Licensed Clinical Social Worker
EMDR & Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Therapy for Trauma & PTSD
In-Person in Lakewood + Online throughout CO
Trauma impacts so many parts of life. The abusive relationship you finally left, the childhood where support and safety were missing, or the medical diagnosis that changed you. EMDR helps your mind process those experiences, so the memory finally fades into the background.
Specializing in neurodivergent care.
Who EMDR & KA-EMDR can help?
EMDR & Ketamine Assisted EMDR can be especially supportive for:
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Intimate partner violence and relationship abuse (IPV, DV, coercive control, emotional, physical, and narcissistic abuse), including the aftermath of leaving a toxic relationship
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Childhood trauma and developmental trauma, including childhood emotional neglect, attachment wounds, and complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
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The emotional weight of chronic illness and chronic pain, including medical trauma and the grief that comes with a life-altering diagnosis
EMDR Services
In-person in Lakewood & online throughout Colorado
These EMDR services offer a few different paths to heal from trauma and PTSD, from steady weekly sessions to focused intensives to ketamine-assisted work for treatment resistant trauma & PTSD.
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EMDR Therapy
EMDR counseling helps you heal from trauma and PTSD by reprocessing painful memories so they feel easier to manage. This evidence-based treatment calms flashbacks, anxiety, and self-blame that trauma often leaves behind, whether it traces back to an abusive relationship, a hard childhood, or something you've carried for years.
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EMDR Intensives
Sometimes traditional talk therapy doesn’t move fast enough, especially when you're dealing with daily triggers or distressing memories. EMDR Intensives offer a focused, accelerated alternative to weekly sessions by condensing trauma processing into a single, extended session or consecutive intensive sessions.
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EMDR & Ketamine Therapy
KA-EMDR is an innovative trauma treatment that combines the proven power of EMDR with low-dose ketamine to help you process unresolved trauma, anxiety, and emotional distress. Prior to treatment, we will identify key issues and trauma targets. You’ll also complete a medical screening with a licensed provider who can prescribe ketamine, if appropriate.
What Is EMDR, and How Does It Work?
Check out this video to learn more.
Trauma isn't only about what happened to you. It's also about what didn't happen: the safety and support that should have been there and weren't. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy that helps your brain reprocess difficult memories so they lose their charge, along with the triggers and harsh beliefs they leave behind.
When something is too overwhelming to face in the moment, your brain files it away half-finished, so it keeps resurfacing as flashbacks and self-blame long after the danger is gone. EMDR helps your brain finish the job, so the memory can settle into the past. And it holds up: a review of 26 clinical trials found EMDR significantly reduced PTSD, depression, and anxiety (Chen et al., 2014).
Why does EMDR use eye movements and tapping?
You hold a hard memory in mind while following a back-and-forth cue: a hand moving side to side, gentle tapping, or soft tones. Splitting your attention that way keeps the memory from overwhelming you, and that small skill is what lets your brain revisit it and set it down calmly (van den Hout & Engelhard, 2012). There's nothing magical about the movement. It just gives an overloaded mind a manageable way to process what it couldn't before.
Fees
$160 per hour
I am in-network with Kaiser insurance. If I am not in-network with your insurance, I provide superbills so you can seek reimbrusement from your insurance company.
EMDR Intensives:
Faster Trauma Relief in Fewer Sessions
Weekly trauma therapy is effective, but it can take some time. In a standard hour, time goes to settling in and grounding before the real work starts. An EMDR intensive removes those stops and starts by condensing treatment into extended blocks, a single long session, or several consecutive days, so you can process more traumatic experiences in far less calendar time.
The research on intensive, or "massed," EMDR is striking. In an eight-day intensive program for complex PTSD, four out of seven patients no longer met the criteria for PTSD afterward, with gains holding at three-month follow-up (Hurley, 2018). Alternatively, a separate study found that weekly to bi-weekly sessions produced less symptom reduction, showing that higher session frequency tends to work better (Bongaerts et al., 2022). For trauma that has been building for years, going deep quickly can be a huge advantage.
