Intensive Trauma Treatment

A focused and efficient approach to trauma therapy that is designed to help you move forward sooner.

If you’ve been living with the ongoing impact of trauma, you may feel stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated by slow progress in traditional weekly or fortnightly therapy. This intensive program offers a different path, one that is structured, evidence-based and designed to create meaningful change in a shorter period of time.

Who This Is For

This program may be a good fit for you if:

Are experiencing PTSD or Complex PTSD
Feel “stuck” or haven’t made the progress you expected in previous therapies
Want to address your symptoms in an intensive focused treatment period, rather than over months of weekly/fortnightly sessions

What You Can Expect

1. Comprehensive Assessment
We begin with a detailed assessment to understand your history, current symptoms, and goals as well as to ensure this approach is right for you.

2. Intensive Treatment Phase
With slight variations which are dependent on your individual needs, therapy is conducted over 3-8 days, over 1-2 weeks. Treatment is usually conducted in person but online formats are available. Each day consists of 2 therapy sessions of around 1.5 hours duration. These sessions will be predominately EMDR 2.0. Physical exercise between sessions has also been found to enhance results and so this will be incorporated into treatment programs.

3. Integration & Follow-Up
A final follow-up session is arranged to review progress and provide support in moving forward following treatment.

Why EMDR 2.0?

EMDR 2.0 is an enhanced version of standard EMDR designed to increase the efficiency and impact of trauma processing. While traditional EMDR is already a well-established, evidence-based treatment for PTSD, EMDR 2.0 introduces modifications aimed at improving treatment speed and engagement.

1. Increased Working Memory Load → Faster Desensitisation

EMDR 2.0 deliberately increases working memory taxation (e.g., dual tasks, faster sets, modality switching).

This leads to rapid desensitisation of traumatic memories
Previous treatment may have failed because working memory taxation was not high enough for certain individuals who have a large working memory capacity

2. Reduced Avoidance and Increased Engagement

EMDR 2.0 actively incorporates strategies to block avoidance and maintain engagement, such as:

Therapist-driven pacing
Continuous activation of target memories
Interweaving tasks

This helps clients remain in contact with traumatic material long enough for effective processing, which is another reason previous treatments may have failed.

3. Compatibility with Intensive Treatment Formats

EMDR 2.0 is particularly well suited to intensive delivery, where multiple sessions occur over a short period due to the faster processing of traumatic memories.

4. Faster Processing of Multiple Trauma Targets

EMDR 2.0 allows for:

Rapid targeting of multiple traumatic memories within and across sessions
Less time spent on stabilisation as research has found this to be an unnecessary component of trauma therapy
Greater cumulative processing effect
This may be particularly beneficial for complex PTSD presentations

5. Evidence of Greater Efficiency

Comparable or potentially improved outcomes in shorter timeframes.

For more information on EMDR 2.0 and the evidence behind intensive trauma treatment, visit the websites of the developers of this mode of treatment:
https://www.enhancingtraumatreatment.com/about-emdr-2-0 and https://www.psytrec.nl/clienten/onze-aanpak (in Dutch but can be translated into English).

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