Trauma Healing Intensives
For those ready to take a deep dive into their healing —
and feel better, sooner.
What Is a Trauma Healing Intensive?
Our Trauma Healing Intensive program is a customized, condensed approach to trauma therapy designed to help you process and release old patterns more efficiently.
Rather than spreading therapy across months or years, you’ll work with your therapist in extended sessions over a short period (typically 10 hours within 3–4 days, spread across a two-week window).
Session lengths vary between 90 minutes and 4 hours, depending on your needs, capacity, and goals.
You’ll begin with a 90-minute Preparation Session where you and your therapist co-create your personalized plan, incorporating modalities such as:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy)
Somatic Therapy
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Expressive Arts Therapy
Weekend scheduling is available, and you’ll have a continuity of care follow-up session scheduled a few weeks after your intensive to help integrate insights and anchor the changes.
What to Expect
Your intensive is a carefully held container — an immersive healing experience that allows you to:
Go deeper, faster: With sustained time, your nervous system can fully engage and complete trauma processing that would normally take months.
Feel supported and grounded: You’ll have guidance through grounding, movement, and integration rituals each day to help your body and mind stay regulated.
Create real change: Clients often describe feeling “lighter,” more present, and connected to themselves in ways they hadn’t thought possible.
The Investment
The cost of a Trauma Healing Intensive is $2,150.
That may sound like a lot at first glance — but consider this: most people spend far more on traditional therapy over a year without the same momentum of healing. Intensives are an accelerated, transformational investment in your wellbeing.
Payment plans are available, and you can discuss options during your intake or preparation session.
Is an Intensive Right for You?
Intensives are ideal if you:
Feel ready to face your trauma with courage and support
Want to experience meaningful progress in a short time
Are struggling with symptoms that haven’t shifted through traditional therapy
Thrive in immersive, focused environments
They might not be the best fit if you’re currently in crisis, newly sober, or navigating acute instability — but your therapist can help you determine readiness and prepare for this work safely.
Your Next Step
Healing doesn’t have to take years. When your nervous system has the time and space to complete what’s unfinished, transformation can happen more quickly — and with profound results.
If your body feels a little spark of yes reading this, trust that.
Want to learn more? Book a no obligation, free 20-minute consultation and let’s see if a Trauma Healing Intensive is the right next step for you!
Our Trauma Healing Intensive might be just the thing you’ve been looking for.
Book a free 20-minute consultation appointment now to learn more about how our trauma healing intensive programming can help you fast-track your recovery, without cutting corners. Let’s get you feeling better, sooner!
Trauma & Grief
Trauma and grief share interconnected ‘symptoms’ of traumatic responses that are experienced through intense feelings of detachment from the body.
Our nervous systems are directly tied to our emotions, stress, and breathing. The autonomic nervous system is composed of the sympathetic “fight-or-flight” activation, and parasympathetic “rest and digest” calming sensations.
When faced with real or perceived fears or threats to safety and security, your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) automatically reacts with a trauma/stress response (“fight-or-flight”).
This activated SNS response prepares you for survival from threat through a physiological response of increased stress hormones. These hormones and increased heart rate stimulate (and sometimes overwhelm) your body to take action, but leave you feeling bombarded with a cycle of anxiety, panic, or dread.
Research shows that trauma get trapped as stored energy in the physical body, and the fight-or-flight response becomes habitually over-active. Although your body is attempting to protect itself, it can feel like it is turning against you through unpleasant experiences of hyper-vigilance, irritability, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and/or disassociation. Over time, the over-activated SNS can lead to poor health conditions such as IBS, chronic fatigue, insomnia, etc., and potentially be the catalyst for increased destructive behaviors such as substance use or self-inflicted harm.
But, there is good news! Once your mind and body believe you are safe, the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) brings you back to feeling more relaxed. When the PNS is engaged, your heart rate decreases, your breathing slows, and your anxiety diminishes.
Embodied Healing
Our bodies are the containers for all of our feelings and sensations.
When focusing on recovery and healing from trauma and/or grief, it’s really important to first learn how to cultivate and feel a sense of internal security within your own body.
Trauma-conscious embodied healing is an integrative mind-body practice offered at Hearts for Hope Therapy that is specifically designed around safety and security. This specialized, somatic approach to trauma healing takes into account the profound imprints that trauma has on the body.
Because trauma lives in the body, mindful movement, meditation, and somatic tools combined with intentional breathing techniques can amplify your awareness of and connection to the parts of your body that feel stuck, anxious, or tense. These areas can be an indication of where the trauma lives, and are the exact areas where healing needs to occur.
Embodied healing techniques will teach you how to intentionally use the parasympathetic nervous system to calm your body and mind, and therefore bring yourself out of the fight-of-flight trauma response more quickly.
By deepening awareness of the connection between physiological, cognitive, and emotional experiences that show up in the body in the present moment, you learn how to accept all emotions as inner guides.
This will allow you to unravel unhelpful or painful stories and negative core beliefs that you may have previously attached to yourself as a result of your traumatic experiences.
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Here’s another way to think about it… Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), an effective form of talk therapy, may help you learn how to restructure unhelpful thought patterns in your mind, but Embodied Healing practices help you feel better as you learn how to restructure and release the physiological impact that trauma and/or grief has on the body.
Somatic Therapy
The word somatic is derived from the Greek word “soma” which means “living body.”
Somatic awareness is gained through developing a more complete connection with your body’s experience in the present moment.
Through specific somatic tools and techniques that give your body a ‘felt’ awareness of physical sensation that is attached to emotions, you’ll begin to notice and unwind the stored traumatic experiences in your body that block you from being in the present lived moment.
A somatic approach to therapy will teach you how to be in harmony with your nervous system, so that you become empowered with a newfound sense of control and trust in your body’s ability to move away from the over-active ‘fight-or-flight’ response in order to feel calm, safe, and secure.
HeARTS for Hope Therapy weaves many somatic techniques into therapeutic offerings, such as:
Mindfulness
Tracking physical & emotional sensations
Pendulation (moving between ‘felt’ senses)
Breath-work
Guided meditations
Trauma-Conscious Yoga
Yin / Restorative, Yoga Nidra, & Mindful Vinyasa
Progressive muscle relaxation
EMDR bilateral stimulation
With ongoing practice of somatic and embodied healing techniques, you will reclaim your sense of security and comfort within your own body and release stored traumatic energies. You will recognize how to respond versus react to your nervous system activations, and you’ll begin to notice your hyper-vigilance, anxiety, sleep troubles, and/or flashbacks are happening less frequently.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
- Carl Jung
Ready to deepen your mind-body connection?
Book a free 20-minute consultation appointment now to learn more about how embodied healing practices can illuminate your inner strength and help you feel more empowered in your trauma recovery.