Trauma Therapy Intensives in Atlanta

You don’t need more time talking about it—you need the right kind of space to finally move it through.

Specializing in EMDR & Brainspotting

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An EMDR or Brainspotting therapy intensive may be for you if…

  • You’ve done therapy—but still feel stuck in the same patterns

  • You want EMDR or Brainspotting—but it hasn’t actually happened

  • Weekly therapy isn’t creating real movement (or doesn’t fit your life)

  • You’re tired of carrying this—and want relief sooner, not eventually

  • Something deeper is coming up—and you’re ready to face it

  • You want to do real trauma work—without leaving your current therapist

 

Focused Intensive Offerings:

For parents breaking cycles:
This is where you stop carrying what was handed to you—and start showing up differently with the people you love most.

For empty nesters / Maine intensives:
This is your space to finally turn toward yourself—and process what’s been waiting underneath the busy years.

Trauma Therapy Intensives can help with:

    • You are reactive with your kids, you lose your cool, yell and say things you never thought you would

    • You don’t know how to get close to or be with your child in the way you want to

    • You always feel on alert, fearing something will happen to them, if they are safe. You are a little over the top with it but you can’t seem to help it.

    • You find yourself overly critical or putting pressure on them being a certain way or acheiving

    • You avoid or shut down when someone gets too close. Or maybe you get scared, tense up or just get mad.

    • You never feel “good enough” You people please or overly focusing on others

    • You find yourself overly judgmental of yourself or others

    • Intimate relationships often feel unsafe

    • because of what you witnessed in your home and/or was done to you (emotional, physical, sexual abuse, substance abuse) and/OR

    • what you didn’t get from caregivers (attention, nurturing, neglect, consistency, seen for who you were)

    • problems at school (bullying, academics, social pressure)

    • difficulty separating what happened to you from them.

    • Part of you knows you are competent at your job but you feel like nothing is ever good enough

    • You have professional goals but you always seem to self-sabotage when you get close to meeting them

    • You struggle with a lot of anxiety at work

 
Kim Austin - Brainspotting & EMDR Therapist

Kim Austin, LCSW - Brainspotting & EMDR Therapist serving clients in Georgia and New York. Specializing in Anxiety, Trauma & Attachment

My Name is Kim and I can help

My name is Kim Austin. I am a licensed clinical social worker and see clients in person in Atlanta, GA. I also see clients virtually throughout Georgia, New York, Maine, and Florida. I have been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 years. I was trained in EMDR in 2004 and have been practicing this powerful therapy since then. In 2019 I trained in Brainspotting and was deeply impressed with the results I saw my clients and in my own personal healing. Since then I have become certified in Brainspotting and am an approved Brainspotting Consultant. I am grateful to these approaches and the opportunity to offer their healing benefits to my clients.

Contact me to set up a free 15 minute consultation to see if Brainspotting and EMDR Intensives might be helpful for you. You can also email kim@kimaustin.com or call me at (207) 295-7427 to learn more.

Trauma Therapy Intensives

  • Focused Healing

    During an Intensive you focus on a particular issue or goal for an extended period, ranging a from 3 hours several hours over several days.

  • Effective & Efficient

    Growing research shows intensives offer quick, lasting relief. And can be more economical given the laser focus minus the regular start and stop of weekly sessions.

  • Intensives Offer Flexibility

    Don’t worry about how to fit weekly therapy into your schedule. Schedule a specific time to focus on your healing. And trauma therapy Intensives works as adjunctive therapy.

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Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives

 

Can help:

  • Painful childhood experiences (including early developmental trauma)

  • Survivors of sexual trauma and harassment

  • Medical trauma and chronic illness

  • Accidents

  • Neurodivergent or Highly Sensitive (HSP) adults impacted by overwhelming/overstimulating experiences

  • Dealing with grief and loss.

  • Painful breakups

  • Bullying

  • Growing up in a home with unrealistically high expectations

  • Intergenerational trauma

Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives can also be used for Performance Enhancement: Professionals, athletes, creatives, or anyone wanting to grow and expand.

 

What’s included:

  • An initial 90 minute session to define goals, background, resources and supports. Identify panful experiences. memories, beliefs, emotions, or images for reprocessing.

  • Customized outline of issues for processing based on you and your goals for healing. Includes supportive tools and resources.

  • Intensive formats are tailored to your personality, goals, and life. Options include:

    • 3 hour Intensives scheduled bi-monthly, monthly or quarterly

    • Focused Intensives: Meet 3-5 hours per day over 1-4 days

  • 60-90 minute follow up session (s) to reflect on and integrate insights, shifts, and areas of transformation. Discuss ways to leverage healing and carry gains forward as well explore potential future goals.

 
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More Info & Articles on Brainspotting:

 

The research supporting the effectiveness of intensives.

  • Intensive application of trauma-focused therapy seems to be well tolerated in patients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results, while reducing the risk that patients drop out prematurely. Learn more here and here.

  • Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame. Learn more here.

  • An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD. Learn more here.

  • The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time, because of time not spent on a) checking in at the beginning of each session, b) addressing current crises and concerns, c) focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that the client won’t need after trauma healing, or d) assisting the client in regaining composure at the end of the session. Learn more here.

During Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives we help you recover and connect with your gifts, strengths, and resilience so you can experience more contentment and clarity.

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 Contact me for a free consultation

I know it can feel like a big step to call a counselor, but I’ll make it easy. We’ll spend 15-minutes on the phone and I’ll let you know how or if I can help. If I am not the right person, I’ll do my best to get you to the right person. Contact me at (207) 295-7427, or click here, for your free 15-minute phone consultation therapy. My specialties include:

Brainspotting

EMDR Therapy

Anxiety Therapy

Trauma Therapy/PTSD Treatment

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

Brainspotting & EMDR Intensives

Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) and Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP)