Individual EMDR Therapy

EMDR helps you to quickly process critical incidents or disturbing events from your past so that you are no longer having overwhelming emotions, feelings, or thoughts about the event and you are able to function and return to the life you had before the traumatic event or, in some cases, even better than before.

There are two types of trauma that someone may need EMDR treatment for: single-event trauma or ongoing-event trauma. Single-event trauma is an incident that has a clear beginning and end. Some examples of a single-event trauma include:

• A terrible loss

• A car accident

• Robbery

• Being a victim or witness to an act of violence

• A natural disaster

• A traumatic medical procedure or severe injury

• Rape

Ongoing-event trauma is an event that occurs many times over an extended period of time. This can include:

• Witnessing or experiencing physical, emotional, sexual abuse or neglect

• The absence of comfort and care from parental figure(s) or caregivers in childhood; experiences of attachment ruptures

• Long-term bullying

• Being exposed to a parent abusing alcohol or drugs

• Workplace trauma

• Life threatening illness

• Relationship violence

• Military combat

60 min | $125 OR 120 mins |  $250  

Adjunct EMDR Therapy

Have you recently felt “stuck” in weekly therapy or found yourself looping on issues related to negative life experiences? If so, this can be discouraging for both the client and the therapist. Often times, when a primary therapist and client collaborate with an EMDR therapist, this partnership can help move treatment forward.

In the adjunct model, we partner with primary therapists and their clients to target their clients’ specific memories, body sensations, or limiting beliefs with EMDR. By narrowly targeting specific traumatic memories or intrusive material, brief adjunct EMDR can accelerate progress in traditional therapy, help the client and the primary therapist to resolve stuck points, and enrich their ongoing work.

Adjunct therapy does not replace or interrupt ongoing therapy; it is supplemental to the primary therapeutic relationship. With adjunct EMDR therapy, clients continue to receive treatment with their primary therapist. Usually adjunct therapy is short term (4-12 extended sessions) and desensitizes single incident trauma or simple phobias that interfere with the client’s therapeutic gains. Treatment is scheduled in an intensive format. The success of treatment is based on clearly defined goals for the EMDR therapist, defined in collaboration with the primary therapist and client.

120 mins minimum |  $250

Intensive Trauma-Focused Therapy

(IFS-Informed EMDR Therapy)

When was the last time you took a pause from your life to focus on your healing? When have you ever had a whole day of undivided healing attention? Imagine a treatment option where you schedule time off from your typical life to alleviate anxiety, depression, and trauma-related symptoms through a positive, growth-oriented healing process.

An IFS-Informed EMDR intensive is a unique experience that allows for healing in a matter of days and can empower you to move forward with your life more quickly. At Monroe Trauma Healing Center, clients are encouraged to take a sacred pause from life to focus on their healing. Upon beginning an intensive, clients learn the necessary skills and develop the resources that they will need in order to safely tolerate trauma reprocessing. Clients are then guided by the therapist through their inner worlds in search of parts of them that have been wounded and need healing (e.g., a terrified 7-year-old part or a rejected 13-year-old bullied part). Once these wounded parts have healed, the therapist will use EMDR to help the client process their traumatic experiences.

EMDR intensives support the busy parent, the working professional, or the client who needs help now. Advantages to this approach include completing treatment at a faster rate, saving time typically spent opening and closing sessions, the ability to concentrate more intently on your treatment needs and goals without the week-to-week issues that inevitably arise in the course of more standard, weekly treatment approaches, and for clients who are out of town or out of state, they can take advantage of access to excellent treatment by quickly traveling to PA.

A single retreat day includes 6 hours of therapy which is the equivalent of six 50–55-minute sessions. In other words, 1 retreat day is equivalent to nearly 1.5 months of therapy and 5 retreat days is equivalent to 7.5 months of the traditional, weekly therapy model! Your investment is higher up front, but typically you save by having to dedicate fewer hours cumulatively to treatment. Whatever the reason that weekly sessions just won’t work for you, IFS-Informed EMDR intensives are available to support you during times you need help the most.

This treatment model is not just for trauma wounding; it is also used for performance enhancement to excel in areas such as athletics, business, and relationships and also heals attachment wounding.

In order to qualify, you will be asked to go through a thorough intake process. If you qualify, you can expect to work with a therapist who understands and specializes in helping people with your particular struggle(s). Intensive IFS-Informed EMDR therapy is an investment, both emotionally and financially. Many clients have to plan ahead and save before they can schedule an Intensive. Once the Intensive is scheduled though, you will have a fixed cost to work with rather than the unknown costs of ongoing weekly therapy.

Half-day (3 hours) | $465 OR Full-day (6 hours) | $930  

Intensive Trauma-Focused 5-day Healing Retreat | $4650 

Couple Therapy

In couple therapy, the couple is viewed as the patient. Working conjointly balances the system, as neither partner is identified as the “problem,” and both have an opportunity to experience insights into each other’s past. The therapist will use a combination of Intimacy From the Inside Out Couple Therapy (IFIO), Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and EMDR during the treatment process. In IFIO couple therapy, the therapist guides the couple to hold each other emotionally while they take turns revisiting traumatic childhood events that are causing them distress in their current relationship. Deep dives into relational trauma from childhood in front of one another typically results in an emotionally corrective experience that gives the couple a profound sense of connection and renewal. Therapist will also work with the couple to explore dysfunctional interaction cycles, identify attachment injuries and utilize EMDR to fully reprocess identified traumatic memories. This results in powerful emotional experiences that lead to new attachment experiences for the couple. This newly reduced emotional charge of past experiences allows the couple to respond to one another in new, loving ways, with less emphasis on the past, and with more energy on present interaction.

IFIO, EFT and EMDR are proven to be highly effective treatment models. According to EMDRIA, EMDR therapy is extensively researched and widely recognized as effective trauma therapy. Additionally, no couples therapy has as much research support as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Ninety percent (90%) of couples who go through EFT significantly improve their relationship and 70-75% of couples no longer fit criteria for relationship distress following treatment. The goal of EFT is to create a more secure bond for the couple.

 120 mins |  $275