What is an Intensive?

A therapy intensive is a highly focused therapy session with an extended length; sessions last several hours, and you may have several sessions over consecutive days.

This expanded structure allows for a therapy experience that can feel like a luxurious personal retreat, characterized by deep processing and profound healing.

Because an intensive involves such abundant time to focus on your chosen issues, you never have to feel rushed; there’s no need to watch the clock and try to wrap things up before the 50-minute mark like in traditional therapy.

Therapies currently available in an Intensive format:

Brainspotting, Expansion Brainspotting, and Hypnotherapy

An Intensive can treat:

Any clinical issue can be suitable for a therapy intensive, but at Smart Therapy, I focus on:

  • Anxiety
  • OCD
  • Phobias
  • Panic attacks
  • Stress & burnout
  • Depression
  • Low self-esteem
  • Inner child healing
  • Childhood trauma
  • Relational or attachment trauma
  • Addiction or substance abuse
  • Family difficulties
  • Anger
  • Assertiveness & personal boundaries
  • Body image
  • Emotional dysregulation & self-soothing challenges
  • Performance-related concerns (athletic, creative, etc.)

Intensives have unique advantages:

These advantages include:

  • Ease of scheduling
    • No need to carve time out of your schedule every week
  • A relaxed feel
    • Never feeling rushed by the constraints of a 50-minute session
  • Fewer distractions
    • No need to address issues that come up during the week, that ultimately cut into time spent focusing on your most important treatment goals
  • Cost effective treatment          
  • You can accomplish in days what could take months of weekly sessions in traditional therapy, which saves you money in the long-run  

In therapy, you get out of the experience what you put into it; the concentrated focus and dedicated time of a therapy intensive can lead to tremendous results.