EMDR-Based Therapy Services
Online in California • Illinois • Florida
Trauma-informed therapy designed to support lasting change.
You might arrive here with insight, language, and a clear understanding of your patterns — and still find that certain moments hit hard. Emotions spike quickly, your body reacts before you can think, or familiar relationship patterns keep showing up despite your best efforts.
This practice is for people who want what they understand intellectually to match how they actually feel, respond, and relate in real moments — not by trying harder, but through work that allows emotional and relational responses to shift naturally.
Why there’s a disconnect between what you know and how you respond →
Why EMDR Is the Foundation of Care Here
At Root Psychotherapy, EMDR is the foundation of care because it’s designed to work directly with these deeper nervous-system responses — not just what you understand, but what your body has learned to anticipate and automatically respond to. This allows therapy to move beyond managing symptoms and toward meaningful integration, where emotional and relational patterns can soften and shift over time, without requiring constant effort or self-control.
How EMDR-Based Care Is Structured Here
Care at Root Psychotherapy is structured to allow enough time and support for meaningful work to happen. Rather than fitting everything into short, repetitive appointments, EMDR-based care here is offered in extended session formats that give the process room to unfold more fully.
Across all services, pacing and containment are chosen carefully so the work can unfold in a way that feels grounded, integrated, and connected to your everyday life.
How intentional use of therapy time supports lasting change →
Three EMDR Therapy Formats
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Ongoing EMDR Therapy
Individual and couples therapy offered in extended sessions, designed to give the work enough time to unfold steadily and support integration over time.
This format can be a good fit when you’re looking for consistency, relational support, and space to work with patterns as they show up in everyday life.
Learn more about Couples Therapy.
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EMDR Intensive Therapy
A focused format that concentrates EMDR work into a shorter period of time, while still supporting preparation, pacing, and integration.
This option may be helpful when you want to work with a specific issue or make meaningful progress without spreading the work out over many months or years.
Learn more about Intensive Therapy.
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Group EMDR Therapy
A structured, facilitated group format where you work with your own individual material alongside others doing the same.
This format offers support for pacing, regulation, and containment, allowing you to engage in EMDR work privately while benefiting from the presence and structure of a group setting.
Learn more about our Group EMDR Therapy.
Who This Practice May be a Good Fit For
This practice may be a good fit if:
You’re interested in working with EMDR as a primary approach, or are curious about exploring it
You’re looking for therapy that allows time for deeper, integrative work
You’re open to gently engaging with emotional or relational patterns that still feel unresolved
You value care that can be structured in different formats, depending on your needs and capacity
This practice may not be the best fit right now if:
You’re primarily seeking non–trauma-focused talk therapy
You’re unsure whether EMDR is an approach you want to explore at this time
You’re looking mainly for brief, symptom-focused sessions without deeper processing
Fit is always considered thoughtfully. The goal is not to push a particular format or approach, but to help you find care that feels appropriate, supportive, and aligned with what you’re looking for right now.
Next Steps
Different formats serve different purposes — but all services at Root Psychotherapy are grounded in the same philosophy:
Depth over frequency
Continuity over interruption
Change that continues beyond the therapy room
During a consultation, we’ll explore which format — or combination of formats — best supports your goals, capacity, and readiness for EMDR-based care.