Idaho Intensive Therapy

06/21/2024

Mental Health Check-up / Family Mental Health First Aid
We talk often about addressing physical health concerns. While this article is dated by a year or so, it is brief and touches on a few areas of our emotional / mental health to consider regularly.

We often focus more on treating illnesses, both physical and mental, than on staying healthy. But the absence of mental illness does not necessarily mean good mental health.

03/18/2022

How much time we spend with each other is so important and yet often creates conflict. This article gives some good points for consideration and improvement.

Striking a balance between the two can be helpful.

07/20/2020

With everything happening in our world currently it is important to recognize how much changes to our lives and our stress impacts the children in our lives. I believe that children are have the capacity to overcome, however as caregivers, mentors and parents we have a responsibility and opportunity to provide them with tools, beliefs and attitudes that will carry them through many trials. This article provides ideas that can easily be applied by each one of us if we will take the time to read and apply.
If you have questions on how to help you children Call Idaho Intensive Therapy, we can help.
https://www.heysigmund.com/building-resilience-children/

Building Resilience in Children, resilience is being able to bounce back from stress, challenge, tragedy, trauma or adversity. please visit our page!

07/17/2020

07/09/2020

Thoughts

03/01/2020

02/24/2020

02/24/2020

Difficult situations past and/ orpresent happen to us all and can be very disruptive in our lives. Why not heal faster!
https://www.childtrauma.com/blog/get-better-faster

The fact that a convention exists for good reasons does not mean that it’s still the best way to do it today. The custom of the weekly therapy hour should be reconsidered in light of recent developments in the field, namely (a) the growing recognition that trauma, broadly defined, is a primary con...

02/15/2020

This is a great reminder for us all.

Healing is our responsibility because we have this one life, this single shot to do something important.

08/16/2019

Enjoy Every Day!

06/25/2019

Divorce/separation is difficult for children and adults, the following article offers basic strategies to help parents. http://www.childtrauma.com/publications/bigD

Divorce? First, I might try to talk you out of it. Counseling really can help. And if you don't work out the problems in this relationship, they just might turn up in the next one. But if it's a done deal, and if you have kids, there are two things you should know: 1) divorce can be hazardous to you...

04/04/2019

How avoidant attachment forms and goes on to affect your relationships

07/30/2018

Private Intensive Therapy
When it's time to feel better and do better...
What will you do in your private intensive therapy?
You'll be the therapist's only client for the full working day of your retreat. The therapist will typically be available to work with you from 9 AM to 5 PM with an hour break for lunch, and other breaks as needed.
You'll start with a bit of an orientation and then the therapist will ask a lot of questions about your history as well as your current situation, including your strengths, resources, problems, and what you have tried so far. The therapist will also ask you about your short-term and long-term goals. (With more than one person, e.g. a couple or parent & child, some of this will happen together and some individually.)
Based off of the information gathered the therapist will give you his/her opinion about what you can do to give yourself the best chance of getting to your goals. These suggestions will include some things you can do in the treatment, and some things you can do in your life.
From here, it depends.
• You might do some guided visualization to help you feel more grounded in a "secure attachment" relationship -- especially if you didn't actually have one in your own history.
• You might do some work on stabilization and/or coping skills.
• You might do some work on practical strategies, problem-solving, etc.
When the therapist and you agree that you're ready, you'll start working through your trauma and loss memories, most likely with Progressive Counting. You might start with a "test run" of a recent minor upsetting event, or perhaps a discrete event from the past such as a not-too-serious car accident. Eventually you'll probably work through all the trauma & loss memories, typically in chronological order from earliest to most recent.
If you have been working with a therapist towards trauma resolution and have a specific referral from this therapist, a one day intensive focusing solely on Trauma Resolution can be scheduled. At the end of this day recommendations will be given and may include:
-scheduling a second day of intensive work.
-suggestions for your therapist to pick up where you left off and continue with progress made
during the intensive.
-a combination of work with your therapist and preparation for a follow up intensive at a later date.

You'll work with the therapist to develop and practice the coping skills to manage anticipated challenges, in a way that will keep you on track towards your goals as needed. If you have a referral from your therapist this will largely be left to that therapist.
Follow up will be scheduled as necessary and may consist of a brief check-in to assure maintenance or additional intensive work as needed.
Therapy Intensives can:
• Enhance Work-Related Performance
• Reduce Anxiety, Anger, Sadness, and Other Troubling Emotions
• Overcome Problem Behaviors/Habits
• Improve Relationships
• Heal From Trauma & Loss

Private Intensive Therapy Retreats. (n.d.). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from http://www.therapyretreat.org/ a publication of The Trauma Institute and Child Trauma Institute