This format is especially helpful for:
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Managing heavy daily symptoms and want relief sooner rather than later
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Complex PTSD or layered childhood trauma that weekly sessions keep only scratching the surface
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People who struggle with consistent weekly appointments around work, caregiving, or travel
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People who have started and stopped therapy before and want real momentum this time
What to Expect
Intensives are focused and can move fast. Some people feel a shift within the first day, others build more gradually, and both are normal. You stay in the driver's seat the whole way, and we set the pace together.
While I can’t promise specific outcomes, this format has helped many clients make meaningful, lasting breakthroughs.
Fees
$160 per hour
* Please note that EMDR Intensives and Ketamine-Assisted EMDR are not covered by insurance.
Investing out of pocket buys you focused, specialist care and a treatment plan built entirely around you, rather than around what a network will authorize.
What is Ketamine-Assisted EMDR?
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR (KA-EMDR) pairs the proven trauma processing of EMDR with low-dose, psycholytic ketamine to help you work through unresolved trauma, anxiety, and emotional distress that feel stuck. This is not a high-dose psychedelic journey. It's a trauma-informed, science-backed way to help EMDR go further and work faster.
Ketamine is a fast-acting medicine with growing research behind it in trauma care. In one clinical trial, a single low dose noticeably eased symptoms for people living with long-term PTSD, often within one day (Feder et al., 2014). Part of why it pairs so well with EMDR is what it does afterward: research suggests a low dose briefly leaves the brain more open and flexible, more able to form new and healthier patterns (Aleksandrova & Phillips, 2021). That window of openness is exactly the kind of moment KA-EMDR is built to make the most of.
How KA-EMDR Works
Before treatment, we'll identify your key issues and trauma targets together. You'll also complete a medical screening with a licensed provider who can prescribe ketamine, if it's appropriate for you.
In session, you'll self-administer a low dose of ketamine to soften the psychological defenses that often block deeper work. This allows for more efficient EMDR processing while you stay awake, alert, and fully in control.
What are the benefits of Ketamine- Assisted EMDR?
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Softens fear and lowers your guard, so EMDR can gently reach memories that feel hard to face
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Leaves the brain more open to forming new, healthier patterns
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Manages avoidance and the loop of replaying things over and over
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Shorter and more affordable than full psychedelic therapy models
Fees
$160 per hour
Sessions are typically 2 hours
* Please note that EMDR Intensives and Ketamine-Assisted EMDR are not covered by insurance.
Investing out of pocket buys you focused, specialist care and a treatment plan built entirely around you, rather than around what a network will authorize.
Frequently Asked Questions
EMDR & KA-EMDR
Q: Does EMDR actually work?
EMDR is one of the most researched trauma therapies there is. A review that combined 26 clinical trials found it significantly reduced PTSD, depression, and anxiety (Chen et al., 2014), and it's recommended for PTSD by major health organizations.
Q: I'm interested in KA-EMDR. How do I know if it's the right approach for me?
KA-EMDR isn't right for everyone. A thorough psychological and medical evaluation are required. While the individual pieces, EMDR and ketamine, each have research support, the combined protocol is still emerging, and individual results vary. Mild, short-lived side effects such as nausea, dizziness, or a sense of dissociation can occur. We'll talk through all of it before you decide.
Q: Can EMDR help with trauma from an abusive relationship?
Yes, EMDR has been shown in the research to effectively heal relationship trauma, including intimate partner violence, coercive control, and emotional abuse. It helps reduce the triggers, flashbacks, and negative beliefs about yourself that often linger long after you've left.
Q: Is EMDR effective for childhood trauma?
EMDR is widely used for childhood and developmental trauma, including childhood emotional neglect and complex PTSD. For deeply layered early trauma, EMDR intensives or consecutive sessions may be recommended.
Q: Can EMDR help with chronic illness or chronic pain?
Yes, it sure can. EMDR can help you heal from medical trauma, grief, and helplessness that often accompany a chronic illness diagnosis, and it can ease the nervous-system distress that chronic pain tends to amplify.
Q: Do you offer neurodivergent-affirming therapy?
Yes. Therapy here is affirming of autistic and ADHD adults, including those identified later in life, and attentive to burnout, masking, and rejection sensitivity rather than trying to fix how your brain works.