EMDR Intensive Therapy in Alaska
Resolve Trauma in Days, Not Years
Focused trauma recovery over several consecutive days rather than spreading treatment across months or even years. Work with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant specializing in EMDR intensive therapy for PTSD, complex trauma, and high-stress professionals.
✓ EMDRIA Approved Consultant | 📅 15+ Years Experience | ⭐ 100% Recommend (8 Reviews)
A 30–60 minute consultation to determine if this approach is the right fit for you. Limited intensive spots available each month. Most clients book 3–6 weeks in advance.
If You’ve Tried Therapy and Still Feel Stuck
Many people who pursue EMDR intensive therapy are not new to therapy.
They've done the work. They've gained insight into their patterns. They've talked through painful experiences. They've worked hard to heal.
Yet something still doesn't feel resolved.
The same triggers remain.
The same emotional reactions return.
The same patterns continue repeating.
If that's your experience, it doesn't mean you've failed, and it doesn't mean therapy can't help.
It may simply mean your brain has not fully processed the traumatic experiences that continue triggering your nervous system.
EMDR intensive therapy is designed to help your brain process those experiences so they no longer feel as though they are happening in the present.
Trauma Recovery Institute provides EMDR intensive therapy in Fairbanks, Alaska for adults throughout Alaska, across the United States, and internationally. Some clients travel for increased privacy and dedicated treatment time, while others participate from within Alaska or through virtual preparation and follow-up services.
What Is EMDR Intensive Therapy?
Traditional therapy often schedules trauma processing in 50-minute weekly sessions. While that format works well for many people, it also means stopping, returning to everyday life, and then restarting the process again the following week.
EMDR Intensive Therapy offers a different approach.
Instead of spreading treatment across months—or sometimes years—we work together for approximately 6–7 hours per day over several consecutive days, allowing the therapeutic process to build from one day to the next. Depending on your history, treatment goals, and the number of memories being processed, an intensive may extend beyond a single week.
Rather than repeatedly starting and stopping, your brain and nervous system remain engaged in the healing process, allowing us to maintain momentum while balancing trauma processing with nervous system regulation, integration, and rest.
An EMDR intensive may allow you to:
✓ Maintain therapeutic momentum across consecutive treatment days
✓ Process multiple traumatic memories within a single intensive
✓ Reduce the repeated "starting over" that can occur between weekly sessions
✓ Make meaningful progress in days that might otherwise take months of weekly therapy
Research on intensive EMDR treatment formats suggests that, for appropriately selected clients, intensive therapy can produce outcomes comparable to weekly EMDR while allowing many people to make substantial progress in a shorter period of time.
Wondering what change can look like after treatment?
Read what former clients have shared after completing EMDR Intensive Therapy.
What Clients Have Shared
Your EMDR Intensive Journey
Every EMDR intensive follows a deliberate sequence designed to help you understand your brain, develop evidence-based regulation skills, and build confidence before beginning trauma processing.
Rather than beginning with painful memories, we first build the foundation that supports lasting healing.
Your Journey
Understand How Trauma Changed Your Brain & Nervous System
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Learn Evidence-Based Regulation Skills
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Experience Regulation & Confidence
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EMDR Trauma Processing
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Return Home with Greater Peace, Calm, and Freedom
Healing doesn't begin by reliving trauma. It begins with understanding how your brain and nervous system respond after trauma, learning evidence-based regulation skills, and building confidence before processing difficult memories.
What Trauma Recovery Healing Can Feel Like
Every person's experience is unique, and individual results vary. These are de-identified reflections shared by former EMDR intensive clients after treatment.
"I feel free."
"I haven't felt peace and calm in my body in over 15 years."
"I finally feel like myself again."
"I got my life back."
"My nervous system finally feels calm."
While every person's experience is different, many clients describe leaving with a greater sense of peace, emotional freedom, and hope than when they arrived.
Who Is EMDR Intensive Therapy For?
EMDR intensive therapy may be a good fit if you:
✓ Have tried therapy but still feel stuck
✓ Understand your patterns but continue reacting in ways you wish you could change
✓ Are functioning well on the outside while struggling internally
✓ Want a focused, immersive approach to trauma recovery
✓ Prefer to make meaningful progress over several consecutive days rather than spreading treatment across months or years
✓ Are seeking an evidence-based treatment for PTSD, complex trauma, or other trauma-related symptoms
✓ Value privacy, dedicated time, and the opportunity to focus fully on your healing
Many people who choose an EMDR intensive are not new to therapy—they're looking for a different approach.
They've gained insight. They've worked hard. They simply want an opportunity to move beyond understanding their trauma toward processing it.
If you're looking for a focused, evidence-based approach that helps you build momentum over several consecutive days, an EMDR intensive may be the right fit.
Not everyone benefits from the same treatment approach. The next step is understanding whether an EMDR intensive is the right fit for your unique history, goals, and circumstances.
Why Some People Choose to Travel for EMDR Intensive Therapy
Many people make excellent progress working with a therapist close to home. Others choose to travel for EMDR intensive therapy because stepping away from their everyday environment allows them to focus more fully on healing.
