Now Booking: May Therapy Intensives
A limited number of spots are currently available. If you’re considering an intensive, this can be a good time to begin.
Half-Day Brainspotting for Deep Nervous System Regulation
A focused, immersive therapy experience designed to support nervous system regulation, somatic processing, and a shift in your baseline state.
This Therapy Intensive is designed for nervous system overwhelm, heightened anxiety, and internal overactivation
The Nervous System Reset™ Intensive is a Brainspotting-based therapy experience offered in extended session formats.
Most clients begin with a single half-day (3-hour) intensive, with the option to expand into 2–3 day intensives for deeper or more sustained processing.
This work is designed for individuals who notice that their internal baseline feels elevated — whether that shows up as anxiety, overstimulation, tension, or difficulty settling.
You may feel like:
- your system is “on” more often than it used to be
- your body holds tension that doesn’t fully release
- you understand your patterns, but your system still reacts
- you process deeply, but don’t always feel settled afterward
For many people, this isn’t about a single issue — it’s about the nervous system carrying more activation than it has had the opportunity to process.
This intensive creates the space for that process to unfold.
Nervous System Reset™ Intensive — At a Glance
- One 60-minute intake session
- One 3-hour Brainspotting intensive (starting point)
- Option to expand into 2–3 day intensives (3 hours per day)
- Optional 15-minute follow-up
- Focused on nervous system regulation and somatic processing
- Conducted online for Ontario residents
Sometimes the shift isn’t more insight.
Sometimes it’s giving your system the time and conditions it needs to reset.
Which Intensive is Right for You
Relational Reset™
Patterns in relationships, attachment, and how you show up with others
→ Structured, insight + behaviour change over time
Inner Reset™
Subconscious beliefs, self-worth, and your internal relationship with yourself
→ Guided, depth-oriented, hypnosis-based work
Nervous System Reset™
Baseline anxiety, overwhelm, and a system that feels constantly “on”
→ Experiential, somatic processing using Brainspotting
Each Therapy Intensive works at a different layer: relationships, inner patterns, or the nervous system itself.
When your mind understands—but your system is still activated.
The Nervous System Reset Process
Set → Process → Integrate
Preparing the system → Deep somatic processing → Supporting integration
This work is less structured than multi-session therapy intensives and instead focuses on depth within extended, uninterrupted processing time.
1. Set
Preparing the nervous system and identifying focus
We begin by identifying what your system is currently holding — this may be a specific activation, a period of stress, or a more general sense of overwhelm or intensity.
This stage also involves orienting you to the Brainspotting process and establishing a pace that feels grounded and manageable.
2. Process
Sustained, deep Brainspotting work
The core of the intensive is extended Brainspotting.
This is not talk therapy in the traditional sense. At times, there may be minimal talking as we work directly with your brain and body’s processing system.
Brainspotting supports subcortical and nervous system-level processing, allowing held activation, tension, and stress responses to move through and resolve.
The extended format allows us to stay with the process long enough for your system to complete cycles of activation and settling, rather than stopping partway through.
3. Integrate
Supporting the system after processing
The final portion of the session focuses on grounding, integration, and helping your system settle.
We also review what to expect following the intensive and how to support your nervous system in the hours and days afterward.
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is a brain-body therapy that works directly with the nervous system.
Rather than focusing on thoughts or analysis, it helps access and process stored activation and physiological stress responses that may not fully resolve through talking alone.
It is based on the idea that where you look affects how you feel, and that specific eye positions (brainspots) can help access deeper areas of the brain involved in regulation and processing.
This allows your system to process at its own pace, often with less effort and less cognitive involvement than traditional approaches.
Single Session vs Multi-Day Intensives
Most clients begin with a single 3-hour intensive to experience the process and assess fit.
For those who want to go further, intensives can be expanded into:
- 2-day intensives (6 total hours)
- 3-day intensives (9 total hours)
Multi-day intensives allow for:
- deeper layers of processing
- more sustained nervous system settling
- working with multiple areas of activation or stress
The appropriate format is determined collaboratively based on your goals, capacity, and clinical fit.
Your nervous system doesn’t need to be fixed. It needs time to process.
