ONLINE EMDR INTENSIVES AND TRAUMA THERAPY IN VIRGINIA
Resolving Trauma.
Rebuilding Connection.
Extended online EMDR sessions and intensives for adults across Virginia. Specializing in childhood trauma and attachment wounds, relationship anxiety, and grief and loss.
Trauma changes how you see yourself, how you connect with others, and how safe you feel in the world.
Dan Cimo, LCSW
Coherent Mind Trauma Counseling provides specialized EMDR and attachment-focused therapy for adults across Virginia. My work targets the root of trauma so the patterns that have been running your life can finally shift. The nervous system settles. Confidence comes from within. Relationships get easier.
This is not general talk therapy. This is targeted, evidence-based treatment designed for lasting change. Extended weekly sessions and individualized therapy intensives are available. My clients often leave therapy feeling more calm, connected, and authentically themselves.
Specialized Trauma Therapy That Gets to the Root For Lasting Relief
My practice focuses on the intersection of trauma, attachment, and relational functioning. Treatment is tailored to each client's history, symptoms, and goals. These are are my primary areas of focus:
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Trauma can result from a single event or from years of repeated experiences. A car accident, an assault, a sudden loss, or a medical emergency can fundamentally alter how safe you feel in the world. Childhood experiences of neglect, emotional abuse, attachment disruption, or chronic invalidation shape core beliefs about worth, safety, and belonging in ways that often do not become visible until adulthood.
Whether the source is a single incident or a complex developmental history, the impact is real: intrusive thoughts, hypervigilance, emotional reactivity, numbness, avoidance, and a persistent sense that something is wrong. EMDR targets how these experiences are stored in the brain and nervous system so the symptoms they produce can resolve rather than simply be managed.
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You may find yourself constantly scanning for signs that someone is pulling away. Overthinking texts, replaying conversations, seeking reassurance and never quite feeling settled by it. Small moments of distance can feel like rejection. Conflict can feel like the beginning of the end. You might recognize a pattern of giving more than you receive, abandoning your own needs to keep the peace, or becoming consumed by the fear that you are too much or not enough.
These patterns often have roots in early attachment experiences that taught you connection was conditional or unreliable. Treatment focuses on identifying and processing the underlying wounds driving the anxiety so your relationships can become a source of security rather than a source of fear.
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Grief does not always follow a predictable path. You may be experiencing the acute pain of losing someone you love, or carrying a grief that feels unresolved long after others expect you to have moved on. Some losses are complicated by the nature of the relationship itself, where love and pain coexisted and mourning feels layered with confusion, guilt, anger, or relief you do not know what to do with. You may feel disconnected from daily life, struggling to find meaning, or unable to access emotions you know are there.
Treatment provides a space to process what the loss means to you, address any traumatic elements surrounding it, and begin to rebuild a sense of connection and purpose.
How EMDR Therapy Can Help
I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and attachment-focused therapy to treat trauma, relationship anxiety, and grief at the neurological level. EMDR is one of the most extensively researched treatments for trauma worldwide, recognized by the American Psychological Association, the World Health Organization, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. It works by targeting how distressing experiences are stored in the brain and nervous system. Talk therapy helps you understand your pain. EMDR helps your brain resolve it.
For trauma, EMDR reprocesses the memories driving symptoms like hypervigilance, emotional reactivity, and avoidance. For relationship anxiety, it targets the early attachment experiences that created the patterns of fear, scanning, and self-abandonment. For grief, it addresses the traumatic elements of loss that keep you stuck in pain rather than moving through it. Integrating EMDR with the science of attachment allows treatment to reach both the original wound and the relational patterns built on top of it.
Treatment Framework
Whether you are healing from a single traumatic event, the lasting impact of a difficult childhood, relationship anxiety rooted in attachment wounds, or grief resulting from a difficult loss, the approach is the same: we go to the source, we process what is stuck, and we rebuild safety and security from the inside out. Every client’s needs are different. Treatment will always be tailored to your specific history and goals.
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Build safety. Build trust. Build the foundation.
