Supporting Your Healing Journey Through a Relational and Systemic Lens
EMDR Intensive Therapy
working with people in Torquay, Geelong and Surf Coast & Australia-wide.
EMDR Intensive Therapy
At Freedom to Breathe, I offer EMDR intensives for individuals seeking a deeper and more focused approach to trauma healing.
Each intensive is designed to move beyond the limits of weekly sessions, creating a spacious and supported environment where meaningful shifts can unfold more naturally.
Drawing on EMDR, Schema Therapy, and systemic approaches, we work not only with memories, but with the deeper patterns shaping how trauma lives in the body, relationships, and nervous system.
Whether you are navigating recent events or long-held patterns from earlier life, this immersive approach offers a powerful path toward integration and relief.
About Your Therapist
I’m an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with 17 years’ experience, a Senior Psychotherapist, and an Accredited EMDR Consultant.
My work brings together trauma therapy, relational understanding, and a systemic lens to support healing that is both effective and deeply compassionate.
This isn’t just EMDR
It’s a spacious container where nervous systems finally remember how to rest.
Intensive work creates the time and continuity needed for deeper processing, allowing the mind and body to move through trauma with greater coherence and support.
Why This Intensive Trauma Therapy Is Different
You may have experienced:
The exhaustion of sessions that process trauma but never fully shift what lives in the body.
The pressure to “use what you know,” even when your own heart still carries pain.
A sense that healing conversations never quite reach the deeper patterns shaping your life.
Here, EMDR becomes an invitation:
to come home to your body, your boundaries, and your story.
“Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically that then interferes with your ability to grow and develop. It pains you and now you’re acting out of pain. It induces fear and now you’re acting out of fear. Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you”
What Is EMDR Intensive Therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy recognised worldwide for its effectiveness in treating trauma.
It helps the brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer carry the same emotional intensity or disruptive impact.
EMDR intensive therapy involves longer, focused sessions that allow this work to unfold more fluidly than traditional weekly therapy.
By creating extended therapeutic space, intensives often allow people to experience deeper progress in a shorter period of time, while still moving at a pace that honours your nervous system.
Learn more Discover the Effectiveness of EMDR Intensive Therapy
What You May Notice After EMDR Intensive Therapy
People often describe experiencing:
greater calm and nervous system regulation
more spaciousness in how memories are held
clearer understanding of trauma patterns
increased ability to stay present with emotions
a renewed sense of connection with themselves and others
Learn more: 18 Changes you may notice after an EMDR Intensive Therapy
What We Hold Together In This Work
This therapy integrates several important dimensions of trauma healing.
Nervous system attunement
Before trauma processing begins, we focus on helping your system feel resourced and supported so the work can unfold with emotional safety.Systemic understanding
Trauma rarely exists in isolation. Together we explore the patterns shaped by family, relationships, and the roles you have carried.Embodied integration
Healing is not only cognitive. The body needs space to integrate what has shifted.Sovereignty
You are not something to be “fixed.” This work supports you to reconnect with your own inner authority and sense of self.
Is This Right For You?
This approach may feel right if:
you sense that EMDR could help but want more depth and continuity than weekly sessions allow
you have spent years supporting others and are ready to turn toward your own healing
you want not only relief from trauma, but a deeper reorganisation of how healing lives within you.
Let this be a space where healing slows down enough for the body to finally rest.
The world may move quickly but depth moves quietly and powerfully.
Together, we hold what needs healing and make space for the peace already waiting within you.
How This Work is Offered
While this work is primarily offered in person, assessment and integration sessions can be held online when needed, particularly for those people travelling.
What your EMDR Intensive Program could look like
EMDR Intensive Program One & Day Program
A powerful EMDR experience that condense three months of therapy into a focused EMDR experience - offered as either a 1-week format or a Single-Day intensive.
What's Included (Total: 7.5 Contact Hours):
90-min Assessment & Systemic Formulation (week 1)
3 x 90-min EMDR Sessions (delivered in One Day or in 1-week)
90-min Integration Session (held the following week)
Post-EMDR Integration Guide
Free 30-min Discovery Zoom
Pre-program questionnaires & assessment workbook to tailor your experience
Delivery Options:
3-Week Format:
Week 1: Assessment & Systemic Formulation
Week 2: 3 x 90-min EMDR Sessions (Tues–Thurs)
Week 3: 90-min Integration Session
Single-Day Intensive:
Week 1: Assessment & Systemic Formulation
All three EMDR sessions delivered in one day, with integration scheduled separately
Week 3: Integration Session
Program Fee: $2170 (incl. GST)
Deposit: $250 non-refundable (secures your dates)
Medicare rebates available with a current Mental Health Care Plan
EMDR Intensive Program Two
A deep EMDR experience that condenses six months of therapy into a focused 2-week or extended format.
