Inner Worlds Counseling · For Therapists
Specialized intensive work
for your clients.
I accept referrals for IFS & EMDR Trauma Reprocessing Intensives and Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Therapy. Your client stays yours — I work alongside you, not instead of you.
A collaborative model
Not competitive.
Complementary.
Your client returns to you. My job is to go somewhere specific with them — and hand them back with something shifted.
I work with clients who are already embedded in a therapeutic relationship and are ready to do focused, targeted trauma reprocessing. Intensive and KAP-EMDR work is designed to complement ongoing therapy — not replace it.
I don't take on ongoing therapy clients through referrals. If you have a client who is stuck in a way that feels like it needs something more concentrated — a specific memory, a protector that won't budge, trauma that keeps activating outside of regular sessions — that's often a good fit for this work.
Not sure if your client is a fit? Email me with a brief clinical picture and we'll think it through together. I'd rather have a brief consult and say it's not the right time than have your client go through intake only to find out it's not a fit.
Email to Discuss →What I offer
Two referral pathways.
Both are short-term, targeted, and designed to feed back into your client's ongoing work with you.
IFS & EMDR
Trauma Reprocessing Intensives
A series of 90-minute sessions using IFS and EMDR integrated — going toward specific targets, processing unresolved memories, and supporting real unburdening at a pace the system can hold. Ideal for clients with whom you've done significant preparatory work and who are ready to go toward something specific.
Ketamine-Assisted
KAP-EMDR Therapy
For clients where standard EMDR is hitting a ceiling — flooding, freeze responses, or trauma that's hard to access or stay with. Ketamine's neuroplastic window creates conditions that allow EMDR processing to go places it couldn't otherwise reach. IFS is woven in throughout as interweaves within the EMDR protocol.
Your client will need a prescribing psychiatrist. I can help coordinate if they don't have one.
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Clinical fit
Clients who tend to do well here.
Good fit referrals
- Clients with whom you've done solid relational and stabilization work — they have enough window of tolerance to go toward difficult material
- Clients who are stuck at a specific place — a memory, a protector, a freeze response that keeps interrupting processing
- Clients with complex or developmental trauma who haven't been able to complete EMDR processing in weekly therapy
- Clients who are IFS-informed or parts-curious — they don't need to know the model, but curiosity helps
- Clients in Wisconsin or Louisiana who are motivated and understand this is focused, intentional work
Less likely to be a fit
- Clients in active crisis or who need significant stabilization before trauma work
- Clients who need an ongoing primary therapist — I'm not taking on weekly therapy through referrals
- Clients with active psychosis, mania, or certain other contraindications for KAP
- Clients in early recovery from substance use disorders (especially for KAP)
- Clients who haven't yet done meaningful preparatory work with you
Not sure? Email me and we'll talk it through rather than have your client go through intake only to find out it's not a fit.
The referral process
Simple and direct.
Share with your client
Share the client information page or booking link directly with your client. They can book a free consult call with me themselves — no formal referral process required on your end.
Or consult with me first
If you'd prefer to talk through clinical fit before sending your client, I'm happy to connect. A 15-minute call is usually enough to figure out whether this makes sense and which modality fits. Email me or book a consult call — no formal paperwork needed.
Client books a consult call
Your client books a free 15-30 minute consult call directly with me. From there we schedule the intake session, identify the target, assess readiness, and plan the work. I loop you in with their consent. For KAP-EMDR there are additional steps — psychiatric evaluation, prep sessions — but it all starts the same way.
What you can expect from me
How I work with referring therapists.
Your client stays yours
I don't poach. I'm not looking to take on ongoing therapy clients through referrals. The intensive work is designed to feed back into your therapeutic relationship — that's the whole point of it being short-term and focused.
I communicate with you
With your client's consent, I'll send progress notes after the consult and after sessions. I'm also available for a brief check-in if something unexpected surfaces. You shouldn't be in the dark about what's happening in the work.
I'll tell you if it's not a fit
If I don't think your client is ready, or if the referral doesn't make clinical sense at this time, I'll say so clearly and tell you why. I'd rather preserve the referral relationship than take on a client who isn't a good fit.
I'm available to consult
Before, during, or after a referral — I'm happy to think through clinical questions with you. If you're considering intensive or KAP work with a specific client and want a second perspective, reach out. That conversation doesn't have to lead to a referral.
Ready to refer or just curious?
Start with a conversation.
No formal referral forms. No intake packets before we've spoken.
Just a direct conversation between clinicians.
What to include in your email
A brief clinical picture — presenting concerns, what you've been working on, what's stuck. Which modality you're thinking (intensives or KAP-EMDR). Your client's state if it matters. And the best way to reach you for a follow-up call. No formal paperwork needed at this stage.