Healing Intensives
Full-day IFS Therapy in Portland, Oregon
What if one hour isn’t enough?
Sometimes, it takes most of a session just for your system to settle. It takes time for your protective system (and by protective system, I mean your anxious parts, your people pleasing parts, your perfectionist parts) to trust, for your body to soften, and for the deeper layers to emerge, especially if you’ve experienced a lot of trauma.
And then… the session ends.
You go back to work, back to your life, back to your relationships. Even if something big just opened.
There’s nothing wrong with weekly therapy. I love weekly therapy!
And also…
some parts need more time than an hour to feel safe.
This is why I offer full-day IFS Therapy intensives…
… combined with other supportive modalities like reiki, astrology, and plant medicine. With an intensive model, you’re not coming to therapy every week.
When we have 5 hours together, your system has time to arrive, to soften, and most importantly, to trust the space we’re creating together. Imagine the difference between 5 hours of uninterrupted healing processing versus a one hour appointment where you have to rush back to work. The safety created in a longer container allows our protective parts to soften (protecters = perfectionist parts, intellectualizing parts, parts that know the story of your trauma and don’t understand why you’re still doing the behaviors, parts that numb out, etc). When they’re not rushed and when we’re in a safe container, deeper parts come forward more naturally - our pains holding pain, attachment trauma, parts that feel unsafe… ya know the stuff under the surface that’s hard to get at.
Depth happens in safety and slowness, not urgency.
In an intensive, we’re not just opening something up, and we’re staying with it. We can access deeper material, work with it in real time, and begin the integration process before you leave. There’s space to move at your system’s pace, and there is space to follow what’s unfolding without interruption.
A different kind of therapeutic container
Instead of weekly sessions, why not one day of therapy per month? Or less! A spacious container where we can do really deep, transformative work, and then you spend the rest of the month (or longer) integrating the healing. Maybe you come back the next month or two for another in depth day together, or maybe you feel complete in our work together.
Thoughtfully supported depth
For those who feel called, intensives can optionally include supportive practices such as:
✦ cacao
✦ meditation or guided visualization
✦ (where appropriate and aligned) other plant medicine support
These are never required but can help support your system in softening and accessing deeper layers.
Integration is part of the work
This isn’t just about going deep. It’s about what happens after, which is equally important
At the end of our time together, we’ll:
✦ ground and close the work in a supported way
✦ identify what feels most important to integrate
✦ create a plan for the weeks that follow
You’ll have space to actually live with what emerged, rather than jumping back into another session before it’s had time to land.
Some clients choose to return for another intensive later on, allowing us to work through different layers over time.
This might be a good fit if…
✦ You’ve done therapy before and want to go deeper
✦ You feel like your system needs more time to open
✦ You don’t want to be cut off right as things get meaningful
✦ You’re craving a space where your full experience is welcome
✦ You’re ready for focused, intentional inner work
✦ Weekly therapy doesn’t fit into your life
Logistics
✦ 5–6 hour in-person sessions in Portland, Oregon in the John’s Landing neighborhood, $1200
✦ Optional integration support between sessions
✦ Available to new and existing clients
Free consultation is required to discuss your needs. Click here to schedule.
FAQs
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Healing Intensives are $1200 for 5-6 hours
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Typically once per month or less.
You will need time to integrate the healing and insights from an intensive day together. We will create an integration plan together in the intensive.
You are welcome to schedule hour long sessions, which are $220, in between intensives if needed.
We can talk about this more in your complimentary consultation ✦ →
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Intensives are only offering in person in my office in Portland, Oregon.
In general, I work with clients all over the world, but not for psychotherapy. I cannot diagnose or treat mental health conditions for anyone outside of Washington, Oregon, and Texas. I cannot provide therapy to anyone outside of Washington, Oregon, and Texas.
I can work with you utilizing both IFS reiki, and astrology as a coach anywhere in the world! We can work on business and career development, spiritual concerns, relationship issues, creative blocks, etc. But if you need mental health support, I will refer you to a mental health professional.