Intensives for Individuals & Couples

Your Journey to Growth & Healing

Have you been looking to achieve lasting healing in as little as one day?

Intensives for Individuals & Couples is the only therapy program in the Rio Grande Valley that teaches you how to manage your day-to-day distress so you can learn to combat or tackle your triggers in 3 days or less.

Increase Your Peace, Calm Your Triggers, & Prepare to Thrive

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Why Choose Intensives?

Maybe you don’t have the time to spend an hour every week in therapy, but you still want to work on yourself or your relationship. Perhaps you’re needing help (and a lot of it) right now, but you don’t want to spend months trying the traditional weekly model of therapy while you wait to feel better.

Intensive therapy enables faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results than traditional therapy.

Intensive EMDR treatment is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame.
An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD.

The Benefits of Intensives

Bessel van der Kolk

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.”

FAQ

Intensive therapy compresses weeks or months of traditional therapy into a shorter time frame, allowing you to make significant progress. An intensive format may decrease overall treatment time because of time not spent on checking in at the beginning of each session, addressing current crises and concerns, or regaining composure at the end of the session.
Yes. Often times, when the primary therapist and client collaborate with an Intensive therapist, this partnership can help move treatment forward. We will identify what works best for you during your initial consultation.
Intensives include:
- Assessments to identify symptoms you’d like to alleviate, areas of activation or triggers, & memories or experiences that still need attention and soothing which will be thoroughly reviewed by your therapist prior to your appointment
- Client-centered treatment that may consist of EMDR, Inner Child Work or other therapy modalities as appropriate with Valerie Rivera at her Mission, Tx office
- Customized treatment workbook, which allows you to work on your treatment goals before the intensive session
- One follow-up session to review the post treatment workbook and discuss future treatment