Jordan Hamilton, Ph.D.

Dr. Jordan Hamilton is a psychologist who leads private, one-on-one intensive retreats at the Auburn, California location of Intensive Therapy Retreats. His work centers on trauma and PTSD, helping people release the negative emotions and images that bad experiences leave behind so they can move into their future with more steadiness and hope.

Jordan works in a full-day intensive format rather than half-day sessions, with retreats running up to six hours a day across the days a client needs. He begins with prep work that looks at the whole of what is challenging you and helps set priorities, then leads the trauma work in a focused setting. Many clients describe the work as hard but not intolerable, with stretches that feel surprisingly gentle, and they leave able to return to peace and to their regular therapist with real pressure released.

His approach pairs EMDR with Image Transformation Therapy (IMTT), techniques he considers especially well suited to de-energizing painful images and feelings so the mind can let them go. He also draws on Internal Family Systems work with a client's internal parts and on Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), helping people build adult nurturing and protective resources within themselves and re-parent old wounds one piece at a time.

Jordan has been helping people through the full range of trauma, from a partner's angry outbursts and fracturing relationships to the distress of emotional, physical, and spiritual abuse. He works with individuals, couples, children, and families, and is described by clients and colleagues as compassionate, deeply knowledgeable, tenacious, and gifted with a gentle sense of humor. He coordinates readily with a client's existing therapist so the intensive strengthens, rather than replaces, ongoing care.

His standing in the field shows in who sends people to him. A physician specializing in mood disorders has referred patients to him for over fifteen years, and a public safety chaplain of more than twenty-five years has made numerous referrals for first responders and their families needing a specific standard of care. The throughline in their words is the same: care, compassion, and competence, with tangible progress in each session.