Looking to Go Deeper in Therapy?

Have you ever left a therapy session just as you were hitting an emotional breakthrough—only to be stopped short by the clock? Or felt like weekly sessions, while helpful, just weren't giving you enough time to truly explore what’s underneath the surface? Y

ou’re not alone. Many people doing meaningful inner work eventually feel called to go deeper. That’s where a therapy intensive—an extended-length therapy session—can offer something profoundly different.  

 

What Is a Therapy Intensive?

A therapy intensive is a longer, dedicated session (typically 90 minutes to 3 hours) designed to support deeper healing in a condensed period of time. Unlike traditional weekly therapy, which often needs to wind down just as things are opening up, intensives give you the space to stay in the process and move through more layers in one sitting.

This can be especially supportive for those navigating complex trauma therapy, deep-seated emotional patterns, or inner conflict that needs more time to surface, be witnessed, and begin to shift.  

 

Why Choose a Therapy Intensive?

Here’s how therapy intensives can support accelerated, deeper healing:

• Sustained emotional focus: You’re not rushing to open and close within 50 minutes. There’s time to explore, feel, reflect, and integrate.
• More space for the unconscious: exploring dreams, body sensations, symbolic imagery, and deeper emotional truths often need time to emerge. Therapy intensives are ideal for this kind of slow unfolding.
• Momentum for transformation: When you're in a life transition or feeling stuck in old patterns, longer sessions allow you to build traction toward insight and change.
• Powerful trauma work: If you're working through trauma, intensives can allow for deeper nervous system regulation and reprocessing through tools like Brainspotting, Hypnotherapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy—without the pressure to “wrap it up” before you're ready.  

 

My Approach: Rooted in Depth, Tailored to You

My therapy practice is built on an integrative and depth-oriented approach. If you’re seeking Anxiety Therapy or Trauma Therapy that goes beyond surface-level strategies, this is where intensives shine.

During an extended session, I draw from:

• Emotion-Focused Therapy to help you fully experience and move through difficult emotions
• Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy to trace the roots of unconscious patterns
• Dream Analysis to work with raw material from your unconscious mind to support understanding around your needs, wants, and identity
• Jungian and Archetypal Psychology to connect with the collective unconscious in your life
• Schema Therapy to uncover, understanding, and start healing deep emotional wounds
• Enneagram Therapy to explore personality structure and core fears
• Brainspotting to access and release trauma stored in the body
• Clinical Hypnotherapy to work directly with the subconscious mind

This blend supports not just symptom relief, but a deep level of transformation.  

 

Who Might Benefit from a Therapy Intensive?

You might consider booking a therapy intensive if you:

• Feel like you’re circling the same emotional blocks all the time
• Are navigating a major life transition, identity shift, or personal crisis
• Need support for processing trauma in a safe, grounded, extended container
• Have a specific issue or memory you want to work through in focused depth
• Are seeking a more immersive form of anxiety therapy or trauma therapy
• Crave a reset, emotional deep dive, or clarifying moment of insight  

 

What to Expect

Each intensive is customized to your needs and may include insight-oriented exploration of your personal schemas or enneagram type, guided imagery, somatic tracking, dreamwork, inner child work, identification of unconscious patterns occurring, or focused trauma processing. After the session, I provide time for integration—whether that’s through journaling prompts, grounding exercises, or a follow-up check-in.  

 

Takeaways

Therapy intensives allow for deep, uninterrupted exploration of your inner world. They’re ideal for those seeking trauma therapy, anxiety therapy, or self-esteem therapy My integrative, depth-focused approach is especially well-suited to extended sessions, helping you access unconscious material, emotional clarity, and transformational insight.  

 

Ready to Go Deeper?

If you’re ready to take the next step in your healing journey, I invite you to consider booking a therapy intensive consult here.

 

 

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Meet Rebecca Steele: Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist  

Rebecca Steele is a Waterloo-based therapist providing trauma therapy, anxiety therapy, and counselling services virtually in Kitchener-Waterloo and across Ontario. With over a decade of experience as a counselling therapist, she offers individualized, one-on-one therapy with a style aimed towards being direct, compassionate, and attuned to the complexities of the human experience. Her work supports individuals navigating depression, trauma, grief, major life transitions, boundary challenges, Trauma Therapy | Ottawa | Toronto | Kitchener Waterloo low self-esteem, relationship stress, and a range of anxiety-related struggles—including generalized anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, phobias, anxious attachment, and OCD. She aims to create a safe space where clients can confront the roots of their struggles, engage in meaningful self-exploration, and develop strategies for lasting change. If you're ready to engage in depth-oriented, transformative therapy, you can learn more about Rebecca’s online counselling services in Kitchener-Waterloo here.