What is Intensive Therapy?

Intensive Therapy is a powerful way to accelerate the healing that you would experience in a typical session. Rather than going to counseling for an hour session once a week, you would set aside a specific chunk of time - 3 hours or 3 days - for intensive therapeutic work. It is a concentrated way to get the power of therapy without having time in between sessions. It helps people travel farther down the path of healing, faster.

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How does it work?

Prior to the Intensive, we meet for a Pre-Intensive Interview to determine the goal for our time. We will look at what your life looks like now (your support system, stressors, coping skills, and places that you want relief, growth, or to take a big step forward).  The goal in an Intensive is to make the painful stuff in your life hurt less and enhance the good stuff to feel even better. We do this with Brainspotting and parts work, as well as resourcing activities like guided meditation, somatic grounding, and bilateral stimulation from Brainspotting music. Depending on where you are in your journey, we may spend time on your earliest relationships in life. For others, the focus is more future oriented. This process is very personal and customized to you. After the Intensive, we use the Post-Intensive Interview to reflect on the elements and insights that were most meaningful to you and how you want to integrate that into your life moving forward.

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Why do an Intensive Retreat?

• You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your life but have a hard time fitting into your average week

• You had a very painful experience that is still impacting you today

• You have done therapy before and found it helpful for your healing and wellbeing

• You want to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for a big life event like a wedding, becoming a parent, a medical procedure, starting a new job, or moving to a new city

• You already go to weekly therapy but you feel stuck or sidetracked by what happens from week to week

• You feel like you are on the verge of a healing breakthrough