How this is different from other intensives
The Nervous System Reset™ differs from the Inner Reset™ and Relational Reset™ in several key ways:
- Focused on nervous system regulation, not pattern recongition and shifting
- Uses Brainspotting rather than structured talk or hypnosis-based approaches
- Offered as extended sessions (single or multi-day), rather than a sequential program
This is not about working through a pattern in mood, emotions, or relationship with self or others over time.
It is about supporting your system in processing what it has been holding.
Common concerns this Intensive can support
This format may be helpful if you are experiencing:
- Elevated baseline anxiety
- Chronic stress or nervous system overload
- Persistent tension or difficulty relaxing
- Feeling easily overwhelmed or overstimulated
- Burnout or nervous system fatigue
- Difficulty settling even when things are “okay”
It can also be particularly supportive for individuals who identify as:
- Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)
- Neurodivergent
- Gifted or deeply processing
These individuals often take in and process more, and may benefit from extended space for that processing to complete.
For systems that take in more—and need more space to process it.
Learn more about Brainspotting and nervous system regulation
If you’d like to better understand how Brainspotting works and how it supports nervous system regulation, these articles may be helpful:
Format & Investment
The Nervous System Reset™ Intensive is offered in flexible extended-session formats.
Options include:
- Single Intensive
- 60-minute intake
- One 3-hour Brainspotting session
- Multi-Day Intensives
- 2–3 consecutive or spaced sessions
- 3 hours per day
- Optional 15-minute follow-up
Investment for 1 Half-Day Intensive:
- $350 per hour
- 3-hour session: $1050
- Intake + 3-hour package: $1400
Sessions are conducted virtually for clients across Ontario.
I offer video or phone consults to explore your needs within a therapy intensive treatment approach.
What to expect from an Intensive
This Nervous System Reset™ Intensive can feel like a personal nervous system reset and mental health retreat.
Because of the extended format:
- there is no need to rush
- your system has time to fully engage and settle
- the work can unfold at a natural pace
Many clients choose to leave space after their session for:
- rest
- time in nature
- movement
- creative or low-demand activities
Integration continues beyond the session itself.
A note on fit
This work is not about pushing for rapid change.
It is about creating the conditions for your nervous system to process at a depth and pace that is often not possible in standard sessions.
For clients looking for structured, insight-driven, or relational work, other intensive formats may be a better fit.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Nervous System Reset™ Intensive
- This intensive begins with an 60 minute intake session, where we will review your concerns and develop a plan for the intensive work. At that time, we will schedule a 3-hour intensive session (or multiple if it is a multi-day intensive), with an optional 15-minute follow up a week or two after the final intensive session to check your progress. Follow-ups may also take place by email, if you prefer.
- Intensive sessions can feel like a personal mental health retreat. You may benefit from allowing some unscheduled time outside of sessions to process or engage in self-care activities like exercise, time in nature, body work such as a massage or acupuncture, or creative expression.
- A 1-day intensive can help you increase feelings of well-being, decrease mental health symptoms such as burnout, anxiety or depression, or process a single traumatic event.
- While significant healing can occur in a 1-day intensive, 2- or 3-day intensives are ideal for complex trauma or more severe mental health symptoms. In our initial consult, we’ll identify which format is best for you.
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Brainspotting is a different experience from traditional talk therapy. At times, there may be less talking or no talking as we work with your brain and body’s natural processing system. You might notice shifts in your body such as changes in tension, emotion, breathing, or internal awareness.
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Some people experience a sense of release or settling during the session, while others notice changes unfolding more gradually afterward.
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The process is guided and paced collaboratively. You remain aware and in control throughout, and we adjust based on what feels manageable for your system.
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The goal is not to push or overwhelm your system, but to create the conditions for it to process and regulate at a depth that isn’t always possible in shorter sessions.
- Research has shown that intensives are just as effective as traditional therapy, and may even be more effective for some clients. You can achieve the same progress in an intensive that you would achieve in traditional therapy—just in far less time.
- 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.
- Because you can accomplish more, sooner, due to the extended duration of sessions, a therapy intensive often saves you money in the long-run. Weekly sessions for 6-12 months can cost $6000-$12000. In comparison, a multi-day brainspotting intensive (Nervous System Reset intensive) starts at $2450.
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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).
