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There are moments in therapy where we feel stuck or loop on issues related to negative life experiences. It can be discouraging for both the client and the therapist. When the primary therapist and client collaborate with an EMDR therapist, this partnership can often help move treatment forward.

I partner with primary therapists and their clients to target their clients’ specific memories, body sensations, or limiting beliefs with EMDR therapy. By narrowly targeting specific traumatic memories or intrusive material, brief adjunct EMDR therapy 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, depending on session length) and desensitizes single incident trauma or simple negative beliefs 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.

For Referring Therapists

  • Referring therapists must be willing to support the client prior to and following the EMDR intensive. Lauren currently does not have room in her practice to provide follow up support for every intensive client, therefore ongoing follow up is the responsibility of the referring therapist.

Who is Not Appropriate to Refer

  • Clients who are highly structurally dissociative, actively abusing alcohol or drugs, experiencing hallucinations or delusions, are actively suicidal, self-harming, or experiencing an acute mental health care issue, or are otherwise unstable, are not appropriate for referral as the intensive format may be destabilizing.
  • A pre-intensive intake will take place to assess for candidacy. See the Fees & FAQs  page for more information
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