Holistic Trauma Therapy Intensives
Brainspotting & IFS Trauma Therapy Intensives in-person in Denver, Colorado
Supporting you in healing from trauma, shifting limiting beliefs, and preparing for what's next through immersive, unrushed time dedicated to deep therapeutic work.
Does this feel familiar?
You’re craving true depth in your healing journey.
You’re at the end of another 50-minute therapy session, and you finally feel open enough to touch the same themes you’ve been revisiting week after week, and all of a sudden, time is up.
The problem? Weekly therapy just doesn’t cut it for you. Your schedule is overwhelming or you feel you need more processing time than 50 minutes 1x a week can provide. You keep revisiting the same themes — relationships, self-worth, old wounds, identity — and getting stuck in the same places. You wish you could finally work through what’s keeping you stuck.
That’s where a therapy intensive comes in.
Intensives concentrate weeks/months of therapy into 2+ days, allowing you to do the deep life-changing work that you’ve been waiting for.
Instead of spreading out 50-minute sessions over weeks, an intensive provides a concentrated healing experience with longer, focused sessions (3 hours+) that work around your schedule without the weekly commitment. Using powerful brain-body therapies like Trauma-Informed Yoga, Brainspotting, and Parts work (IFS), you can experience life-changing healing in the span of a weekend.
When we take the courageous step to create a relationship with our pain instead of bypassing it, we are gifted with a deeper connection to ourselves and a more vibrant life filled with possibility.
Wondering if therapy intensives are the right fit?
Therapy intensives are designed for people who want (or need) to go deeper, faster. They create the space for real momentum when traditional weekly therapy doesn’t quite fit.
You might be a great fit for an intensive if:
Your busy schedule doesn’t allow for weekly therapy, but you’re eager to heal and feel better as soon as possible.
Whether you're a pilot, healthcare provider, entrepreneur, therapist, or working parent—your calendar is full, but your healing still matters.Traditional 50-minute sessions don’t suit your processing style—you prefer longer sessions that let you hyperfocus and dive deep.
You want time to explore your thoughts, sensations, and emotions without being rushed out the door just as you're getting somewhere.You’ve got a major life event on the horizon—whether it’s a marriage, family reunion, big move, new job, or a psychedelic/plant medicine ceremony—and want to process your emotions before or after.
You’re craving intentional support as you prepare for or integrate something significant.You feel that talk therapy alone isn’t quite cutting it.
You’ve spent time in therapy and still feel like something is missing—like your body, your inner parts, or your deeper nervous system responses haven’t had the space to be seen.You feel stuck or plateaued.
Maybe you’ve done a lot of work already—but something still feels unresolved. You’re ready for a “reset” or reorientation that creates new insight, clarity, or relief.You’re navigating trauma, grief, or identity exploration.
Whether it's related to your past, your body, your relationships, or your neurodivergence—you're ready to be witnessed in the fullness of your story.You want a retreat-style experience that blends depth, care, and integration.
You’re drawn to therapy that includes somatic practices, nervous system work, parts work, and creative or ceremonial elements—not just talk.You’re new to therapy but you know you want to do intensive work and it aligns with your needs.
You’ve always known you need more time and space to feel safe, open up, and process at your own pace.
What can Therapy Intensives help with?
Mind-Body Healing
An approach that recognizes the deep connection between the mind and the body in the healing process. It involves addressing emotional, psychological, and physical aspects of well-being simultaneously to promote holistic recovery. Intensives can help address the following:
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related to assault, abuse, neglect, Painful childhood experiences, childhood attachment trauma etc.
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including anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, or unresolved grief
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such as divorce, career changes, becoming a parent, or moving
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especially in caregivers, therapists, educators, and medical professionals
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including sensory sensitivity and difficulty calming the nervous system
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like chronic tension, fatigue, or pain
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including racial, cultural, gender, or neurodivergent identity
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especially for those who are high-functioning but deeply self-critical
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for psychedelic/plant medicine work
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dissociation, or shutdown responses
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including family estrangement, breakups, or betrayal wounds
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such as parts that hold fear, anger, or doubt around change
Nervous System Reset
Support shifting the nervous system from a state of overwhelm or shutdown back to a state of balance and calm. This can include practices like deep breathing, mindfulness, somatic (body-based) therapies, and brain-body approaches like Brainspotting and IFS (Internal Family Systems). Together, we’ll soothe the nervous system, promote relaxation, and help build new neural pathways that support feelings of safety, joy, and well-being. Intensives can help address the following:
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persistent anxiety that’s difficult to “turn off”
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intense overwhelm in response to everyday triggers
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or irrational fears that feel stuck in the body
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after accidents, injuries, or medical trauma
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often creating looping patterns of distress
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often making it hard to feel or connect
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or emotional volatility
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from being in “fight or flight” too long
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difficulty winding down, or lack of restfulness
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in your body and life
Deep Authentic Self-Connection + Partnered Connection
A path toward reconnecting with your most authentic self—beyond the layers of masking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or survival strategies you’ve had to adopt. This work also supports deepening intimacy and trust in relationships by exploring how your internal world shapes the way you connect with others. Through intensive, focused support, you’ll build self-awareness, emotional expression, and the capacity for genuine connection—with yourself and those closest to you. Intensives can help address the following:
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or a fragmented sense of self
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including boundaries or desires
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including inner criticism, and patterns of negative self-talk
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or fear of vulnerability in close relationships
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including those rooted in early attachment wounds
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often driving rigidity or control
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including pleasure or creativity
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—even in the presence of others; a longing to feel more seen, known, and understood
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between authenticity and acceptance in relationships
How can this structure support me?
