Intensive Trauma Therapy in Scottsdale, AZ

• A Trauma Therapy Intensive is a personalized treatment plan that allows you to bypass traditional waitlists and receive timely access to specialized care. We work with your preferred schedule and timeline, offering flexibility and precision in your treatment goals.
• Trauma Therapy Intensives are structured to give you more concentrated time for healing. Instead of the standard 50-minute sessions, our intensives involve 3-hour sessions each day, which can be scheduled for one day or multiple days. This format allows us to dive deeply into your presenting concerns without the interruptions of shorter sessions.
• Trauma Therapy Intensives streamline the therapeutic process. This means less time spent on routine check-ins, addressing current crises, or stabilizing and coping skills that are less relevant once healing progresses. Instead, we concentrate on the core issues and integrate your new insights and shifts directly into the work.
• To further support your process, we offer a range of supplemental integrative services that can be added to your intensive. These include mental health occupational therapy, trauma-sensitive yoga, breath work, reiki, sound healing, acupuncture, cranial sacral therapy, and massage. You may also explore our monthly trauma-informed wellness workshops, which offer a supportive group environment to reinforce nervous system regulation and healing between or after intensives. These complementary services are designed to enhance your healing experience, offering a well-rounded approach to your mental and physical well-being..

Trauma therapy intensives are best suited for individuals who feel ready for deeper work and have some foundational coping tools in place. For others, beginning with weekly trauma-informed therapy may provide the support needed before exploring an intensive format.

• You’re looking for profound change and want results quickly. Intensives offer deep therapeutic work designed to create significant impact in a shorter time frame.
• You’re still affected by painful past experiences. Intensives help you address and heal lingering pain more thoroughly than weekly sessions alone.
• You have time off and want to use it for deep healing. Turn your break into a mental spa day or personal retreat with our intensive sessions.
• You’ve done trauma work before and want to accelerate your healing. Intensives deepen and speed up your progress, helping you move through life with greater freedom.
• You’re preparing for a major life event. Intensives can help you get emotionally and mentally ready for significant changes like a wedding, move, or new job.
• You feel stuck in weekly therapy and need a boost. Intensives provide extra support to help you break through and reach your goals faster.

• Before diving into the Intensive, we’ll schedule a Pre-Intensive Interview to understand your unique needs and goals. We’ll explore your current stressors, your support system, and how you handle overwhelming emotions and physical sensations. Together, we’ll identify the areas where you seek relief, growth, or a significant breakthrough. We will also discuss optional supplemental services that are designed to accelerate your growth and healing.
• You will receive a personalized treatment workbook that includes assessments and activities to prepare for the Intensive. The workbook allows you to keep a record of progress on your treatment goals before, during, and after our sessions.
• During the Intensive, we focus on both alleviating the pain you’re experiencing and enhancing your connection with more positive feelings, thoughts, and memories. Through the use of somatic experiencing and attachment work and other trauma-informed modalities, we’ll help you process and integrate these experiences at a deep, body-based level.
• Whether it’s exploring past relationships, present challenges, or future anxieties, our approach is entirely customized to meet your specific needs and goals. You’ll learn coping strategies that resonate with you, enabling you to navigate your emotions and experiences more effectively.
• After the Intensive, we’ll have a Post-Intensive Interview to reflect on your journey. We’ll discuss the insights you’ve gained, what was most impactful, and how to incorporate these new understandings into your daily life moving forward.

• To enhance your therapy intensive, we offer personalized supplementary services designed to accelerate your growth and healing. During your pre-intensive interview, we’ll collaborate to choose the most suitable enhancements that align with your unique therapy goals. Each premium service is available for an additional $200, enriching your path to well-being.
• These personalized services include: acupuncture, breathwork, cranial sacral therapy, massage therapy, mental health occupational therapy, polarity therapy, reiki, sound healing and trauma sensitive yoga.

• A 1-day therapy intensive offers you the opportunity to achieve significant therapeutic progress in a condensed time frame. In one extended, focused session, you can dive deeply into a specific issue that needs more attention than what weekly sessions allow, accelerating your healing process. This intensive format is particularly effective for reducing the harmful effects of single-event trauma, helping you process and release negative thoughts, disturbing emotions, and physical sensations. Additionally, you’ll gain valuable coping skills that you can immediately practice and integrate during the session.
• While significant progress can be made in a single day intensive, those dealing with complex trauma may benefit from ongoing support. Many clients with complex trauma find that continuing with monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly intensives allows them to dive deeper into their healing journey over time.

• A 2-day or 3-day therapy intensive offers even more profound benefits than a 1-day session, providing extended time to dive deep into therapeutic work, allowing you to accomplish the equivalent of weeks of therapy in just a few days. These extended intensives give you the space to thoroughly explore and process complex issues that may have surfaced during regular sessions, allowing for more significant breakthroughs and healing.
• These multi-day intensives function as personal retreats, giving you the time to focus solely on your healing. We encourage you to leave time outside of sessions unscheduled or filled only with self-care activities like exercise, bodywork, or creative expression—activities that are crucial for integrating the work done in therapy. Mind Body Healing Collective offers these supplemental services based on your interests and needs, enhancing your overall experience.

• Intensive trauma-focused therapy appears to be well tolerated by PTSD patients, often leading to faster symptom reduction with comparable or even improved results, and lowering the likelihood of patients dropping out early.
• The Economic Value of Intensive Trauma Therapy.

• • 1-Day Trauma Therapy Intensive starting at $1640*
    6 face-to-face hours + resources/ assessments/ personalized treatment workbook

• • 2-Day Trauma Therapy Intensive: starting at $2255*
    9 face-to-face hours + resources/ assessments/ personalized treatment workbook

• • 3-Day Trauma Therapy Intensive: starting at $2870*
    12 face-to-face hours + resources/ assessments/ personalized treatment workbook

*Rates vary based on the clinician

• Yes! Most PPO insurance plans reimburse a portion or all of your cost of psychotherapy. This assumes that your deductible has been met for your out of network benefits. Please keep in mind that all clinicians at Mind Body Healing Collective are considered out-of-network providers.
• It’s best to determine the exact details of your policy ahead of time, including what benefits are available regarding out-of-network providers and if your insurance will reimburse several hours of therapy in one day or one week.
• At the conclusion of your intensive, we will provide you with a Superbill for all direct contact therapy services included in the intensive.
• Please note that insurance companies require a diagnosis code as a reason for treatment. We suggest contacting your insurance company to get details about your specific plan.
• We are happy to provide more information to help with this process.

• Intensives can be scheduled for both in-person and virtual (or a combination of both).
• As a licensed member of PsyPACT, Dr. Amy Bjorkman is licensed to practice telehealth in 41 states in addition to Arizona. Please visit this link for more information. (Use telehealth link from website)
• All other clinicians at Mind Body Healing Collective are licensed to provide intensives in-person or virtually in the state of Arizona.

• We will start with a free 20-minute phone consultation to get to know each other and explore if an Intensive is the right fit for you.
• If so, we will schedule your sessions, and then you will be sent your personalized treatment workbook that is to be completed at least one week before the Intensive.