Brainspotting Therapy Intensives
For Couples and Individuals in Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, Temecula, or Online anywhere in California
Faster results for Lasting Change
You and your relationship are suffering.
To say you had a rough upbringing is an understatement. You were responsible for so much at a really young age, and while that’s helped you create success in your life, it hasn’t really helped you in your romantic relationships. You have faced a lot in your life, whether it was one major traumatic event that forever changed you or multiple terrible things that have occurred.
The memories of the past haunt you. You are no longer the same. You spend most of your days worrying and questioning yourself. You’re not eating right and hardly sleep. Your life feels so chaotic and even though you spend most of your time in your head worrying, you realize that nothing is even getting resolved.
No matter how much you talk about it and talk about it, it feels like it just won’t go away.
Sometimes you feel like you could just get past it all, but the good days have been reduced to good moments, and those good moments are becoming few and far between. Instead you show up as the mean parent - you are either constantly yelling and overwhelmed by your kids or you just hand them over to your partner to try to avoid dealing with them, and the guilt you feel at the end of the day for this leaves you feeling so much regret.
You know you can do better, but you’re afraid your partner is going to give up on you. Sometimes you want to give up on you. You want closeness and a deep, connected relationship but you feel lost on how to actually create that. You get so caught up on the day-to-day stresses and feel so exhausted and depleted by the end of the day that you have nothing left to give. You don’t feel like you’re doing anything right and you’re just so tired of fighting.
You want support. But you feel so lonely because as much as your partner tries to be supportive, you somehow end up pushing them away.
A Brainspotting Therapy Intensive Can Help.
Alicia Taverner, LMFT Your Brainspotting Therapist
Hey, I’m Alicia, and I use Brainspotting to help people who are exhausted and overwhelmed from carrying the shame and guilt of past pain and trauma to release the tension from their bodies and feel lighter and at peace with what has happened in the past so they can create their future.
I see you.
Wanting relief from the weight, stress, and pressure you constantly feel.
Wishing you could just reset your brain.
Hoping you could feel like the real you again.
Not wanting to blow up and push your partner away.
Truly ready for things to shift.
Together through brainspotting intensives, we’ll use an amazing therapy tool called Brainspotting to help you find a clear understanding about the past. Most of my clients find that after even one intensive they feel like they truly know how they got stuck and they have a better understanding of who they are now, and what they want to create moving forward. After several intensives, they find they start implementing the changes - without fear - and it impacts every aspect of their lives positively.
You will finally stop feeling guilty and start feeling proud of yourself for all the hard work you’ve done in just a short period of time.
How I use Brainspotting in Therapy:
This is more than just regular talk therapy - Brainspotting is a cutting edge technique that creates new neural pathways in the brain that leave you feeling like you can finally let go and move on from your past. Brainspotting is a focused processing technique used to help you identify, process, and release core nuero-physiological sources of emotional and physical pain, and unhealthy coping mechanisms associated with PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic pain, chronic illness, and more.
Brainspotting is used in all of my intensives as a way to reduce anxiety, depression, panic attacks, or trauma responses.
Working through infidelity recovery and other difficult relationship issues can stir up many difficult emotions and people often find themselves triggered by memories or intrusive thoughts of their partner’s affair or their own affair, but working with a trained Brainspotting therapist like myself can reduce those triggers significantly.
As a brainspotting therapist, I am able to help you be more present and feel less overwhelmed by your emotions and experiences.
Uses for Brainspotting:
Sleep disorders
Generalized anxiety
Depression
Difficulty with decision making
Processing breakups
Grief & loss
Anger
Test anxiety
Difficulty sleeping
Improving performance in sports and in the workplace
Physical pain
Chronic illness
Expansion for things you want to feel more positively about such as sports, creativity, improving sales outcomes, and getting into flow states
Integrating psychedelic experiences
Anchoring positive emotions and beliefs
A Brainspotting intensive is a powerful way to accelerate the therapy process. Instead of going to therapy once a week, you can do a therapy intensive once a month and go far deeper with the focused time we will have together.
