Integrative Intensives offered by Jeffry

Are you feeling challenged about an issue you’ve been wanting to work through for a while?  If you find that weekly or hour-long psychotherapy sessions have not allowed the time and space you need to fully process or resolve an issue, then perhaps an Intensive Retreat may be a wonderful option.  One major benefit of an Intensive is that it can help unearth and clear up the roots of behaviors that make your suffering endure.
 
An Intensive is like a tough-love retreat.  Such an experience brings therapist and client together with intention, time, preparation, and total focus for a piece of work on an issue or pattern.  It is a way to create dedicated time to your recovery from a problematic issue without distractions or typical time constraints. Such a gift of process allows us to go deep into the historical roots of your challenge and help to resolve or significantly lessen your angst on the issue. 
 
Prior to the intensive we first complete an initial assessment and agreement to get to know one another and identify if moving forward with an intensive would be the best approach for your presenting issue. We then decide together how much time you want or need to spend on processing the issue (typically up to 6 hours per day for one day, or several days in a row is sufficient).  Rest breaks are included in all intensives.
 
Intensives can be conducted via telehealth or in person.
 
Jeffry uses the following approaches:

• AIRDI (Advanced Integrative Resource Development and Installation) – Jeffry created this novel strategy in 2013, which assists clients to strengthen their ego and enhance a sense of deeper connection with whatever qualities they wish (i.e., feeling more loving, peaceful, grounded, powerful, or confident, etc.).  The AIRDI protocol borrows from the work of the following therapeutic approaches: bilateral stimulation, RDI (“Resource Development and Installation” from EMDR work), guided imagery, hypnosis elements (including hypnotic language), use of metaphor, ideomotor signaling, and mental rehearsal.
• Brainspotting
• Breathwork
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
• Energy Psychology – e.g., TFT (Thought Field Therapy) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
• Hypnotherapy (and Self-Hypnosis Instruction)
• Jungian Archetype Work and Guided Imagery
• Neuropsychological Approaches
• Past Life Regression Therapy 
• Psychospiritual Approaches
• Shamanic Travel and Imagery 
• Use of the Developmental Life Script (per the work of Dr. Brenda Schaeffer)

Therapeutic Intensives

In a Therapeutic Intensive, we combine inner listening, intuition, and former psychotherapy insights to direct the process to your healing.  A multitude of clinical approaches are offered to help reach the goal of each Intensive.
 

Trauma Intensives

In a Trauma Intensive, we combine inner listening, intuition, and former psychotherapy insights and trauma-informed care to direct the process to your healing.

Professional Intensives

In a Professional Intensive, we focus on you the therapist or healer wanting to deepen your attunement and capacity to hold space in client work. Maybe there are barriers and boundaries that are not being addressed in your work. Perhaps deeper negative core beliefs or traumas are the cause of your professional challenges. These issues can create patterns within the parallel process of psychotherapy that might restrict your ability to be fully present or might hinder your efforts in supporting clients.
 
Addressing these and other concerns can illuminate and help shift this lens in one’s practice with clients. It really starts with our own work, and it is a courageous step forward in addressing issues within ourselves that perpetuate clinical blind-spots, fray relational alliances, and keep old patterns in place. 
 
By addressing issues that detract from therapeutic relationship attunement and having a settled neuro-somatic experience, therapists and healers can learn to practice witnessing their clients on a much deeper relational and neurophysiological level and engage more effectively in their work.
 
Intensives for healers are a blend of consultation and brain/body-based awareness with the goal of helping the body enter coherence and regulation. A calm, conscious, settled nervous system will help other nervous systems to better regulate. These Intensives are also a form of self-care, especially given that the healing professions interface with suffering and trauma material on a regular basis. Additionally, in times when widespread uncertainty and global stressors activate existential trauma and survival instincts in all of us, taking time to clear, self-reflect, and replenish can profoundly impact your work and outlook in a fresh, positive way.