Therapy Intensives for Acute Trauma
Focused, Immersive Care
For Your Mental Health
These extended sessions are here to support
deeper, more concentrated care after intense life events.
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When life throws you a total curveball.
One moment you’re seemingly fine, and the next you receive news or experience an event that totally rocks your world. In therapy terms, we call this “acute trauma”. But you may experience it as a total life disrupter, intrusive thoughts, heightened anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and now you’re not totally sure how to move forward. From motor accidents and medical trauma, to death, grief, and natural disasters, it’s best to start processing through these moments as soon as possible.
Enter: Therapy Intensives
These more frequent sessions are designed to help your nervous system process what happened more fully sooner, rather than pushing it aside and hoping it fades on its own.
Therapy Intensives can be helpful if…
- You recently experienced a traumatic event that disrupted your life and you’re not sure how to process through it
- Weekly therapy sessions never feel like enough time
- Your nervous system constantly feels heightened or unsettled
- Revisiting the same thing in therapy week-over-week isn’t helping you work through it
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Specializing in therapy for…
A car crash can leave you replaying the moment long after it’s over. Your body reacts before your brain can catch up - gripping the steering wheel tighter, avoiding certain roads, or not getting in a car all together. Therapy intensives give us space to process so your nervous system can settle and being in a vehicle doesn't feel like a constant threat.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
An unpleasant or scary medical experience may have been quick, but the impact lingers. Appointments now bring up anticipatory anxiety, tension, or a feeling of losing control in your body. We can work through that experience so future care feels more manageable and your body isn’t bracing for the worst.
Medical or Dental Trauma
Grief can feel disorienting. Trying to function while carrying something this heavy comes in unexpected waves. Our work focuses on creating a space to process the loss more fully, instead of squeezing it into small pieces week by week.
Death & Grief
Experiencing a natural disaster can shake your sense of safety and predictability. Even after things look “normal”, your body may still feel hyper-aware or unsettled. Intensives give you time to process so your system can recalibrate and feel steadier.
Natural Disasters
What To Expect
Our team is trained in brain-based therapy. This relies on your brain’s ability to reorganize itself with new information to promote healthier, sustainable behaviors and emotions.
brain-based care
Longer, More Frequent Sessions
We don’t believe in weight-centric or shame-based approaches to mental health. Our work focuses on returning to internal cues and health-promoting behaviors, regardless of your body size.
HAES ® - Alignment
Two-hour sessions, up to multiple days a week that are designed for depth and efficiency. This allows us to explore deeper processing without stopping just as momentum builds.
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Insurance & Fees
Hello Me Therapy is in-network with OHP Health Share / CareOregon, Aetna, Pacific Source (commercial plans only), and Moda. If you have another insurance or a more restrictive plan, we are happy to provide you with a monthly superbill which you can submit to your insurance provider for reimbursement.
Frequently Asked Questions
How are intensives different from regular weekly sessions?
Intensives are isolated therapy appointments that are longer than a weekly session and are targeted to help someone get movement on a challenging symptom or issue. Intensives can often help with momentum and relief. They are great if a topic might feel “too big” or “too intense” to bring up in weekly therapy. Intensives often look like 2 hour brain-based therapy sessions, multiple times in a week. Clients who complete intensives often feel like they have done multiple weeks of therapy in a single session.
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Are therapy intensives covered by insurance?
Some insurances will cover a portion of the intensive, however this is dependent on each individual’s plan. We are happy to supply a superbill that you can utilize for reimbursement, but coverage depends on each individual’s plan.
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What if my trauma happened months or years ago? Would an intensive still be helpful?
Absolutely! Intensives are great for trauma’s that might be hard to access, might have felt too intense to attend to in the past, or it just wasn’t the right time. We can can see if resolving any past trauma can help relieve symptoms you are currently experience.
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How do I prepare for an Intensive?
For new clients, we typically first need to do an intake assessment to make a plan for the intensive. For an intensive day, we recommend doing it on a day as free from stress as possible. This often means taking the day off of work or doing it at the end of a work day. Oftentimes people will feel tired afterwards and it’s important to not make any big life decisions or to be as free from obligations as possible. Participants need to avoid all mind-altering substances for five hours before and after session. This includes caffeine, cannabis, alcohol, and any non-prescribed medications.
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