedding.
You already go to weekly therapy and you feel stuck or on the verge of a break through. An EMDR Intensive is an amazing supplement to your weekly therapy.
You have availability in your schedule like a break, or medical leave, and you want to use some of your time to replenish and heal.
How does an EMDR Intensive work?
What to Expect During Your EMDR Intensive
Kimberlee Daughtry is a Certified EMDR Therapist. Your intensive begins by identifying what you most want to be different and exploring what is happening in your life now—your supports, current stressors, coping patterns, and the areas where you are seeking relief or growth.
The work is personalized to you. Depending on your needs, the focus may include earlier relationships and experiences, a specific painful event, or something you are facing in the present.
Through EMDR reprocessing, the goal is to help painful experiences feel less emotionally charged while strengthening healthier, more adaptive beliefs and emotions.
Kimberlee may also integrate IFS-informed parts work to help you understand and work compassionately with protective responses that may emerge during the intensive. Supportive practices such as guided meditation, sand tray, creative expression, or brief breathwork may also be incorporated for grounding, preparation, and integration.
Your intensive is not a one-size-fits-all process. It is designed around your story, your goals, and what your system is ready to work with.
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What is the cost?
3 hour EMDR Intensive, 1 day: 3 hours in the day=$580
6 hour EMDR Intensive 2-days: 3 hours each day =$1160
9 hour EMDR Intensive- 3 days: 3 hours each day= $1740
2 ways of payment:
You can pay full amount at time of booking. This is non refundable. You are allowed to reschedule one time. The new date must be within 30 days of the original date.
50% of payment is due at the time of booking to hold your spot. This is non refundable.
The remaining amount is due 3 days prior to the intensive. This is non refundable. You are allowed to reschedule one time. The new date must be within 30 days of the original date.
Invest in yourself. Invest in your quality of life.
WE’RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU IN EMBRACING THAT.
Kimberlee Daughtry is a certified EMDR therapist through EMDRIA.