People choose to travel for many different reasons, including:
Privacy and Confidentiality
Some individuals prefer receiving treatment outside their local community, particularly professionals, business owners, healthcare providers, therapists, first responders, public-facing professionals, and those living in smaller communities where they are more likely to encounter people they know.
Receiving treatment away from home can provide greater privacy and allow people to focus on their recovery without concerns about running into colleagues, clients, patients, neighbors, or acquaintances.
Fewer Daily Interruptions
Work responsibilities, family obligations, emails, appointments, and other daily demands don't simply disappear because you've decided to prioritize healing.
Traveling for an intensive allows many people to temporarily step away from those responsibilities and devote uninterrupted time to treatment, reflection, and recovery.
Focused Time for Healing
Unlike weekly therapy, an EMDR intensive provides several consecutive days dedicated to assessment, nervous system regulation, trauma processing, integration, and rest.
Many people appreciate being able to remain engaged in the therapeutic process rather than repeatedly stopping and restarting from week to week.
A Change of Environment
For some individuals, healing in a different environment creates enough physical and psychological distance from everyday stressors to focus more fully on recovery.
While travel itself isn't therapeutic, creating space away from familiar routines and responsibilities may help some people engage more deeply in the healing process.
Want to learn more?
Learn why some people choose to travel for EMDR intensive therapy and how privacy, focused treatment, and dedicated time can support recovery.
Why Some People Travel for EMDR Intensive Therapy.
Why Choose Dr. Curtis for EMDR Intensive Therapy?
Choosing an EMDR intensive therapist involves more than finding someone who offers EMDR. It means finding a clinician with advanced training, extensive trauma experience, and an approach that fits your goals.
Dr. Yvette Curtis specializes in EMDR intensive therapy for adults seeking focused treatment for PTSD, complex trauma, and trauma-related symptoms, particularly those who continue to feel stuck despite previous therapy. She has provided EMDR therapy since 2011.
Specialized EMDR Intensive Training and Credentials
✓ EMDRIA Approved Consultant
✓ EMDR Certified Therapist
✓ Advanced training in EMDR intensive therapy with leaders in the intensive treatment model
✓ Advanced training in the Flash Technique for highly disturbing memories
✓ Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
✓ Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
✓ Master Addiction Counselor (MAC)
Comprehensive, Individualized Treatment
Treatment is tailored to your individual history and clinical needs and may incorporate:
✓ EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
✓ Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed interventions
✓ Flash Technique for highly disturbing memories
✓ Evidence-based nervous system regulation skills
✓ Attachment-informed and emotionally focused principles when clinically appropriate
Experience Working with Complex Trauma
✓ More than 15 years of clinical experience
✓ PTSD and complex trauma
✓ Individuals whose symptoms persist despite previous treatment
✓ Military service members and veterans
✓ First responders and healthcare professionals
✓ Alaska Native, Indigenous, and culturally diverse populations
✓ Co-occurring trauma and substance use disorders
Learn more about Dr. Yvette Curtis and her approach to trauma recovery.
What to Expect EMDR Intensive Day-by-Day Process
What to Expect During an EMDR Intensive
Every EMDR intensive is individualized to your history, goals, and treatment needs. While no two intensives are exactly alike, each follows a structured process designed to help you feel prepared before trauma processing begins.
Before Your Intensive
Before traveling to Fairbanks, or beginning virtually, you'll complete a comprehensive assessment and preparation session. Together we'll review your history, identify treatment goals, answer your questions, and develop an individualized treatment plan.
During Your Intensive
Across several consecutive days we'll move through a deliberate sequence:
✓ Understanding how trauma has affected your brain and nervous system
✓ Learning evidence-based nervous system regulation skills
✓ Building confidence through guided practice
✓ EMDR trauma processing
✓ Integration throughout the intensive
Rather than simply processing traumatic memories, we'll continually move between moments of activation and regulation so your nervous system learns it can safely return to a calmer state.
After Your Intensive
Healing continues after your intensive concludes.
You'll receive follow-up support, recommendations for continued care when appropriate, and practical skills you can continue using long after you return home.
Every intensive is tailored to the individual, so the number of treatment days and specific treatment plan are determined during your consultation and assessment.
Investment
EMDR Intensive Therapy Investment
4-Day EMDR Intensive: $9,960*
For many people, the decision isn't simply about the cost of an EMDR intensive. It's about the value of making meaningful progress over several consecutive days rather than continuing to struggle with symptoms that have persisted despite previous treatment.
Many clients tell me they weren't comparing the investment to another therapy session—they were comparing it to months or years of continued symptoms, ongoing weekly appointments, and the personal cost of remaining stuck.
The average EMDR intensive is four days, although some individuals benefit from a shorter intensive while others require additional days depending on their history, treatment goals, and the number of traumatic memories being addressed.