If you’re ready to face your past, say goodbye to intense arguments and blow-ups, and create peace and connection with your partner - then a Brainspotting intensive may be for you!
The Brainspotting Therapy Intensive Process
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Pre-Intensive Interview
During this 50-minute pre-intensive call we will determine the goals for your intensive. We go through an extensive trauma history assessment and look at the places you feel most stuck, shut down, or overwhelmed. This session is going to prepare you for success with your intensive.
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Customized Intensive
The Brainspotting intensive sessions take place at my office in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, or virtually and are scheduled for 1-2 days for 4 hours each day. This includes focused treatment that’s customized for you. During the intensive, you will have plenty of time and support to really experience deep change and walk away with new insights and a plan for how to make changes in your life.
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Ongoing Intensive Support
After your first intensive you will have the option to continue with one monthly intensive of 4 hours or to have 2, 100-minute sessions per month. I do not do traditional 50-minute sessions as I want you to have the time to embody the changes that are being made with the brainspotting. My clients find this to be the most effective and I only seek to get you the best clinical outcomes possible from our work together. Generally people work with me for a year.
Why do a Brainspotting Therapy Intensive instead of traditional weekly therapy?
Brainspotting Therapy Intensives are for you if you want to go deeper than regular talk therapy and want to retrain your brain to go down a healthier path. If you’ve done weekly therapy before, then you know what it’s like to watch the clock and leave a session feeling like you barely scratched the surface. Many of my clients say they experience more rapid and deeper change with the intensive format.
Faster results. You want to make more progress in a shorter period of time.
Save time. You don’t want the start and stop of traditional weekly therapy.
Save money. Intensives are cost-effective when you compare the cost of weekly sessions over months vs. a 1-2 day intensive.
Options and Investment
1 Day
$1,950
5 hour program
Pre-intensive interview (50 mins)
4 face-to-face hours
Resources, assessments and personalized treatment
Each intensive following your initial intensive is $1600 or $1400 for two 100 minute sessions per month
2 Days
$3,550
9 hour program
Pre-intensive interview (50 mins)
2 days of intensive sessions (total of 8 hours)
Resources, assessments and personalized treatment
Each intensive following your initial intensive is $1600 or $1400 for two 100 minute sessions per month
Save time, energy, and money.
Experience a Difference NOW.
Book a free consult, and discover how brainspotting can help you!
FAQs
I’m looking for a brainspotting therapist near me, can you be my therapist if I don’t live in Rancho Cucamonga?
I offer brainspotting virtually to any resident of California. If you are not in California, like many of my clients, you can travel and do your brainspotting intensive in person.
I already have a therapist. Can I still do an intensive?
Absolutely! I LOVE collaborating with other therapists to help clients get the holistic treatment they need and deserve. An intensive can help you when you feel like you’re experiencing a plateau in your current therapy process, or when you just need something a little more concentrated for a particular issue.
Are intensives covered by insurance?
Unfortunately, the healthcare system has not caught up to most people’s mental health needs and only provides reimbursement for traditional therapy sessions depending on your plan. Intensives are an out-of-pocket investment in doing deeper, more concentrated work that leads to quicker, lasting results.
Where are Brainspotting Intensives offered?
Intensives are offered in the comfort of our Rancho Cucamonga or Murietta offices. Virtual intensives are also offered for anyone residing in the state of California.
What will we talk about for 4+ hours?
I know, 4 hours may seem like a really long time, however most of my clients report loving the ability to feel more secure and comfortable to go deeper in these sessions than in traditional therapy sessions because they know they won’t be cut off when things start to get more intense. Brainspotting intensives also eliminate the need to talk, talk, talk. A good portion of the time is used for deep, focused processing that requires very little talking but helps to create new neural pathways in the brain that lead to big shifts in behaviors and stuck emotions and feelings.
More Questions?
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