IFS-Informed EMDR Therapy
For people who have done years of therapy, understand their patterns, and still feel stuck.
You understand your trauma intellectually.
You've been in therapy for years, maybe you’re a therapist yourself.
You know your patterns.
You know coping skills.
You still feel reactive, shut down, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck.
Our IFS-informed EMDR Extended Sessions and intensives help you move beyond insight and create lasting change in your nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. Release old wounds and reclaim safety, strength, and inner peace.
What Is IFS-Informed EMDR?
IFS-Informed EMDR combines Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help the brain digest and heal painful, stuck memories at both the emotional and nervous system levels. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, this approach helps identify and work with the parts of you carrying pain, protection, and survival responses while using EMDR to process and resolve the underlying experiences that created them.
What Is An IFS-Informed EMDR Intensive?
An IFS-Informed EMDR Intensive is a focused, multi-day therapy experience that combines Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help you address the root causes of trauma, anxiety, relationship challenges, and emotional distress.
Unlike weekly therapy, intensives provide uninterrupted time for deeper healing. Instead of stopping every week and starting over, we stay with the work long enough for meaningful healing to occur.
By integrating parts work, nervous system regulation, and trauma processing within a supportive environment, many clients are able to achieve months of therapeutic work in just a few days.
Each intensive is personalized to your goals and designed to help you move beyond insight into lasting emotional and nervous system change. IFS-Informed EMDR Intensive is a highly focused therapy experience with extended daily sessions of 3–5 treatment hours. Unlike weekly therapy, which often gets interrupted by life in between sessions, intensives create the time and space for deeper healing to unfold more quickly.
Clients Often Come To Intensives Feeling:
Stuck despite years of therapy
Successful but emotionally exhausted
Reactive in relationships
Numb or disconnected
Carrying unresolved childhood trauma
Clients Often Leave With:
Greater nervous system regulation
More self-compassion and clarity
Less shame
Greater emotional access
A clearer path forward
Client FAQS
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An IFS-Informed EMDR Intensive is a highly focused therapy experience with two extended sessions held on the same day. Unlike weekly therapy, which often gets interrupted by life in between sessions, intensives create the time and space for deeper healing to unfold more quickly.
Our intensives are offered in two formats:
Multi-day Intensive Retreats: Offered in 4-5 consecutive days in-person with Morgan Levine.
1-day Intensives: Offered in a weekly or biweekly format virtually with Katy Levine. -
Intensives are ideal for people who:
Are currently working with an EMDR or IFS therapist but feel stuck
Want to create the time and space to address a specific target or goal
Are navigating grief, relational loss, betrayal, or childhood wounds
Want relief and results faster than traditional weekly or biweekly therapy offers
Desire a therapist who is flexible, attuned, and skilled at guiding deep healing
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We specialize in trauma of many kinds — generational trauma, childhood neglect or abuse, spiritual abuse, cultural/family dynamics, grief and loss, relationship challenges, and the impacts of oppressive systems. Our work integrates EMDR, IFS, attachment, somatic regulation, and spiritual exploration.
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Intensives are powerful — and yes, intense — but they are always tailored to what feels safe and manageable for you. We build in assessment, preparation, resourcing, and grounding so you’re supported every step of the way. We collaborate closely with primary therapists, so you’ll also be supported to continue integrating the work after your intensive.
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Many of our intensive clients have a primary therapist they can continue to work with and return to after their intensive.
This ensures you have ongoing support to continue integrating the changes from our work together.
If you don’t have a therapist, Morgan is an EMDRIA consultant for other EMDR therapists and we can help connect you with a trusted provider. -
The first step is to schedule a free consultation. We’ll talk about your goals, answer your questions, and see if an intensive is the right fit for you.
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Meet the Team
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Morgan Levine, LCSW
EMDRIA Approved Consultant
Certified IFS-Informed EMDR Therapist
Intensive Trauma Specialist
I specialize in IFS-Informed EMDR Intensives because I saw how often weekly therapy was interrupted just as deeper healing began delaying the relief my clients wanted and deserved.
Intensives create the time, continuity, and focus needed to work with trauma more effectively. By combining IFS, EMDR, and nervous system + attachment informed care in a focused multi-day format, clients can often move beyond insight into meaningful, lasting change.
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Katy Levine, LCSW
EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist
IFS Level One Trained
Level 1 + Level 2 IFS-Informed EMDR Trained Therapist
Experienced in complex trauma and attachment
I specialize in IFS-Informed EMDR for women and AFAB adults who are navigating anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, and the lasting effects of growing up in emotionally neglectful or dysfunctional families.I offer extended IFS-Informed EMDR sessions (90-120 minutes+) multiple times per week and intensives 3+ hours biweekly for clients wanting relief & results more accelerated than the standard weekly session model allows but with ongoing support and integration.
EMDR Intensives FAQ
An Intensive is a highly focused therapy experience. We offer intensives in two formats:
INTENSIVE OPTION 1) 4–5 consecutive days in-person, with extended daily sessions over 4-5 hours.
INTENSIVE OPTION 2) Ongoing biweekly or weekly 1/2-day to 1-day virtual intensives for clients located in DC, MD, VA, and PA at the time of treatment.
