Looking for healing retreats near Boston? Located in the beautiful Berkshires, a few hours from the city, Rachel Duvall Psychotherapy EMDR Intensive Retreats offer a powerful alternative to weekly therapy for those feeling stuck, burned out, or overwhelmed by anxiety or past trauma. These trauma-informed EMDR therapy intensives combine evidence-based EMDR and somatic therapy with the restorative natural setting of the Berkshires to help regulate the nervous system, process trauma stored in the body, and create lasting relief.

The holidays are supposed to feel warm, joyful, and connected, but for many of us, especially women balancing career, caregiving, and personal needs, this season often brings intense pressure instead of peace. You might feel pulled in every direction: managing expectations, preparing gatherings, tending to others’ emotions, and trying to hold it all together.

What many people don’t realize is that a pre-holiday therapy intensive can help you prepare emotionally before the stress begins. Instead of bracing yourself for the season, you can enter it feeling grounded, centered, and supported.

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’re a high-achieving woman, driven LGBTQ+ professional, or a working parent juggling the constant competing demands of life, you already know what it feels like to have your schedule packed from morning to night. Between career demands, family responsibilities, and the constant mental load of “keeping it all together,” it can feel impossible to carve out time for yourself—let alone weekly therapy sessions. Yet, the stress, anxiety, and unresolved trauma you carry don’t wait for when it’s convenient. They show up in your relationship, your parenting, in your work, and in the way you talk to yourself every day. Weekly therapy isn’t your only option. There’s a better way.

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.