COUNSELING AND BRAIN WELLNESS SERVICES, LLC
Melanie Mahady, LMHC, EMDR Consultant/Education Credit Provider
Our group intensives are guided by The Sacred Place Method™—a faith-integrated blend of EMDR, IFS, and Inner Healing that helps you connect with God’s peace, release emotional burdens, and restore calm to the heart.
Your Journey Begins Here
These Faith-Integrated EMDR + IFS Intensives are created as sacred spaces for healing, restoration, and connection with God’s gentle presence. Each intensive weaves together the science of trauma processing (EMDR), the compassion of parts work (IFS), and the spiritual depth of faith-based inner healing. Within a safe and structured environment, participants are guided to slow down, listen inward, and allow the protective layers around the heart to soften. These experiences offer an invitation to release burdens, restore clarity, and awaken to peace, truth, and renewed hope.
Each intensive offers a unique theme and rhythm—some centered on heart restoration, others on grief release, inner child healing, or renewal of hope. All are grounded in safety, compassion, and spiritual connection.
If you feel a stirring to begin your own healing journey, you’re invited to explore the upcoming offerings below. Spaces are intentionally limited to preserve the depth and intimacy of the experience.
This experience is ideal for women who:
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Feel emotionally numb, guarded, or disconnected after betrayal, loss, divorce, or trauma.
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Sense that “something deeper” needs healing beyond talk therapy.
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Long to integrate their faith with emotional restoration.
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Carry old wounds that still shape how they relate, trust, or feel worthy of love.
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Desire to meet God in their healing—inviting His presence into places that have felt hidden or heavy.
No previous EMDR or IFS experience is needed. Each person participates at their own pace, guided with care and confidentiality in a small, supportive group setting. This intensive is grounded in biblical principles of healing, renewal, and truth, while honoring each participant’s unique spiritual framework. Clients are invited to connect with God as they personally understand Him—allowing their individual faith, imagery, and relationship with the Divine to guide the healing process.
What the Intensive Entails:
Each Faith-Integrated EMDR + IFS Intensive is thoughtfully structured to provide safety, depth, and sacred connection throughout the healing experience. Participants move through a gentle, guided process that honors both the science of trauma healing and the presence of God’s peace.
You’ll receive a beautifully designed workbook to anchor your reflections, intentions, and insights throughout the journey. The experience begins with guided imagery and a “Sacred Place” installation, helping participants establish an internal sense of calm and connection with God before any deeper work begins.
Through the EMDR Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (G-TEP), participants engage in structured, evidence-based processing that allows emotional material to be released in contained, manageable layers—without needing to disclose personal trauma details.
IFS (Internal Family Systems) principles and tools are interwoven throughout the intensive—not as full IFS therapy, but as gentle awareness exercises that help participants recognize, comfort, and bring compassion to protective parts of the self that may surface during healing.
The group experience centers around themes of healing, not trauma narratives. Sharing is invitational and focused on insights, faith, and restoration, allowing each person to feel seen and supported within a sacred community.
Each Intensive concludes with closure and grounding exercises designed to bring the group back to a state of calm, connection, and inner resource—helping participants leave with peace, clarity, and a renewed sense of God’s presence within.
Traditional counseling often helps us understand our pain—but deep transformation requires a space to process and release it. These faith-integrated intensives provide that deeper level of healing. Through the integration of mind, body, and spirit, participants can experience lasting change: softening of defenses, restoration of connection, and renewed hope.
When the heart slows down and safety is restored, God’s truth can reach places that have long felt unreachable.
Healing begins with one courageous step.
Reserve your spot today and enter a sacred space designed for heart renewal, faith restoration, and deep emotional healing.
Let this be your time to pause, breathe, and allow God’s presence to meet you in the places that need light, love, and peace.
Begin Your Heart Restoration! Reach out today!
Faith-Integrated EMDR + IFS
A sacred, trauma-informed space to slow down, release what weighs on your heart, and invite God’s gentle presence to restore peace and clarity. Guided imagery, EMDR G-TEP processing, and compassionate parts-work integration support meaningful healing in a single, focused day.
What the Day Includes (3 Healing Hours):
• A beautifully designed companion workbook for reflection, prayer, and take-home practices.
• Guided imagery and “Sacred Place” installation to create safety and connection with God.
• Evidence-based EMDR G-TEP for gentle, contained processing—without sharing personal trauma details.
• Light-touch IFS integration/tools (parts awareness and compassion practices)—not full IFS therapy.
• Prayerful, invitational group sharing around healing themes, not trauma narratives.
• Closure exercises for calm, connection, and grounding before ending the day.
Begin Your Healing Journey! Click Below to submit an inquiry form. You will hear a response within 48 hours detailing next steps with your welcome packet.
Spaces are limited to preserve depth and care.
Click to inquire and reserve your place and begin your journey toward heart restoration.
These intensives are grounded in biblical principles and honor each participant’s personal relationship with God. Practices are invitational and paced for safety; they are not a replacement for ongoing therapy or crisis services.
This 2-day - 6 healing hours of Faith-Integrated EMDR + IFS Intensive offers sacred space for women to step away from daily demands and experience deeper emotional and spiritual restoration. Each day is designed to help the heart soften, open, and reconnect—allowing God’s presence to meet you in the places that have felt hidden, burdened, or weary. Through gentle, structured processing, reflection, and guided faith integration, participants move from guarded to grounded, from striving to surrender, and from pain toward peace.
What the Experience Includes:
• A beautifully designed companion workbook for reflection, journaling, and take-home practices.
• Guided imagery and Sacred Place installation to create safety and connection with God’s presence.
• EMDR G-TEP for gentle, contained trauma processing—focused on current emotional triggers, not full trauma narratives.
• Light IFS integration/tools to increase self-compassion and inner harmony (not full IFS therapy).
• Faith-based imagery and prayer exercises interwoven throughout to support inner healing and connection.
• Group sharing that centers on insight, restoration, and spiritual reflection—not trauma details.
• Daily grounding and closure techniques to return the group to a state of calm, connection, and resource at the close of each day.
Reach out today for our welcome packet and begin your deep restoration journey!
Spaces are limited to preserve depth and care.
Fill out the form below to reserve your place and begin your journey toward heart restoration.
These intensives are grounded in biblical principles and honor each participant’s personal relationship with God. Practices are invitational and paced for safety; they are not a replacement for ongoing therapy or crisis services.
