EMDR INTENSIVES IN CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA
Your schedule has been the reason you can't finish therapy. Not the reason to give up on it.
Online EMDR therapy intensives for women in Culver City with demanding careers. Multi-day work you plan around production, not around a weekly appointment slot.
FOR HYPER-INDEPENDENT WOMEN HEALING ATTACHMENT TRAUMA
You've canceled more therapy sessions than you've kept in the last year.
Something ran late. Something ran long. Something on set went sideways at 4:47. You rescheduled twice, then quietly stopped. Not because the therapist wasn't good. Not because the work wasn't real. Because the fifty-minute weekly slot never actually fit your life.
This page is for the women in Culver City who've given up on weekly therapy without giving up on the work. There's a way to do this that plans around your calendar instead of asking you to fit into someone else's.
WHY THIS FORMAT ACTUALLY FITS
EMDR intensives are built for Culver City schedules
Weekly therapy assumes a weekly rhythm. Yours doesn't have one. You have prep weeks, shoot weeks, product launch cycles, quarter closes. An EMDR intensive gets planned into your calendar the way you plan anything else that matters: block the days, commit to them, protect them.
The delivery is online, which means no drive from Culver City to a Wilshire office at the end of a fourteen-hour day. You do the work from home, on your own couch, on days you've planned around. Your nervous system stays in the environment it already knows, which for high-functioning trauma work is often exactly what it needs.
Fit the therapy to your life. Not the other way around.
THE WORK I DO
Multi-day EMDR intensives, planned around your calendar
An EMDR intensive is structured trauma processing across a few consecutive days. Preparation sessions before, multi-hour processing days in the middle, integration sessions after. The whole thing is built for women whose insight has plateaued and whose schedules make weekly work impossible.
The full picture of how the sessions are structured, what a week looks like day-by-day, and what the investment covers lives on the intensives page.
WHO I WORK WITH IN CULVER CITY INTENSIVES
The patterns I treat
Most Culver City clients built successful careers on the back of specific adaptations that also cost them something. These are the patterns I see most often in intensives with women who work in and around Culver City's studios and tech offices.
Most Culver City clients work on more than one of these in the same intensive.
WHAT WOMEN IN CULVER CITY OFTEN ASK
Questions about EMDR therapy in Culver City
How long do I need to block off for an EMDR intensive?
A 15-hour intensive requires 3 consecutive days blocked off, typically 5 hours per day. A 30-hour intensive requires 5 consecutive days, typically 6 hours per day. Preparation sessions before and integration sessions after can be scheduled around your regular calendar. Olivia Lavelle works with clients in Culver City who plan intensive days around production hiatus, quarter breaks, or scheduled vacation weeks.
Can I do an EMDR intensive on weekends or evenings?
The intensive processing days need to happen during working hours because the sessions are 5 to 6 hours long and require your nervous system to be in a workable state. Preparation and integration sessions can often be scheduled evenings or early mornings, depending on availability. Olivia Lavelle offers free 20-minute consultations to work out timing for demanding schedules.
I've canceled therapy sessions often. Would an intensive actually work for me?
An intensive is often a better fit for clients whose work makes weekly consistency impossible. Instead of committing to a fifty-minute session every Tuesday for a year, you commit to a focused block of work planned around your calendar. Many of Olivia Lavelle's clients came to intensives after years of trying and failing to sustain weekly therapy alongside demanding careers.
Can I do an EMDR intensive from my home in Culver City?
Yes. Olivia Lavelle's practice is fully online across California. Culver City clients complete the intensive from their own homes through a HIPAA-compliant video platform designed for virtual EMDR delivery. For clients with unpredictable schedules or frequent travel, the online format also allows the intensive to continue from any California location if plans shift.
A NOTE FROM OLIVIA
If you're in Culver City and reading this at 11 p.m. between meetings, I already know something about you. You're used to being the one who figures things out for everyone else. You've probably been meaning to figure out the therapy thing for a while and haven't had the space. An intensive is the version of this work that doesn't require you to have space you don't have. It requires a few days, planned like anything else that matters. I'd love to talk it through.
THE NEXT SMALL STEP
A twenty-minute call. We map your next step together.
You've built a life that runs on planning. This is the twenty minutes where you find out if there's a way to plan the therapy in too.