Feeling Stuck? How EMDR Therapy Intensives Create Breakthroughs
When you can’t find relief, despite years of therapy
If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “I feel stuck,” you’re not alone. Even if you’ve been in therapy for years, you may find yourself repeating the same unhealthy patterns in your relationships, continuing the same people-pleasing and overcommitting at work, or even just plateauing in weekly therapy. You’re not seeing the change you really need, leaving you feeling frustrated and disconnected from the life you want. For high-achieving women, working moms, and LGBTQ+ professionals, this often comes with an extra layer of pressure—after all, you’re used to pushing forward in spite of multiple layers of oppression and lack of support, but persistent stress, anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and unresolved trauma means the life you truly want remains out of reach. You have to get to the root of what keeps you stuck. EMDR therapy intensives are the way to get you there.
EMDR therapy intensives for growth in the Berkshires, MA
Why We Sometimes Feel Stuck
Feeling stuck often isn’t about a lack of willpower or effort—it’s about old wounds and long-held internal stories holding you back. Unresolved trauma can keep your nervous system in a loop, making it difficult to break free from anxiety, self-doubt, or people-pleasing tendencies. Sometimes weekly therapy offers short-term relief but only scratches the surface, leaving deeper root causes untouched. In a typical therapy session, you have a few minutes to get settled and catch up on your week, then perhaps 20-30 minutes of processing deeper issues before you have to wrap up and maybe get back to work or your family right away. You repeat this pattern week after week, making incremental progress or maybe finding yourself taking one step forward, two steps back. Without fully processing those deeper issues, it’s common to fall back into cycles of overworking, disconnecting, or avoiding conflict—despite your best intentions to change.
How EMDR Therapy Intensives Create Change
This is where EMDR therapy intensives can provide a breakthrough. Unlike traditional weekly sessions, therapy intensives allow you to spend concentrated time focused on healing—often over the course of a full or half-day. This immersive approach creates momentum by helping you stay in the work long enough to move through blocking beliefs about yourself, to spend time slowing down and getting curious about what keeps you stuck, rather than stopping just as you begin to uncover them. In trauma therapy, there’s saying: “slow is fast.” This means for truly effective, lasting change, our nervous systems need to be able to slow down and feel safe enough to process those deep hurts. With EMDR therapy intensives, your brain has the opportunity to reprocess painful memories and beliefs that are the root cause of your anxiety or relationship issues, at a deeper level, leading to faster insights and meaningful shifts. For clients who feel stuck in therapy—or in life—EMDR therapy intensives can feel like the final push they need to step forward with clarity.
Real-Life Benefits of Intensive EMDR Work
The results of EMDR intensives often feel like true breakthroughs. Clients frequently report:
A greater sense of clarity about what they want in life and relationships.
A release from the perfectionism and self-criticism that once drove their anxiety.
Feeling calmer, more confident, better able to trust themselves and set healthy boundaries.
Relief from symptoms of burnout, trauma, or chronic stress that had lingered for years.
Renewed motivation to move forward with purpose and balance, focusing on what they value most in their lives: being truly grounded and present with themselves and the people they love.
For many, EMDR therapy intensives are the shift that makes healing feel not only possible, but sustainable. This is therapy designed for growth, not just “getting through.”
Ready to Move Forward?
If you’re tired of feeling stuck and want a therapy approach that offers real momentum, EMDR therapy intensives may be the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for. You don’t have to keep repeating the same patterns or carrying the same weight alone.
Reach out today to schedule a free consultation and explore whether a therapy intensive could help you move forward toward the life you deserve.
Rachel Duvall, certified EMDR therapist for women and LGBTQAI+ in MA and FL
Rachel Duvall, LICSW is an EMDR, holistic, trauma therapist who specializes in working with trauma, perfectionism, burnout, and low self-esteem. Whether you're struggling with parenting issues or looking for therapy for women, Rachel would love to help.
Rachel provides in-person therapy in Great Barrington, MA in addition to providing online therapy for women located in the areas of Springfield, MA | Boston, MA | Newton, MA | Hingham, MA
Online therapy for residents of Florida including Miami, FL | Tampa, FL | Sarasota, FL | Orlando, FL
