Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives
Atlanta, New York, Maine
Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives
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Focused Healing
During an Brainspotting & EMDR Intensive you focus on a particular issue or goal intensely for an extended period, ranging a from 2 hours in a single day up to 4 to 6 hours over several days.
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Effective & Efficient
Growing research shows intensives to offer quick and lasting relief. Intensives can be more economical given the laser focus on specific issues or traumas without the regular check in and closing of weekly sessions.
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Intensives Offer Flexibility
Don’t worry about how to fit weekly therapy into your schedule. Schedule a specific time to focus on your healing. You don’t need change therapists to do a Brainspotting or EMDR Intensive as it can be done as adjunctive therapy.
EMDR & Brainspotting Intensives are an innovative and effective way to work deeply and find relief and clarity more quickly.
An intensive may be a fit for you if…
You never seem to get to doing the deeper work in therapy.
You feel like talk therapy has helped you cope better with life’s challenges. It has provided a place for you to vent, gain perspective, and approach things differently which is great. But you feel like you never get to the root. You haven’t have truly shifted your old patterns and beliefs, or explored deeper spiritual and existential questions.
You started therapy with the intention of finally dealing with past traumas and the burdens you carry. You were going to try trauma work with EMDR or Brainspotting but “life got in the way”, it felt like “too much” to address in the standard therapy hour and just go back to life, or the therapist wasn’t experienced of comfortable doing EMDR or Brainspotting.
You can’t imagine how you would fit weekly therapy into your life.
Maybe you are in therapy but see your therapist every 2 weeks or once a month. It can be helpful to have a check in but it just keeps your head above water. You want to thrive, not just get through your days. Or work, family, and other demands are just too complicated for you to figure out how to participate in traditional therapy. Maybe you just don’t like it or can’t see how traditional therapy could be helpful to you?
You are tired of dealing this or feeling this way. You just want to feel better sooner than later.
You have experienced a recent traumatic event (s)
Things have finally caught up to you and you feel overwhelmed. You aren’t in crisis but you want to get some clarity and more peace.
For whatever reason, you are just ready to go deeper to address root issues or traumas and you don’t want to wait.
You love your current therapist but they are not trained in Brainspotting or EMDR.
You don’t want to stop talk therapy with your existing therapist because it has been so helpful but you would like to do some trauma work.
You didn’t realize that you could do a Brainspotting or EMDR Intensive as adjunctive therapy and stay with your current therapist.
There is another way.
Reach out for a free consultation to explore whether a Brainspotting and EMDR Intensive might be helpful to you.
If you are a therapist and wondering if your client could benefit from a Brainspotting or EMDR Intensive, feel free to reach out and learn about adjunctive EMDR therapy and Brainspotting therapy.
Kim Austin, LCSW - Brainspotting & EMDR Therapist serving clients in Georgia and New York. Specializing in Anxiety, Trauma & Attachment
My Name is Kim and I can help
My name is Kim Austin. I am a licensed clinical social worker licensed in Georgia, New York, and Maine. I have been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 years. I was trained in EMDR in 2004 and have been practicing this powerful therapy since then. In 2019 I trained in Brainspotting and was deeply impressed with the results I saw my clients and in my own personal healing. Since then I have become certified in Brainspotting and am an approved Brainspotting Consultant. I am grateful to these approaches and the opportunity to offer their healing benefits to my clients.
Contact me to set up a free 15 minute consultation to see if Brainspotting and EMDR Intensives might be helpful for you. You can also email kim@kimaustin.com or call me at (207) 295-7427 to learn more.
Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives
Can help:
Painful childhood experiences (including early developmental trauma)
Survivors of sexual trauma and harassment
Medical trauma and chronic illness
Accidents
Neurodivergent or Highly Sensitive (HSP) adults impacted by overwhelming/overstimulating experiences
Dealing with grief and loss.
Painful breakups
Religious trauma and spiritual abuse
Growing up in a home with unrealistically high expectations
Intergenerational trauma
Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives can also be used for Performance Enhancement: Professionals, athletes, creatives, or anyone wanting to grow and expand.
What’s included:
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An initial 90 minute session to define goals, background, resources and supports. Identify panful experiences. memories, beliefs, emotions, or images for reprocessing.
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Customized outline of issues for processing which will take place for 2-5 hours over 1-4 days based on you and you goals for healing. And includes supportive tools and resources.
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We will meet for a 60-90 minute follow up session to reflect on and integrate insights, shift, and areas of transformation. Discuss continued integration and growth moving forward.
The research supporting the effectiveness of intensives.
Intensive application of trauma-focused therapy seems to be well tolerated in patients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results, while reducing the risk that patients drop out prematurely. Learn more here and here.
Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame. Learn more here.
An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD. Learn more here.
The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time, because of time not spent on a) checking in at the beginning of each session, b) addressing current crises and concerns, c) focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that the client won’t need after trauma healing, or d) assisting the client in regaining composure at the end of the session. Learn more here.
During Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives we help you recover and connect with your gifts, strengths, and resilience so you can experience more contentment and clarity.
All are welcomed in our practice. We seek to create a safe and inclusive environment for all sexual identities, expressions, and relationship styles. We are committed to antiracism; personally and professionally. The negative impacts of prejudice, bias, and colorblindness on mental health are profound. We strive to be affirming and responsive to the needs and experiences of all clients.
Contact me for a free consultation
I know it can feel like a big step to call a counselor, but I’ll make it easy. We’ll spend 15-minutes on the phone and I’ll let you know how or if I can help. If I am not the right person, I’ll do my best to get you to the right person. Contact me at (207) 295-7427, or click here, for your free 15-minute phone consultation therapy. My specialties include: