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EMDR & Somatic Therapy through Intensives and Extended Sessions · Online across Florida, Georgia & Colorado · In-person in Orlando

How I work

I don’t work in the traditional 50-minute model.

I want us to have enough time to work with what’s causing you pain and move toward relief—not just dance around it every week.

You’ve done the work to understand

You’ve spent time reflecting. Processing.

Trying to make sense of what’s been coming up.

You may have been in therapy before.
Or done your own work in other ways.

You understand your patterns.
You can name where they come from.

And still, understanding them hasn’t necessarily changed what happens in the moment.

Your body reacts before everything you know has a chance to matter.

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The moment that gets cut short

You’re in a session, and something finally opens up.

Something deeper.
More connected.

You can feel it.

The emotion catches in your throat. The tears are starting to pool. Something is here that you haven’t quite gotten to before.

And then you glance at the clock.

There are ten minutes left.

So you slow down.
You try to pull it back in.
Maybe your therapist helps you contain it so you can come back to it another time.

And you really mean to.

But next time, something else feels more immediate.
More pressing.

And that little door into a deeper place—the one that really mattered—gets pushed aside.

Not because it wasn’t important.

But because there wasn’t enough time to stay with it.

Why it can feel like you’re circling

It’s not that you’re avoiding the work.
And it’s not that you’re doing therapy wrong.

You may be bringing plenty of insight, effort, and willingness into the room.

But deeper work takes time.

Time to settle in.
Time to get past the things that keep you functioning and closer to what’s actually there.
Time to stay with what comes up instead of immediately having to contain it again.

When the session ends just as you’re getting there, you may leave understanding a little more—but still find yourself coming back to the same patterns.

Over time, that can get frustrating. You’re doing the work, but it can feel like you keep running out of room to do something with it.

Sometimes, it’s not an effort problem. It’s the structure.

A different structure for deeper work

This is where my approach is different.

Instead of fitting our work into a 50-minute session, I work with clients in sessions of 90 minutes or longer.

You may already know how quickly a traditional session can go. It can take 15 minutes just to settle in and get past the updates of the week. Then you finally get into something meaningful—and before long, you need to start wrapping up so you can shift back into the rest of your day.

That transition time doesn’t disappear just because the session is longer. We simply have more room in the middle—where, as you know, the good stuff tends to happen.

There’s time to settle in and notice what’s actually present. Time to stay with something once we get there. And time to slow things back down before you return to your day.

We also typically meet less often—often monthly—so the rhythm is different from traditional weekly therapy. More time when we’re together, with more space between sessions to live your life, notice what comes up, and bring that information back into the work.

What we do with that time

A longer session isn’t about filling more time or trying to cram more therapy into one appointment.

It gives us room to follow what’s actually happening.

Sometimes that means slowing down and noticing a reaction as it’s happening—what you’re thinking, what you’re feeling, what your body is doing. Sometimes we’re working with a specific memory or experience. Other times, you may not have a clear memory at all. We can start with the trigger, sensation, reaction, or pattern that’s showing up now.

It also gives us time to practice things together. Instead of simply sending you home with a grounding or breathing exercise, I can walk you through it and give you time to notice what actually happens.

What does it feel like when you’re overwhelmed? What do you notice as things begin to settle? What helps you come back?

That’s useful information. You’re not just learning a skill—you’re getting to experience what it feels like to move through something differently.

And you don’t need to come in knowing whether you need EMDR, Brainspotting, somatic work, or some combination of all three. That part is my job. I’ll recommend how we work with what’s showing up, and we’ll decide together what makes sense.

The point isn’t to use every tool in my toolbox or see how much therapy we can squeeze into 90 minutes. It’s to have enough room to stay with the work without rushing toward it—or immediately having to pull away because the session is ending.

Then you get to go live your life.

The space between sessions gives you time to notice what feels different, what still gets activated, what surprised you, and what we might want to pick back up when we meet again.

How this work is offered

I offer this work in two ways:

Both give us more room to work than a traditional therapy session. The difference is whether you’re looking for concentrated work around a particular focus or an ongoing rhythm of therapy over time.

Who this approach is for

This work tends to resonate with women who:

  • have already done meaningful personal work and aren’t starting from scratch

  • understand a lot about themselves but still find certain patterns hard to shift

  • are dealing with the impact of something that happened more recently and want focused time to work with it

  • want time to go deeper than they’ve been able to in shorter sessions

  • are ready to engage more directly with what comes up, not just talk about it

  • appreciate meeting for longer stretches of time with more space between sessions

When this structure may not be the right choice

This structure may not be the right fit if:

  • you need a higher level of support right now because you’re not able to stay safe, don’t have enough safety in your current environment, or need more immediate or around-the-clock care

  • you’re currently in an unsafe relationship or living situation where there isn’t enough stability to do this work safely

  • you’re satisfied with the pace and depth of your current therapy and don’t feel the need for longer, more focused sessions

  • you’re not ready to work more directly with the experiences, patterns, or recurring pain points that are affecting you

Schedule a consultation

You don’t have to figure out the next step on your own.

Schedule a free 20-minute consultation and we’ll talk about what’s been coming up, what you’re hoping will be different, and whether this approach feels like the right fit.

You don’t need to know whether an intensive or extended sessions make the most sense. We can figure that out together.

And if we’re not the right fit, I’ll let you know.

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