Therapy Intensives for Relationship Patterns
The Relational Reset™ Intensive
Therapy Intensives for repeating relationship patterns, attachment anxiety, and dating dynamics
The Relational Reset™ Therapy Intensive is a structured six-session therapy process designed for individuals seeking therapy for repeating personal relationship patterns.
Many people notice the same relationship dynamics repeating across different areas of life — in dating, friendships, family relationships, or the workplace.
You may find yourself drawn to similar types of people, reacting in ways you later wish you had handled differently, or feeling caught between wanting closeness and protecting yourself from being hurt.
Many people initially assume the difficulty lies in finding the “right” partner. Over time, however, they begin to notice that similar relational patterns can reappear even with different people.
For many individuals, these patterns also show up as relationship anxiety — a persistent sense of overthinking, emotional vigilance, or fear of rejection within relationships.
These patterns are rarely random. They often develop through earlier relationship experiences and become reinforced over time through attachment dynamics, emotional learning, and familiar coping strategies.
This intensive provides a focused therapeutic container for understanding these patterns and beginning to respond differently.
Relational Reset Therapy Intensive — At a Glance
- 6-session structured therapy intensive
- 80-minute sessions
- Typically scheduled over 6–12 weeks
- Focused on repeating relationship and dating patterns
- Designed for individuals (not couples)
- Conducted online for Ontario residents
Sometimes a reset is all a pattern needs.
The Relational Reset Process
Identify → Exposure → Sustain
Understanding patterns → Practicing new responses → Sustaining change
The Relational Reset Therapy Intensive follows a three-stage process that translates insight into meaningful relationshipal change.
1. Identify
Understanding the patterns shaping your relationships.
In the early sessions, we focus on identifying the relationship patterns that tend to repeat in your life. This may include exploring attachment dynamics, schemas, emotional triggers, and the roles you often find yourself stepping into in relationships.
Developing this awareness creates the foundation for meaningful change.
2. Exposure
Practicing new responses regarding how you show up with others.
Insight alone rarely changes long-standing patterns. In this stage, we begin intentionally working with the moments when familiar triggers arise.
This may involve experimenting with new relational responses, strengthening boundaries, and learning to tolerate the discomfort that can come with shifting established patterns.
The goal is to begin translating awareness into real-life interpersonal change.
3. Sustain
Supporting integration and longer-term change.
The final stage focuses on consolidating the progress made during the intensive. We explore how the new awareness and relationship responses developed throughout the process can continue to strengthen beyond the six sessions.
The goal is to support changes in how you show up in relationships that continue to evolve after the intensive is complete.
What is a therapy Intensive?
A therapy Intensive through Smart Therapy® is a structured series of extended therapy sessions focused on a specific theme or relational pattern.
The Relational 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 practical integration than is typically available within standard 50-minute therapy sessions.
Because sessions are longer and focused on a specific theme, the work can feel more intentional and less rushed than traditional weekly therapy.
Patterns can change when we understand them.
Approach used in the Intensive
This intensive draws from several therapeutic approaches used in my depth-oriented practice, including:
- Schema Therapy
- To identify longstanding relationship patterns and core emotional needs that shape expectations in relationships.
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- To deepen awareness of emotional experience and support new, more adaptive emotional responses in interpersonal situations.
- Exposure-based Behavioural Practice
- To help translate insight into real-life relational behaviour and strengthen new patterns of responding.
- Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy
- To work with emotional learning and self-beliefs at a deeper level.
- Attachment-informed Therapy
- To understand how early relational experiences influence current relationship dynamics.
These approaches are integrated based on clinical fit and therapeutic goals.
The aim is not simply insight, but helping emotional, cognitive, and behavioural patterns begin to shift in ways that can be applied within real-life relationships.
Common concerns addressed in the Relational Reset Therapy Intensive
Clients often seek this intensive when they experience patterns such as:
- Becoming repeatedly drawn to emotionally unavailable or inconsistent partners
- Feeling anxious or preoccupied within relationships
- Difficulty setting or maintaining boundaries
- Patterns of over-giving, people-pleasing, or self-sacrificing in relationships
- Feeling easily rejected or abandoned in romantic relationships
- Recurring conflict patterns with partners, friends, or family members
The Relational Reset Intensive provides a structured opportunity to explore these dynamics and begin developing new ways of responding within relationships.
Who this Intensive is for
This intensive may be particularly helpful if you:
- Find yourself drawn to similar relationship dynamics despite wanting something different
- Experience anxiety or overthinking in dating or relationships
- Notice cycles of closeness and withdrawal in relationships
- Feel unsure how to respond differently when familiar relational triggers arise
- Want structured support for developing healthier relational responses
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Format & Investment
The Relational Reset Therapy Intensive is offered as a six-session structured therapy program focused on relational patterns.
The intensive includes:
• 6 intensive therapy sessions
• 80 minutes per session
• Sessions scheduled weekly or bi-weekly
Each session builds on the previous one, allowing time for both deeper exploration and practical integration between sessions.
Between sessions, you may receive optional reflection exercises or audio resources designed to support the therapeutic work.
This structured format allows us to work intentionally toward meaningful relational change within a defined therapeutic container.
Investment
The Relational Reset Therapy Intensive is offered as a complete six-session program.
• $400 per 80-minute session
• $2,400 total program investment
Sessions are conducted virtually for clients located across Ontario.
Frequently asked questions about Intensives
- 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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A six-session intensive allows us to focus more deeply on a specific relationship pattern over a concentrated period of time. During the process, clients often:
- Gain clearer insight into the relationship patterns that tend to repeat
- Identify underlying dynamics such as attachment styles, schemas, emotional triggers, or relational roles
- Explore how these patterns developed and how they continue to show up in current relationships
- Begin practicing new ways of responding when familiar relational dynamics arise
- Experiment with boundaries, communication, and emotional regulation in relational situations
- Develop greater clarity about how they want to show up in relationships moving forward
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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).
