EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Guided bilateral stimulation helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they lose their charge. Endorsed for PTSD by the WHO and the APA.
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Experience life-changing transformation in just one week
Private, one-on-one mental health retreats for survivors of trauma, abuse, and PTSD. A year's worth of healing in a single, focused week.
- Decades of expertise
- EMDR · IFS · ART
- One-on-one care
Why an intensive retreat
This is not a break. It is a breakthrough.
Weekly therapy can take years to reach the hardest places, if it reaches them at all. An intensive gathers that work into a few focused days of private, one-on-one care, so you can leave behind what you have carried for far too long.
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Decades of expertise
Seasoned, specialized therapists who do this work full time, not as a sideline.
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Evidence-based methods
EMDR, IFS, and ART: recognized, researched approaches to trauma, not talk in circles.
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One-on-one care
Your therapist works with you alone, with their full and undivided attention.
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Year-round availability
Private intensives scheduled around your life, in weeks rather than years.
Certified, trusted, and recognized
The methods
Evidence-based therapies, not talk in circles
Three recognized, researched approaches to trauma. We match you with the ones that fit what you are carrying, and use them with skill and care.
IFS
Internal Family Systems
Meets the protective and wounded parts you carry with compassion, so they can unburden and you can lead your life from a calm, steady center.
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Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Uses gentle, guided eye movements to replace the distressing images trauma leaves behind, often in a handful of sessions rather than years.
More on ARTHow we help
If talk therapy has not reached it, you are not beyond help
Whatever you are carrying, you do not have to explain it perfectly or carry it alone. These are the things our retreats are built to address.
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Trauma
For the events that left a mark talk therapy has not been able to reach.
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PTSD
For the flashbacks, hypervigilance, and numbness that keep you on guard.
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Child abuse
For wounds from early life that still shape how safe you feel today.
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Sexual abuse
For reclaiming safety, trust, and a sense of home in your own body.
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.
Peter A. Levine
More than the headline diagnoses
What else a retreat can reach
Trauma rarely travels alone. The same focused work that resolves it tends to ease what grew up alongside it, often far faster than weekly sessions can.
- Depression
- Often a symptom of unhealed trauma. Processing the memories underneath it can lift the weight, sometimes in just a few days.
- Anxiety & panic
- From everyday unease to panic that arrives from nowhere. Working through what sits beneath it can help you feel safe in the present again.
- Low self-esteem
- The beliefs about yourself that trauma left behind can be reexamined, and gently rewritten.
- Chronic stress
- When your body has been braced for a long time, focused work can help it finally stand down.
What the week looks like
A clear path, walked at your pace
You will always know what comes next. Nothing happens that you have not agreed to, and nothing is rushed.
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A confidential conversation
You reach out and talk with a therapist. No pressure, no commitment. Just a chance to be heard and to see if this is right for you.
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A plan built around you
We match you with the right therapist and methods for what you are carrying, and shape the days around your goals and your pace.
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Your intensive week
Three to five focused days of private, one-on-one work in a calm setting, going further than weekly sessions reach in a year.
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Tools to carry home
You leave with grounding practices and a clear sense of what changed, so the relief you found keeps holding after you go.
In their words
Healing people thought was out of reach
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Working with Vickie during my Intensive Therapy Retreat was truly life-changing. My time with ART has transformed how I show up for my partners, friends, and family, and how I feel toward myself. I feel grounded, confident, and present in situations that used to trigger intense anxiety.
Rob D. ART -
The dark cloud of depression that was hanging over me lifted after only a couple of sessions, and my relationships with my husband and children have improved dramatically. I finally feel like I have found a therapy that works.
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It changed my life. It helped me get to the source of the triggers of my complex PTSD, and I now have images that change how I feel about myself. I was so glad I trusted it.
Colleen ART -
After just five days, I left feeling more confident, self-assured, and whole than I have in years. I had doubts about how much could be done in such a short time, but it far exceeded anything I could have asked for.
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I have done years and years of therapy, and with just three days the weight has been lifted from me. The importance of reorganizing memories cannot be understated. I am so grateful for this.
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I do not know that I have ever felt more seen by anyone. Through this work I felt truly strong and able to live my life fully, possibly for the first time. All my pieces have been put back together into a shape that feels good to inhabit.
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I cannot say enough good things about this experience. I only wish I had done it ten years earlier. I have recommended it to several friends and family, and will always be a huge fan of this program.
Verified client Intensive retreat
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Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Herman, M.D.
Where we meet
Calm, private settings on both coasts
Each retreat happens somewhere quiet and unhurried, chosen so you can focus entirely on the work and on yourself.
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Northampton
Massachusetts
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East Granby
Connecticut
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Auburn
California
Who you will work with
Steady, experienced guides for the hardest work
Intensive Therapy Retreats was founded by Dr. Bambi Rattner, Psy.D., a certified EMDR consultant with decades of practice. You are matched with a therapist who specializes in exactly what you are facing, and who gives you their full, undivided attention for your entire stay.
Trained in EMDR, IFS, and ART. Members of EMDRIA and the IFS Institute.
Meet the teamPricing & questions
Clear answers, no surprises
Honest pricing and straight answers, so the only thing left to decide is whether you are ready.
$1,550 full day
$830 half day
Priced by the day, from a single half day up to five days. Insurance is not accepted.
How long is a retreat?
Standard retreats run from a single half day up to five days, depending on what you need. They are priced by the day, so the length can fit your budget and your schedule.
How much does it cost?
A full retreat day is $1,550 and a half day is $830. Pricing by the day lets you choose the length that is right for you.
Do you accept insurance?
No. Our intensive retreats are not covered by insurance, and we are not affiliated with any HMOs or PPOs. Many clients find a few focused days more valuable than months of weekly sessions.
Why an intensive instead of weekly therapy?
A single retreat day is about eight 45 to 50 minute sessions, roughly two months of weekly therapy, and the continuity makes it far more powerful. Your therapist gives you their full attention all day, with no time lost restarting each week.
How do I book?
Use the contact form or call us, and tell us a little about what is going on. We will match you with the right clinician, answer your questions, and schedule dates that work for you.
Take the first step
You do not have to carry this alone
Leave behind the grief, fear, and trauma you have carried, and find the freedom you are looking for. The conversation is private, unhurried, and free.
Reach out
Talk to a therapist
A free, private conversation. Ask anything, share as much or as little as you like, and find out whether an intensive is right for you. No pressure, no commitment.
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