What's Included
✓ 90-minute virtual preparation session before your intensive
✓ Comprehensive assessment and individualized treatment plan
✓ Up to 28 hours of EMDR intensive therapy (typically Monday–Thursday, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM)
✓ Evidence-based nervous system regulation training and EMDR trauma processing
✓ Between-session support materials and integration resources
✓ Post-intensive virtual follow-up check-in sessions
Payment
✓ 25% deposit ($2,490*) reserves your intensive dates and dedicated therapist time.
✓ Remaining balance is due 14 days before your intensive begins.
✓ EMDR intensives are private-pay services. A superbill is provided for clients who wish to pursue possible out-of-network reimbursement through their insurance plan.
Scheduling
✓ Intensives are typically scheduled Monday through Thursday
✓ Most clients reserve their intensive 3–6 weeks in advance
Cancellation Policy
✓ 15 or more days' notice: Full refund minus a $500 administrative fee
✓ Less than 15 days' notice: Deposit is forfeited
✓ Medical emergencies are reviewed individually
Wondering what changes people have experienced after an EMDR Intensive?
Read What Clients Have Shared After EMDR Intensive Therapy →
Schedule a Consultation
A 30–60 minute consultation is the first step in determining whether an EMDR intensive is the right fit for your goals, history, and treatment needs.
Limited intensive appointments are available each month. Most clients reserve their dates 3–6 weeks in advance.
* A 30–60 minute consultation to determine if this approach is the right fit for you. Limited intensive spots available each month. Most clients book 3–6 weeks in advance.
*Special discounted rate for pre-paid services. Regular rates for therapist are as follows: Dr. Yvette Curtis, $2,790 per day.
FAQs
Is EMDR intensive therapy as effective as traditional weekly therapy?
Research shows EMDR intensives are equally or more effective than traditional weekly therapy, with faster relief.
Will I be traumatized by doing so much EMDR therapy at once?
We carefully pace the EMDR intensive therapy work, take regular breaks, and use the most gentle techniques available. Many clients report it's LESS overwhelming than spreading trauma work over months or years.
What if I can't handle 6 or 7 hours EMDR intensive?
We work at your pace during the EMDR intensive with regular breaks. The day includes processing time, integration time, and rest periods.
Do you offer virtual EMDR intensives?
Yes, we offer a mix of in-person and virtual EMDR intensives for optimal therapeutic connection and safety.
What if I need more than 4 days for EMDR intensive?
Further sessions can be scheduled to address any remaining material. Some clients return for a second EMDR intensive or mini-one-day EMDR intensive session for additional trauma targets.
Can I bring a support person to the EMDR intensive?
Support persons are welcome to travel with you but do not participate in sessions.
Client Reviews
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“Since completing my EMDR intensive, I feel more present and at peace. The constant noise in my mind has quieted, and I no longer experience the trauma symptoms I once did. The internal pressure has settled, and I’m reacting differently; calmer and more grounded. I truly feel healed from my trauma and can finally rest in life.”
EMDR Intensive Client
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Years of traditional therapy and countless anti-depressants/anti-anxiety medications could not bring me the peace I was able to gain through EMDR. This has changed my life after 50 years. Finally, the answer I have been searching for.
EMDR Intensive Therapy Client
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"It put in perspective how distracting thoughts and feelings can be. I learned how to acknowledge thoughts but not giving them power. The activities were very helpful and now I am looking at myself from a different perspective."
EMT Participant, Military Setting
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you've tried therapy and still feel stuck, an EMDR intensive may offer a different path forward.
A consultation is simply a conversation.
Together, we'll discuss your goals, review what has and hasn't worked in previous treatment, and determine whether an EMDR intensive is the right fit for your unique history and circumstances.
If it is, we'll develop a treatment plan tailored to your needs.
If it isn't, I'll help you understand your options.
There is no obligation to move forward.
Schedule Your Intensive Therapy Consultation
A 30–60 minute consultation designed to determine whether an EMDR intensive is right for you.
Limited intensive appointments are available each month. Most clients schedule 3–6 weeks in advance.
Continue Learning
Many clients considering EMDR intensive therapy find the following articles helpful:
• Why Therapy Hasn't Worked for You (Even If You've Done Everything Right)
• How EMDR Intensive Therapy Differs from Weekly Therapy
• The 5-Hour Window: Why Your Brain Can Heal Trauma Faster in EMDR Intensives
• What Trauma Does to the Brain: How Trauma Changes the Nervous System
• How to Calm Your Nervous System After Trauma: 7 Science-Backed Techniques
Schedule Your Intensive Therapy Consultation
This consultation is designed for people who have tried therapy and still feel stuck.
In this 30–60 minute consultation, we will:
discuss what has and hasn’t worked in previous therapy
assess whether intensive therapy is appropriate
review treatment structure, timeline, and logistics
determine next steps if we are a good fit
Limited intensive availability in July and August. Most clients book 3–6 weeks in advance.
Wondering what change can look like after treatment? Explore what former clients have shared about their experiences following EMDR Intensive Therapy.
Read Client Experiences →
A 30–60 minute confidential consultation to explore whether an EMDR intensive are the right fit.
Limited intensive spots available each month. Most clients book 3–6 weeks in advance.
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