In-person in New Orleans & Detroit
Therapeutic Intensives
Specialized, trauma-Focused therapeutic intensives for adults
Do you find yourself stuck, unable to make change in traditional talk therapy?
Are there places you'd like to go in your healing journey but can't find your way there alone?
Trauma-Resolution & Resilience Intensives can get you there.
Trauma-focused modalities such as EMDR, clinical hypnotherapy, somatic, and ego-state approaches through a dignity-affirming and shame-sensitive framework move you from stuck and defeated to integrated, lasting change.
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You’ll learn and practice skills for grounding, orienting, and stabilizing that will be the foundation for your process. An individualized plan will be co-created and shared with you.
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We’ll intentionally target your spots of “stuck-ness” in order to move trapped trauma content through your mind and body using a combination of EMDR, hypnotherapy, and parts work.
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As we move through the trauma-processing, we’ll creatively and dynamically integrate your discoveries into a new narrative and future template built on budding beliefs of resilience, capacity, and worthiness.
brainspotting
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Here’s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human—flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless.
Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know
who it’s for
Intensives may be for you if…
You’ve been in therapy on and off and have made progress in getting your life on track, but your past still haunts you
Are struggling with the impacts of triggering or challenging life experiences, and feel like you get knocked down every time there is a trauma reminder
Notice patterns in your relationships that you don’t understand or seem to mirror past unhealthy dynamics and you can’t understand why
You are in the right place! Don’t hesitate to schedule a complementary consultation anyway and Veronica can give you a personalized path to utilizing trauma intensives to create lasting change.
who it’s not for
Intensives may not be for you if…
You’re actively struggling with externalizing behaviors like misusing substances, disordered eating, or self-harm
You’re not ready to face the feelings associated with your traumatic experiences
You’re more afraid than you are willing to disrupt the defenses and less-than-effective coping skills that delicately hold up your daily life
You aren’t alone. It’s okay, and sometimes best, if this isn’t the right time to dive deep. If you’re curious but not ready, schedule a complementary consultation anyway and Veronica can provide free recommendations for a path to readiness.
In a three phase process, we will:
prepare
one to two 80-minute sessions
to gather history, conduct relevant assessments, collaborate on goals and set intentions, and introduce resources
practice & process
one to three 3-5 hour sessions
to create a resourced and relational space for processing using mind/body/brain modalities
put it all together
one to two 80-minute sessions
to integrate your experiences, codify coping skills, establish rhythms and practices for ongoing healing, and give referrals to aftercare services
Please know this:
healing is possible.
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In as few as three sessions - one in each area of: Preparation, Process, Putting it Together - we can address at least one tricky trauma imprint and bring it to resolution. Services are carefully individualized, and this process can’t be rushed, but with the extended time afforded by intensives, most people find relief in at least one key area after successfully completing the tri-phase process.
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Trauma intensives use the elements of time and expertise to move you more quickly and profoundly through traumatic material than talk therapy.
Equipping you with foundational skills and affording extra time for your brain and body to find their own pace to open up to the process is instrumental to lasting change. We condense the work so the brain understands it as a complete cycle of resolution, instead of a spotty hour-to-hour experience week to week.
Veronica uses an eclectic toolkit of mind-body modalities, including Deep Brain Reorienting, EMDR, and clinical hypnotherapy to creatively intervene with cognitions and defenses that are not easily uprooted by talking alone.
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Schedule a 30 minute complementary consultation with Veronica to assess goodness-of-fit for this way of working!
Click “Schedule a Consultation now,” then “I’m a new client” and find a convenient time to book with Veronica.