Unlike weekly therapy, which often gets interrupted by life in between sessions, intensives create the time and space for deeper accelerated healing to unfold.
What is an Intensive, and how is it different from weekly therapy?
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Do I need previous therapy before an EMDR intensive?
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Usually, yes. Our intensives are designed primarily for people who already have a foundation in therapy and are ready for deeper experiential trauma work. The intensive is generally not the best place to begin learning basic emotional regulation, body awareness, or trauma education.
Do I need previous EMDR experience?
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Not necessarily. However, you should have enough emotional and somatic capacity to notice difficult internal experiences without immediately becoming overwhelmed or needing to escape them. During consultation and preparation, we will assess whether intensive EMDR is an appropriate next step.
This is actually common among the people who seek my intensives. You may understand your history and patterns very well while still noticing that certain responses feel automatic, embodied, or unresolved. Intensive work allows us to spend sustained time with those deeper patterns rather than repeatedly opening and closing the work within weekly sessions.
I've done years of therapy but still feel stuck. Can an EMDR intensive help?
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Will I feel better after five days?
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There is no responsible way to guarantee how you will feel immediately following trauma processing. Some people experience relief, clarity, or increased spaciousness. Others experience grief, fatigue, vulnerability, or continued integration. The goal is not simply to feel better for five days—it is to support meaningful processing and greater flexibility over time.
Can I fix my trauma in five days?
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An intensive is not a five-day cure for trauma. It is a concentrated period of therapeutic work that can allow us to access and process material with more continuity than weekly therapy often provides. We have seen many clients arrive with meeting high diagnostic PTSD scores on the PCL and at follow-up they fall below diagnostic levels. However, it is important to understand your healing existed before the intensive and will continue afterward.
Who is a good fit for an Intensive?
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Intensives are ideal for people who:
Have tried talk therapy, self-help, or even EMDR/IFS before but still feel stuck
Are navigating grief, relational loss, betrayal, or childhood wounds
Want relief and results faster than traditional therapy offers
Desire a therapist who is flexible, attuned, and skilled at guiding deep healing
If you resonate with this, a free consultation can help us explore whether an intensive is right for you.
CAn I do an Intensive if I already have a therapist?
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Yes, many of our clients have tried EMDR in the past. Some had success and want to try it again in a different kind of format. Others have found past EMDR too rigid or activating.
Our IFS-informed EMDR style creates the safety, pacing, and personalization needed for real transformation.
There are many ways to combine EMDR treatment with other modalities to enhance effectiveness. This is why Morgan integrates EMDR with IFS, Polyvagal Theory, and attachment work. She also uses many creative strategies for bilateral stimulation and taxing your working memory which has been shown to increase effectiveness. Lastly, EMDR processing when done in multiple consecutive sessions in the same week, like an Intensive format, have also been shown to enhance effectiveness.
What can an EMDR intensive help with?
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EMDR intensives can be helpful when you’ve already done meaningful therapy and have insight into your history, but certain experiences still feel unresolved.
You may understand why you respond the way you do and still notice old patterns showing up in your body, emotions, relationships, or nervous system. An intensive provides sustained time to work experientially with what remains—rather than only talking about or understanding it.
People may choose an intensive to work with Developmental or complex trauma, Attachment and relationship wounds, Generational or family trauma, Difficult or traumatic memories that still carry emotional charge, Protective patterns that no longer feel helpful, Emotional or body-based responses that feel connected to the past, Patterns that have remained despite previous therapy, EMDR, or IFS, A specific area where they feel stuck or want deeper processing
The goal isn’t to eliminate difficult emotions or “fix” your trauma in five days. It’s to create enough time, continuity, and support to process what is ready to be worked with and expand your capacity to experience difficult feelings without becoming overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself.
Will this be too intense for me?
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Intensives are powerful — and yes, intense — but they are always tailored to what feels safe and manageable for you.
We build in preparation, resourcing, and grounding so you’re supported every step of the way. You’ll also continue integrating the work with your primary therapist afterward.
Can I do an EMDR intensive if I've already tried EMDR?
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Yes, in fact, unless you have done extensive EMDR and somatic trauma therapy prior to your intensive, we require all intensive clients to have a primary therapist they can return to after the intensive.
This ensures you have ongoing support to continue integrating the changes from our work together. If you don’t have one or you don’t have one that you feel can support your post-intensive processing, I can help connect you with a trusted provider.
Who is an EMDR intensive not appropriate for?
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An EMDR intensive may not be appropriate for someone who is just beginning trauma therapy, has significant difficulty remaining present with emotions or body sensations, is experiencing poorly managed symptoms that interfere with trauma processing, or is looking for a quick or guaranteed resolution.
What dates are available for your Intensives?
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Because of the depth and focused time of intensives, I intentionally schedule the multi-day intensives I offer each year so I can remain fully present and resourced for my clients.
I typically schedule 3–6 months in advance, and sometimes further out.
My availability may change up until your consultation is completed, the intensive is confirmed, and a deposit is received.
What are your fees?
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How do I get started?
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The first step is to schedule a free 30-minute consultation. We’ll talk about your goals, answer your questions, and see if an intensive is the right fit for you.
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