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A HUMAN SANCTUARY · IDYLlWILD, CALIFORNIA
Healing
intensives
A deep-time format for those ready to meet long-standing wounds with care — and to move through them.
THE FORMET
What is an intensive?
An intensive is a single, focused container for healing work — anywhere from three hours to four days, shaped entirely around you.
In place of the steady weekly rhythm of therapy, you set aside concentrated time to meet what is asking to be tended, with full attention and the unhurried space to let it move. Whether the wound is recent or long carried, current research shows this format delivers profound and lasting relief, often in a fraction of the time of weekly care.
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THE APPROACH
A woven method
Each intensive draws on several modalities, braided together in response to what your nervous system needs.
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — a physiological technique that helps the brain metabolize trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, panic, and PTSD.
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Somatic Experiencing
Body-based work that releases the held energy of past events and offers living tools to track and tend your nervous system in daily life.
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Expressive Arts & Ecotherapy
Image, gesture, and the living elements of nature — gentle ways to integrate what is rising. No artistic experience needed.
WHO THIS SERVES
An intensive may be a fit if you…
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Carry trauma — recent or long ago — and feel ready to move through it
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Are navigating anxiety, depression, grief, panic, or PTSD
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Want to reach therapeutic goals in a shorter overall span of time
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Can’t take weekly time off work or arrange ongoing childcare
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Live out of state and would like to receive care during a visit to Idyllwild
WHO THIS SERVES
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Companioned through the deep
BEFORE
Preparation
A 90-minute session followed by a personalized intensive plan, sent to you with guidance on what to bring and how to ready yourself.
DURING
The rhythm of the day
Days typically run 10am to 5pm with a midday lunch and as many natural breaks as your system asks for. Six-hour days may be split across two consecutive days.
THROUGHOUT
Spiritual resources
If you hold a spiritual path, or carry objects, photographs, or symbols that steady you, you are warmly invited to bring them into the work.
INVESTMENT
An offering of resources
Intensive work asks for time, energy, and resources. Standard fee is $225 per clinical hour.
PREPARATION
$450
90-minute session and intensive planning
INTENSIVE DAY
$1,320
Six hours of focused therapeutic work
MONTHLY TENDING
$675
Three-hour session and weekly fifteen-minute check-ins
Intensives can be a single concentrated day or unfold across consecutive days — we’ll shape the schedule together.
INVESTMENT
“An intensive can be a threshold experience. My craft is the gentle loosening of all the ways we become bound, pretzeled, and held away from our heart-centered selves. Trauma healing is one path home to Self.”
JULIE ANNE STEIGER, SEP, LCSW
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Julie Anne’s experience, knowledge, deep compassion, and warm optimism leave me feeling more joyful and connected to my body. She has helped me move through patterns of stuckness, fear, and depression I had carried for years. I couldn’t recommend her more.
— FORMER CLIENT
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Start a conversation
If something in you is leaning toward this work, we would love to talk. A brief consultation helps us listen for whether an intensive is the right next step.