Struggling with perfectionism and anxiety? Learn how EMDR therapy with Rachel Duvall, LICSW in Great Barrington, MA, and online in Boston, helps you release the need to be perfect and reconnect with self-compassion.

If you’re exhausted, anxious, or running on empty, you might be experiencing burnout. EMDR therapy offers a way to heal deeply and rebuild balance from the inside out

Discover how EMDR therapy intensives provide personalized, evidence-based healing designed around your needs. Experience deeper progress in less time.

Anxiety, burnout, and a sense of disconnection from yourself and others are often signs of unhealed trauma. Learn how EMDR therapy offers powerful tools for lasting trauma recovery and resilience.

If you’ve ever left your weekly therapy session feeling worse or like you barely touched the surface of what you’re struggling with, you’re not alone. Weekly therapy can feel like stop-and-go progress. You sit down, take time to feel settled enough to share, start to feel like you’re getting to the deeper issues… and then the clock runs out. Cue the frustration.

EMDR therapy intensives could be the answer to your struggles.

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 habits that lead to burnout at work, or even just plateauing in weekly therapy. You feel like you’re not where you want to be. You’re not seeing the change you really need, leaving you feeling frustrated and disconnected from the life you want.

For many anxious, burnt-out perfectionists and busy parents, the idea of adding one more weekly appointment to your packed schedule is too much to imagine. You know you need help, but taking months or even years for traditional therapy may feel impossible when you’re desperate for relief now.

There’s another way forward: EMDR therapy intensives. EMDR therapy intensives are a customized approach to therapy, designed to create accelerated progress in a fraction of the time—without sacrificing depth, care, or results.

Summer is often seen as a season of fun, travel, rest, and making memories. But as the days grow shorter and routines shift, many working parents find themselves feeling a wave of end-of-summer stress. If you’re already juggling work, family responsibilities, and your own well-being, the transition into fall can feel overwhelming. You’re not alone—and there are ways to move through this season and into the fall with more ease and support.

EMDR therapy intensives are focused, extended sessions—lasting several hours in a day or spread over a few days—designed to help you get to the root causes of issues weighing you down. While they’re an incredible tool for trauma recovery or working through a crisis, they have other uses as well. EMDR therapy intensives are also an empowering way to gain clarity, reduce anxiety and burnout, and create healthier, more connected relationships—whether you’re working through relationship anxiety, navigating anxious attachment healing, or learning how to finally trust yourself to set boundaries without guilt.