Now booking: July Therapy Intensives
A limited number of spots are currently available. If you’re considering an intensive, this can be a good time to begin.
This intensive is designed for recurring relationship issues, attachment anxiety, and difficulty setting healthy boundaries.
The Relational Reset™ Therapy Intensive includes a one-hour intake followed by a two-hour intensive therapy session.
Many people notice the same relationship patterns repeating across different areas of life—in dating, friendships, family relationships, or the workplace.
You may find yourself people-pleasing, struggling with boundaries, overthinking relationships, or feeling torn between wanting closeness and protecting yourself from getting hurt.
Using a Schema Therapy-informed approach, this intensive helps identify the longstanding patterns, unmet emotional needs, and coping styles that keep these relationship dynamics repeating.
Over time, many people begin to notice that the same patterns show up with different people and in different situations. Rather than simply focusing on changing behaviour, this intensive explores the deeper patterns beneath those experiences so new ways of relating can begin to emerge.
This intensive provides a focused therapeutic space for understanding recurring relationship patterns, making sense of where they come from, and beginning to respond differently.
Relational Reset Therapy Intensive — At a glance
- 2 sessions (1-hour intake and preparation session + 2-hour intensive therapy session)
- Optional 15-minute follow-up (email, phone, or video)
- Focused on understanding and changing repeating relationship patterns
- Designed for individuals (not couples therapy)
- Delivered virtually for adults across Ontario
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 relationships of any kind
- Notice cycles of closeness and withdrawal in relationships
- Feel unsure how to respond differently when familiar relationship triggers arise
- Want a deeper understanding of the schemas and emotional patterns influencing your life
- Want structured support for developing healthier relational responses
Insight creates new possibilities for change.
What to Expect
Session 1: Intake & Understanding Your Relationship History (60 minutes)
Together we'll explore your relationship history, current concerns, and recurring patterns. We'll clarify what you'd like to change and begin identifying the themes that may be contributing to your relationship difficulties.
Following this session, you'll complete a series of questionnaires and reflection exercises to provide a more detailed picture of your schemas, attachment patterns, and coping styles.
After Your Intake Appointment
You'll receive a series of questionnaires and reflection exercises to complete, providing a more comprehensive understanding of your relational patterns. I'll review this information before the intensive session so our time together can focus on interpretation, therapeutic work, and practical change rather than information gathering.
Session 2: Intensive Therapy Session (120 minutes)
During the intensive session, we'll review the patterns that have emerged and explore how they may have developed. Together we'll examine recurring relationship dynamics, unmet emotional needs, attachment themes, and coping strategies through a Schema Therapy-informed lens.
We'll also discuss practical next steps, including behavioural changes, boundary work, communication patterns, and ways to begin responding differently in your relationships. This allows us to move beyond identifying patterns and begin exploring meaningful ways to create change.
By the end of the intensive, you'll have a clearer understanding of the patterns shaping your relationships and a practical roadmap for beginning to respond differently.
Outcomes of the Relational Reset
Clients often leave this intensive with:
- A better understanding of how schema patterns influence relationships, mood, self-worth, and everyday functioning.
- A deeper understanding of the attachment dynamics influencing current relationships
- Increased clarity about their emotional needs, boundaries, and relationship goals
- Improved insight into how people-pleasing, over-giving, or self-sacrificing patterns developed
- Practical tools and strategies for responding differently when familiar patterns arise
- A personalized roadmap for continuing this work beyond the intensive
Therapy is most effective when it fits the person, not just the problem.
Approaches used in the Intensive
This intensive draws from several therapeutic approaches used in my depth-oriented practice, including:
- Schema Therapy
- To identify the longstanding schemas, coping styles, and unmet emotional needs that influence relationship patterns. Schema Therapy provides a framework for understanding why familiar relational dynamics continue to repeat and how healthier ways of relating can gradually develop.
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- To deepen awareness of emotional experience and support more adaptive emotional responses in relationships.
- Behavioural Practice and Exposure Principles
- To identify gradual behavioural changes and real-life practice opportunities that strengthen new ways of relating.
- Attachment-informed Therapy
- To understand how early relational experiences continue to influence attachment patterns, expectations, and 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 carry into everyday relationships.
Which intensive is right for you?
