Grief & Trauma
Intensive Sessions
7+ hours of deep therapy to address difficult past and present experiences including grief and loss, trauma, and life transitions. Overcome your overwhelm quicker than weekly therapy.
Concentrated, effective therapy to accelerate and deepen your healing.
Imagine healing trauma, moving through grief, and building confidence all in one day.
With an intensive therapy session, we can do this.
What is an intensive?
A grief & trauma intensive is a powerful therapy to efficiently address overwhelming loss or traumatic experience. Using EMDR, Brainspotting, and/or psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT), intensives are scheduled for 7 hours* total across 3 days. This significantly reduces the time commitment to weekly therapy by targeting specific material and accelerating results that stick with you.
Why choose an intensive?
The benefits of intensives include alleviation of PTSD symptoms like disturbed sleep, terror, and anxiety, increasing your tolerance for daily stress, and loosening the grip of your negative self-talk. Many clients I work with feel more connected to their lives and loved ones after an intensive. Intensives offer clients a profound way to reach places that weekly talk therapy just can’t touch.
Intensives might be for you if you have:
A tendency to ignore or push away your feelings until you have the “right” moment (…sorry, there’s never a “right” time!)
Tried therapy with little or no real improvement
Limited and valuable time, like busy professionals
Significant memories that upset you in the present (child abuse, car accident, loved one’s suicide, assault, affair/divorce, traumatic pregnancy/loss, childhood events that impede your parenting)
No room for another weekly commitment
Grief & Trauma Intensive Process
During a grief & trauma intensive, client and therapist work together for an extended period of time to allow deep and fast processing, expansion, and closure. At the end of an intensive, your grief and trauma should be integrated so that your soul can take the lead. Old conditions and fears held by your brain and body will be loosened, making way for more intentional patterns.
During an intensive, you can expect:
Multiple rounds of EMDR using various bilateral stimulation
Guided resourcing that helps you feel grounded, comfortable, and held
Breaks with opportunity for movement, stillness, stretching, food, and water
The use of coloring, dancing, movement, humming, music-making, and other modes of expression
Some discomfort and stretching to aide in growth
After an intensive, you might expect:
Your brain and body to continue processing the material
Weird or vivid dreams
A sense of exhaustion and like you should be alone for a little bit
A feeling of releasing stuck energy
More spiritual curiosity or exploration
A desire to continue your journey, leading to healthier consumption (food, sun, nature, drink, social media, news etc.)
What’s included in an intensive with Carly?
1. Personalized workbook
You’ll receive a workbook (created by me) to complete and keep. The workbook and resources provide information, tips and tricks, and guidance for getting the most out of your intensive.
2. Assessment session (90 min)
After our 15-minute phone call and you’ve decided that an intensive is right for you, we’ll meet for 90 minutes to begin treatment planning. We’ll discuss your history, goals, current coping and support, and material that you would like to address.
3. Intensive Session (4 hrs)
We’ll meet at my office space close to Denver, Colorado, for our 4-hour intensive*. If you live in Colorado, California, or Virginia, virtual intensives are available.
*PAT has a unique time and fee structure
4. Integration session (90 min)
We’ll met for a 90-minute integration session a day or so after your intensive session. We’ll explore and solidify new insights, shifts, ideas, and skills. This is critical to the intensive.
PS - You’ll have priority for scheduling individual sessions after completing your intensive. Individual sessions are held online for 45-50 minutes. You also receive access to my entire resource collection located on Etsy: https://carlypollack.etsy.com
Pricing $
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90-minute online assessment and treatment planning session + 4hr in-person or online intensive + 90-minute online integration session
Price: $2,200
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90-minute online assessment and treatment planning session + 5-8 hr in-person intensive + 90-minute online integration session
Price: $2,800
Two payments are collected for the intensive unless you prefer to pay the entire fee in one payment. I am unable to accept insurance as payment, but I am happy to send you a superbill.