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A therapy intensive is an extended therapy session beyond the typical 50-minute appointment and varies in time and frequency.
There is no doubt a benefit to weekly therapy in which you receive consistent, ongoing support from a therapist who gets to know you through the seasons of life. Yet the stop-and-start of weekly sessions is often disruptive; it can feel like the clock is up just when you’re starting to deepen into your therapy work—forcing you to wrap up quickly, box up your feelings, and put them away until next week.
Defensive and protective systems that help you function in the world often present as a challenge in therapy. These systems need time and attention in order to soften enough to allow healing and
change to happen. Intensives provide the space and time these well established and valuable ways of being need.
If this is the case for you—you find yourself wishing you could have more time in therapy or just a chance to slow down the therapy process in a way that feels more focused and approachable—
then a therapy intensive through Denver Metro Counseling may be what you’re looking for.
What Is A Therapy Intensive?
Our practice provides therapy intensives using Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), brainspotting, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP)—and a combination of these modalities, offering
you the space to slow down, get into the work, and move through treatment faster in the long run.
Whether you are just starting the counseling process or have been in treatment for a while, intensives nurture deeper healing. There is no requirement to have been in therapy or worked with our therapists in the past in order for an intensive to be right and supportive for you. You just need to be committed to the process—which may take some warming up to.
Sessions may range from 90 minutes to 6 hours, depending on what we’re working on and which modality we’re using. Scheduling will be determined with your therapist based on your availability with weekend intensives available in some cases. And while some people are intimidated by the prospect of spending substantial time and money on an extended therapy session, intensives tend to be more cost-effective in the long term as focused, uninterrupted treatment yields faster results that you can process in real time with your therapist.
We generally provide 1-3 or more preparation sessions before to establish a plan based on your needs and wants. We find it’s important to spend this time together in preparation to talk through and set expectation, make supportive plans inside and outside of the session, and to build familiarity with each other as you approach deeply personal work.
We provide integration sessions after longer therapy intensives to provide a designated space for debriefing the session, highlighting new insights and emotional releasing (or unburdening), and making plans for next steps.
What to expect from an intensive
Therapy Intensives Are Available Through Denver Metro Counseling
For Trauma, Grief, Anxiety, Returning To Self, And Spiritual Exploration
All of these experiences are deeply personal and respond well to the attunement, pacing,
witnessing and guidance provided through the approaches we use. Each are worthy of spacious attention and honoring.
Intensives are available to individual teens and adults of all backgrounds, individualized to your unique concerns and therapy goals. We find that certain therapy approaches are particularly effective in an intensive format and can be used together depending on what is needed.
Each therapist takes a unique approach to supporting clients through their individual intensive.
We offer EMDR intensives, IFS intensives, brainspotting intensives, ketamine and psilocybin intensives—and often, a combination of these approaches.
Whether you’ve plateaued in your healing process or you just want more out of therapy, intensives through Denver Metro Counseling have the potential to introduce immediate, transformational, and lasting change in your life.
The Therapy Intensive Modalities We Offer
FAQs About Therapy Intensives…
With that in mind, weekly sessions sometimes leave clients feeling unable to fully process their experience. The stop-and-start nature of weekly sessions is often disruptive, and it can be emotionally exhausting having to ping-pong between therapeutic processing and daily life on a week-to-week basis.
Therapy intensives allow you to slow down, focus, and devote uninterrupted time to your process. Especially when trauma-focused approaches are used—like EMDR, brainspotting, and IFS—it’s important to feel like you have enough time and space to work through emotionally difficult memories and experiences.
In general, we don’t have too many “rules” when it comes to our therapy intensives. You do not need to be a current client at our practice, nor will you be expected to leave your current therapist if you are enrolled in weekly sessions. And we will use the intake process to determine whether an intensive is right for the current therapy work you are doing.
That said, it’s a bit of a misconception that intensives cost more than weekly therapy. While you will likely pay more at the outset for a one-time intensive session (as opposed to paying a smaller weekly fee), intensives tend to yield more progress in less time. Without the disruptions of a stop- and-start format, you can experience deeper healing and exploration in a way that expedites the healing process—ultimately investing less time, money, and resources in treatment.
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