Therapeutic Intensives
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.
Intensives can be helpful in several ways:
- If you have difficulty finding time for weekly therapy or an ongoing therapist
- If you're going through an especially tough time and need extra support to sort through everything
- If you're new and/or interested in Internal Family Systems, Healing Our Core Issues, somatic/body-based practices, and developmental and relational trauma therapy
- If you believe that there's more to your story in relation to physical sensations, anxiety, or depression
- If you're making progress in therapy but find that sessions end just as you're getting to the heart of the matter
- If you're uncovering difficult and painful past memories and experiences that need more time to process
During an intensive experience you will learn...
- A clear and deeper understanding of your patterns, suffering, and challenges, as well as the obstacles that obscure your healing, growth, and progress
- Awareness of your beliefs, feelings, and sensations that are present and how they relate to your past and ways to transform them to live an integrated life in mind, body, and heart
- Insight into how your family legacies across generations manifest in your present-day family, your relationship with yourself and others, and the choices you make or don't make
- Practical steps to progress toward healing, growth, and living a peaceful, authentic, and content life
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.
Intensives can be done in a variety of ways:
- One 3-hour session in person is offered in the evenings or on the weekends;
- Two 90-minute online sessions over the course of two days or
- One 3-hour online session with a 30-minute break; offered on the weekends.
The cost for intensives is $1200, and full payment is due at the time of scheduling.
To schedule a 15 minute consultation call please email me.
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