You've done the work of understanding yourself. Now it's time to actually feel different.
EMDR therapy intensives and retreat-style healing for high-achieving, burnt-out people-pleasers and caregivers who are exhausted from holding it all together — designed to create real change in days, not years.
You don't have to struggle for years to feel better.
If you've spent years in weekly therapy and can recite your attachment style, name your defenses, and explain exactly why you do what you do — but still feel stuck — the problem isn't you. It's the format.
EMDR intensives aren't just for single-incident trauma. They're for the slow-burn wounds: attachment trauma, burnout, people-pleasing, and the quiet exhaustion of being the reliable one for everyone but yourself. Focused, immersive work can move what years of fifty-minute sessions couldn't.
When you're carrying it all, something's bound to break.
You're the reliable one — at work, at home, in every relationship. People can always count on you. Rarely the reverse.
You can talk about your patterns until the cows come home. You understand the "why." You have no idea how to actually change the "how."
Anxiety runs your days — tight chest, racing thoughts, sleepless nights, a body stuck in overdrive.
Your relationships aren't what you hoped for. Conflict, distance, or patterns you can't seem to break no matter how hard you try.
Effective, focused healing — without years of weekly sessions.
Assess
A 90-minute goal-setting session to understand your history and goals.
The Intensive
5 focused hours per day, over 3 days of dedicated 1:1 work — deep EMDR, somatic, and relational work without the stop-start of weekly sessions.
Integrate
A 30-minute follow-up session to ground what's shifted and carry it forward into daily life.
Prefer ongoing, extended weekly sessions instead of an intensive? Those spots are currently full — reach out to be added to the waitlist.
A few ways to begin — beyond the 1:1 intensive.
Rooted & Thriving
Saturday, September 26 · 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM · Great Barrington, MAA day of rest, somatic regulation, and community for therapists and helpers who give all day and rarely receive. Limited spots.
Reserve Your Spot →Caregiver Burnout Group
Forming Now · In-Person & VirtualA small, supportive group for caregivers and helpers learning to receive support instead of only providing it.
Learn More →EMDR Consultation Group
2 Groups/Month for 5 Months · 10 EMDRIA Consultation Hours · $750A small group for EMDRIA certification, mixing case consultation and discussion with experiential learning — for therapists building confidence in their EMDR skills and trust in their clinical intuition. Maximum of 6 therapists.
Learn More →Two ways to go deeper with EMDR.
Whether you're ready for a deeper layer of your own healing or you're a therapist strengthening your EMDR practice, these are two of the most focused ways to work together.
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR
For when you feel stuck despite consistent therapeutic work — or standard EMDR has taken you far, but not far enough. Ketamine can soften protective parts and open the door to deeper, accelerated processing.
- Begins with a 90-minute assessment session
- Medical evaluation and prescribing by a referred medical provider
- 3-hour in-person sessions in Great Barrington, MA
EMDR Consultation
For therapists working toward EMDRIA certification or looking to deepen their EMDR practice — with a focus on intensives, IFS-informed EMDR, expressive arts, and complex and relational trauma.
- Individual consultation for certification or basic training hours
- Small fall group cohort — limited to 5 therapists
- Led by an EMDRIA-certified therapist with 15+ years of practice
Rachel Duvall, LICSW
I'm a licensed clinical social worker and EMDRIA-certified EMDR therapist with 15+ years of experience — first in New York City, now here in the Berkshires.
My work centers on deep healing, not surface-level coping: helping high-achieving, deeply caring adults move from holding it all together to actually feeling grounded.
"When we liberate ourselves from the expectation that we must have all things figured out, we enter a sanctuary of empathy."— Sonya Renee Taylor
A restorative setting, easily reached from Boston & NYC.
My practice is located in Great Barrington, in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts — a region known for its mountains, slower pace, and restorative quiet. Many clients travel here from Boston, New York City, and Connecticut for a focused, retreat-like healing experience.
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