Questions about intensive therapy

Start with what intensive therapy is and how it compares with other options. The questions below go into the detail.

Safety and suitability

• Is a trauma intensive safe?
• What does a pre-intensive assessment involve?

The experience

• How do you prepare for a therapy intensive?
• What happens during a therapy intensive, day by day?
• What happens after an intensive? Integration and aftercare

Methods

• How does IFS work in an intensive format?
• How does Brainspotting work in an intensive format?

Evidence

• Is intensive therapy evidence-based? What the research says

Couples

• Couples intensive or weekly couples therapy: what's the difference?
• What is Relational Life Therapy (RLT)?
• Can a couples intensive help with affair recovery?
• Couples or individual intensive: which comes first?

Discernment counselling

• What is discernment counselling?
• Who is discernment counselling for?
• Discernment counselling or couples therapy: which do we need?
• What happens in discernment counselling sessions?
• What are the three paths at the end of discernment counselling?
• I'm the one leaning out. What can discernment counselling offer me?
• Can discernment counselling help after an affair?
• When is discernment counselling not appropriate?
• Can discernment counselling be done online or across countries?
• How do discernment counselling and a couples intensive fit together?

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