Trauma Intensives

A focused and immersive path for deep healing and integration

Sometimes healing requires more space than one-hour therapy sessions can offer.

Trauma therapy intensives provide a focused and supportive container where you can step away from daily life and devote meaningful time to your healing. Over several days of guided work, many people begin to reconnect with their bodies, process long-held pain, and rediscover a sense of wholeness within themselves.

Rather than meeting for one hour a week, we spend extended time together across several days, allowing your nervous system the continuity it needs to move more deeply into healing and integration.

Many people come to an intensive after feeling stuck in traditional therapy or realizing they want to engage their healing journey more intentionally.

The intensive format allows us to work with depth, safety, and integration—helping you reconnect with yourself at every level: body, mind, emotions, soul & relationships.

How Intensives Work

Trauma therapy intensives are 2–5 days long, and we meet one-on-one for three hours each day.

Sessions take place either:

• In person at my office in Holland, Michigan
• Virtually for those outside the area

There is a loose structure that guides our time together, but the process itself is organic and highly individualized. We follow the wisdom of your nervous system and focus on what your body, mind, and inner world most need in the moment.

This work integrates insights and practices from:

• Neuroscience
• Somatic therapy & nervous system regulation practices
• Parts work (Internal Family Systems)
• Interpersonal neurobiology
• Attachment science
• Memory reconsolidation
• Spiritual integration

Why Trauma Therapy Intensives Are So Effective

Traditional therapy is valuable, but the weekly format can limit how deeply we are able to go.

When sessions are spaced a week apart, your system often has to rebuild momentum each time. Intensives create a different experience.

By spending extended time together over several consecutive days, your system can:

• Build a deeper sense of safety and trust
• Stay connected to the healing process without interruption
• Move through protective defenses more naturally
• Integrate new experiences before returning to daily life

Many people find that work which might take months in weekly therapy can begin unfolding within a few focused days.

What We Work With During an Intensive

Trauma affects many layers of our experience—our nervous system, our emotions, our relationships, and our sense of meaning. An intensive allows us to work with these layers together.

During our time together we will explore and work with:

Understanding Trauma at Its Root

• Why trauma responses become “stuck” in the nervous system
• How protective survival patterns develop—and how they can begin to shift
• Understanding your polyvagal nervous system so you can feel safer in your body and relationships

Nervous System Regulation & Repatterning

• Learning powerful neural exercises that regulate the nervous system
• Developing rhythms that support stability, resilience, and nervous system expansion
• Strengthening your embodied resources so your system has internal support for healing

Healing Traumatic Memory

• Working with traumatic memories through memory reconsolidation, allowing them to be integrated rather than continually relived
• Addressing physiological, emotional, and cognitive trauma symptoms at their root

Parts Work & Emotional Integration

• Working with protective parts and younger parts that carry trauma
• Unburdening these parts while honoring the wisdom they hold
• Metabolizing the two core emotions trauma often leaves unresolved: anger and grief

Attachment & Relational Healing

• Exploring relational patterns shaped by attachment experiences
• Engaging healing relational processes that support deeper connection with others

Integration & Growth

As healing unfolds, many people also begin to experience:

• Greater inner clarity and self-trust
• Renewed connection to joy and vitality
• Freedom to pursue deeper desires and direction in life
• A sense of spiritual reconnection, regardless of faith tradition

Trauma therapy is not only about resolving pain—it is also about opening space for post-traumatic growth and deeper integration.

This Intensive May Be a Good Fit If You

• Feel stuck in recurring trauma responses despite months or years of therapy
• Want to move through a deeper layer of healing more intentionally
• Experience PTSD or complex trauma
• Struggle with anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm connected to trauma
• Feel disconnected from your body or your emotions
• Notice relational patterns that feel difficult to shift
• Want a focused container for meaningful inner work
• Sense that something within you is ready for deeper healing

You do not have to feel completely ready. Many people simply arrive with a subtle sense that something in them wants to move toward wholeness.

What a Typical Day Looks Like

Each day of an intensive includes three hours of focused therapeutic work.

Within that time we move at a pace that supports safety and integration. Sessions often include a natural rhythm of:

• Somatic awareness and body-based work

• Parts work and emotional processing

• Exploration and integration of trauma memory

• Reflective conversation and meaning-making

There is space for pauses, grounding, and integration throughout the process so that your nervous system can absorb the work rather than becoming overwhelmed.

The Kind of Healing I Once Needed Myself

The intensive work I offer is deeply personal.

For more than a decade I lived with severe PTSD, complex trauma, depression, and anxiety. During those years I searched for a form of healing that addressed the body, mind, and soul together—but rarely encountered it.

The trauma therapy intensive I offer today is, in many ways, the kind of healing process I once needed myself.

Alongside extensive professional training in therapy, spiritual direction, neuroscience, and integrative methods, I bring the perspective of someone who has walked the terrain of trauma and integration firsthand.

My role is to guide you through a process that is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the deep wisdom of the nervous system.

Investment

5-Day Intensive: $4,500

4-Day Intensive: $3,600

3-Day Intensive: $2,700

2-Day Intensive: $1,800

While trauma intensives require a larger upfront investment, many people find them more cost-effective than traditional therapy because of the depth of work that can happen in a concentrated period.

I often describe each day of an intensive as roughly equivalent to six weeks of traditional therapy sessions. In that sense, a five-day intensive can approximate nearly seven months of weekly therapy.

Of course every healing journey is unique. But many clients describe their experience with words like:

“That was the best investment I’ve ever made in myself.”
“I’m amazed by how different I feel now.”