ONLINE TRAUMA AND GRIEF THERAPY IN VIRGINIA
Resolving Trauma.
Transforming Grief.
EMDR Therapy Intensives for Trauma
IADC Therapy for Grief and Loss
Serving Adults Virtually Across Virginia
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 & Grief 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) with a focus on attachment to treat trauma and relationship challenges 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. Integrating EMDR with the science of attachment allows treatment to reach both the original wound and the relational patterns built on top of it.
EMDR Intensives for Faster Progress
An intensive is 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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Free 45-minute consultation and initial screening.
2-hour pre-intensive intake to identify goals, assess readiness, and build a targeted treatment plan. Typically scheduled 1-2 weeks before the intensive.
Two 4-hour days of focused EMDR therapy. Each intensive day includes two 2-hour sessions with a half-hour break in between.
2-hour post-intensive follow-up to reflect on progress, consolidate gains, and plan next steps. Typically scheduled 1-2 weeks after the intensive.
Best for single-incident traumas with a clear target for reprocessing.
All services are $200/hr. Total cost is $2,400.
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Free 45-minute consultation and initial screening.
2-hour pre-intensive intake to identify goals, assess readiness, and build a targeted treatment plan. Typically scheduled 1-2 weeks before the intensive.
Three 4-hour days of focused EMDR therapy. Each intensive day includes two 2-hour sessions with a half-hour break in between.
2-hour post-intensive follow-up to reflect on progress, consolidate gains, and plan next steps. Typically scheduled 1-2 weeks after the intensive.
Best for more complex cases that include multiple targets centered on a single issue.
All services are $200/hr. Total cost is $3,200.
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Free 45-minute consultation and initial screening.
2-hour pre-intensive intake to identify goals, assess readiness, and build a targeted treatment plan. Typically scheduled 1-2 weeks before the intensive.
Two 4-hour days of focused EMDR therapy. Each intensive day includes two 2-hour sessions with a half-hour break in between.
2-hour post-intensive follow-up to reflect on progress, consolidate gains, and plan next steps. Typically scheduled 1-2 weeks after the intensive.
Best for “story clearing” of a specific theme/belief that includes multiple targets.
All services are $200/hr. Total cost is $4,000.
IADC Therapy for Grief and Loss
Originally derived from Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, IADC is a brief psychotherapeutic treatment that incorporates bilateral stimulation (BLS) within a focused, structured approach to reduce the intense emotional pain that often accompanies grief and traumatic loss.
As this distress lifts, many clients enter a calm, open state in which a spontaneous, vivid sense of connection with a deceased loved one may occur. This experience—commonly referred to as an after-death communication (ADC)—often brings profound comfort, resolution, and healing, even for clients who remain uncertain about the experience’s source. Clients are encouraged to interpret their experiences in whatever way feels most meaningful to them.
IADC is a two-session treatment typically scheduled on consecutive days. Each session lasts two hours. The full cost of an IADC package is $800.
Ongoing Weekly EMDR Therapy
For clients who benefit from an ongoing therapeutic relationship, Coherent Mind Trauma Counseling offers extended weekly EMDR sessions. Each session is 2-hours in length for depth and complete trauma processing cycles. This may be a good option if you are facing multiple challenges, complex trauma, or long-standing attachment wounds. Each 2-hour session is $400.
Adjunctive 3-Hour EMDR Sessions
This option is available for clients who have completed an intensive package, or for ongoing clients who would benefit from an extended processing session that includes 1-2 key targets. Each 3-hour session is $600.
“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, grief 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, grief that won’t let 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.
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.
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I hold a Master of Social Work in Clinical Practice from Virginia Commonwealth University, where I now serve as a community-embedded faculty member teaching courses on trauma, psychopathology, and direct practice interventions.
I am also pursuing my Doctor of Social Work in Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice and Leadership. My research interests include the intersections of trauma and attachment, grief and loss, and integrating trauma-informed principles into the education of aspiring therapists.
I am currently only licensed in Virginia (#0904017607) and offer services throughout the state via telehealth. As such, all clients must be in Virginia at the time of session.
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Since graduating with my MSW, I have pursued extensive trauma-focused training in the following approaches:
EMDR & Attachment-Focused EMDR
Induced After-Death Communication Therapy
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Core Self Reclamation Therapy
Internal Family Systems
Parts and Memory Therapy
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment
Coherence Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Relational Life Therapy
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I have deep expertise supporting LGBTQ+ adults, populations that have historically been underserved in mental health care. My practice welcomes all adults who resonate with this work.
Insurance & Payment Details
Coherent Mind Trauma Counseling does not participate in insurance and is a private-pay practice that tailors treatment to your specific needs and goals. Please find more information about my specific practice policies below.
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Coherent Mind Trauma Counseling is a private-pay, out-of-network practice. I do not bill insurance directly, nor do I provide superbills due to extended session lengths that insurance companies will not reimburse for. The work is tailored to meet the unique goals and needs of each client without the oversight or demands of another party.
