EMDR Intensives in Las Vegas
Accelerate Your Healing. Realign with Yourself.
Whether you're local or traveling to Las Vegas, EMDR intensives offer a focused opportunity to move through stuck patterns and reclaim your sense of peace.
What is an EMDR Intensive?
I'm Rachel Hansen, LCSW, and I offer EMDR intensives in Las Vegas for adults ready to make meaningful progress in a condensed format.
An EMDR Intensive is a longer-format therapy session designed to help you make significant progress over a short period. Instead of spreading therapy across weeks or months, this approach condenses the work into half-day, full-day, or weekend blocks.
This is ideal for anyone feeling stuck in traditional therapy or seeking a reset during life transitions. New to EMDR? Learn more about how it works here.
What Actually Changes in an Intensive
If your trauma is complex, if it comes from a family, a church, or a high-control system that shaped you over years, you've probably learned that weekly therapy struggles to hold it. Fifty minutes gets you just below the surface, and then it's time to close back up and drive home. You've done the reading. You understand your patterns. And the beliefs are still there, because they were built and solidified by conditioning, and insight alone doesn't remove them.
You know the beliefs like a heartbeat: "I'm not good enough." "It's my fault." "I'm not safe." "I'm not loveable." When those words were installed early and reinforced by people or systems you couldn't leave, they don't sit in your thinking. They sit in your body. That's what actually gets treated here.
In my tracked outcomes, most processing targets fully resolve within two to three hours of sustained work, and that holds for high-distress material. An intensive holds that arc in one container instead of splitting it across months of starts and stops, which is exactly what layered trauma needs. And when a target clears, the old belief gets replaced, not managed. Clients leave with "I am enough." "It's not my fault." "I matter." When they rate how true the new belief feels, nearly all land at completely true. Not as an affirmation. As something their body finally agrees with.
The work usually reaches further than the memory we start with. Related memories lose their charge along the way, so clients regularly resolve more than they came in to address. Afterward they describe feeling clear, lighter, sitting up straighter. Overwhelmed with hope.
And if you're bracing for the catch, here it is plainly: some targets take longer. In my tracked outcomes, the longest any single target has ever taken to fully resolve is thirteen hours. That was the hardest material I've worked with, and even it had an end. If you've spent years circling the same wound in therapy, that might be the most important thing on this page: the work finishes. Complex work is most of what I do, and it takes real mapping. In your preparation sessions we'll lay out your work honestly together, so before you ever book an intensive, you'll know what we're walking into.
Who Are EMDR Intensives For?
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Professionals, parents, and entrepreneurs with packed schedules
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Clients craving deep, immersive work without long-term weekly sessions
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Out-of-town clients traveling to Las Vegas specifically for intensive work
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Individuals preparing for a major life change
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Anyone who is done managing symptoms and ready to actually resolve them
How We Prepare You First
Before any intensive, new clients complete two 90 minute sessions together ($450 each). The first covers your history and current stability and closes with teaching a grounding resource. The second identifies what we'll focus on, teaches a safe place resource, and begins processing with time held at the end to make sure you leave settled.
This step exists to make sure a condensed, intensive format is actually safe and effective for your specific system before we schedule one.
(If you're already an established client, this prep phase doesn't apply to you, we already know your system, and we'll move straight to intensives.)
If you're traveling in from out of town, these two sessions can often be completed by telehealth beforehand, provided you're physically located in a state where I'm licensed (Nevada, New Jersey, Colorado, or Utah) at the time of each session. We'll confirm what's possible during your free consultation.
Intensive Options & Rates
Every intensive includes brief check-ins, breaks as needed, personalized treatment planning, and integration tools. The difference between formats is how much room your work needs.
Half-Day Intensive
(3.5 hours) – $1,600
Enough room to take one significant target through its full arc, from activation to resolution, in a single sitting. In my tracked outcomes, most targets fully resolve within this window. The right fit when there's one clear piece of work asking to be done.
One Day Intensive
(5 hours) – $2,300
Room for the full arc plus what tends to follow it: related memories losing their charge, a second target opening once the first clears, and an extended close so everything settles before you leave. Ideal for out-of-town clients making the trip count, or anyone ready to move more than one piece in a single day.
Weekend Intensive
(2 x 5 hours) – $4,600
Built for layered, complex work that needs depth and continuity across days. Day one goes deep. The night between lets your system consolidate. Day two stabilizes, integrates, and continues, so change has time to take root instead of washing over you. This is the format for material that formed over years and deserves more than one sitting.
These formats combine however your work unfolds. Many clients move between them: an intensive to clear a significant piece, ongoing 90 minute sessions to integrate and keep working, then another intensive when the next layer is ready. Nothing about this is all-or-nothing. We choose the right container for the work in front of us, one piece at a time.
EMDR Intensives Las Vegas Location
All intensives are held in-person at Thrive Well Therapy, located in Las Vegas in Summerlin near the lakes: 6655 W. Sahara Ave. Suite B200, Las Vegas NV 89146.
Frequently Asked Questions about EMDR Intensives
EMDR Therapy in Las Vegas, online across Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Jersey
1. How do I prepare for an EMDR Intensive?
New clients begin with two 90 minute preparation sessions before scheduling an intensive. These cover your history, current stability, and foundational resourcing, so we know your system well enough to work safely and effectively in a condensed format. Beyond that, get a good night's sleep, eat beforehand, and wear comfortable clothing. I'll guide you through everything else once you arrive.
2. Can I combine an EMDR Intensive with online therapy?
Yes! Many clients choose an in-person intensive to jump-start healing, then continue with online therapy to keep the momentum going. I offer secure telehealth sessions for residents of Nevada, New Jersey, Utah, and Colorado, so you can maintain progress from wherever you are. This also applies to your preparation sessions before an intensive, if you're located in a state where I'm licensed.
3. Who decides if an Intensive is right for me?
We’ll talk through your goals during a free consultation. If an intensive isn’t the best fit, I'll recommend a plan that matches your needs, whether that's weekly therapy, a different treatment pace, or additional support between sessions.
4. What kinds of trauma can EMDR help with?
5. How do EMDR Intensives work?
EMDR intensives condense weeks or months of trauma therapy into a focused, extended session. Instead of stopping just as you’re getting into the deeper work, intensives give your brain time to stay with the material, process fully, and close safely. We combine EMDR, grounding, nervous-system pacing, and closure so you leave regulated and steady.
6. Is an EMDR Intensive better than weekly sessions?
Not better, just different. Intensives help you process faster because your brain isn’t stopping and restarting each week. Some people combine both: an intensive for deeper work and ongoing 90 minute sessions for emotional regulation, integration, or parts informed work.
7. Can EMDR Intensives help if I’ve already done EMDR before?
Yes. Many clients return to intensives to finish unresolved material, work on new trauma targets, or move through blocks that didn’t shift in weekly therapy.
8. Do EMDR Intensives work for religious trauma or high-control family systems?
Absolutely. EMDR helps untangle fear-based teachings, shame, identity wounds, and the survival responses you learned in high-control or spiritually abusive environments. You never have to retell every detail for it to work.
9. How do you make sure I don’t leave the intensive feeling flooded or overwhelmed?
We build in grounding, breaks, pacing, and closure so your nervous system leaves in a settled place. You’re never pushed faster than your body can safely go.
10. How do I know if I’m ready for an EMDR Intensive?
You may be a good fit if you’re stuck in weekly therapy, have trauma you want to resolve sooner, or feel overwhelmed by ongoing symptoms like anxiety, burnout, or intrusive memories. We discuss this in a free consultation to see whether your nervous system is ready for extended work.