Before we process anything, we make sure you have the ground beneath your feet. We build a therapeutic relationship rooted in honesty and trust. You learn how to regulate your nervous system and stay grounded when things feel overwhelming. Whether you are coming in with trauma, relationship anxiety, or grief, we start in the same place: identifying the core beliefs, patterns, and wounds that are driving your current pain and making sure you feel safe enough to go deeper.
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Go to the root. Let EMDR do what it was designed to do.
This is where the real shift happens. Using EMDR and attachment-focused therapy, we target what is underneath your symptoms. For trauma, that means reprocessing the memories your nervous system is still responding to. For relationship anxiety, it means reaching the early attachment experiences that taught you connection was not safe. For grief, it means addressing the pain, the unfinished business, or the traumatic elements of loss that are keeping you stuck. As those experiences are reprocessed, the emotional charge begins to drop. The negative beliefs start to loosen. And you begin to feel things you may not have felt in a long time: clarity, relief, lightness, freedom.
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Build the life and relationships you actually want.
Healing is not just about resolving what happened. It is about building something new. You practice showing up differently in your relationships. You learn to set boundaries without guilt, communicate without shutting down, and trust without bracing for the worst. You stop reacting from old wounds and start responding from a grounded, secure sense of who you are. Whether you came in carrying decades of trauma, a pattern of anxious attachment, or a grief that would not move, this is the phase where my clients often say they finally feel like themselves.
“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.”
— Michelle Rosenthal
Meet Dan Cimo, LCSW
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and EMDR therapist specializing in trauma recovery and attachment repair. Most of my clients come to me after years of therapy that helped them understand their pain but did not resolve it. You may be carrying self-doubt that never lets up, finding yourself in relationships that never feel safe, or wondering if something is fundamentally wrong with you. These are not personal failings. This is what unresolved trauma does.
As a gay male therapist in long-term recovery, I bring lived experience, clinical depth, and a direct, honest style to my work. I listen with precision, attune to emotional nuance, and bring authenticity and humor into the therapeutic relationship. I believe therapy should be a space where my clients can finally just be themselves. Finding the right therapist matters. Here is what sets my practice apart, and why clients choose to work with me.
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This is not a general therapy practice. I specialize in complex developmental trauma, childhood trauma, PTSD, and attachment wounds. If your pain lives in how you see yourself or how you show up in relationships, you are in the right place.
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Our research consistently shows the importance of the therapeutic alliance in producing positive treatment outcomes. I intentionally keep a small caseload to give my clients the focused attention and support they deserve. My work is experiential and relational, specifically tailored to your unique needs and goals.
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All sessions are held virtually through a secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform. You get the same depth and quality of care from the comfort and privacy of your own space, wherever you are in Virginia.
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I have a specialized focus on supporting men and LGBTQ+ adults, populations that have historically been underserved in mental health care. My practice welcomes all adults who resonate with this work.
Ways to Work Together
Extended Weekly Sessions
Ongoing therapy in weekly 90-minute sessions, with the option to extend to two hours. This format provides consistent support as a comprehensive treatment model and is well-suited for complex trauma, attachment repair, and relational work that benefits from sustained therapeutic contact over time.
Investment: $300 per 90-minute session. $400 per two-hour session. Self-pay. Superbills available for potential out-of-network reimbursement.
EMDR Intensive Packages
A concentrated and collaborative therapeutic experience designed to accelerate the healing process. Instead of spreading treatment across months of weekly sessions, intensives allow for deep, focused work in a compressed time frame. Sessions are tailored to where you are in the treatment process and may include stabilization, resourcing, and EMDR reprocessing as clinically indicated.
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10 Hour Program
Free 30-minute consultation and initial screening.
Customized treatment workbook with assessments, resources, and exercises to support the work before, during, and after sessions.
8 Face-to-Face Treatment Hours
2-hour pre-intensive intake to identify goals, assess readiness, and build a targeted treatment plan.
4 hours of focused EMDR therapy during the intensive day.
2-hour post-intensive follow-up to reflect on progress, consolidate gains, and plan next steps.
