Intensives:

What You’ll Get

Cathy S Harris, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Space to go deeper without watching the clock.

What You’ll Get From Your 3-Hour Intensive

1. Before We Meet: Readiness & Focus

  • Brief consultation to make sure an intensive is a good fit

  • Readiness & Fit Questionnaire

  • Identify the issue, experience or goal you want to focus on

  • Clarify what you hope to get from the intensive

2. Three Hours of Dedicated Time

  • One uninterrupted block of time focused on you

  • No pressure to fit the work into a 50-minute session

  • Time to slow down, follow what emerges and change direction when needed

  • Breaks whenever you need them

3. An Approach Tailored to You

Rather than following a predetermined formula, I draw from approaches that fit you and what we're working with. Depending on the intensive, that might include:

  • EMDR

  • Brainspotting

  • IFS/parts work

  • Somatic and nervous-system approaches

  • CBT/DBT strategies

  • Mindfulness, breathwork or grounding

  • Psychoeducation

  • Psychedelic integration approaches

We won't try to use every approach. We'll use what makes sense for you.

4. Time to Understand, Not Just Process

  • Understanding patterns and connections

  • Exploring beliefs that developed from earlier experiences

  • Recognizing how your nervous system responds

  • Making sense of emotions, reactions or experiences that may have been confusing

5. Integration Before You Leave

  • Time at the end to slow down

  • Review what emerged

  • Identify insights you want to carry forward

  • Discuss what may need more attention

  • Make sure you aren't simply ending immediately after deeper work

6. Your Next Steps

  • Practical ideas for continuing the work

  • Resources when appropriate

  • Suggestions for further exploration

  • Recommendations for longer-term therapy when appropriate

  • Questions or themes you may want to bring to your own therapist

7. After the Intensive

A 30-minute follow-up session to talk about what has come up since the intensive, answer questions and help you continue integrating the work.

What you won't get is a promise that three hours will “fix” everything. An intensive is an opportunity to give something important more time, attention and space than a traditional session allows. Sometimes that creates a significant shift. Sometimes it clarifies what needs to happen next. Both can be valuable outcomes.

*The Trauma Healing: Where Do I Start? intensive is a little different. Rather than focusing on processing one particular experience, we'll spend our time helping you understand trauma, how it may be affecting you and what healing can look like.

You'll leave with education, practical resources, an introduction to different trauma-healing approaches and a personalized roadmap for moving forward—including suggestions for longer-term work with a therapist of your choice.

Think of it as a place to begin, not a place you need to have everything figured out.