IFS-Informed EMDR Intensive Retreats for Therapists
A deep healing solo experience for therapists to step out of the therapist role and into their own healing.
You spend your professional life holding space for other people's healing.
This is a space where you don't have to.
IFS-Informed EMDR Therapist Intensives are individualized, multi-day therapy intensives created specifically for therapists and healers who want protected time and spaciousness for their own deeper work.
You don't need to teach, perform, conceptualize, supervise, or take care of anyone else.
You get to be the client.
First, this work is yours.
You may come to an intensive because there are places in your own life or internal system asking for more attention, space, or care.
Many of us were drawn to helping others partly because of our own childhood experiences. We may have learned early to read the room, anticipate others’ needs, offer comfort, or become the person others could depend on. Those adaptations may inform our gifts as therapists and leave parts of us accustomed to giving care while receiving very little.
Your intensive offers space to attend to those parts and the needs, feelings, and experiences that may have had less room.
You don't need to turn your healing into professional development.
And your work may change because you have.
As we heal, we may find more freedom to be present without overextending, to care without carrying, and to trust our clients’ capacity without feeling responsible for every outcome.
Experiencing intensive therapy from the inside can also deepen your understanding of pacing, protection, vulnerability, attunement, rupture, regulation, and what it feels like to receive care on the other side of intensive trauma work.
What is an Experiential Intensive for Therapists?
An Experiential Intensive for Therapists is an individualized, multi-day IFS-Informed EMDR therapy experience designed for mental health professionals who want concentrated time for their own healing.
Unlike a professional training or consultation, you are the client.
The intensive may integrate IFS-informed EMDR, parts work, somatic awareness, nervous-system regulation, EMDR preparation and processing, and integration based on your individual needs, readiness, and treatment goals.
Where: Chester County, Pennsylvania (March to December) and Tulum, Mexico (January + February)
Format: Individual, in-person
Length: 3-5 days
Who: Therapists + healers
Investment: $1,800/day (2026), $1,900 (2027)*
Rates include preparation meeting, treatment days, assessments, workbooks, follow-up meeting, written summary of care, and optional collaboration with existing providers.
Morgan Levine is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Certified IFS-Informed EMDR (Syzygy Institute) and Imago Relationship Therapy (Maya Kollman), and an IFS Institute trained IFS Therapist. Her work is grounded in the belief that trauma responses are adaptive and that healing happens when the nervous system has enough safety, relational attunement, and spaciousness to process what has been carried for so long.
Morgan is LGBTQ+, late diagnosed ADHD, and on her own healing path for more than 20 years from CPTSD, Finding EMDR, IFS, nervous-system-informed work, and 12-Step recovery for the effects of growing up in a dysfunctional family changed her understanding of healing and eventually changed the way she practices therapy.
Morgan came to understand that healing isn’t only about making sense of what happened to us. It’s about developing a different relationship with our bodies, our protective parts, ourselves, and other people and creating enough internal safety and flexibility to digest stored emotions and sensations that no longer serve us in order to move out of survival and into our truest unburdened Self.
That understanding shapes how she works today. Her therapy approach is experiential, compassionate, and collaborative. Alongside trauma processing, she values creativity, play, rest, connection, nature, and curiosity—not as extras, but as meaningful parts of what can become more available when our lives no longer have to be organized primarily around protection.
Morgan is especially drawn to working with adults who grew up in families or cultures where they learned to survive by achieving, caretaking, disappearing, being “the good one,” being the identified problem, or becoming exceptionally self-reliant.
She is passionate about supporting neurodivergent and highly sensitive individuals and therapists. Her focus is helping EMDR and IFS-Informed EMDR therapists move beyond rigid therapy structures and into ways of working that center their humanity first, feel relational, sustainable, creative, and deeply aligned.
About Morgan Levine
Want to learn how to create this kind of container for your clients?
If experiencing intensive work has made you curious about developing your own intensive practice, explore my advanced EMDR intensive training and consultation for therapists.
Learn More About Intensives
In this video, Morgan shares more on why a therapist’s healings can effect client outcomes.
If you’re still wondering, “What happens in an EMDR Intensive?”, click the link below for more information.
Watch more videos here
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Morgan offers 1:1 consultation, coaching, and experiential intensives for therapists. She is also developing an Intensives Incubator — involving didactic learning, collaborative working groups, individualized expert consultation, and the opportunity to host your first multi-day intensive with a full suite of support.
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Reach out to set up a free consultation with Morgan. Get in touch here.
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Most of Morgan’s clients understand their trauma intellectually - they are EMDR and IFS or IFS-Informed therapists or healers themselves but but their body, emotions, relationships, or behaviors haven't changed.
If you are asking yourself this question, you might be ready for an intensive or at least ready to schedule a free conversation with Morgan to explore this more.
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If you are tired of feeling constrained by traditional weekly models, carry the internal thought that "I know my clients need more than 50-minute sessions," and are looking for permission to work creatively and authentically alongside a supportive community, you are ready. We offer support to take the next steps.
Frequently Asked Questions
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IFS-informed EMDR integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy with EMDR by tracking parts (such as protectors and exiles) throughout the EMDR process. This approach layers IFS and EMDR in a streamlined treatment experience that prioritizes relational attunement, nervous system pacing, and working with internal system dynamics during trauma processing.
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email admin@ifsemdrtherapy.com. You can also follow our social media pages for new updates, offerings, and openings.
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Yes! Morgan offers multiday intensives and intensive retreats to adults healing from childhood trauma, attachment wounds, and complex PTSD. To set up a consultation for therapy with Morgan, click here.