• Amy Hertle Counseling Intensive Therapy

Intensive Therapy

Intensive Therapy

Deep, Focused Healing to Create Lasting Change

Sometimes weekly 50-minute sessions aren’t enough to address the depth of trauma, long-held patterns, or emotional blocks that are keeping you from living fully. Intensive Therapy provides unhurried, uninterrupted time to go deeper, allowing you to process, integrate, and transform experiences more effectively than traditional weekly therapy alone.

This approach provides a focused, personalized framework to:

  • Heal trauma and release old patterns stored in the body and mind
  • Transform limiting beliefs and behaviors that keep you stuck
  • Clarify goals and expand your vision for a more fulfilling life
  • Integrate insights into your daily experience for lasting change

Is Intensive Therapy Right for You?

Intensive Therapy may be the ideal choice if you resonate with any of the following:

  • Feeling stuck in weekly sessions: You sense that standard therapy sessions leave you just getting started before time is up.
  • Desire for profound change: You’ve invested time in therapy but feel something essential hasn’t shifted yet.
  • Mind-body disconnect: You understand new concepts cognitively, but your body and habits still reflect old patterns.
  • Integration-focused approach: You want guidance on how to fully bring your insights into your lived experience.
  • Busy schedule constraints: Weekly therapy feels impossible due to a demanding schedule or long waitlists.
  • Urgent need for support: You want immediate, concentrated help without committing to months or years in traditional weekly therapy.
  • Preparing for life transitions: You want support before a major event such as a wedding, becoming a parent, a medical procedure, starting a new job, or moving to a new city.
  • New to therapy: You prefer an intensive approach to begin your journey of healing.

What to Expect in Intensive Therapy

Intensive Therapy sessions are tailored to your needs, offering deep exploration in a safe and compassionate environment. By dedicating longer or more frequent time to therapy, you create space for:

  • Meaningful breakthroughs and faster emotional processing
  • Enhanced integration of insights into daily life
  • A stronger sense of clarity, balance, and empowerment

Whether you’re looking to release trauma, shift limiting beliefs, or prepare for a significant life change, Intensive Therapy in Minneapolis offers a focused, personalized path toward transformation and lasting healing.

What is Intensive Therapy?

Accelerated Healing Through Focused, Deep Therapeutic Work

Intensive Therapy is a powerful approach designed to accelerate the healing and transformation you might experience over months of traditional weekly sessions. Instead of attending 50-minute sessions once a week, Intensive Therapy allows you to dedicate a larger, uninterrupted block of time to deep, focused therapeutic work.

This concentrated approach gives you the opportunity to:

  • Build strong therapeutic rapport and a safe, trusting environment

  • Foster open communication without the pressure of rushing through a standard session

  • Go deeper into sensitive and vulnerable topics with time to process fully

  • Experience breakthroughs more quickly by immersing yourself in a sustained healing environment

Intensive Therapy offers a structured yet flexible way to explore trauma, emotional blocks, and limiting patterns while giving your mind and body the space to integrate insights, release old patterns, and move toward meaningful, lasting change.

How does Intensive Therapy Work

Pre-Intensive Session
Before beginning your Intensive, we will meet for a pre-Intensive session to explore your history, clarify your goals, and prepare for deep work. Together, we’ll examine your life across all major areas—psychological, social, emotional, physical, and relational—identifying what’s working well and what may need additional support. We’ll also review your existing coping tools and resources to determine how they can be strengthened during your Intensive.

The Intensive Sessions
Your Intensive consists of three consecutive days, three hours each day, providing unhurried, uninterrupted time to focus on your most important topics. This concentrated approach allows you to dig deeply, address sensitive areas, and create meaningful change, accelerating the healing and transformation you seek.

Post-Intensive Integration Session
Following the Intensive, we will meet for a post-Intensive session to reflect on your experience, integrate the changes you’ve made, and identify strategies to continue incorporating these insights into your daily life. We will also explore next steps if further support is needed.

This structured yet personalized process ensures that your Intensive Therapy experience is safe, focused, and transformative, giving you the tools and understanding to continue your healing journey with clarity and confidence.

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What Does an Intensive Include

In-Depth Assessment
Before your Pre-Intensive session, you’ll complete a comprehensive assessment to support the creation of a personalized treatment plan. This assessment also informs your customized treatment workbook, which will guide your work throughout the Intensive process.

Personalized Treatment Workbook
At your Pre-Intensive session, you will receive a personalized workbook designed to track your progress around your treatment goals. This workbook serves as a central place to record insights, reflections, and exercises before, during, and after your Intensive sessions.

Pre-Intensive Session
During this 90-minute session, we will explore and identify the painful memories, beliefs, emotions, and limiting narratives you want to address. Together, we will clarify your goals for the Intensive and prepare you for a focused and transformative experience.

Intensive Therapy Experience
Your Intensive Therapy sessions take place in my Minneapolis office and include three consecutive days, three hours each day. You may choose a schedule that best fits your life: Wednesday–Friday, Thursday–Saturday, or Friday–Sunday. Each Intensive is uniquely tailored to your needs and goals, providing deep, uninterrupted time to address trauma, release limiting patterns, and create lasting change.

Post-Intensive Session
Following your Intensive, we will meet for a 90-minute integration session. This time allows us to reflect on insights, relief, and transformation, and to explore strategies for continuing your growth and applying your breakthroughs in daily life.

Customized Therapy Blocks
For clients who have completed a full Intensive or wish to extend their work, we can design customized therapy blocks. These 2- or 3-hour modules allow deeper work with EMDR, Grief Recovery, or other modalities, creating a flexible plan that fits your life and unique healing needs.

Want to learn more? Let’s talk!