For those choosing an individual intensive, we will begin with a virtual or in-person 50-minute preparation session arranged through Simple Practice. We will explore your current resources and supports, your intention for the intensive process, and move through an overview of the experience together.

For those choosing a group intensive, we will begin with a 30-minute consultation call arranged through Simple Practice. We will also explore your current resources and supports, your intention for the intensive process, and move through an overview of the experience together.

We will confirm scheduling and review key dates. You will also be provided with the Developmental and Relational Trauma (DART) assessment, required reading, and prerequisites to ensure you are prepared for day one.

You must be involved in your own individual therapy to attend an intensive. A Release of Information for your current provider will also be requested at this time.

For those who choose the multi-day individual intensive experience, trauma-informed somatic touch will be offered to enhance nervous system regulation and the repair of somatic trust. You can learn more about Transforming Touch® and the Transforming the Experience-based Brain (TEB) model at the Austin Attachment and Counseling Center.

Transforming Touch® is not included in the multi-day group intensive.

No prior somatic therapy or Transforming Touch® experience is required.

Psychoeducation is a cornerstone to the intensive experience. This develops safety and containment in the therapeutic space and establishes informed choice as well as a shared language to support the depth of work that follows.

The required reading and prerequisite work are also part of the psychoeducational materials that facilitate engagement and connection upon entering the intensive.

You will be guided through a review of your DART assessment. We can call this Getting Your Story Straight as we identify family of origin patterns and early relational experiences that shape your present day functioning with attention given to core woundings, beliefs, emotion, and somatic responses.

It is required that you complete the DART Assessment to participate in the intensive experience. This assessment is to be completed and returned two weeks prior to your scheduled intensive.

With grounded presence and somatic support, you will be guided to reconnect with younger parts of self to offer the attunement, protection, and care that were needed but missing in childhood. The intention is to support corrective experiences along with integrative reprocessing for the reclamation of inherent worth and birthrights.

With guidance and therapeutic presence, you will be supported in releasing shame, anger, and burdens that do not belong to you. In doing so, you will be strengthening your personal agency, repairing boundary ruptures, and affirming authentic self-expression beyond survival adaptations.

For those choosing a 3-day individual trauma intensive, you will be offered targeted integrative reprocessing with the historical parts of self that you connect with in the reparenting phase. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly researched evidence-based intervention for the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related symptoms.

No prior EMDR experience is required.

For those choosing a multi-day individual trauma intensive, you will be provided a 50-minute in-person or virtual integration session within one month of your intensive. Our time will focus on your reflections, insights and noticings that you are experiencing, supportive resources, and sustaining your recovery efforts moving forward.