EMDR Retreats in Tucson, AZ

Do you constantly doubt yourself and worry that you’re not good enough?

Do you feel stuck in patterns and behaviors?

 Do you continually end up in relationships that are unhealthy, but you don’t know why?

Do you feel constantly on edge?

Do you feel like your business or work is suffering as a result of limiting beliefs?

Have you ever felt like talk therapy has been ineffective?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a powerful therapy that helps people heal from overwhelming life experiences. EMDR is an incredible tool that can help individuals process their experience in a healthy way, leading to improved mental health outcomes.

EMDR retreats help people to feel better faster and provide a way to take EMDR therapy to the next level.

An EMDR retreat offers an intense focus on healing often eliminating the need for weekly therapy sessions. EMDR retreats can be customized depending on your individual needs, and typically last three to five days.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a type of psychotherapy used to treat overwhelming life experiences. EMDR helps people process overwhelming memories and negative core beliefs in a more effective way, allowing them to move forward in life with greater emotional clarity.

  • The way that EMDR works is through a series of bilateral stimulation techniques. This includes eye movements, sounds, or tapping that alternate between the right and left sides of the body. EMDR helps to process overwhelming life experiences and negative core beliefs in shorter amounts of time than just traditional talk therapy alone.

  • Like a lot of people, you might not have time for weekly therapy. What’s more, you may find that improvement happens very slowly because of how infrequent sessions are. An EMDR intensive retreat sidesteps this hurdle by taking a break to retreat away from your day-to-day life and immerse yourself in a deeply focused healing process. Intensive retreats are customized to your needs and can ranges from a series of half days or full days at a time and can incorporate trauma conscious yoga and acupuncture/massage sessions to help your body process stuck emotions.

    An EMDR intensive provides a chance to process and resolve your trauma and stress in an individualized way with someone who can devote their entire day(s) to you. It’s an accelerated approach for people who are ready to be free from their past and move forward in their lives!

  • ✓ Recent Traumatic Event (within days or months to avoid experiencing PTSD)

    ✓ Traumatic car accident, fire or natural disaster

    ✓ Victim of a crime (including sexual assaults)

    ✓ Grief and Loss (recent and past grief)

    ✓ Post-Traumatic Stress (first

    responders/frontline workers)

    ✓ Early Childhood Trauma using the (ETP) Early

    ✓ Phobias

    ✓ Support for Couples

    ✓ Eating Disorders

    ✓ Performance Enhancement for Athletes, Artists and Business Executives

  • EMDR therapy is an excellent choice for people who are struggling with the aftermath of overwhelming life events. EMDR can help address symptoms such as intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, emotional distress and negative core beliefs that may accompany an overwhelming life experience. EMDR can also be beneficial for those dealing with issues related to anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse.

  • There are several options you can choose from to create a unique and personalized experience. Generally this is what is included in all of our EMDR retreats:

    Personalized treatment workbook, which allows you to work on your treatment goals before, during, and after our EMDR intensive sessions.

    Pre-consultation interview to gather history and set goals for treatment

    A customized and unique intensive experience with targeted treatment goals

    Trauma Conscious Yoga

    2 Treatments: acupuncture, reiki, massage

    Post-treatment interview to assess treatment outcomes

About EMDR Retreats

The traditional model of weekly psychotherapy is shifting to meet your needs. Now more than ever, we need flexibility in how we get support.

Perhaps you’ve been meaning to get into weekly therapy for a while now, but your schedule has been so hectic and demanding that a weekly therapy appointment feels more overwhelming than supportive.

Perhaps you’re needing help — and a lot of it — right now, and you don’t want to spend months in the traditional weekly model of therapy treatment to feel better.

At Soul Space we offer EMDR retreats for our new clients who prefer to work intensively.

EMDR is not just for trauma; it is also used for performance enhancement to excel in areas such as athletics, business, and relationships.

EMDR retreats are personalized treatment plans that allow you to skip the waitlist by giving you faster access to select spots, and are designed to support your preferred schedule and timeline for your treatment goals.

EMDR Retreats Include:

We have several options available for local residents or out of town guests.

EMDR Intensive Retreat includes: personalized workbook, custom Tucson recommendations for lodging, food, and recreation, a pre-intensive goal setting session, 30 minute yoga sessions prior to the intensive, 6 hours of EMDR (typically spread across several days), 2 treatments (massage, acupuncture, or reiki) scheduled throughout the intensive, and a post intensive follow up session.

Tucson, Arizona is an incredible destination for your healing!

Let’s Get Started!

The process for getting started is easy! First, we will schedule a 30-minute phone consultation to learn more about you and figure out if an intensive retreat is right for you. You can be located anywhere in the world for the initial phone call. 

Next, we’ll come up with a customized plan that fits with your schedule and goals. You can choose a series of 2-hour sessions, half-days, one day, or multiple-day session—we keep our scheduling options as flexible as possible and there will be breaks for lunch, movement, getting fresh air, and other necessities. We are happy to provide adjunctive EMDR for anyone already working with a therapist and love collaborating with other providers. 

All therapy is provided in Tucson, Arizona and many clients travel from out of state and create a self-care retreat by staying for 3-5 days. We provide area accommodation recommendations and a personalized and flexible retreat itinerary based upon your interests (such as bodywork services, yoga, and local recommendations for spa services, nature hikes, artisan coffee shops, and the like.)

Meet Your Team

Rebecca Hamlin, LCSW

EMDR trained since 2016

Andres Velasquez

Acupuncture / Tui Na Massage

  • "My experience at Soul Space truly changed my life, it healed me. After Soul Space I was able to take my life back and no longer live in fear, but live in joy for the coming days ahead of me."

    -EMDR Intensive Client

  • "The EMDR session that I did with Rebecca was amazing! She was able to help me see what the root of my problem was and was able to resolve it in such a quick time frame. The therapy has helped me in so many ways and I am forever grateful for the Intensive I did."

    EMDR Intensive Client