Integrating EMDR and IFS in Trauma Therapy

​Integrating Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapies offers a powerful and compassionate approach to healing trauma. While EMDR targets the resolution of unprocessed traumatic memories through bilateral stimulation (Shapiro, 2018), IFS provides a framework to explore and unburden the internal “parts” of the self that carry pain, fear, or protective strategies developed in response to those experiences (Schwartz & Sweezy, 2020).

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Together, these modalities complement each other beautifully. IFS prepares the client by helping them access their core Self—a calm, curious inner resource—and build trusting relationships with their protective parts. This creates emotional safety and regulation before targeting traumatic memories with EMDR. Once readiness is established, EMDR can be used to process and desensitize specific memories while staying in close dialogue with the client’s parts that may arise during reprocessing.

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Research shows that both IFS and EMDR are effective trauma treatments individually, but therapists are increasingly finding that using them together enhances outcomes—especially for complex trauma, dissociation, and shame-based wounds (Hodgdon et al., 2022; Shapiro, 2018). This integrative approach honors the client's pace, deepens emotional insight, and fosters lasting internal harmony.

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EMDR Intensive: Deep Healing in Focused Time

*This service is an out-of-pocket expense only. Not covered by insurances. 

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EMDR Intensives offer a powerful alternative to traditional weekly therapy by allowing you to dive deeper into your healing process in a shorter amount of time. These 3-hour sessions are designed for individuals ready to move through stuck trauma responses, negative core beliefs, and emotional blocks with focused, uninterrupted attention.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by a single traumatic event or noticing long-standing patterns rooted in early attachment wounds, EMDR Intensives provide a structured space to target and process your experiences without the limits of a 55-minute session.

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Benefits of EMDR Intensives include:

• Accelerated healing and symptom relief

• Focused time to address specific issues or events

• Flexibility for those with busy schedules

• Reduced emotional disruption between sessions

• Integration of resourcing, reprocessing, and post-processing in one sitting

 

This format is ideal for clients who want to experience transformational work more efficiently—whether you're new to EMDR, returning for a tune-up, or using it to complement ongoing therapy.

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If you’re ready to experience deeper healing at a faster pace, EMDR intensives may be the right fit for you.

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➤30 minute Intake Session

➤3 hour EMDR Intensive Session

➤30 minute Processing Session

TOTAL: $500

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​​EMDR & Somatic Intensive: A Healing Immersion 

*This service is an out-of-pocket expense only. Not covered by insurances. 

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This 3-hour intensive is a sacred and clinical container rooted in the Shehealsss philosophy—healing shame, somatically and spiritually.

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We begin with a 30-minute intake session to clarify your goals and prepare your nervous system with internal resourcing. This is a collaborative space to assess readiness, name internalized narratives, and establish safety. Then, in a 90-minute EMDR & reprocessing session, we target trauma imprints held in the mind and body—interrupting patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of fear, disconnection, or shame. We close with a 60-minute somatic and mindfulness integration workshop, offering embodied practices for grounding, self-regulation, and spiritual reconnection.

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This intensive is ideal for those navigating trauma recovery, life transitions, or the desire to reconnect with a deeper self—beyond survival, beyond silence. Whether you’re healing from generational trauma, intimate partner violence, or simply unlearning the belief that your body isn’t safe, this session meets you where you are.

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This is not just trauma work. It is reclamation. It is remembrance.

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➤30-minute Intake Session

➤90-minute EMDR & Processing session

➤60-minute Somatic & Mindfulness Skills

TOTAL: $600

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Power & Pleasure: A 5-Hour Somatic EMDR Intensive 

*This service is an out-of-pocket expense only. Not covered by insurances. 

A therapeutic ritual for those ready to release, reclaim, and remember who they are beneath the shame.

Power & Pleasure is a 5-hour immersive intensive rooted in my philosophy of healing shame somatically, spiritually, and at its source. This intensive is designed for individuals navigating sexual trauma, religious repression, or deep-rooted body-based shame, this offering creates a sacred space for both clinical depth and spiritual reclamation.

 

➤ 2.5-Hour EMDR Processing Session
A deep-dive session targeting internalized shame, disembodiment, or early sexual trauma. We work with bilateral stimulation, parts work, and memory reprocessing to shift core beliefs and reconnect you with agency.

➤ 1-Hour Sexual Shame Narrative Therapy
An affirming space to give voice to the stories you inherited, the silences you held, and the self-trust you’re ready to reclaim. This session blends psychodynamic and narrative approaches to reframe identity through the lens of liberation.

➤ 30-Minute Guided Breath-work Session
A trauma-informed breath practice to unlock stored energy, invite presence, and soften the body’s grip on shame.

➤ 1-Hour Somatic Grief & Anger Release Ritual
This closing ceremony draws on movement, vocalization, and ritual space to safely express stored grief or rage, allowing for emotional completion and embodied sovereignty.

TOTAL: $950

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Payment accepted via Venmo or Zelle.

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