Brainspotting Intensives

Attend 3-day or 5-day intensives to treat your trauma.

Serving Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles. Online intensives offered to California residents.

Feeling triggered and disconnected is no way to live.

Brainspotting Intensives help you process your trauma in the safety of a therapeutic environment over a 3-day or 5-day experience.

You might feel…

  • Frustrated with yourself that you aren’t “getting over” your trauma fast enough.

  • Feeling numb and dead inside so much of the time.

  • Like you are trying to survive in between therapy sessions, especially after you’ve talked about a traumatic experience.

  • Like your relationships really suffer because your traumatic experiences get in the way of feeling safe with others.

What Are Brainspotting Intensives?

 

Brainspotting Intensive Options

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    One-Day Brainspotting Intensive

    Financing available through Care Credit

    For clients currently in Brainspotting therapy wanting to significantly reduce their trauma symptoms in order to increase therapeutic results.

    Includes a 90-minute intake session to identify targets for processing.

    Four hours of Brainspotting processing during Intensive.

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    Three-Day Brainspotting Intensive

    Financing available through Care Credit

    For those ready to decrease symptoms and efficiently process traumatic experiences. Clients are given a specialized treatment plan and resources for self-care during processing.

    Includes 90-minute intake session to identify targets for processing.

    Consists of three 3-hour sessions of resourcing, processing, and integration.

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    Five-Day Brainspotting Intensives

    Financing available through Care Credit

    For those ready to decrease symptoms and efficiently process traumatic experiences. Clients are given a specialized treatment plan and resources for self-care during processing.

    Includes 90 minute intake session to identify targets for processing.

    Consists of five 3-hour sessions of resourcing, processing, and integration.

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Regain a sense of calm again.

Jumpstart your healing with a Brainspotting Intensive.

We offer Brainspotting Intensives to help you significantly reduce your symptoms and regain a sense of calm again. Brainspotting Intensives focus on the most disturbing trauma memories and processes those in a safe therapeutic environment with a trained professional. Intensives are most helpful for those with one-time trauma events, such as a car accident, sudden death or loss, sexual assault, or perinatal trauma. They can also be helpful for those with complex PTSD or chronic symptoms related to trauma. New research shows that intensive therapy for trauma and stress can be effective in symptom reduction in a short period of time. Our Brainspotting therapists use relational and attachment techniques along with Brainspotting and Flash Technique to help you process your traumatic experienced within the day.

Are Brainspotting Intensives right for me?

You might be a good fit for Brainspotting Intensives if:

  • You have PTSD.

  • You have a one-time traumatic event that continues to haunt you and cause significant distress.

    • You survived a car accident.

    • You lived through a natural disaster.

    • You were robbed.

    • You were sexually assaulted.

    • You lived through a scary event that changed how you see the world.

  • You are a healthcare worker working with COVID patients.

  • You are a first responder that sees trauma at your place of work.

  • You provide emergency services for victims/survivors of trauma.

  • Have experienced a sudden loss or death.

  • You are in weekly therapy but need to address trauma memories in order to gain better results from therapy.

  • You survived abuse, neglect, or trauma in childhood.

  • You experienced the death of a parent at a really young age.

  • You experienced narcissistic abuse from a partner.

  • You have experienced the loss or death of a child.

Benefits of Brainspotting Intensives

  • Sessions are completed in a one, three or five-day format. This reduces the need to take off work or obtain weekly childcare for weekly sessions.

  • The upfront costs are greater for Intensives, but the shorter duration of therapy means that you save money over the course of treatment.

  • You can avoid waitlists for qualified and helpful Brainspotting practitioners in your area and get the immediate benefits of symptom relief.

What’s unique about our Brainspotting Intensives?

Our trained Brainspotting therapists use a relational approach to treatment. We use attachment theory, along with Flash Technique and Brainspotting to help you overcome your most disturbing memories. Our Brainspotting Intensives are focused on relieving your symptoms, while also taking great care in teaching you how to regulate your nervous system. Feeling safe with your feelings and internal world is our main focus as we help you process your trauma. You can read more about our approach on our blog.

Pick up the pieces and weave a new story.

What’s the process of a Brainspotting Intensive?

  • Intensive Intake

    Before any intensive experience, your therapist will schedule an extended intake session. We will gather helpful information about your symptoms, your goals for the intensive, and schedule the intensive experience.

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  • Preparation + Skill Building

    We provide a helpful workbook before any intensive experience for you to identify and practice grounding techniques. We ensure this is a supportive and safe experience by preparing you well before the intensive. The workbook is yours to keep after the intensive.

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  • Extended Processing

    During the intensive, we will process trauma and address symptoms for 3 to 4 hours at a time. We incorporate movement, grounding, and breathing exercises in between processing to ensure an optimal experience.

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 Want to learn more about our approach to Brainspotting?

We answer all of your questions on our blog.

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