MORE TIME & SPACE FOR THE WORK
Intensive EMDR Therapy in Redondo Beach
Intensive EMDR offers extended sessions for those who want more uninterrupted time for EMDR preparation, processing, and integration.
Experience deeper healing without the rush. Intensive EMDR offers 90-minute and 2-hour sessions so you have the time and space to settle into the work and process more effectively than a traditional therapy hour allows. Use intensives as part of ongoing treatment or as a focused, short-term option for specific memories, fears, or patterns you want to resolve.
Ready to begin? Schedule a consultation to discuss which session length fits your needs and create a tailored plan that moves you forward.
What is Intensive EMDR?
Intensive EMDR is EMDR therapy offered in an extended session format, typically 90 minutes to 2 hours. The additional time allows clients to settle more fully into the therapeutic space, engage deeply in trauma processing, and complete thoughtful closure without feeling rushed. Longer sessions support sustained bilateral stimulation and reduce the need to stop mid-process, which can help maintain therapeutic momentum and integration.
This format is particularly helpful for clients working through a focused issue or a limited number of targeted memories, as it enables more coherent processing within a single visit. Practically, intensive EMDR can decrease the total number of sessions needed and provide a concentrated period for progress while preserving careful pacing, stabilization checks, and ample debriefing at the session’s end.
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90-Minute Sessions
Longer EMDR sessions provide more uninterrupted space for preparation, processing, and integration. This can be helpful when traditional session lengths feel too brief for the work you want to do.
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2-Hour Sessions
Two-hour EMDR sessions offer additional time to settle into the work, process at a comfortable pace, and allow space for integration before the session ends.
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Flexible Scheduling
Intensive EMDR can be scheduled on an ongoing or as-needed basis depending on your needs and goals. Sessions can also complement ongoing therapy with another provider when appropriate.
OUR APPROACH
Extended, focused sessions that honor your pace.
At Catherine Alvarado Therapy + EMDR, our EMDR intensives provide extended, trauma-informed sessions that allow for deeper, more sustained processing without the fragmentation that can come from weekly appointments. We maintain the same careful preparation, resourcing, and and thoughtful integration used in standard EMDR, while offering more uninterrupted time to address targets comprehensively. Sessions are paced to your needs—balancing safety, grounding, reflection, and reprocessing—so healing can unfold thoroughly and with gentle attention, rather than hurriedly.
WHAT INTENSIVE EMDR CAN HELP WITH
Sometimes the work needs more room to unfold.
Intensive EMDR provides extended, focused time to address experiences, memories, fears, and repeated patterns that benefit from more uninterrupted space for careful preparation, deeper processing, and thoughtful integration.
✓ Trauma, PTSD & difficult past experiences
✓ Anxiety, panic & persistent fears
✓ Phobias & specific fears
✓ Intrusive thoughts & distressing memories
✓ Experiences that continue to feel unresolved
✓ Patterns or triggers that keep resurfacing
✓ Feeling stuck despite previous therapy
✓ Work that feels difficult to fit into shorter sessions
✓ Preparing for or navigating significant life transitions
✓ Focused EMDR work alongside ongoing therapy
EMDR Therapists
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Catherine Alvarado
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #134744
EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Clinical SupervisorSupporting clients through intensive EMDR for trauma, anxiety, panic, phobias, intrusive thoughts, and experiences that continue to feel unresolved, with an integrative, nervous system-informed approach.
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Monika Arana
Registered Associate MFT #140548
EMDR Trained TherapistSupporting clients through intensive EMDR for trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, and difficult past experiences with a thoughtful, trauma-informed and nervous system-focused approach.
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Arielle Harris
Registered Associate MFT #161691
EMDR Trained TherapistHelping clients through intensive EMDR for trauma, anxiety, relationship patterns, and difficult experiences through compassionate, attachment-focused care.
Heal Trauma, Restore Balance, Reclaim Your Life.
INTENSIVE EMDR THERAPY
More time for the work, when you need it.
Considering Intensive EMDR? Let’s start with a brief conversation about what you want to address and whether an extended session is the right fit. We’ll also recommend the most appropriate length—90 minutes or 2 hours—based on your needs.
In person EMDR in Redondo Beach or online throughout California. Single-session (as-needed) or ongoing scheduling. Adjunct EMDR coordination if you’re already working with another therapist (with your permission).
You don’t need to decide the format before contacting us. Reach out to discuss your goals and we’ll help you choose the next step and schedule your session.
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