Therapy is a shared journey—not something done to you, but with you.
As a licensed clinical social worker, my role is to guide and support you as you build emotional strength, understand your core challenges, and move toward a more fulfilling life. Every treatment plan is customized, grounded in honesty, compassion, and your specific needs.
Together, through EMDR intensive therapy, we work toward meaningful, lasting change.
I specialize in working with clients who are motivated to understand how their past has shaped them—and who are ready to explore what's possible next.
EMDR intensives are ideal for clients who are:
Stable and resourced
Ready for focused trauma processing
They may not be appropriate when:
Safety or stabilization needs come first
Active addiction is present
High levels of dissociation require a slower, more supported pace
I offer EMDR intensive therapy sessions for four days, with an option for 3 hours sessions, designed to help clients process past trauma, shift stuck beliefs, and move forward more efficiently.
Before diving into an EMDR intensive, we take time to prepare together. This means checking in on how your nervous system handles bigger emotional work, mapping out what we'll focus on, and building up your coping tools so you feel supported throughout the process. We'll also talk about what you're hoping to get out of treatment and what's realistic in the time we have.
These intensive extended sessions allow for deeper, uninterrupted work, eliminating the delays that can occur with traditional weekly therapy. As a result, clients often experience significant progress in a shorter time frame.
Seeing these transformations has reinforced my commitment to this approach, which is why I now focus exclusively on EMDR intensives for new clients, rather than traditional hourly sessions. I am licensed in Louisiana and currently accepting new clients with in-person sessions in Louisiana or online via HIPPA-compliant video conferencing for clients in Louisiana .
If you already have a therapist—that’s wonderful! I love working adjunctively with other therapists, and it’s usually seamless to incorporate an EMDR Intensive into your existing treatment. One thing I want to be upfront about: an intensive isn't a magic fix, and processing your experiences doesn't mean every bit of distress disappears for good. Healing is an ongoing journey that continues long after our work together ends. Some people feel ready to carry that progress forward on their own, while others find it helpful to continue with therapy or extra support afterward — and that's completely okay.You can complete an intensive with me and then continue working with your current therapist. I’ll collaborate with them to ensure our treatment plan aligns with your work with your ongoing therapist. And if needed, you can chose to come back for addtional packages, 3 hours sessions.
If you're not in Louisiana, you may have the opportunity to travel here for consecutive days of intensive EMDR sessions. After you return home, I can assist in connecting you with a local therapist for follow-up care if needed. My goal is to provide a powerful, focused healing experience while ensuring you have continued support.
As a certified EMDR Therapist, I use the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model to inform treatment choices. The AIP model proposes that trauma gets stored and stuck in our brains and becomes the basis for our perceptions, symptoms, and behavior. I see therapy as a way to create new perceptions and adaptive associations that will aid in healing. I help a diverse range of clients unlock their full potential and successfully move toward recovery. In our initial meeting, we'll address your concerns and assess our compatibility as client and therapist.
Trauma Treatment
Eating Disorders
Depression and Anxiety
Relationship Problems
Grief and Loss
Work and Career issues
Stress Management
Parenting and Family Issues
Emotional management, including, but not limited to anger, jealousy, grief, and depression.
Coping mechanisms to allow you to work through situations which typically cause you anxiety, fear, or avoidance.
Stress-management techniques to handle everyday stressors such as with your job and relationships.
Skills and techniques to help you better navigate relationships or to work through relationship troubles.
Problem solving skills for you to enact when you encounter issues that you previously avoided such as social situations or public speaking.
Improving self-love, self-confidence, and body image.
Improving communication, listening skills, and the ability to speak up for yourself.
Understanding your own skills, strengths, and positive attributes and learning how to quiet your inner negative critic.
Resolving panic attacks or phobias.
Finding a resolution to the issue(s) that originally led you to therapy.
EMDR is not just for trauma; it is also used for performance enhancement to excel in areas such as athletics, business, and relationships.
You don't have to do this alone.
Have you sensed that something profound has yet to change, but you’re not sure how to shift into a new experience of yourself with your current therapist?An intensive can be complementary to ongoing individual therapy, enhancing its effectiveness
Maybe you now understand new things intellectually, yet the changes you hoped for still seem out of reach, and you are curious about how EMDR therapy can help. EMDR therapy isn't just for addressing trauma. Intensives offer solutions for reducing and even eliminating distressing symptoms that extend beyond trauma.
Have you been meaning to get into weekly therapy for a while now, but your schedule has been so hectic and demanding that a weekly appointment feels more overwhelming than supportive?
Are you needing help — and a lot of it — right now, but you don’t want to spend months in the traditional weekly model of therapy treatment to feel better?
Want more information before deciding? Click to link below for a great article on intensives.
Deepen Empathy and Understanding:
Understanding what your clients experience during EMDR therapy can deepen your empathy and connection with them and their healing process.
Awareness of Compassion Fatigue:
Heavy emotional care can come at a cost to your wellbeing and interfere with your healing abilities. EMDR Intensives can bring awareness to signs of compassion fatigue.
Alleviate and Overcome Skepticism:
Experiencing EMDR’s benefits firsthand can alleviate doubts about its effectiveness and boost your confidence in using EMDR with clients.
Enhance Personal Healing.
We enter this work with our own personal experiences and EMDR Intensives offer an opportunity to process unresolved triggers and traumas in a safe and supportive environment.
Support for Vicarious Trauma:
Vicarious trauma is a predictable risk for helping professionals who are exposed to stories of trauma. EMDR Intensives can help identify symptoms and guard against future trauma.
Opportunity for Deep, Focused Work:
EMDR Intensives allow for prolonged and uninterrupted time to delve deeper into issues in a concentrated amount of time, making it an ideal protocol for busy professionals.
Personalized treatment workbook and other forms help me get to know you better and allow you to work on treatment goals before, during, and after our EMDR intensive sessions. Further assessment in a consultation sessions may be scheduled or you may be referred to another therapist.
After I review your assessment forms, we can set up a meeting to answer your questions and to begin to develop a relationship and develop skills for the intensive.
Pre-Intensive meeting (90 minutes) reviews the pre-intensive part of the workbook and other forms, develops treatment goals, and establishes resources for the intensive work. This can be done virtually or in person. We will look at what your life looks like now and what you want to change. Can be done in person or virtually.
Intensive session(s) using a customized treatment program with targeted treatment goals, EMDR intensive sessions can be done virtually or in person, for 6 hours, 3 hours per 2 days.
Last meeting (90 minutes) to assess and support your adaption to positive changes from treatment with me can be done virtually or in person.
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”