Relationship to Love
Love is essential, yet early experiences often shape survival strategies that lead us to seek connection, approval, and validation in ways that may cause us to abandon ourselves or repeat painful relationship patterns. Over time, these dynamics can deeply impact our mental and emotional well-being. In therapy, we gently explore your relationship to love—uncovering the beliefs and habits that no longer serve you and may cause harm to your sense of self and well-being. This work opens the path to discovering who you truly are, what you genuinely need, and how to create healthier, more fulfilling connections.
Reflections to Consider:
- How do you love?
- What does love feel like to you?
- Are there parts of you that long for love, care, or understanding?
- Do you have parts that step in to manage, numb, or control when you feel unloved or unseen?
During an Intensive, You Will Gain…
- A deeper understanding of your patterns, challenges, and the obstacles that obscure healing and growth.
- Awareness of the beliefs, feelings, and sensations connected to your past, and tools to transform them so you can live with greater integration of mind, body, and heart.
- Practical steps toward healing, growth, and living a more peaceful, authentic, and fulfilling life.
- Insight into how family legacies across generations impact your present-day life, relationships, and choices.
Format of Intensive (5 hours):
- The initial session (50 minutes) will be in person or online to learn about your life, allowing time to share important parts of your story that impact you today. I will be curious about your history, current symptoms, challenges, suffering, and what you wish for yourself. I may ask you to fill out a DART assessment (developmental and relational trauma) and/or do some upfront reading as homework.
- Intensive (3 hours). Based on our initial session, I will plan an intensive specific to your goals and needs. I will facilitate our work using IFS, HOCI, Somatic, Polyvagal, Relational Life, and trauma-informed models. This may include but is not limited to, concepts such as IFS parts language, understanding your nervous system and physical symptoms from a trauma perspective, developmental stages of your early life experiences, how your history shapes and influences you today, and the five core issues of relational wounding that impact us as adults: self-esteem, boundaries, reality, dependency, and moderation.
At times, we require more time to comprehend and deal with the complexities of being human, which impact how we feel, think, and engage with life.
Therapeutic Intensives provide a nurturing and efficient way to start or continue the therapeutic process. Spending an extended period allows for delving deeper into areas where you may feel stuck or during more challenging times. Intensives integrate body-based techniques alongside therapy which offers a holistic approach to healing and understanding historical patterns that are unconscious. There are instances when regular ongoing therapy may be restricted amid daily life responsibilities and relationships. Intensives provide all the necessary elements to be taken care of and to aid in supporting and enhancing your healing and personal development.
- Next steps. Following our meeting, I will email you a summary of our intensive recommendations, an outline of your internal system, insights about your developmental wounds, and ways to support your ongoing healing through practice. All elements will be tailored to your specific needs based on Internal Family Systems, the HOCI Method, and somatic/body-based practices.
- Integration. A 50-minute follow-up session 1-2 weeks after our session to discuss the intensive, answer any questions, and how to keep the practice going. Recommendations may include continuing ongoing therapy, joining groups, specific practices that support your nervous system, suggested resources, or other suggestions that are a reflection of our time.
Intensive Options
Intensives can be structured in several ways to meet your needs:
- In-person: 2 or 3-hour sessions, offered in the evenings or on weekends.
- Online: 90-minute sessions over several days.
- Online: One 3-hour session (with a 30-minute break), offered on weekends.
Cost: 90 minutes $375; 2 Hours $500; 3 hours $750
Full payment is due at the time of scheduling.
To schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation call, please email me.
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step."
- Rosa Parks
