virtual EMDR Therapy Retreat
For the woman who has learned to think, analyze, anticipate, and control her way through life.
For some people, fight energy doesn't look like outward anger or confrontation. It can turn inward—showing up as overthinking, perfectionism, self-criticism, control, and the constant need to anticipate what might happen next.
You know you're safe.
So why does your body keep responding like you're not?
You are thoughtful. Self-aware. Sensitive to the people and world around you.
You've probably spent years trying to understand yourself. You may know your patterns, understand where they came from, and recognize the ways you've learned to cope.
And still, you find yourself overthinking.
Replaying conversations.
Anticipating what could go wrong.
Trying to get everything right.
Analyzing your feelings instead of feeling them.
Taking responsibility for things that aren't yours.
Pushing yourself harder when you don't feel in control.
You may have learned to think your way through almost everything.
For some women, this is what a survival response looks like. Fight doesn't always look like anger or confrontation. Sometimes, fight energy turns inward—becoming perfectionism, control, self-criticism, hypervigilance, and the constant need to stay one step ahead.
At some point, these strategies may have helped you navigate experiences that felt unsafe, unpredictable, or overwhelming.
But your nervous system can learn a response in one context and continue reaching for it long after that context has changed.
What once helped you survive can eventually begin to run your life.
please note: A consultation is required before scheduling an emdr retreat
the first step is completing a brief application.
This gives me an opportunity to learn a little about what you're seeking and determine whether a consultation is the appropriate next step.
After reviewing your application, I'll reach out to schedule a consultation if the retreat may be a good fit. During the consultation and assessment process, we'll talk more about your needs, goals, and readiness for this format.
If another type or level of support would better serve you, I'll let you know and help you consider next steps.
the process:
application, consultation, scheduling the retreat
phase 1:
submit an application
Tell me a little about what brings you here.
Step 2:
consultation
We'll discuss your goals, current needs, and whether the retreat format may be appropriate.
Phase 3:
assessment & scheduling
If we determine the retreat is a good fit, we'll complete the necessary assessment and schedule your three-day retreat.
Complete an application for an emdr retreat
what to expect
during your virtual 3-day therapy retreat
Day 1
Understand & Prepare
The first morning begins with a comprehensive assessment and preparation process so we can understand your history, your current experiences, the patterns you're noticing, and what you hope to shift.
We'll explore your history, current concerns, survival patterns, and goals while establishing the resources needed for the work ahead. Your morning will also include embodied practices to support grounding and present-moment awareness.
Arrive. Slow down. Understand your patterns.
Your first morning is devoted to comprehensive assessment, building a shared understanding of your history and current experiences, identifying survival patterns and treatment goals, and developing the resources you'll need for the work ahead.
We'll also incorporate gentle yoga and pranayama to help you connect with your body, settle into the present moment, and begin developing practices you can return to throughout the retreat.
day 2
Reprocess
From there, we'll move into EMDR reprocessing as clinically appropriate, supported by grounding practices drawn from yoga, pranayama, and sound.
We'll begin or continue EMDR reprocessing based on the treatment plan we develop together. Yoga, pranayama, and sound may be incorporated to support regulation and integration.
Begin the work of reprocessing.
With the foundation we've established, we'll begin EMDR reprocessing around the experiences and patterns identified together.
The work may also include embodied practices, pranayama, and sound to support grounding and integration.
day 3
Reprocess & Integrate
We'll continue the work as clinically appropriate and create space to integrate what you've experienced, identify what is changing, and consider how you want to carry that change into your life.
Create space for something different.
We'll continue the reprocessing work as clinically appropriate while beginning to integrate what you've experienced. Through EMDR, embodied practice, pranayama, and sound, we'll explore what it can feel like to move through your life with greater flexibility and choice.
The work doesn't necessarily end when our three mornings together are over. Your mind and body may continue processing and integrating what you've experienced in the days and weeks that follow.
You'll leave with grounding practices you can continue using on your own, including pranayama and yoga practices developed during our time together.
3 months
post retreat
We'll also schedule a 60-minute follow-up session approximately three months after your retreat to check in, reflect on what has shifted, and determine whether another retreat would be clinically appropriate if you want to continue reprocessing.
I do not offer ongoing weekly therapy. If you are currently working with another therapist, and with your permission, I can coordinate with them when additional support or continuity of care would be helpful.
Space to slow down, process, and reconnect with choice.
The EMDR Therapy Retreat is a focused three-day therapeutic experience for women who are ready to decrease the occurrence of the survival patterns that have become deeply ingrained in their lives.
The goal isn't to get rid of your survival responses. These responses developed for a reason. The goal is to help you recognize them, reduce their intensity and frequency, and create more space to choose how you respond.
You remain an active participant in the process throughout. Breaks are available whenever you need them, and we will continually pay attention to what your mind and body are communicating.
EMDR can create space between the response and the choice.
EMDR therapy helps us work with the experiences and patterns that may continue to shape how you respond in the present.
Together, we'll explore what your nervous system learned, how those patterns show up in your life now, and what happens when you begin to experience those memories and responses differently.
The goal isn't to eliminate your survival response.
It's to help lower its intensity and automaticity so that you have more room to pause, notice, and choose.
More flexibility.
More agency.
More access to yourself.
Not because you need to become someone different—but because you deserve to have more choice in how you move through your life.