Rapid Healing for Those Who Served: EMDR Intensives at PTSolutions
The Weight of Service
For veterans, life after service can sometimes feel like carrying an invisible rucksack. Memories of combat, the loss of comrades, or the stress of deployment can sit heavily on the mind and body. Even years later, those memories can intrude on sleep, relationships, and everyday moments.
Traditional therapy, spread out week by week, can certainly help—but for many veterans, that pace doesn’t always match the intensity of the struggle. What if healing could happen more swiftly, without losing the depth or safety of the process?
That’s exactly where EMDR intensives come in.
What Makes an Intensive Different?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy recommended worldwide for trauma and widely used in both military and NHS settings. Normally, sessions run for about an hour each week.
An EMDR intensive takes a different approach: longer, concentrated sessions delivered over a short period of time: sometimes a few days, sometimes a week.
This condensed format allows for:
- Momentum: no long gaps between sessions, so processing can keep flowing.
- Focus: space to really immerse in the work without everyday interruptions.
- Efficiency: progress that might take months in weekly therapy can often be achieved in days.
For veterans, that intensity can be life-changing.
Why Veterans Benefit
Military life shapes people in profound ways. Veterans are often highly resilient, but trauma can still cut deep. Weekly sessions sometimes feel like “starting and stopping” a mission, so just when progress builds, it pauses.
With intensives, therapy becomes more like a dedicated operation: structured, focused, and designed to see the mission through.
Veterans tell us they value:
- A contained timeframe: fitting therapy around service duties, work, or family life.
- A sense of control: working intensively, but always with respect for their limits.
- Results they can feel: a noticeable shift in how memories are carried.
As one former soldier put it after his first intensive:
“It was like finally putting down kit I didn’t even realise I’d been hauling every day.”
How PTSolutions Does It
At PT Solutions, we combine sensitivity with productivity—an approach shaped by years of working with military clients.
Here’s what sets our intensives apart:
- Careful preparation: we don’t rush in. Every veteran is assessed for readiness, ensuring the intensive feels safe and appropriate.
- Tailored programmes: no two service stories are alike. We design intensives around the individual, whether that’s one major event or multiple layers of trauma.
- Safe pacing: our therapists know how to balance depth with grounding, breaks, and closure techniques. Veterans remain in control throughout.
- Integration support: after the intensive, we provide follow-up so that progress isn’t just powerful, but lasting.
- Respect at the core: we speak your language, we understand your world, and we never underestimate your service.
Why Now?
For many veterans, waiting for months of weekly sessions just isn’t an option—especially when the weight of trauma affects every part of life. Intensives offer a way forward: fast without being rushed, deep without being overwhelming, and transformative without losing sensitivity.
If you’ve felt “stuck,” if weekly therapy hasn’t been enough, or if you simply want to make real progress in a concentrated space, an EMDR intensive may be the right choice.
Final Word
Military service leaves lasting marks—some of them heroic, some of them heavy. But trauma doesn’t have to be carried forever.
At PTSolutions, our EMDR intensives give veterans a chance to step into healing with focus, respect, and safety. For many, it’s a turning point: a chance to finally put the rucksack down and move forward with strength restored.
If you’re ready to explore EMDR intensives with us, get in touch today: Contact – Psychological Therapeutic Solutions – Lincoln. The journey doesn’t have to wait.
