Integrative EMDR & Somatic Trauma Healing Intensive

An Immersive Therapeutic Experience

Accelerate the Process

EMDR Intensives offer a focused, highly supported way to move through trauma, limiting patterns, or unresolved experiences with efficiency and depth. While there is no magic pill or shortcut for healing, concentrated time and skilled facilitation can significantly accelerate the process.

Cory combines EMDR Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and other integrative modalities to support meaningful change in a condensed window of time. Rather than spreading the work across months of weekly sessions, clients receive dedicated, structured support over several immersive days.

Most clients complete the equivalent of six to twelve months of therapeutic progress in a single Intensive.

Why an Intensive?

“The effects of trauma are stored in the body. Until they are addressed there, words alone are not enough” -Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma is in the body, not in the event. Integrating trauma requires time and space for the nervous system to orient to the work, engage with it, and metabolize it.

While meaningful trauma healing can happen over the course of a 60 or 90-minute session, giving space for a deeper, more contained, and expansive process can allow a deeper level of healing and transformation that is profound and life-altering.

The Intensive is also deeply nourishing, enlivening, and inspiring. Carving out extended time to explore painful wounds and patterns of self-sabotage and suffering created by trauma can help the trauma itself feel less overwhelming because we don’t have to worry about shifting immediately back into daily life. The nervous system can feel safer and more contained in the face of the most painful trauma when we give ourselves the time we need to slowly feel, integrate, and rest; to receive the safety, empowerment, love, belonging, and connection we need.

"The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect." -Peter Levine

By its very nature, trauma healing is energizing - that's the outcome of integration and trauma resolution. Trauma integration results in an increased capacity, coherence, and flexibility, and more ability to adapt to all that life throws at us. The body and nervous system self-energize, restoring and recharging on their own. An integrated nervous system also feels stable, grounded, and anchored in our wise adult Self, able to approach life with nuance, compassion, and clarity. Integration enables us to inhabit our bodies, with presence, precision, and aliveness, unleashing our greatest potential and actualizing our unique strengths and talents.

These aren’t just poetic descriptors; they are indicators of the effectiveness of trauma integration. An Intensive creates the conditions for uninterrupted focus, steadiness, and momentum. The pace allows clients to move beyond the stops and starts that weekly work requires, and into sustained engagement with their inner landscape.

The intersection of consistency and spaciousness offered in an Intensive allows for a deeply integrative process. Cory supports her clients to integrate across all 9 domains of integration: relationships, memory, narrative, states, bilateral, vertical, temporal, identity, and consciousness. This is a truly comprehensive approach to trauma resolution - supporting not only the healing of unresolved traumatic states, but also enabling post-traumatic growth to flourish and resilience to expand.

This structure is especially supportive for individuals who:

feel stuck in recurring life or emotional patterns
are experiencing performance issues in professional, athletic, or artistic pursuits
Have a history of trauma
are navigating a major transition or reckoning
want to resolve one significant experience that continues to impact daily life
feel ready for a deeper immersion than weekly therapy allows

Intensives are not appropriate for every case. Cory will assess appropriateness during a required pre-Intensive consultation.

What Happens During an Intensive

Clients receive up to six hours of structured support per day, including:

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Somatic Experiencing™
Relational Life Therapy
Memory Reconsolidation
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Ego State/Parts Work
Experiential Processing
HeartMath Biofeedback
Embodiment Practices, including Yoga and Breathwork
Vagus Nerve and Autonomic Nervous System Support (Safe & Sound Protocol and Rest & Restore Protocol)

The experience is uniquely tailored to each individual’s needs, desires, and history. Sessions may take place indoors and outdoors, depending on the weather and suitability.

Over four to five days, clients can experience shifts in insight, embodied confidence, internal organization, emotional steadiness, and inspired clarity.

Who Intensives Are For:

Intensives are highly effective for:

high-performance blocks or plateaus
childhood trauma
sexual assault
Interpersonal and betrayal traumas
Single-event traumas
performance anxiety
loss and grief

Some individuals choose an Intensive as their primary work. Others use it as a reset or accelerator alongside their existing therapeutic support. Some clients use Intensives as regular maintenance and support (bi-annual, annual, or semi-annual).

Who Intensives Are NOT For:

For Intensive work to be effective and safe, certain conditions must be in place:

No active untreated addiction (alcohol, drugs, compulsive behaviors, etc)
No untreated severe mental health conditions (psychosis, mania, severe depression, suicidality, and/or self-harm)
No domestic violence: clients should have a safe place to return to following the Intensive
Financial stability

If you do not meet these preconditions, it doesn’t mean that you can’t benefit from an Intensive; however, seeking stabilization first is paramount. If any of these issues are present for you, Cory can offer some guidance and resources for appropriate treatment options.

Travel & Accommodations

The Intensive takes place on a 76-acre, semi-wooded property on the banks of the North Fork of the Holston River, outside Abingdon, Virginia. The environment is quiet, private, and naturally supportive of the work.

Clients stay in a standalone cottage equipped with:

living room
full kitchen
queen bedroom
private bathroom
dedicated session room

Weather permitting, some components of the work may take place outdoors.

The nearest airport is Tri-Cities Airport (TRI), approximately a 50-minute drive from the Intensive location.

The location is rural, and clients generally rent a car for transportation to and from the airport, and for groceries/meals.

More Location and Lodging information can be found here.

Costs & Scheduling

4-Day Intensive: $8,000 (including lodging)
5-Day Intensive: $10,000 (including lodging)

(Travel, transportation, and food not included)

Clients may add additional nights before/after the Intensive to account for jetlag, as well as grounding and integration. Additional nights are subject to availability. Additional fees apply.

Required Consultation

Before scheduling an Intensive, all clients must complete a 45-minute video consultation with Cory to determine appropriateness, discuss timing, and explore your desires for your work.

Cost: $100 (applied toward the cost of the Intensive if booked)

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