Jean Leverich, EMDR Resilience (He/Him)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PhD, LMSW
In-Person in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Online in Michigan
EMDR Intensives offer an accelerated way to deliver treatment for people who want faster results and lasting change. EMDR Intensive Therapy allows you to condense your therapy and progress into a shorter time frame so that instead of going to weekly sessions for months, treatment occurs in half days or full days over the course of one to five sessions. Often clients experience a lessening of symptoms after just the first day. EMDR Intensives help people journey deeper and feel better faster.
As Bessel van der Kolk wrote,“The body keeps the score.” There are some things that our emotions and bodies hold onto that our thinking brain alone can’t resolve and release.
EMDR is transformative! EMDR therapy helps you resolve and release old beliefs about yourself. Somatic, Attachment-Focused EMDR helps you feel now what you couldn’t feel when you were overwhelmed so that you feel more like an adult in the present moment and the trauma of past experiences no longer shapes your experience of the present.
An EMDR Intensive might be a good fit for you if:
* You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your life
* You’ve had a very painful experience that is still affecting you today.
* You want to release pain from early life experiences and deepen connection to your body.
* You love your current weekly therapist but want to work for a focused time with a trauma therapist to desensitize specific memories.
* You don’t want to be in therapy for months or years.
* You have an opening in your schedule like a summer break, sabbatical, or medical leave, and you want to use some of your time to replenish and refresh.
* You want to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for a big life event like a wedding, becoming a parent, starting a new job, or moving to a new city.
If you’re like most of my clients, you’re not looking to spend another couple of years waiting to feel better. EMDR Intensives are an alternative to traditional weekly therapy so that you can get the results you want faster and more efficiently.
Client Focus
Session Format: Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Senior, Young Adult
Treatment Approach
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) A structured therapy that uses guided eye movements to help process traumatic memories. It is widely recognized for treating PTSD and trauma-related conditions.
- Feminist Therapy Addresses how gender roles, power, and social inequality affect mental health. It empowers clients to challenge limiting beliefs and systems.
- Integrative Therapy Combines techniques from multiple approaches into a customized plan. It adapts to each client’s unique situation and needs.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Helps clients heal by working with different ‘parts’ of themselves, like inner critics or wounded children. It fosters harmony within the self.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee $170
- Out of Network
- Non-Participating Provider for BCBS, Out of Network for other insurance. Accept HSA, FSA. Will provide SuperBill to client.
Education & Credentials
Jean Leverich, EMDR Resilience PhD, LMSW
- Female
- License # 6801080967
- Licensed in Michigan
- Practicing Since 2000
Jean Leverich, EMDR Resilience Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
- Available Online for residents of Michigan
- Online Therapy Details: HIPAA Compliant secure portal via Simple Practice
EMDR Resilience: Effective, compassionate therapy to help you move forward with clarity, intention and joy.
I specialize in supporting busy professionals, healthcare workers, and helpers of all kinds who have it within them to work through their pain and heal their wounds but need some help getting there. I’m a certified EMDR therapist who has over 20 years experience as a clinical social worker.
My advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (a somatic approach), and Internal Family Systems (“parts work”) means I have the expertise you need and deserve. I also have a background in improv and theater, so we may even find ourselves having fun along the way! Therapy doesn’t need to be all tears. My clients describe me as warm, collaborative, supportive, creative and nonjudgmental.
Through my work with clients, I have learned that “words are not enough” and that therapy modalities that address suffering from a “bottom up” perspective have long-lasting, permanent results. Therapy approaches that focus primarily on coping skills and talk therapy to gain insight can sometimes leave you feeling frustrated, because no matter how much you try to talk and think your way into feeling better, it can only take you so far. You may intellectually understand your issues, but you still feel like there’s a disconnect between head and heart.
My clients are looking for deeper change. My approach integrates EMDR with attachment-focused therapies such as IFS (Internal Family Systems) and body-focused psychotherapies such as Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, along with talk therapy, so that every step we take together is tailored to healing that includes both mind and body and helps you get to the root of issues so can start to feel like yourself again.
My goal is to empower you in every step of the process. Together, we’ll identify the difficult experiences that are causing you to feel stuck and we’ll create a roadmap so that you’ll know how to achieve your goals. We’ll focus on your strengths and build on your resources with practical mind-body tools that really work for you. We’ll work on transforming old wounds that are causing distress so they no longer keep you stuck in old patterns and unhelpful beliefs. By the end of our time together, you will know that even when life gets tough—which it inevitably will!—you will meet future challenges with self-compassion and resilience.