Relational Reset
Patterns in relationships, attachment, and how you show up with others
→ Structured, insight-driven work integrating Schema Therapy to address relational patterns and behavioural change
Self Worth
Subconscious beliefs, self-worth, the inner critic, and your relationship with yourself
→ Guided hypnosis and emotional processing integrated with Emotion-Focused Therapy
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: relational patterns, the inner world, or the nervous system itself.
Lasting change begins with understanding your patterns
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Format & Investment
This intensive includes:
- One 1-hour intake and preparation session
- One 2-hour intensive therapy session
- Optional 15-minute follow-up (email, phone, or video)
- Virtual sessions for adults across Ontario
Investment
- 1-hour intake and preparation session: $330
- 2-hour intensive therapy session: $660
- Total investment: $990
Payment is due at the end of each session.
I offer video or phone consultations to explore your goals, answer your questions, and determine whether this therapy intensive is the right fit for you.
Ready to Begin?
If you're tired of repeating the same relationship patterns and are ready for a focused, in-depth approach, I'd be honoured to support you through this process.
I offer video or phone consultations to explore whether a Relational Reset Therapy Intensive is the right fit for your goals.
Reach out today to begin your journey.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Relational Reset™ Intensive
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A 2-session Therapy Intensive provides dedicated time to explore the relationship patterns that may be shaping your life. During the process, clients often:
- Gain greater insight into recurring relationship patterns across dating, friendships, family, or work
- Identify underlying dynamics such as schemas, attachment styles, emotional triggers, and coping strategies
- Better understand how these patterns influence relationships, mood, self-worth, and everyday functioning
- Explore how these patterns developed and why they continue to repeat
- Identify new ways of responding when familiar patterns arise
- Explore ways to set healthier boundaries, communication, and emotional regulation
- Develop greater clarity about how they want to show up in relationships moving forward
- Schema Therapy is an evidence-informed approach that helps identify the longstanding emotional and relational patterns that can shape how we experience ourselves and others. These patterns, known as schemas, often develop through earlier life experiences and can continue influencing relationships well into adulthood.
- For example, someone with an abandonment schema may become highly anxious when a partner seems distant, while someone with a self-sacrifice schema may consistently put other people's needs ahead of their own. Even when we recognize these patterns intellectually, they can be difficult to change because they often operate automatically.
- Within the Relational Reset™ Therapy Intensive, Schema Therapy provides a framework for understanding why certain relationship dynamics keep repeating and what emotional needs may be driving them. The goal is not simply to gain insight, but to begin developing healthier, more flexible ways of relating to yourself and others.
- Many recurring relationship difficulties are not simply about choosing the "wrong" partner. They can also reflect deeper emotional patterns that influence what feels familiar, how we interpret other people's behaviour, and how we respond when relationships become emotionally challenging.
- Schema Therapy helps identify these underlying patterns and the coping strategies that often accompany them, such as people-pleasing, emotional withdrawal, perfectionism, or over-functioning in relationships. Understanding these patterns can make it easier to recognize why they continue to repeat and where meaningful change can begin.
- In the Relational Reset™ Therapy Intensive, Schema Therapy is integrated with other evidence-informed approaches, including Emotion-Focused Therapy and attachment-informed work, to help translate insight into practical changes within your relationships. Rather than focusing only on why patterns developed, we also explore new ways of responding that better reflect your needs, values, and relationship goals.
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That's completely normal. Many people experience concerns that span multiple areas, such as anxiety, self-worth difficulties, relationship patterns, and nervous system overwhelm.
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Each intensive has a primary focus, but treatment can be tailored to your needs. During a consultation, we can discuss your goals and determine the approach that best fits your situation.
- Most recurring relationship patterns aren’t random—they’re shaped by earlier emotional experiences, attachment dynamics, and unconscious expectations about how relationships work.
- Over time, your mind and nervous system learn what feels familiar, even if it’s painful or unfulfilling. You may find yourself drawn to similar types of people, reacting in predictable ways, or recreating dynamics that echo earlier relationships.
- These patterns are often connected to:
- Attachment styles (e.g., anxious, avoidant)
- Core schemas (like abandonment, emotional deprivation, or unworthiness)
- Learned roles you’ve taken on in relationships (such as over-functioning, people-pleasing, or withdrawing)
- Insight is an important first step—but patterns tend to persist because they’re reinforced emotionally, not just cognitively.
- The Relational Reset Intensive is designed to help you not only understand these patterns, but begin actively shifting how you respond to them in real time—so you can start creating different relational experiences, not just recognizing the same ones.
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- 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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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).