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Privacy
Any documented health record filed by insurance is required to be recorded on your permanent health record and when health insurance companies complete audits they have access to what occurred during each of your therapy sessions.
Flexibility
Insurance companies do not typically reimburse for extended sessions, multiple sessions in the same week, or therapy intensives. Private pay therapy allows us to move at frequency and pace your nervous system and goals need for the most effective treatment. We are also not limited by insurance to use specific methods of therapy that would not otherwise be covered by insurance. EMDR therapy, for example, often requires a diagnosis of PTSD, and will not be covered otherwise.
No Diagnostic Requirements
Insurance companies require a diagnosis and cover only services deemed as a medical necessity. Therefore, if you are dealing with everyday life circumstances such as caring for an elderly family member, growth and identity issues, relationship challenges, or other reasons not defined by a mental health disorder these issues are not covered by insurance. Once a diagnosis is made your insurance might view that as a pre-existing condition which could increase the cost of your insurance and make it difficult to receive coverage altogether.
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All of my services are priced at $200/hour.
Ongoing Therapy
All sessions are 2 hours in length at the rate of $400 per session. Sessions are typically scheduled on a weekly or biweekly basis.
EMDR Intensives
12-Hour EMDR Intensive Package: $2,400
16-Hour EMDR Intensive Package: $3,200
20-Hour EMDR Intensive Package: $4,000
Adjunctive 3-Hour EMDR Intensives: $600 (Available to returning clients who have completed a full intensive package.)
IADC Therapy
Treatment consists of two 2-hour appointments, typically scheduled on consecutive days. The total cost is $800.
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Accepted Forms of Payment
I accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and HSA/FSA cards, and clients are asked to keep a valid card on file. Good Faith Estimates are provided to all clients as required by the No Surprises Act.
EMDR Intensives
Half of the intensive fee is due at the time of scheduling to reserve your time, and the remaining balance is due on the first day of your intensive, during the pre-intensive appointment. Clients may also choose to pay in full in advance. Alternate payment arrangements can be discussed during your free consultation call.
IADC Therapy
Half of the fee is due at the time of scheduling to reserve your time, and the remaining balance is due on the day of the first appointment.
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Ongoing Therapy
I ask for 48 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule a session. Late cancellations can be rescheduled within 30 days at no additional charge. Each client also receives one grace cancellation every six months in case life happens unexpectedly.
EMDR and IADC Intensive Therapy
Because intensive scheduling blocks significant time and cannot easily be refilled, a more stringent policy applies. Cancellations or missed appointments within two weeks of your intensive start date will result in the full program fee being charged. All intensive fees are non-refundable once this window begins. In the event of a true emergency (e.g., death of a loved one, accident, serious illness), fees may be applied to a future intensive or partially refunded at the discretion of the therapist.
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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I'm so glad you asked, and you are in the right place! My practice was built for people who have been feeling stuck in their healing process. Traditional talk therapy can help you gain insight, but often fails to reach the parts of the brain where unprocessed trauma and challenging emotions can be resolved. I integrate experiential approaches that don't require you to re-tell your story over and over again. We will work at the neurological root of your presenting challenges to find clarity and resolution, often leading to lasting relief from distressing symptoms. I am happy to answer any questions you have about my practice during your free consultation call.
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It depends on which service you're considering. For intensive therapy clients, I typically recommend maintaining ongoing work with your primary therapist so we can stay focused on the specific goals you are bringing to the intensive experience, and I am happy to collaborate and consult with your provider to tailor the most effective treatment plan. For clients seeking weekly therapy with me, it is generally recommended that you commit to one therapeutic process at a time. If you're curious whether this would be a fit for you, let's talk it through in a free consultation.
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Absolutely! Research consistently shows that telehealth appointments are just as effective as in-person therapy. In fact, many clients prefer working through telehealth because they can attend their sessions from the comfort of their own homes or other locations where they have a quiet, private space to engage in the work. As long as you're physically located in Virginia during our sessions, you can enjoy the benefits of online therapy. We can always talk more about this during your free consultation call.
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The length of ongoing treatment varies for each client and no set timeline can be guaranteed in the attainment of your goals. If you are looking for shorter-term treatment options, I highly recommend exploring my intensive therapy packages. Single-incident traumas can generally be resolved more quickly than cases involving complex or relational trauma, which often require more time and depth of focus. IADC Therapy has been shown to resolve grief-related distress within two sessions. I will always be honest about my recommendations for your care, and we can discuss your specific needs during a free consultation call.
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Traditional therapy is typically delivered in 50-minute weekly sessions, a format shaped more by insurance reimbursement than by what actually supports deep trauma work. Real processing takes time to open up, move through, and close down safely within a single session. Weekly sessions at Coherent Mind Trauma Counseling are 2 hours so we have the time to complete a therapeutic arc rather than pausing just as the meaningful work is beginning. Therapy intensives take this further, concentrating therapy into a focused, multi-session package over consecutive days so we can move through deep work without the week-long gaps that can stall momentum. Trauma heals best when the work has room to breathe. Let's talk more about your specific goals during your free consultation call.
