Services — Therapy Intensives
Aguilu Healing Services offers extended, focused therapy experiences for individuals who want dedicated time to work on specific concerns beyond the traditional weekly therapy format — with the approach selected and individualized based on your needs, treatment goals, clinical presentation, and readiness.
Intensive Therapy Programs
Not every client benefits most from the traditional 50-minute therapy model. For individuals experiencing significant trauma, chronic stress, complex life transitions, or who desire accelerated progress, intensive therapy offers a focused, immersive approach designed to accomplish meaningful therapeutic work in a shorter period of time.
While EMDR is one of our primary specialties and serves as the foundation of many of our trauma-focused intensives, treatment may also integrate Polyvagal Theory-informed principles for nervous system regulation, somatic interventions, Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed interventions, and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Additional evidence-based approaches may be integrated as appropriate, including Brainspotting-informed techniques, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) principles, CBT, DBT skills, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), EFT/Tapping, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), mindfulness, and attachment-focused interventions.
Each intensive is individually designed following a comprehensive clinical assessment. Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, our intensives are designed to help process unresolved experiences, reshape unhelpful beliefs, regulate the nervous system, strengthen emotional resilience, and promote lasting healing.
Types of Therapy Intensives
Focused trauma-processing work using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). This format may be appropriate for clients who want dedicated time to address specific traumatic experiences, distressing memories, triggers, negative beliefs, or unresolved experiences.
Specialized EMDR protocols for recent trauma and ongoing traumatic stress. R-TEP (Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol) is provided individually to process the moments, emotions, and triggers of a traumatic episode. G-TEP (Group Traumatic Episode Protocol) may be provided individually, with couples, families, or professional, community, and ministry groups — participants work privately without disclosing every detail.
Evidence-based, concentrated treatment for OCD — gradually facing feared thoughts and situations while breaking the cycle of compulsions, with extended time for meaningful progress.
Extended sessions utilizing Brainspotting to support focused processing of trauma, emotional distress, and experiences that may continue to be held at both emotional and body-based levels.
A focused format for exploring internal parts, protective patterns, emotional wounds, internal conflicts, and beliefs that may be influencing a client's current life — with additional time for deeper exploration than a standard session allows.
Structured, concentrated work focused on trauma-related beliefs, stuck points, and patterns of thinking that may have developed following traumatic or significantly distressing experiences.
Not every intensive has to use only one modality. When clinically appropriate, an Integrative Therapy Intensive draws from more than one approach based on the client's needs — the modality does not determine the intensive; the client's needs help determine the approach.
R-TEP & G-TEP EMDR Intensives
A distressing or traumatic experience can leave you with intrusive memories, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, numbness, sleep difficulties, physical tension, avoidance, or trouble concentrating — even after the immediate danger has passed. R-TEP and G-TEP are specialized EMDR protocols designed to help the brain and nervous system process recent trauma and ongoing traumatic stress.
R-TEP — Individual Trauma Processing. The Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol is provided one-on-one, addressing the different moments, emotions, thoughts, sensations, and triggers connected to a traumatic episode — not simply one isolated memory. It may be helpful following an accident, medical crisis, sudden loss, interpersonal violence, betrayal, natural disaster, or workplace incident.
G-TEP — A Flexible EMDR Protocol. The Group Traumatic Episode Protocol uses a structured worksheet, guided stabilization, focused processing, and bilateral stimulation. It may be provided individually, with couples, with families, or with professional, community, and ministry groups. Participants work privately with their own experiences without having to disclose every detail — especially valuable for people affected by a shared crisis, loss, disaster, or workplace incident.
You will not be required to describe every detail of what happened. The purpose is not to erase the memory, but to help it feel more integrated, manageable, and connected to the past rather than continually experienced in the present.
During the Intensive, You'll Be Supported In
Intensive Formats
The exact length, structure, and therapeutic approach are determined following consultation and clinical assessment.
Therapy Intensives are not simply longer therapy sessions. They are intentionally structured, individualized treatment experiences designed to create dedicated space for focused therapeutic work. An intensive does not guarantee faster healing or a particular clinical outcome — every participant completes a consultation and clinical screening to determine whether an individual R-TEP intensive, an individual or collective G-TEP intensive, another EMDR approach, or a different therapeutic service is the most appropriate fit.
You may not need more time talking about what happened. You may need more dedicated space to work through what it left behind.
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