What’s Included (Total: 12.5 Contact Hours):
90-min Assessment & Systemic Formulation (week 1)
6 x 90-min EMDR Sessions (across two weeks or as a single/multi-day intensive)
90-min Integration Session (week 4)
Post-EMDR Integration Guide
Free 30-min Discovery Zoom
Pre-program questionnaires & assessment workbook to tailor your experience
Delivery Options:
3-Week Format:
Week 1: 90-min Assessment & Systemic Formulation
Weeks 2 & 3: 6 x 90-min EMDR Sessions (Tues–Thurs each week)
Week 4: 90-min Integration Session
Single/Multi-Day Intensive:
6 EMDR sessions delivered across 2 days (with breaks), with integration scheduled separately
Program Fee: $3480 (incl. GST)
Deposit: $500 non-refundable (secures your dates)
Medicare rebates available with a current Mental Health Care Plan
Interested to learn more. Read my blog Trauma Therapist EMDR: Memory, Sleep & Emotional Healing
FAQs
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EMDR is helpful for anyone experiencing emotional or physical symptoms from past adverse experiences. It’s not just for trauma - it can also help with performance anxiety, limiting beliefs, and somatic distress.
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EMDR intensives offer a more immersive and accelerated path to healing.
Benefits include:Faster progress and deeper integration
More cost and time-efficient
Increased nervous system regulation and relational connection
Program Options:
Program One & Day Program: 3 months of EMDR in 1 week
Program Two: 6 months of EMDR in 2 weeks
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In just three days or day program, you can begin to:
Transform long-held relational and emotional patterns shaped by family, culture, and early attachment
Reduce the emotional and somatic intensity of trauma-related responses across multiple parts of the self
Strengthen inner resources and emotional resilience, supporting more flexible responses in relationships
Create internal alignment and lay the foundation for deeper, ongoing integration in future therapy or personal growth
Each person’s experience is unique. While many people notice meaningful shifts during or shortly after the intensive, the pace and depth of change varies depending on what’s being explored and what your system is ready to process.
Please note:
An EMDR intensive is not about reprocessing your whole life story in one go. It’s not a “one-and-done” experience, but rather a powerful starting point (or deepening) in your healing journey. The work is focused, intentional, and paced to support what your system is ready to process. Many clients find it helpful to return for future intensives or ongoing integration work as deeper layers naturally emerge over time. -
This format supports deeper systemic healing and integration:
Emotional processing of relational wounds and intergenerational trauma held across parts and within the family system
Repair of attachment patterns and increased capacity for nervous system regulation
Insight into systemic influences - how family, cultural, and relational dynamics shape current patterns and protective parts
Integration of new relational pathways, supporting shifts in how different parts relate to self and others
Expansion of self-agency, with greater coherence between inner parts and external relationships
Each person’s experience is unique. While many people notice meaningful shifts during or shortly after the intensive, the pace and depth of change varies depending on what’s being explored and what your system is ready to process.
Please note:
An EMDR intensive is not about reprocessing your whole life story in one go. It’s not a “one-and-done” experience, but rather a powerful starting point (or deepening) in your healing journey. The work is focused, intentional, and paced to support what your system is ready to process. Many clients find it helpful to return for future intensives or ongoing integration work as deeper layers naturally emerge over time. -
I email an invoice for:
A Deposit: $250 (Program One or Day Program) or $500 (Program Two) non-refundable deposit secures your booking
Balance: Full program fee is due one week before your assessment session
Payment Plans
Payment plans are available upon request. If you'd like to explore a payment option that suits your needs, please feel free to bring it up during our free Discovery Zoom — I’m happy to discuss what might work best for you. -
Yes, with a current Mental Health Care Plan (MHCP) from your GP.
Rebates: $87.25 per session (up to 10 per calendar year)
Processing: I process rebates for you after each attended session
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Booking an EMDR Intensive Program involves reserving significant time in my calendar exclusively for you. To ensure fairness and allow for others to access this work, the following policy applies:
Deposit
A $250 or $500 non-refundable deposit (program dependent) is required to secure your program dates.
This deposit is retained in the case of cancellation, regardless of notice given.
Re-scheduling
14 days or more notice: You may reschedule your intensive once without additional fees. Your deposit will be carried over to new dates (subject to availability).
Less than 14 days’ notice: Rescheduling is possible, but your original deposit will be retained, and a new deposit may be required to secure alternative dates.
Less than 72 hours’ notice: Due to the time set aside, your deposit is retained and 50% of the remaining balance may be invoiced unless your spot is filled.
Cancellations
More than 14 days' notice: You may cancel, but your deposit is non-refundable.
Less than 14 days' notice: Deposit is retained, and 50% of the total program fee may be charged unless your spot is filled.
Less than 72 hours' notice or no-show: Full program fee will be charged.
Please Note
Intensives require considerable preparation and time blocked off in my calendar. While I’ll always do my best to accommodate changes, last-minute cancellations impact the ability to offer this work to others on the waitlist.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.