Johanna Koenig Psychotherapy

Trauma Intensive Therapy

Private 1 to 3 day immersion for focused trauma healing.

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You have built
a successful life but…


Yet you might feel emotionally drained, anxious, or stuck in patterns that do not shift.
This work offers focused, intensive trauma healing in a short time frame, with care and pacing.

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  • A Trauma Healing Intensive is a private, personalized 1 to 3 day therapy experience.
    The goal is efficient resolution of deep emotional wounds without repeatedly retelling your story.
    You step away from daily stressors and focus fully on healing.

  • Reprocess trauma and emotional pain with minimal verbal retelling
    Calm your nervous system and reduce fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses

    ⤷ Reduce triggers, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm
    ⤷ Build stronger beliefs about self and safety
    ⤷ Reconnect with clarity and steadiness

  • This work fits high functioning women who look strong outwardly and feel exhausted, anxious, or disconnected inwardly.

  • ⤷ Tried weekly therapy and still feel triggered
    ⤷ Need a shorter timeline than weekly sessions
    ⤷ Are working through trauma, grief, anxiety, or a major life transition
    ⤷ Want meaningful progress in days
    ⤷ Want to move out of survival mode and into emotional stability

  • Weekly therapy helps many people.
    An immersion intensive condenses therapy time into longer sessions with fewer distractions.
    This supports faster integration and stronger momentum.

    Core method
    ⤷ Accelerated Resolution Therapy, ART
    ⤷ ART uses guided eye movements to support the brain’s natural processing of distressing memories.

    * Many clients prefer ART because it reduces the need to describe details out loud.

    Benefits often reported
    ⤷ Fast
    ⤷ Gentle
    ⤷ Private
    ⤷ Research supported

Trauma Intensive Services


Accelerated Resolution Therapy® (ART)–Informed Care

Some experiences remain active in the nervous system long after they have passed. Even with insight and effort, trauma‑related responses can continue to show up as anxiety, emotional reactivity, avoidance, or a sense of being stuck.

Trauma Intensive Services offer focused, extended therapy time to address these responses using Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) within a carefully structured, trauma‑informed framework.

  • This approach may be appropriate if:

        •    You have participated in therapy before but trauma responses persist

        •    Weekly sessions feel too fragmented for the work you need to do

        •    You are navigating the impact of a specific traumatic experience or pattern

        •    You want focused, contained care rather than prolonged treatment

    A consultation is required to ensure this format is clinically appropriate.

  • A Trauma Intensive is a time‑limited, multi‑day therapy experience (typically one to three days) centered on a specific treatment focus.

    The extended format allows for:

        •    Greater continuity and therapeutic momentum

        •    Individualized attention without the interruption of weekly spacing

        •    Careful pacing, regulation, and integration across sessions

    The goal is not intensity for its own sake, but adequate time and containment to support meaningful processing.

  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is an evidence‑based psychotherapy used to treat trauma‑related distress, anxiety, and other trauma‑linked symptoms. ART incorporates guided eye movements to help the brain reprocess distressing memories in a way that reduces their emotional and physiological impact.

    ART:

        •    Does not require detailed verbal recounting of traumatic events

        •    Allows memories to remain intact while reducing distress

        •    Emphasizes client control, safety, and regulation

        •    Is guided by standardized protocols and clinical judgment

    Within a trauma intensive, ART is used selectively and thoughtfully, based on readiness, presentation, and ongoing assessment.

  • ART is integrated into trauma intensives as part of a broader, trauma‑informed treatment approach. The extended time allows for:

        •    Preparation and stabilization

        •    Memory processing using ART protocols

        •    Integration and grounding following each session

    This structure supports nervous system regulation and reduces the risk of emotional overwhelm.

    What to Expect

    Trauma Intensives are carefully paced and structured. Sessions include time for grounding, rest, and integration, with clear daily closures.

    Your intensive may include:

        •    A pre‑intensive consultation and screening

        •    Multiple therapy sessions across consecutive days

        •    ART‑based memory processing, when appropriate

        •    Thoughtful planning for follow‑up and next steps

  • Weekly therapy helps many people.
    An immersion intensive condenses therapy time into longer sessions with fewer distractions.
    This supports faster integration and stronger momentum.

    Core method
    ⤷ Accelerated Resolution Therapy, ART
    ⤷ ART uses guided eye movements to support the brain’s natural processing of distressing memories.

    * Many clients prefer ART because it reduces the need to describe details out loud.

    Benefits often reported
    ⤷ Fast
    ⤷ Gentle
    ⤷ Private
    ⤷ Research supported

A Thoughtful, Ethical Approach

Trauma Intensive Services are not crisis treatment and are not appropriate for every situation. They are offered on a limited basis and only when clinically indicated.

The focus is on safety, containment, and responsible use of evidence‑based care.

Confidential Inquiry

If you are interested in Trauma Intensive Services using Accelerated Resolution Therapy, you may submit a confidential inquiry. All inquiries are reviewed carefully, and we will reach out to determine whether this approach is a good fit.