EMDR INTENSIVES: ACCELERATED HEALING FOR LASTING CHANGE
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) intensives provide a focused, accelerated path to healing trauma, anxiety, and emotional distress. Unlike traditional weekly therapy, these structured, time-limited sessions offer an immersive therapeutic experience, allowing for deeper processing of past experiences in a more efficient timeframe.
Tailored to your unique needs, EMDR intensives eliminate the interruptions of weekly scheduling, enabling you to engage fully in the healing process. By dedicating concentrated time to therapy, you can experience faster relief from emotional pain, gain profound insights, and achieve lasting, positive transformation for improved mental health and overall well-being.
What is EMDR?
When people experience trauma that the brain cannot fully process, the memory becomes "stuck," encoded in a way that separates it from the brain's adaptive memory networks. Unlike processed memories that we can learn from and move beyond, unprocessed traumatic memories remain raw and unintegrated. When these memories are triggered, the brain reacts as if the original event is happening now, activating the same emotions, bodily sensations, and beliefs, rather than recognizing them as part of the past.
EMDR changes this. Using an eight-phase, structured protocol, EMDR helps clients access and reprocess these stuck memory networks. Through bilateral stimulation and focused attention, the brain is guided to integrate these memories into its adaptive systems. This allows individuals to gain insight, reduce distress, and develop new, healthier beliefs. In essence, EMDR helps rewire the brain, making healing not only possible, but lasting and resilient. Transforming the very systems that once kept trauma locked in place.
What to Expect:
Each EMDR therapy intensive is uniquely designed to meet your specific needs, providing a transformative healing experience that includes:
Comprehensive Assessment & Targeted Plan – A deep-dive evaluation leading to a structured treatment roadmap with clear, actionable goals.
Powerful Trauma Processing – Expert-guided EMDR sessions utilizing bilateral stimulation to help you safely process and release distressing memories.
Lasting Transformation – Integration techniques that empower you to apply newfound insights, ensuring sustained progress beyond therapy.
Resilience & Empowerment – Mindfulness and grounding strategies to strengthen emotional balance and long-term well-being.
Why choose an intensive?
Efficiency – Experience faster progress by processing more in a shorter time frame.
Cost-Effective – Achieve meaningful breakthroughs without the extended commitment of weekly sessions.
Depth – Tackle core issues head-on, without losing momentum between sessions.
Flexibility – Customized to fit your schedule, lifestyle, and unique therapeutic needs.
Sustainable Results – Gain powerful tools to support long-term emotional well-being and resilience.
Professional Trainings
We empower mental health professionals through cutting-edge training in evidence-based trauma treatment. Our expert-led programs equip clinicians with the knowledge and skills to deliver impactful, research-driven interventions that promote deep healing and meaningful recovery. Elevate your practice and expand your impact with specialized training designed to transform both your clinical work and the lives of those you serve.
Consultation and Supervision
Empowering you with the insight and tools to become a grounded, effective trauma therapist.
I offer clinical supervision and consultation for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their skills in trauma-informed care, EMDR, and complex case conceptualization. Grounded in a collaborative and supportive approach, these sessions are designed to enhance clinical insight, build confidence, and promote ethical, effective practice. Whether you’re working toward licensure, EMDR certification, or simply refining your therapeutic approach, supervision and consultation is tailored to meet your professional goals and learning style.
Rebecca Kullback LCSW-C
Rebecca is the founder of Advanced EMDR Intensives ands the co-founder of Metropolitan Counseling Associates, the Director of Outpatient Services, and a co-founder of LaunchWell™ college readiness programs. She specializes in trauma recovery, with a focus on EMDR and EMDR intensives—recognized as the most evidence-based approach for lasting brain-based change. Her work at MCA includes providing individual, family, and couples therapy for young adults and adults, as well as training therapists in EMDR to expand access to effective trauma treatment.
Rebecca received her MSW in clinical social work from Smith College School for Social Work in 1994 and began her career alongside Anthony Fauci, MD, Wayne Fenton, MD, and their teams at NIH and Chestnut Lodge Hospital. She developed a passion for mental health assessment and prevention, leading her to create and direct the first upper school counseling department at Sidwell Friends School. She played a key role in developing advanced adoption-competent therapist training through PACE and the University of Maryland, served as a faculty member at the Catholic University School of Social Work, and is a certified clinical social work supervisor. She is also a sought-after speaker on mental health and wellness in the DC area.
As a certified EMDR, DBT, and CPT practitioner with extensive training in family therapy and neurobiology, Rebecca is committed to ensuring that trauma treatment is both precise and transformative. She believes that misdiagnosis often leads to ineffective treatment and is passionate about equipping parents, educators, healthcare providers, and fellow clinicians with a deeper understanding of mental health. By providing expert assessment, therapy, and therapist training, she works to promote lifelong healing and well-being.
Licensed in MD, VA, DC and DE