Weekday and weekend availability. The intake, intensive day, and follow-up sessions are scheduled on different days.
Weekday Intensive Investment: $2,400
Weekend Intensive Investment: $3,000
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14 Hour Program
Free 30-minute consultation and initial screening.
Customized treatment workbook with assessments, resources, and exercises to support the work before, during, and after sessions.
12 Face-to-Face Treatment Hours
2-hour pre-intensive intake to identify goals, assess readiness, and build a targeted treatment plan.
Two 4-hour intensive days of focused EMDR therapy.
2-hour post-intensive follow-up to reflect on progress, consolidate gains, and plan next steps.
Weekday and weekend availability. The intake, intensive day, and follow-up sessions are scheduled on different days.
Weekday Intensive Investment: $3,360
Weekend Intensive Investment: $4,200
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18 Hour Program
Free 30-minute consultation and initial screening.
Customized treatment workbook with assessments, resources, and exercises to support the work before, during, and after sessions.
16 Face-to-Face Treatment Hours
2-hour pre-intensive intake to identify goals, assess readiness, and build a targeted treatment plan.
Three 4-hour intensive days of focused EMDR therapy.
2-hour post-intensive follow-up to reflect on progress, consolidate gains, and plan next steps.
Weekday and weekend availability. The intake, intensive day, and follow-up sessions are scheduled on different days.
Weekday Intensive Investment: $4,320
Weekend Intensive Investment: $5,400
Getting Started Is Simple
01. Book a Free Consultation
Schedule a free 20 to 30 minute video or phone call where we talk about what you are going through, what you are looking for, and whether we are the right fit. No pressure or commitment, just an honest conversation to see how I can help.
02. Build Your Plan
Once we decide to work together, we will start with a thorough assessment of your history, symptoms, and goals. From there, we will create a personalized treatment plan that meets you exactly where you are.
03. Start Healing
Using EMDR and attachment-focused therapy, we do the deep work that targets the root of your symptoms. You will be supported in every step of creating the change you want to see.
This practice was built for people like you who are ready to do the work and experience lasting relief.
I want therapy to be a new and positive experience for you. My promise to all my clients is my undivided focus, attention, support, and deep care. Your wellbeing matters. You matter. It would be my privilege to support you on your healing journey. Reach out for a free consultation to see how I can help.
Frequently Asked Questions
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If trauma or attachment wounds are affecting how you see yourself, how you function in relationships, or how safe you feel in daily life, this work was designed for exactly that. You do not need a diagnosis or a crisis to reach out. A consultation can help clarify fit.
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EMDR is fundamentally different from talk therapy. It works directly with how your brain stores traumatic experiences, which is why clients often see shifts that years of talking did not produce. If you have done the insight work but still feel stuck, this is the next level.
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Yes. Virtual EMDR is backed by the same research as in-person EMDR. My clients consistently report deep, meaningful breakthroughs from the comfort and privacy of their own space. All you need is a private room, a stable internet connection, and a willingness to do the work.
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Weekly sessions are $300 for 90 minutes or $400 for two hours. At this time, I am not able to support biweekly or monthly appointments. Our research consistently demonstrates the effectiveness of weekly appointments. I’m happy to answer any questions during your free consultation call.
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I have intentionally chosen not to bill insurance directly for my services. Private pay allows me to offer the extended session length, clinical depth, and personalized care that trauma therapy requires, without the limitations insurance companies place on treatment. I can provide a superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement.
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For single-incident trauma, meaningful relief can happen in just a few sessions. For complex or childhood trauma, the work typically goes deeper and takes longer. I will always be honest with you about what I see and what I think the work requires.
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I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Virginia. I am also an EMDRIA-trained EMDR therapist pursuing advanced certification in complex developmental trauma.
I hold a Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and am currently pursuing a Doctor of Social Work in Trauma-Informed Leadership and Practice from Barry University.
I have additional training in Attachment-Focused EMDR, AEDP, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Brainspotting, Relational Life Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, and Coherence Therapy.
