In-person • 1 or 3 days • Durango, Mexico • English or Spanish
Weekly therapy is powerful — but it has edges. Some stories are too long, some feelings too layered, some processes too alive to pause for seven days and then pick back up where you left off.
The intensive format exists for exactly those moments: a spacious, unhurried, custom-built therapeutic encounter between the two of us, in real time, over one or three days.
This is in-person work. Not a retreat in the tourism sense. Not a curriculum. What happens is shaped entirely by what you bring and what emerges between us.
Psychedelic integration intensives are offered separately for clients already engaged in that work. See the Ethical Psychedelic-Informed Practice page for more information.
There is no fixed curriculum. The work emerges from what you bring and from what is alive between us in the moment. Gestalt therapy is grounded in present-moment awareness, direct contact, and therapeutic experiment: we don't just talk about your patterns, we notice them as they happen.
Depending on what you're working with, we might use:
Sessions are fluid and long — typically 3–4 hours with natural breaks for integration and rest. We follow the energy of the work, not a clock.
One more thing worth naming: this work is not only grief and excavation. In my experience, deep human connection produces laughter at least as often as it produces tears — sometimes in the same breath. Humour, levity, and genuine joy are not distractions from the process. They are often the point. Bring your whole self, including the funny parts.
We also eat. Food — the smells, the tastes, the act of preparing and sharing a meal — is one of the most direct routes into embodied presence and human connection. We co-create that dimension together as part of the intensive. What we eat, where, and how is part of the conversation from the start.
Every intensive includes an online preparation session before we meet and at least one online integration session after. Both are included.
Intensives take place in person in Durango, Mexico, in the mountains. Sessions are conducted in English or Spanish.
Intensives involve many variables — duration, location, preparation, and your own context among them. Rather than a menu that would flatten that complexity, I work through costs transparently in conversation, drawing on 10+ years of planning international therapeutic experiences. I'm confident we can find an arrangement that is ethical for us both. Reach out to start that conversation.
If you're an existing client wondering whether an intensive makes sense as a next step, bring it up in session. If we haven't worked together yet, feel free to request an intro call to discuss — depending on your context, level of experience, and what you're looking for, we can likely find a path forward.
The best place to start is a free 10–15 minute intro call on Zoom — a chance to talk through what you're looking for and see whether working together makes sense. Reach out via WhatsApp or email and tell me a little about where you are. I respond personally to every message.
In-person • 3 to 5 days • Any location • English, Spanish, or with interpreter
Something that doesn't happen in a weekly group. Something that doesn't happen in an hour. Something that emerges from shared space, unhurried time, and the particular alchemy of people together over more than one session.
These intensives are for 3–8 people. There is no fixed agenda. They are relational laboratories — held by a Gestalt therapist with deep training in both individual and group process, shaped entirely by who shows up and what moves between you.
Small group intensives are built around the people in them. Formats that work well include:
If none of those fit but something in you is saying yes anyway — reach out. We can explore together whether a group intensive makes sense.
The structure is co-created. Before the intensive, I meet with the group or the organiser to understand who you are and what you're bringing. From there, we build a container with enough shape to feel held and enough openness to let something genuine emerge.
Depending on the group and purpose, we might work with:
These intensives tend to be surprisingly fun. Laughter and humour are not incidental to deep relational work — they are often how genuine contact moves. The container is serious in the sense that it's committed, not in the sense that it's solemn.
Food is part of it too. Sharing meals — the choosing, the preparing, the smells and tastes and conversation around a table — is woven into the experience from the start, not treated as a logistical afterthought. We co-create that dimension together as part of the planning.
Group intensives can take place anywhere — in Durango, Mexico, at a destination within Mexico, or internationally by arrangement. We choose together based on what serves the group.
Sessions are conducted in English or Spanish. If participants need to work across languages, interpretation can be arranged in advance.
Intensives involve many variables — group size, duration, location, and each participant's context among them. Rather than a menu that would flatten that complexity, I work through costs transparently in conversation, drawing on 10+ years of planning international therapeutic experiences. I'm confident we can find an arrangement that is ethical for everyone. Reach out to start that conversation.
If you're an existing client wondering whether a group intensive makes sense as a next step, bring it up in session. If we haven't worked together yet, feel free to request an intro call to discuss — depending on your context, level of experience, and what you're looking for, we can likely find a path forward.
The best place to start is a free 10–15 minute intro call on Zoom — a chance to talk through what you're looking for and see whether working together makes sense. Reach out via WhatsApp or email and tell me a little about where you are. I respond personally to every message.