If you’re feeling burned out, stuck, or like talk therapy just isn’t cutting it anymore, you’re not alone—and you’re not doing anything wrong. For so many of the young professionals and creatives I work with in my psychotherapy practice in Washington, DC and Virginia, the surface-level strategies of "coping" no longer feel like enough. And that’s where therapy intensives can offer something different. Something deeper.

While traditional talk therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or psychodynamic therapy offer valuable insight, brain-based therapies such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) often provide a faster and more direct route to healing. In this post, I’ll explain why brain-based therapies like EMDR are so effective for trauma recovery and how intensives using these methods can provide rapid symptom relief for those seeking significant change in a matter of days, not years.