EMDR Intensives for Athletes, Coaches and Leaders

11/21/2025

Grateful to bring IFS (Internal Family Systems) + EMDR into the sports world. 🤍🏅
I often tell athletes: you have a whole team inside of you. Each “part” has a role—and all of them are trying to help, even when it doesn’t feel like it.

✨ The Inner Critic
✨ The Perfectionist
✨ The Protector
✨ The Firefighter
✨ And the Exile—the part carrying old wounds from moments of humiliation, injury, rejection, or pressure in sport.

When exiles carry too much pain, protectors step in with extreme strategies… and sometimes firefighters push the feelings away through anger, shutting down, overtraining, or numbing.

IFS helps athletes understand their internal team, restore Self-leadership (the inner coach), and create a more balanced, compassionate internal system.

And when the internal team feels understood and supported, EMDR becomes even more powerful. Processing becomes smoother. Blocks lessen. Integration deepens. Confidence returns. Performance expands.

It’s an honor to bring this work into the athletic space—where healing and performance truly meet. 🧠⚡️💛

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11/14/2025

🌞 Leaning Into Appreciation & Gratitude 🌞

Lately I’ve been reminded how powerful it is to slow down and notice what’s going well — even the small things.
Gratitude isn’t just a mindset shift… it’s a nervous system shift. 💛

One of my favorite tools for this is HeartMath.
It helps the body move into heart–brain coherence, creating:
✨ More calm
✨ More clarity
✨ More resilience

And when paired with EMDR, it becomes even more supportive.
HeartMath helps clients regulate going into sessions, and EMDR helps them process and release what’s been stored. Together, they create a grounded, effective path for healing and performance recovery.

Here’s to centering gratitude, honoring what’s working, and taking care of our nervous systems in real, accessible ways. ✨

11/05/2025

Grateful to be able to balance work and still tune in (virtually 🙌) to today’s TrueSport Talks on prioritizing athlete mental wellness within our sports systems 💙

Huge shoutout to Anna Hall — Go Gators! 🐊 — for sharing so openly about supporting her own mental health and inspiring others to do the same. 💪✨

Also feeling thankful for the amazing panel — love seeing collaboration across people, programs, and organizations all working to advance athlete mental health.

Hearing others speak about breaking stigma, recognizing current strengths, and tackling systemic challenges was powerful.

💬 Collaboration really is the key to lasting cultural change in how we support athlete well-being.

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11/03/2025

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Our nervous systems weren’t built for this pace.

Constant pressure. Rapid change. High stakes. Little time to recover.

Whether you’re an athlete, coach, or leader — today’s world asks us to perform under levels of stress our bodies were never designed to handle.

That’s why nervous system care isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity.

✨ EMDR intensive work helps your brain and body reset.
It clears old stress patterns and restores calm, focus, and balance — so you can perform, lead, and live from a grounded place again.

If you’ve been running on empty despite doing “all the right things,” this might be your sign to pause and give your system the deeper reset it deserves.

10/17/2025

Curious to learn more about dreams and EMDR therapy?
Ever wake up from the same stress dream — late for the game, can’t find your gear, or frozen under pressure? 💤🏅
For athletes, these recurring dreams aren’t random — they’re your brain’s way of trying to process unhealed stress or performance trauma.

EMDR therapy helps your brain do what it’s already trying to do: finish processing the stress and restore calm.
When your nervous system finally feels safe again, sleep becomes recovery time — not replay time.



Check out my new blog-

https://emdrintensivesforathletes.com/recurring-stress-dreams-the-office-and-emdr-therapy/

10/11/2025

Grateful to wrap up Student Athlete Mental Health Week and World Mental Health Day yesterday surrounded by inspiring colleagues, learning, collaborating, and advocating for athlete mental health. 🍂

It felt extra special to have these important conversations unfold under the magical canopy of fall colors in Vail, Colorado — a perfect backdrop for reflection and renewal.

A heartfelt thank you to the sponsors who made it all possible — All Points North, EDCare and Athlete Edge at EDCare — for your continued commitment to supporting athlete well-being. 💚

10/02/2025

I love that during an EMDR intensive day, I can spend my lunch break out on the trail—walking among the trees. Fall days like this in Colorado are incredible!🌲

It feels grounding, restorative, and also a nod back to the roots of EMDR itself. Francine Shapiro first discovered the therapy while walking in nature, noticing how her eye movements seemed to ease distressing thoughts.

There’s something powerful about weaving that same rhythm of movement and reflection into my own practice today.

09/19/2025

Curious to learn more about neuroplasticity?

09/12/2025

✨ Day one is officially in the books!

After waiting more than 3 ½ years, I’m thrilled to finally begin my IFS (Internal Family Systems) training this weekend. As someone who already integrates IFS with EMDR (Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing) therapy, this is such an exciting opportunity to deepen my skills and continue growing as a clinician and human.

This 3-day training is just the start—followed by six months of ongoing training, learning and practice. I’m energized by what this means for supporting the athletes, coaches, and leaders I work with as they strengthen their mental health, build resilience, and reach their full potential.

Grateful for the chance to learn, grow, and bring these tools back into my practice and to grow personally. Here’s to the next step in the journey. 💡💪

09/05/2025

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08/15/2025

What can shift in an EMDR intensive?

When therapy is focused and uninterrupted, the brain has space to process deeply. In just a few days, athletes and high performers often notice:

✨ Symptom reduction – less anxiety, fewer intrusive memories, improved sleep
✨ Nervous system regulation – feeling calmer, more grounded, able to reset after stress
✨ Emotional shifts – triggers lose their charge, self-compassion grows, beliefs shift from “I’m not safe” → “I can handle this”
✨ Performance benefits – sharper focus, steadier confidence, faster recovery from mistakes
✨ Lasting impact – the brain continues to integrate changes long after the intensive ends

An EMDR intensive isn’t about pushing harder—it’s about giving the mind and body the right conditions to heal, reset, and unlock potential.

Curious to learn more about how this can help athletes and performers?
👉 www.emdrintensivesforathletes.com