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EMDR Intensives

"I am stronger, healthier, and more confident...I am free."JA, after 10 sessions

🌿 HEART HEALING EMDR INTENSIVES & RETREATS

Deep healing • Soul alignment • Lasting transformation

This isn't longer therapy. It's a different structure. Half-day sessions give us the time to reach the root of a pattern instead of trimming one branch a week.

The work blends attachment-focused EMDR, parts work, somatic and brain-based therapy, and psycho-spiritual healing. We're reaching your nervous system, your beliefs, your protective parts, the way your brain stored it all, and the part of you that already knows who you were before any of it happened.

If talk therapy gave you understanding but not change, this is built for you.

🌱 Who This Work Is For

When people hear "trauma," they picture one terrible event, or a childhood that was obviously bad. Some people have neither. What they have is harder to name.

Complex trauma is what builds up when something goes on too long, or when someone you counted on turns let's you down.

It can come from:

a childhood that was chaotic, or one that looked fine from the outside
a marriage or relationship that slowly took pieces of you
betrayal by a partner, a parent, a friend, a business partner, a faith community
years of carrying everyone else's needs ahead of your own
a medical crisis, or a body that stopped feeling safe
a job or a system that kept you in survival mode
growing up somewhere love depended on performing well
a loss that no one around you treated as a big deal

What it looks like now

You might not call any of it trauma. You might call it "I'm just like this." Here's what I usually see:

you react bigger than the moment calls for, and you can't stop it
you read every room and every tone of voice for what's about to go wrong
the voice in your head is harder on you than anyone else would be
you don't know what you want, or who you are apart from what you do for people
you wait for people to leave, or you leave first
you go numb, far away, like you're watching your life from a few feet back
you over-explain, apologize, and manage other people's moods
you're tired in a way that rest doesn't touch
your body keeps score — tension, gut, sleep that won't come or won't stay
you feel spiritually flat, or cut off from something you used to be able to feel
something in you is trying to wake up, and your history keeps pulling it back down
you can explain all of this clearly, and it still hasn't changed

Any of this sounding familiar?

You don't need a diagnosis to start here, and you don't need a story bad enough to justify walking in the door. If several of these are true, your nervous system learned them somewhere. That's what we work with.

🧠 Why Intensives Work

Insight isn't your missing piece. What hasn't happened yet is the material actually clearing out of your body.

Weekly therapy means opening something up and closing it back down before it resolves, over and over.

With hours instead of minutes, we can:

stay in the healing state long enough for it to finish
clear a cluster of related memories in one sitting
reach the root of a pattern, not one incident at a time
rewire the pathway while it's still open
shift your emotional and energetic state, not just your thinking
move past understanding into felt, embodied change

You get momentum. For most people it's five to eight half-day Intensives to clear the core material. That work holds. What comes after is different work: once the repair is done, you don't need three-hour sessions anymore. A handful of 90-minute sessions is usually enough for what comes next — grieving what you see clearly now, processing something current, or finding your footing with the boundaries you're suddenly able to hold.

✨ Where My Work Is Different

Most trauma therapy stops at symptom relief. Fewer symptoms is a good thing, and for a lot of people it isn't the thing they actually came for.

When the trauma imprints clear, something else becomes available. Your energetic state lifts. Your intuition comes back online and you can tell the difference between a true inner knowing and the old programming that's been impersonating it. The questions underneath the symptoms — who am I, what is this for, what am I here to do — stop being abstract.

I've spent 25 years in this territory, personally and professionally: shamanic practice and journeying, Reiki, ceremony, meditation, and psycho-spiritual healing alongside my clinical training. Inside an Intensive, we may work with:

your higher self and inner guidance
energetic shifts that raise your emotional and spiritual state
healing imagery and connection to the light
intentions set from your authentic self rather than your fear
imagination as a tool to reshape emotional patterns
practices drawn from the quantum field
a felt sense of being supported by something larger than you

Nothing is forced, and none of it is required. You choose what resonates. For some clients the work stays entirely clinical. For others, this is the whole reason they came. The process supports the awakening already happening in you.

💫 What Changes

you're calmer, and less reactive when something lands wrong
you set boundaries without the guilt hangover
you stop people-pleasing, over-explaining, and managing everyone's moods
shame and self-judgment lose their grip
old survival patterns stop running the show
you know what you want, and you trust it
you feel grounded in your body instead of three feet above it
your relationships get clearer
your energetic and emotional state rises, and stays higher
inner guidance becomes something you can reach for, not something you wait on
purpose and direction come back into focus

Most people feel a real shift within the first few Intensives, and the deeper change builds from there. If you're working with C-PTSD or dissociation, we go slower and steadier, which is what creates the safest and most lasting change.

🌟 What Clients Say

"I had decades of anxiety… Deanne helped me clear old narratives with compassion and gave me tools to navigate difficult relationships." — Ann

"I feel like a whole new person. The tension in my body melted away." — Nicole

"I'm calm instead of reactive. I speak up for myself." — Olivia

"Deanne created a safe space, human to human. I finally reached freedom." — DJ

"I'm changing the direction of my life, business, and relationships." — Jeff A.

🌄 Formats & Investment

Start here: 55-Minute Intake — $200*

We'll talk through your goals and history, identify your resourcing tools, and choose the format that fits. This reserves your date. If you're already working with a therapist you love, we can collaborate.

Half-Day Intensive (up to 3 hours) — $625*

Typically weekly. This is the core format, and most people complete five to eight.

Full-Day Jump Start (5–6 hours) — $1,250*

A fast, deep start, often before a series of half-days. Includes the Find Calm in the Chaos course ($139 value).

Retreat Week — $4,375*

Four days, 18–20 hours of EMDR, with time built in for rest, integration, and supportive practices like meditation, Reiki, massage, and nature. Includes prep course, integration session, aftercare guide, and follow-up call.

Embodied Awakening, 8 Weeks — 2 payments of $4,375*

Eight half-day Intensives, five psycho-spiritual sessions, weekly phone, video and text support, and integration guidance. This is the full arc, from patterns and pain to purpose and presence.

*Cash discount available on every format. Most people do five to eight half-day Intensives for the deep repair work, then move to 90-minute sessions for what follows. We'll map your likely path together.

🌿 Retreat Week Details

Monday 12:30–3:30pm & 4–7pm
Tuesday 9am–12pm • break • 1–4pm
Wednesday 9am–12pm • break • 1–4pm
Thursday 9–11am, then integration session

Optional add-on days available.

In Tacoma (98402), near Point Defiance trails, the Ruston Way waterfront, Airbnbs, and wellness services like Reiki, cranial work, massage, and reflexology. Many clients build a retreat-style week around their Intensives for deeper rest.

📌 Insurance & Aftercare

Out-of-network benefits may reimburse one hour per day. Superbills provided.

You'll leave with aftercare guidance for the days following each Intensive: rest, hydration, nature, and the grounding practices that suit your nervous system and your spirit.

📅 Ready to Begin?

Schedule your 55-minute intake and we'll find the right format for your goals.

Click here to contact me. Or call/text (253) 651-3752

I hold a space that is both clinically structured and spiritually attuned. This is where healing becomes awakening, and where you begin to live from your soul instead of your past.