COUNSELING
Brainspotting Therapy Intensives
My primary offering is trauma healing intensives utilizing Brainspotting, somatic psychotherapy, parts-work, and other healing interventions.
Have a problem you’ve been wanting to work through for awhile? If you’ve found that weekly or hour long therapy sessions have not allowed the time and space you need to fully process or resolve an issue, a Brainspotting Intensive Retreat may be a wonderful option for you. Behaviors or issues that are more complex or you’ve had difficulty changing in regular therapy can benefit from an intensive.
Intensives are designed as a personalized retreat curated for you and your needs. We both come prepared to do deep work on an issue or pattern. It is a way to create dedicated time to your recovery from a problematic issue without the the limits of time. This enhanced focus allows both of us to go deep into the historical roots of your issue and help to resolve or significantly lessen your concerns at their core.
In a therapy intensive, we first complete an initial assessment to get to know one another and identify if moving forward with an intensive would be the best approach for your presenting issue.
We decide together how much time you want to or may need to spend on processing the issue (up to 4-5 hours a day for one or multiple days in a row-breaks are included).
Some issues that client engage in intensives for are:
complex PTSD
substance use/addictions
grief
racial and generational trauma
severe anxiety and depression
longstanding issues
a stuckness/inability to resolve issues in weekly therapy
NOTE: I currently have a wait list and am not accepting new clients at this time. The website will be updated when openings are available.
If you’d like to work with someone who has a similar approach as me, consider working with my partner, Greg Payne, who is a life coach certified in Brainspotting, breathwork, Reiki, and craniosacral therapy at Awakened Roots, our sister company.
Brainspotting Intensive Retreat- Healing the Healer
These individual intensives can also be focused on therapists or other healers wanting to deepen their attunement and capacity to hold space in their work. These can be patterns within the parallel process of therapy that restrict the practitioner’s ability to be present, such as performance issues or experiencing limbic countertransference (absorbing energy in client sessions due to vicarious trauma).
I also offer special intensives to help therapists and practitioners dismantle their own racial biases, internalized systems of oppression, supremacy, or other concerns so that they can illuminate and shift this lens in their practice with clients and participate in the creation of a more just world. It really starts with our own work and is a courageous step forward in addressing issues within ourselves that decay our society.
By addressing issues that detract from attunement in the therapeutic relationship and increasing the capacity to have a settled body with better energetic and emotional boundaries, therapists and healers can learn to practice witnessing their clients on a much deeper relational and neurophysiological level and engage more effectively in their work.
Intensives for healers are a blend of consultation and brain and body-based awareness with the goal of helping the body enter coherence and regulation. A calm, conscious, settled body will help other bodies to regulate. They are also a form of self-care, especially given that the healing professions interface with suffering and trauma material on a regular basis. Spending time to clear, self-reflect and replenish can impact your work and perspective in a fresh, positive way.
Intensives can be conducted via telehealth or in person.