Strong Solutions Therapy

What if your trauma is the old story — and A Therapy intensive is the beginning of a new one?

You've done the work. You've shown up, week after week, talking through the same wounds — and still, the weight doesn't fully lift. You're not failing therapy. Therapy may just be failing to go deep enough, fast enough, for what you're carrying.

An IFS-informed EMDR intensive is a different kind of healing — immersive, focused, and designed to pack years of progress into a matter of days. Often the biggest issue in therapy is one that goes overlooked: honing in on the right mountain and finding the best trailhead for the work. That's where the real healing begins — and where most approaches fall short.

People travel from across the country to Boulder, CO for this work. Some are local. All of them are ready to stop living in the old story.

Ready to take the first step?

Free 15-minute discovery call — no pressure, just a real conversation about where you are and where you want to go.

The old story shows up in the places that matter most — and intensive EMDR therapy in Boulder, CO is designed to finally change that.

Often the people who come to work with me aren't in crisis — they're high-functioning, self-aware, and deeply motivated. But something from the past keeps getting in the way. It shows up in how you parent. In how you love. In how you lead. You might be noticing; Childhood wounds surfacing in your parenting — and you're watching the cycle repeat. Patterns in your partnership or marriage you can't seem to break no matter how hard you try. Struggling at work in ways you sense have roots deeper than the job itself...whether that's childhood trauma - CPTSD, PTSD, relationship patterns, or the unnamed weight you've been carrying.

The same feelings — guilt, shame, not-enoughness — following you from chapter to chapter. Months or years in therapy — making progress, but not the kind that lasts. Knowing you need to work through something — and knowing now is the time

You are not broken. You are carrying a story that was written before you were old enough to choose it. And it can be rewritten.

Most therapy treats the symptoms. We go looking for the source.

At Strong Solutions Therapy, we offer a unique form of listening — one that takes the deeper themes of your life into account and looks for the patterns that reveal where the real unlock is.

In Boulder, we know that the right trail makes all the difference. You can hike hard all day on the wrong mountain and never reach the view you were looking for. The same is true in therapy. Often the biggest issue is overlooked: finding the right wound to work and the best trailhead for that work.

In your intake, we take account of deeper patterns and themes — the good stuff and the hardest stuff, recent and further into your past. We're not just gathering history. We're mapping the terrain so that when we begin, we begin in exactly the right place.

That's where the new story begins.

The 50-minute hour was never designed for this kind of work.

When you've experienced trauma — especially childhood trauma — the memory doesn't get filed away like other memories. It gets frozen, stuck in your brain and nervous system as if it's still happening right now. That's not a flaw in you. That's how trauma lives in the body. And talking about it for 50 minutes a week, then driving home mid-process, often isn't enough to shift it.

EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help your brain finally reprocess what got stuck — breaking the grip of the old story so a new one can take its place. But it takes about 20 minutes just to warm the brain up for reprocessing. In a standard session, that leaves barely half an hour of real work before the hour ends. It can feel like changing your tires one at a time instead of all at once.

Weekly therapy = 50 min — 10 min catch up + 10 min warmup = ~30 min of real work. Progress interrupted week to week. Years to reach the deeper layers. Shared attention across a full caseload.

EMDR intensive = 4–6 hours per day of focused processing per day. Momentum builds session over session. 5–7 years of progress in 3–14 days, in addition to reprocessing, you will learn somatic and polyvagal tools. You are my only client during your intensive.

Not sure if an intensive is the right fit? Let's talk it through — free 15 minutes, zero obligation.

This isn't standard EMDR. It honors every part of you.

Traditional EMDR goes straight to the source of trauma — which can sometimes overwhelm a nervous system that isn't ready. My approach weaves in Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed EMDR therapy, so we get to know and honor the protective parts of you that have been working so hard, before we ask them to step aside.

This creates the safety and support that was missing at the time of the original wound — and the conditions for a story that is truly new, not just patched over. 3–14 retreat days — designed around your life and what you're carrying. 2 Hour intake to map the terrain before we begin — nothing catches us off guard. 100% of my therapeutic focus belongs to you during your Boulder, CO EMDR intensive.

New story, new you — how it unfolds : Here's what the journey looks like from first call to new chapter.

1.Free 15-minute discovery call: We talk about where you are, what you're carrying, and whether an intensive makes sense. No pressure, no commitment — just an honest conversation.

2. 2-Hour intake — mapping your terrain: We take account of the deeper patterns and themes — the good stuff and the hardest stuff, recent and further into your past. We find the right mountain. We identify the best trailhead. Then we design the intensive around you — 3 days, or up to 14.

3. Building your foundation: Before we process anything, you'll have a full polyvagal toolkit — grounding practices, somatic tools, IFS resourcing — so you feel steady and held throughout the work ahead.

4. The intensive days — the real work: 4–6 hours per day of focused IFS-EMDR processing, with intentional breaks to keep your nervous system resourced. You are my only client. Every hour, every session — all of my therapeutic attention is with you.

5. Integration — writing the new chapter: After the intensive, we anchor what shifted. We map a path forward that aligns with your new inner goals — the values, relationships, and version of yourself you're stepping into. Ongoing monthly or weekly support is available if you want to keep building.

I'm Rebecca, a licensed trauma counselor, EMDR practitioner, and Boulder EMDR specialist. My approach to EMDR psychotherapy and trauma counseling is grounded in one belief: healing isn't just possible — it's your birthright. Trained in IFS-informed EMDR and evidence-based, I offer both weekly EMDR therapy and immersive EMDR intensives — 3 to 14 days designed to help you finally heal trauma at the source. Deeply personal, and built entirely around you.

*What is EMDR? - EMDR Institute - EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING THERAPY

The Economic Value of an EMDR Intensive: https://www.ticti.org/economic/

Intensive EMDR to treat patients with CPTSD: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/emdr/2017/00000011/00000002/art00002%3Bjsessionid=3cq2ibisw457m.x-ic-live-01?utm_source=INTENSIVE%2520EMDR%2520THERAPY%25253A%2520%2520Promising%2520Research&utm_campaign=MIA%2520May%25202018%2520Vol%25206%2520%25257C%2520Issue%25205&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR1KnA4A7tUIQqXpFokTrZ9i8Qa4D8Kt3mMVpQv4_nf9LNJ_mtmYo9LocNU

5 Reasons to do an EMDR Intensive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoOKmFed9UI

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