What is an Intensive?
A therapy intensive is a highly focused therapy session with an extended length; sessions can last upto three 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.
Intensives are like a psychotherapeutic spa day & personal mental health retreat
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. Learn more here about the benefits of therapy intensives.