You’re ready for meaningful change in your relationship, your intimacy, and your connections but you feel stuck on how to get there.
Your relationship with yourself, or maybe with your your partner(s) feel strained. You feel sad, frustrated, disappointed with how your intimacy and connection keeps going. It might be an intimacy challenge, a sexual difficulty, or a history of pain and trauma that keeps resurfacing.
You want to be able to enjoy sex again, or maybe for the first time ever, but can’t seem to figure it out. Maybe you’ve even tried therapy before and can’t find the progress you were hoping for, or your schedule makes it hard to maintain consistency.
Introducing Intensive Therapy – a dedicated focused, uninterrupted time to address the root of your struggles, creating meaningful shifts and strides towards the sex life you’ve always wanted in a single day.
Trauma
You may know that past experiences are currently showing up and impacting your sexuality, your sex life, and your sense of self. It’s making it hard to connect, and you want to move forward but you aren’t sure how. They surface unexpectedly, leaving you feeling trapped, powerless, or numb. When trauma is a part of your history, time is not enough – you deserve a focused and compassionate approach to heal.
Approaches Used:
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Somatic Therapy
- Psychoeducation & Neuroscience
Sexual Difficulties
Sexual difficulties are a common but challenging experience that you may be facing, either for a long time or for the first time in your life. Struggling with desire, arousal, pain, or orgasm difficulties can leave you questioning your worth, feeling distant or avoidant of your partner(s), and of yourself. You might be experiencing a sense of shame, frustration, or even fear that things will never improve.
Intimacy is an important part of relationships – when it’s going well, intimacy contributes to the overall satisfaction in a relationship. but when difficulties arise, intimacy
Approaches Used:
- Sex Education & Science
- Behavioural Interventions
- Mindfulness
- Trauma Therapy
Relationship Disconnection
Approaches Used:
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- Developmental Model for Couples
- Sex Therapy for Couples
- Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO)
Intimacy is an important part of relationships – when it’s going well, intimacy contributes to an average part of the the overall satisfaction in a relationship. When difficulties arise, intimacy challenges and disconnection can erode not just your physical connection, but also your emotional one. You may be longing for the closeness you once shared with your partner, or have always longed to share together. Instead, you’re feeling stuck in misunderstanding, conflict, or avoidance. It’s painful to feel so distant from the person that you love.
What Are Intensives and What Makes Them Different?
Intensive therapy, also known as marathon therapy, offer a deep dive into the issues that matter the most. Over the course of the intensive, which can range from a minimum of 3 hours up to 3 days of therapy, you’ll have the space to process emotions and past experiences, identify patterns and work through roadblocks with uninterrupted focus.
The traditional therapy model of weekly to biweekly 50-minute sessions can be limiting – after checking in and to ensure there’s enough time to wrap up, you may only have 20-30 minutes of processing. Some approaches, including EMDR, were designed and researched based on at least a 90 minute session for true effectiveness. An immersive intensive experience allows you to address multiple issues in a more condensed period of time, often experiencing change in 1-3 days that may take you months or even years of ongoing therapy. Intensives are right for you if:
you’ve done regular therapy and have not felt the impact or the results you’ve wanted
don’t have the time to dedicate to regular therapy on a weekly or biweekly basis
want to experience a transformative breakthrough and address challenges head-on without the interruptions of daily life
What to Expect From an Intensive
Intensives are tailored to meet the unique needs of each client, just like regular therapy. Whether you’re coming in individually to address sexual difficulties, trauma, or relational concerns, or a couple working to rebuild intimacy, we follow this framework to design a custom Intensive Plan of Care that addresses your concerns:
90-Minute Pre-Intensive Assessment
Before the intensive occurs, you’ll set up a 90-minute in-person assessment session with Diana Sadat, our clinic owner, director, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist & Supervisor. During this session, you’ll share your story and identify what you’re hoping to get out of the Intensive. Together, you’ll understand the challenges that you’re facing and develop a Plan of Care, including the length of the intensive, to ensure that the session focuses on the most pressing points that bring you into therapy.
Intensive
The intensive is scheduled on a date that works best for everyone, and you will come to our Vancouver office for the session. During the intensive, you’ll work closely with Diana to dive deep into your concerns based on your Plan of Care. Using evidence-based approaches like EMDR, IFS, Sex Therapy, Mindfulness, Somatic approaches, etc., we’ll focus on moving you through stuck points to create deep meaningful change. Intensive lengths vary as followings:
One-day intensive (3 or 6 hours) – 3 hours (3 hours in the morning/afternoon) or 5 hours (3 hours in the morning, 1 hour lunch break, 2 hours in the afternoon) on a Friday
Two-day intensive (12 hours) – 6 hours (3 hours in the morning, 1 hour lunch break, 3 hours in the afternoon) each day on a Friday and Saturday
Three-day intensive (15-16 hours) – 5 hours a day (3 hours in the morning, 1 hour lunch break, 2/3 hours in the afternoon) each day, Friday-Sunday
The length of the intensive will be decided collaboratively towards the end of the pre-intensive assessment! Intensives can be as frequent as once a month, quarterly, or a one-time experience.
Optional 30-minute Post-Intensive Check-In
Our intensives include a 30-minute post-intensive check-in that can be scheduled within 90 days of the intensive experience to process the intensive experience if something has come up, or if you are interested in discussing a follow up intensive.
Cost & Frequently Asked Questions
Intensives are an investment in your healing; while the upfront cost is higher than weekly/biweekly therapy, most clients need less time through the intensive model to address the same concerns than if they attended weekly sessions.
Pre-Intensive Assessment Session (90 Minutes): $350
This includes the 90-minute session as well as a Plan of Care developed by AASECT Certified Therapist, Diana Sadat.