Intensive Trauma Therapy
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Get Your Life Back with Intensive Trauma Therapy
Our highly skilled intensive trauma therapists can help you heal from the past and empower you to live the life you want and deserve.
Is Intensive Trauma Therapy right for me?
Are there specific events in your past that you just can’t seem to get past? Do you feel angry, anxious, and/or depressed and you don’t know why? Have you spent years in weekly therapy and received little or no relief? At TICTI, we are not just trauma-informed but also trauma-focused. We support people using our intensive trauma therapy model so they can heal from the past. Our clients consistently report positive and lasting results.
Intensive trauma therapy is a multiple-day therapy retreat where clients work one-on-one with their therapist for up to six hours a day, typically for five consecutive days. During these days, the therapist will use research-supported trauma healing techniques such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Progressive Counting (PC), or the Flash Technique interwoven with several other therapeutic modalities, depending on the client’s needs.
Research-backed trauma healing
Our model features the best of the research-supported trauma healing methods:
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing): EMDR is a specialized procedure for resolving trauma or loss memories. It involves the client concentrating on the worst moment of their memory while visually following the therapist’s moving fingers. This process is repeated with different aspects of the memory until no further distress remains.
- PC (Progressive Counting): PC involves having the client visualize a series of progressively longer “movies” of the trauma memory while the therapist counts out loud (first to a count of 10, then 20, then 30, etc.).
- Flash technique: The Flash technique is a recently developed therapy procedure that involves having the client at least partially resolve a traumatic memory without consciously engaging it.
Speed up your healing
Intensive trauma therapy accelerates your healing from trauma and loss. Our effective treatment approach can help you:
- Heal past wounds of trauma and loss
- Overcome symptoms of anxiety, depression, anger, shame, dissociation, and more
- Have enhanced creativity and productivity at work and school
- Experience more joy and ease in your life
- Improve physical health and sense of well-being
- Be able to recall traumatic memories with no “charge”
- Have better emotional self-awareness, self-regulation, self-compassion, and self-care
- Have increased ability to give and receive love and to feel secure in relationships
- Feel empowered to claim identities marginalized by society
What can Intensive Trauma Therapy help with?
We understand how urgent the need for help can be. We are ready to work with you to begin your healing journey.
Our proven-effective intensive trauma therapy can successfully treat any type of trauma symptom, including but not limited to:
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Behavioral challenges
- Depression
- Distorted self-perception
- Feeling overwhelmed
- Low self-esteem
- Nightmares
- Grief and loss
- Hypervigilance
- Flashbacks
- Self-harm
- Stress
- Substance abuse
- Trust issues
- Somatic symptoms
- Interpersonal challenges
Wondering if intensive trauma therapy is the right fit for you?
Is Intensive trauma therapy safe?
We make sure intensive trauma therapy is the right fit at the right time. Our intake clinicians meet for an hour with potential clients where together they determine if it’s the right time. After the intake, our therapist will recommend what the best next step is. Once accepted into the program, the treatment is tailored to each individual client, and the therapy will safely go at the client’s pace.
Intensive trauma therapy is not for people in an acute crisis situation. In these situations, we will offer guidance as to what the best path forward would be.
Why Choose TICTI?
- TICTI has been an international leader in the trauma world since 2009. Our leadership and training programs have led to the growing popularity of trauma therapy intensives.
- In a randomized study of 96 crime victims treated with either intensive EMDR or intensive progressive counting (PC), participants saw statistically and clinically significant improvements in posttraumatic stress, presenting problems, level of functioning, and quality of life, with large to very large effect sizes maintained at follow-up. The two therapies performed comparably on every outcome.
- We use the most effective and efficient of the research-supported trauma healing methods, including EMDR, Progressive Counting, and Flash technique, as well as attachment work, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and other parts work modalities, art therapy, and more.
- Our founder and executive director, Ricky Greenwald, PsyD, is a leading expert in EMDR and Flash, and the developer of Progressive Counting (PC) as well as our intensive trauma therapy model.
- Consistent with the research findings, our clients report positive and lasting results.
Meet Your Therapist
Our expert therapists have undergone extensive specialized training and supervision. TICTI therapists have experience working with people of all ages from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Hour-Per-Week Therapy vs. Intensive Therapy
Weekly Therapy
- Strategies for coping and personal coaching
- Symptom management
- Some improvement in your sense of well-being
- Some insight and personal growth, but it may take longer
- Little time for working on the root(s) of the problem
- Results typically take a year or two, or many more
Intensive Trauma Therapy
- Trauma/loss memories and related symptoms can be processed and resolved
- Enough time and focus to do the healing work
- Negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can be left behind
- Space to grow and build the life you want for yourself
- Can be done in a couple of days to a couple of weeks
What clients say after Intensive Trauma Therapy
TICTI clients have described the following benefits after doing intensive trauma therapy:
- “It was completely transformative.”
- “Now that I am feeling so much freer, I am pursuing things that give me joy, and that is a new thing for me.”
- “This is stuff that I carried for decades. And I was able to put it away and move forward and my life has changed in amazing and fabulous ways.”
- “I am so much more myself now, without carrying this trauma with me”
- “I tell people I am cured from PTSD. I do not suffer from the symptoms of that anymore.”
What is Intensive Trauma Therapy like?
- Free intake consultation screening (by Zoom, or phone if preferred)
- Meet and greet with assigned therapist (if so desired)
- The intensive (up to six hours per day, typically for five consecutive days):
- Set treatment goals with your therapist
- Collaborate on a personalized treatment plan
- Complete preparation work before trauma-focused treatment begins
- Work through your trauma and loss history
- Develop and practice skills for anticipated challenges
If you think you would benefit from more days, you can always decide to come back for more.
Locations
Many people undergoing Intensive Trauma Therapy find it beneficial to spend a week away from home and daily distractions. This enables them to focus on their healing and use their evenings for journaling, a walk, a massage, or any downtime activity that they may enjoy.
*All therapy is provided through our TherapyRetreat.Org program with the exception of therapy provided to New York clients, which is provided through the independent practice of Ricky Greenwald, PsyD.
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