Personal Intensive Therapy

Personal Intensives are designed for individuals who are highly motivated and seeking a supportive space with customized treatment and limited distractions to process traumas, triggers, and blocks in the most rapid and efficient way. Research supports that Intensive Therapy often has better therapeutic outcomes than standard sessions.

At STIR Psychology, Personal Intensive Therapy are private individual appointments with a Brainspotting therapist. This grants the time needed for the in-depth work of uncovering limiting patterns, addressing specific traumas and negative beliefs towards self, and connecting with your true identity and goals for lasting improvements.

After the Personal Intensive is completed, standard session bookings are available as needed for ongoing support, accountability, and treatment planning.

Benefits Of Personal Intensive Therapy:

Customized treatment: Personalized treatment plan to ensure it caters to the individual's needs and goals.
Rapid progress: Intensive Therapy sessions allow individuals to work through their trauma at a much faster pace than traditional therapy approaches, leading to quicker healing and symptom relief.
Deep Brain and Body Based Healing though Brainspotting: Brainspotting is a powerful brain/body focused treatment that identifies, processes, and releases deep neurophysiological and emotional trauma, negative self-beliefs, problematic behaviours, and performance blocks.

Therapeutic Approach - Brainspotting Therapy:

Brainspotting is a therapeutic tool for everyone with a variety of issues. If you are new to therapy and are looking for a way to change behaviour patterns, Brainspotting can help resolve the emotional and physical pain that keeps you stuck in those patterns. If you have been in therapy before but feel that your work could go deeper, Brainspotting can take therapy to another level of healing. Clients report finding the cause of their conflicts and turning them into growth opportunities.

If you are uncomfortable talking about your past traumatic experiences, this modality will enable you to heal without telling or retelling your story.

For more information and published research, view our Brainspotting resources.

Blogs: Brainspotting Therapy

What issues can Brainspotting be applied to?

Physical and emotional trauma
Addictions
Anger
Anxiety
Chronic pain conditions
Cravings
Creativity enhancement
Depression
Eating Disorders
Grief/loss
Lack of confidence
Lack of focus
Life transitions
Performance enhancement
Poor sleep
PTSD
Recovery from injury and accident
Relationship issues
Stress
Substance Use
Sugar Cravings
Triggers
Work issues
...& much more.

Personal Intensives Packages:

Private individual therapy with a therapist (in-person only).
Please Note: A regular 1-hour intake session is required prior to Intensives, which is not included in packages (in-person or online).

Option 1: Two Half Days - 8 therapy hours, that includes a 1-hour follow-up session; a 50% deposit is due upon scheduling and the remainder is due 2 weeks prior to the booking. Price: $2240

Option 2: Three Half Days - 12 therapy hours, that includes a 1-hour follow-up session; a 50% deposit is due upon scheduling and the remainder is due 2 weeks prior to the booking. Price: $3360

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations can be made up to 30 days before your scheduled appointment with a $300 cancellation fee. 50% is non-refundable within 30 days; the full amount is non-refundable within 14 days.
Your session can be rescheduled one time. However, the new date must be within three months of your original date.

Personal Intensives Are For Individuals:

In crisis and have specific unwanted behaviours or problems they are struggling with.
Have experienced trauma or betrayal.
Who seem to cycle through the same problem without seeming to make any progress.
In a location where they must travel to receive therapy and therefore prefer to attend for a condensed period of time, rather than travelling weekly.
With special scheduling needs.
Who are highly motivated and want to continue to be intentional about building the life of their dreams.

Personal Intensive Therapy may move you more quickly and intensely into the areas of difficulty. Therefore you may experience uncomfortable feelings like sadness, guilt, anxiety, anger, loneliness, and helplessness. Your therapy may also involve recalling unpleasant aspects of your history.

Personal Intensive Therapy Limitations:

There are limitations to Personal Intensives and are unadvisable in the following situations:

Active alcohol and/or drug addiction that would prevent one from attending sober.
Currently has an unmanaged major mental illness (schizophrenia, recurrent psychotic depression, or bipolar/manic-depressive illness.) This does not include past, successfully treated psychotic episodes (e.g. post-partum depression with psychosis).
Currently suicidal and/or homicidal.

Paula Gurnett is a Certified Brainspotting Professional and Consultant and has completed Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 4, Phase 5, Masterclass, Brainspotting and Addictions, Imagespotting/Harmonic Brain Healing, Parts, Changing Lives-One Badge at a Time (for law enforcement and first responders), and Brainspotting Consultant. She provides a safe and supportive space that is non-judgemental. She believes you are the expert of your own life and holds it as a great honour to walk alongside those she works with.

Intensive Therapy is available 6 days/week. Please call or email for inquiries and bookings.

Insurance Coverage: Each benefit plan varies, please verify with your insurance company that C.C.C. (Canadian Certified Counsellor) is covered. Receipts are provided for reimbursement.

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