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Therapy Intensives for Internal Patterns
The Inner Reset™ Intensive
This Therapy Intensive is designed for individuals seeking to improve their internal emotional state, self-relationship, and sense of psychological stability.
While some patterns play out in relationships, many of the most persistent struggles happen internally — in how we think, feel, and relate to ourselves.
You may notice:
- A harsh or persistent inner critic
- Ongoing anxiety or emotional tension
- Feelings of emptiness, disconnection, or low self-worth
- Difficulty accessing self-compassion
- A sense of being “stuck” in the same emotional cycles
Even when life externally is “fine,” internally it may not feel that way.
The Inner Reset™ Therapy Intensive is a structured six-session process designed to help shift these internal patterns at a deeper level, using focused hypnotherapy to work directly with internal emotional patterns and responses.
Inner Reset Therapy Intensive — At a Glance
- 6-session structured therapy intensive
- 80-minute sessions
- Typically scheduled over 6–12 weeks
- Focused on internal emotional patterns and self-relationship
- Primarily guided by clinical hypnotherapy to support focused, internal change
- Includes guided hypnosis audio work between sessions
- Designed for individuals
- Conducted online for Ontario residents
Sometimes change begins from the inside out.
The Inner Reset Process
Identify → Reprocess & Rewire → Integrate
Clarifying what needs to change → Working directly with internal patterns → Strengthening new ways of relating to yourself
The Inner Reset™ Intensive follows a structured six-session process designed to support deep internal change through focused hypnotherapy work.
Rather than moving through rigid stages, this process is integrative, with regulation, emotional processing, and internal shifts occurring together within the hypnotherapy sessions.
1. Identify
Clarifying goals, patterns, and root causes
The first session focuses on understanding what is driving your current distress and what you want to shift.
This includes:
- Identifying emotional patterns, triggers, and internal struggles
- Clarifying desired internal states (e.g., calm, confidence, self-trust)
- Exploring underlying themes such as anxiety, self-worth, or unresolved experiences
- Beginning to map root causes that will be targeted in the hypnotherapy sessions
- Completing structured questionnaires to guide the work
This phase ensures the work is focused, intentional, and personalized.
2. Reprocess & Rewire
Working directly with emotional patterns and internal responses
The next four sessions are advanced hypnotherapy sessions focused on creating change at a deeper level.
Within these sessions, multiple processes happen simultaneously:
- Nervous system regulation
- Reprocessing emotional experiences
- Accessing younger or protective parts of the self
- Shifting internal narratives and self-beliefs
- Strengthening self-compassion and internal safety
As this work unfolds, many clients notice feeling greater levels of wholeness, self-compassion, hope, and contentedness.
The goal is not just insight, but a shift in how you experience yourself internally.
3. Integrate
Consolidating change and supporting ongoing stability
The final session focuses on integration and consolidation.
This includes:
- Reflecting on shifts that have occurred
- Strengthening new internal responses and self-relationship
- Identifying how to maintain changes in daily life
- Addressing any remaining areas of difficulty
You will also continue using guided hypnosis recordings between sessions to reinforce the work.
The goal is to reprocess and rewire internal patterns within the hypnotherapy experience itself, while supporting those changes in becoming more stable over time.
What is a therapy intensive and how does it work?
A therapy intensive through Smart Therapy® is a structured series of extended sessions focused on internal emotional patterns, such as anxiety, self-criticism, and recurring emotional cycles.
The Inner Reset Therapy Intensive consists of six 80-minute sessions scheduled across approximately six to twelve weeks.
This expanded session format allows more time for deeper exploration, emotional processing, and application of advanced hypnotherapeutic technique than is available within standard 50-minute therapy sessions.
Because sessions are longer and more concentrated, the work often moves beyond surface-level awareness into deeper integration.
If you’re unsure whether an intensive or ongoing weekly therapy is the right fit, you can read more about how the two approaches compare here →
Approach used in the Intensive
This intensive draws from several therapeutic approaches used in my depth-oriented practice, including:
- Attachment-based approaches
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-informed care
- Parts-oriented work
- Somatic awareness practices
- Cognitive-behavioural strategies
- Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy
The work is conducted within a trauma-informed framework that prioritizes:
- Psychological safety
- Emotional regulation
- Collaborative exploration
Guided hypnosis is used to support focused attention and reflective exploration, allowing access to emotional material and internal patterns that may be less accessible through cognitive approaches alone.
The aim is to support:
- Emotional processing
- Insight development
- Internal regulation
- More adaptive ways of relating to yourself
Common concerns addressed in the Inner Reset Therapy Intensive
Clients often seek this intensive when they experience:
- Persistent anxiety or internal tension
- Harsh self-criticism or low self-esteem
- Difficulty accessing self-compassion
- Emotional numbness or disconnection
- Repetitive negative thought patterns
- A sense of being stuck internally despite insight
- Depression-related symptoms or lack of motivation
This intensive provides a structured space to work directly with these internal experiences.
Who this Intensive is for
This intensive may be particularly helpful if you:
- Feel overwhelmed by your own thoughts or emotions
- Notice a strong inner critic or self-judgment
- Want to feel more grounded, calm, and internally stable
- Struggle with anxiety or low mood that persists over time
- Are open to experiential and hypnosis-based approaches
- Are willing to engage in daily between-session practices
Because this work includes guided hypnosis and integration practices, a level of consistency between sessions supports the effectiveness of the process.
Learn more about internal patterns and emotional wellbeing
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Format & Investment
The Inner Reset™ Therapy Intensive is a structured six-session process designed to support meaningful internal change.