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Step away from the hustle and routine of daily life. Intensives create a dedicated space for you to slow down and focus on healing.
During your personalized intensive program, you're encouraged to treat the time outside of sessions as a retreat—whether that means dining at your favorite restaurant, booking a bodywork, massage, or spa appointment, or simply enjoying a cozy day at home journaling, drawing, cooking, and listening to music.
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Achieve significant progress in a shorter timeframe, saving you both time and money compared to ongoing weekly therapy.
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Intensives are available outside of standard therapy hours, so you don’t have to miss work or rush between appointments.
You can book your intensives on Sunday's, weekdays, or even weekday evenings.
Is intensive therapy really more cost effective and time efficient than weekly therapy?
Intensive Therapy includes:
10-15 minutes of checking in, establishing session focus
160-210 minutes of Brainspotting processing, Yoga Therapy, Expressive Arts, Parts work
10-15 minutes closing the session
You might fully resolve one or multiple areas you’re struggling with in half a day, costing around $1,500. 2-3 hours of Brainspotting processing, Parts work and yoga is equivalent to at least double that amount of talk therapy sessions so you’re doing more work, in less time, requiring less therapy overall.
You don’t have to keep taking time off of work or paying for childcare to attend your sessions.
You can read more about the research done on Brainspotting and intensives and their effectiveness here and here. This is an article about the economic value.
Weekly Therapy includes:
10-15 minutes of checking in from the last session
20-30 minutes of narrative processing
10-15 minutes of closing the session
It might take you weeks or months of this structure to dive deep enough into a topic or stressor to feel relief from it. In a year you could spend $8,000+ if you showed up to therapy weekly.
Life is also happening in between your 50-minute sessions, and processing the same topic can become derailed as new things happen and you want to process those experiences. Your session focus can shift drastically from week to week which can leave you feeling unresolved in multiple areas.
What does a therapy intensive include?
INTAKE SESSION
1.5 HOURS | We’ll explore your goals and intentions for the intensive. I’ll ask about your life experiences and current challenges, and together, we’ll design a personalized therapy plan.
THERAPY WORKBOOK
A customizable online (or printed) workbook filled with self-reflection exercises and journaling prompts to help prepare for your intensive experience.
PROCESSING SESSION(S)
3+ hours | This is where the deep healing happens. These extended, focused sessions are tailored to your specific needs and goals. Along with transformative therapies like Brainspotting, trauma-informed yoga, and Parts work, we may also integrate rituals such as tea, music, and art for a more holistic healing experience. You might decide that you would like to do multiple days of processing sessions.
INVESTMENT
This is considered a premium service. As such, higher fees are charged as they require more work, energy, and schedule flexibility. Intensives also provide more value for clients.
Intensive sessions are typically $400-500/hour.
Intensive packages start at $1,500 - The value of a 1-day intensive is equivalent to 6+ weeks of therapy
Customized intensive programs (3+ days) are available. Ongoing intensive therapy is available if you want longer-term support or prefer to work intensively.
You are worth living a full and beautiful life by your own design. Through focused and intentional work, together we’ll make your dream life a reality.
FAQs about Holistic Therapy Intensives in Denver, Colorado
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1-day intensive programs begin at $1,500. During your consultation, we will discuss which intensive program is the best fit for you.
Intensive hours are billed at a higher rate than weekly therapy, due to the increased value, short-term nature, & scheduling flexibility of intensives. Weekend, in-person intensive hours are billed at a higher rate than weekday, online intensive hours.
In accordance with the No Surprises Act, you will receive a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) as part of your intake paperwork. This document will outline the costs of your intensive therapy program.
Once you have confirmed your intensive dates, a non-refundable deposit for half the amount of your total intensive cost is due within 1 week. This amount will be charged to your credit card number, submitted via the online client portal.
The remaining half of your intensive cost will be charged on the date of the first session.
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It depends! You may be eligible for partial reimbursement using out-of-network benefits. Unfortunately, many insurance companies will not pay for sessions beyond 90 minutes so by that definition the intensive session (2 hours or more) is not a covered service.
It’s important to note that a formal diagnosis is required in order to utilize insurance benefits, even for partial reimbursement.If I am in-network with your insurance provider, then you will be required to sign an Opt Out Form and agree to pay out of pocket. You would only be cash pay for intensive sessions (2+ hours in length).
I’m happy to provide more information to help with this process.
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A 1-day intensive offers a multitude of resources and can help to either increase performance and confidence, or significantly decrease the devastating effects of single event trauma (e.g. negative thoughts, disturbing emotions and body sensations).
While significant healing can occur in one half-day intensive, Complex PTSD deserves more treatment than one half-day intensive. Many clients experiencing Complex PTSD may continue to work on their trauma histories through monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly half-day intensives.
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Participating in a 2-3-day Intensive may create impactful change more efficiently than just weekly, 50-minute sessions or even one half-day intensive.
We will identify what format is best for you during your initial consultation.
Intensive sessions are similar to going on a personal retreat.
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Intensives are available online and in-person in Colorado where I am licensed.
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Intensives can be scheduled online or in-person.
Please note: I can only work with you if you are in the state of Colorado.
Intensives are done virtually or in-person with clients located in CO. One of the many beautiful things about intensives is the ability for clients to travel from anywhere in the world to Denver, CO to participate in an intensive. This is made possible due to the work being concentrated into several days instead of weekly meetings on an ongoing basis.
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Please fill out the form below or email me directly at Atsede@unearthingchoicecounseling.com to schedule a free consultation.