The program includes:
- Six 80-minute therapy sessions
- Weekly or bi-weekly scheduling
- A structured, sequential process
- Guided hypnosis recordings for daily use between sessions
Between-session practice is a key component of this intensive, helping reinforce the work beyond the therapy session.
Investment
This is a structured, time-limited therapy process designed to create meaningful shifts in longstanding internal patterns.
The Inner Reset™ Therapy Intensive is offered as a complete six-session program:
- $2,850 total investment
- (Six 80-minute sessions at $475 per session)
Sessions are conducted virtually for clients across Ontario.
Sometimes the shift isn’t in your life — it’s in how you experience yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Inner Reset™ Intensive
- Many internal patterns are not just cognitive—they’re emotional and nervous system-based. You may understand why you think or feel a certain way, but in the moments that matter, your reactions can still feel automatic.
- This is because these patterns are:
- Learned through repeated emotional experiences
- Reinforced over time
- Stored not just in thoughts, but in the body and nervous system
- So even with strong self-awareness, you might still find yourself:
- Falling into the same emotional loops
- Reacting in ways that don’t reflect what you “know”
- Feeling stuck between insight and action
- In addition to understanding your patterns, we focus on:
- Accessing and processing the emotional layers underneath them
- Shifting how your nervous system responds in triggering moments
- Creating new internal experiences—not just new explanations
- The goal is to help your internal responses begin to change—not just your understanding of them.
- The Inner Reset Intensive focuses on addressing undesired moods, states of being, and patterns that happen within you—your thoughts, emotional responses, self-perception, and automatic ways of coping.
- These patterns often operate quickly and outside of awareness, shaping how you experience yourself and respond to stress, discomfort, or vulnerability.
- They may include:
- Harsh self-criticism or a persistent inner critic
- Overthinking, rumination, or mental looping
- Anxiety and difficulty self-soothing
- Emotional avoidance or shutdown
- Feelings of shame, unworthiness, or “not enoughness”
- Difficulty accessing or trusting your own needs and emotions
- Patterns of control, perfectionism, or internal pressure
- These internal patterns are often rooted in earlier experiences and reinforced over time, becoming familiar ways your mind and nervous system try to protect you—even when they no longer serve you.
- This intensive focuses on helping you:
- Understand where these patterns come from
- Build awareness of how they show up in real time
- Begin shifting your internal responses—emotionally, cognitively, and somatically
- The goal is a meaningful shift in how you feel internally and relate to yourself from the inside out.
- Weekly therapy offers space for ongoing reflection, support, and gradual change over time. An intensive is structured differently.
- The Inner Reset Intensive is a focused series of extended and concentrated sessions designed to work more directly and consistently with a specific internal pattern or set of patterns.
- This allows for:
- Deeper continuity between sessions
- More time to work through patterns in a highly condensed way
- A more immersive process of insight, emotional processing, and integration
- It can be a good fit if you:
- Feel stuck in patterns despite previous therapy or self-work
- Want to focus on a specific issue more intensively
- Prefer a more structured, short-term format alongside or instead of weekly therapy
- Some people use intensives as a standalone process, while others integrate them with ongoing therapy.
- The aim isn’t to replace weekly therapy—but to offer a different format that can support enhanced depth or more accelerated work when it’s needed.
- To receive partial or full coverage for your intensive, please make sure that your plan covers treatment by Canadian Certified Counselors (CCC) or Registered Social Workers (RSW) with an MSW (Master of Social Work), as those are my designations. Depending on your current health insurance provider or employee benefit plan, services may be covered in full or in part.
- Please contact your provider to verify how your plan compensates you for psychotherapy services, including services that are beyond a standard 50-minute session. Questions to ask include:
- “Does my health insurance plan include mental health benefits?
- “Does my plan only cover certain types of mental health professionals?”
- “Does my plan have a limit on how much it will cover per session? Does that change depending on the length of the session?”
- “Does my plan limit how many sessions per calendar year it will cover? If so, what is the limit?”
- “Do I need written approval from a primary care physician for services to be covered?”
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Yes. If you are seeing another therapist, an intensive with me can be a collaborative experience. If you like, I can coordinate with your current therapist both before and after the intensive, so that you can get the most out of your experience by integrating it with your ongoing treatment.
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With the Inner Reset, A six-session intensive allows us to focus more deeply on internal emotional patterns and your relationship with yourself over a concentrated period of time.
During the process, clients often:
- Gain clearer insight into the internal patterns that shape their thoughts, emotions, and self-perception
- Identify underlying dynamics such as self-criticism, core beliefs, emotional triggers, or protective patterns
- Explore how these patterns developed and how they continue to influence current emotional experiences
- Begin shifting their internal responses, including how they relate to difficult thoughts and feelings
- Strengthen emotional regulation and reduce the intensity of anxiety or low mood
- Develop a more compassionate and stable relationship with themselves
- Build access to inner resources, including a greater sense of grounding, clarity, and the “wise self”
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That depends.
Some people use a therapy intensive to bring focused attention to a specific issue or stuck point, and then return to their ongoing therapy with greater clarity or momentum.
Others benefit from continued support as they integrate what emerged during the intensive and apply it within their day-to-day lives. For many people, this integration phase is where deeper, lasting change takes place.
Occasionally, a person may feel satisfied with what they explored in an intensive and choose not to continue with ongoing therapy at that time.
For individuals with complex or developmental trauma, ongoing therapy is typically the most supportive foundation. In select cases, an intensive may be used thoughtfully as a supplement to longer-term work, rather than as a stand-alone or primary approach.
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All of Smart Therapy’s services, including intensives, are currently only available via telehealth (online).
