1:1 In-Person Intensive
In-person • 1 or 3 days • Durango, Mexico • English or Spanish
Some things don’t fit in an hour, so let’s build a bigger box.
Weekly therapy is powerful, but it hits walls. Some stories are too long, some processes too alive to pause for seven days and pick back up. The intensive is a spacious, custom-built therapeutic encounter between the two of us over one or three days. Not a retreat in the tourism sense. Not a curriculum. What happens is shaped by what you bring and what emerges between us.
Who this is for
- People who have done therapy and are ready for something more immersive
- Mental health professionals looking for deep personal process work
- People navigating a major transition, loss, or relational shift that needs more than incremental weekly work
- Complex, intense people who have always felt slightly too much for the standard therapy hour
Psychedelic integration intensives are offered separately — see Ethical Psychedelic-Informed Practice.
What we do
No fixed curriculum. Gestalt work is grounded in present-moment awareness, direct contact, and experiment: we don’t just talk about your patterns, we notice them as they happen. Depending on what you bring, we might use extended dialogue, empty-chair and two-chair work, somatic experiments, movement, writing, walks, silence. Sessions run long — typically 3–4 hours with natural breaks and breaks in nature.
This work is not only grief and excavation. Deep contact produces laughter at least as often as tears — sometimes in the same breath. Bring your whole self, including the funny parts.
We also eat. Preparing and sharing food is one of the most direct routes into embodied presence, and it is part of the plan from the start.
Format
- 1-day intensive — one full day, roughly 6–7 hours of process time
- 3-day intensive — the most common format; enough time to go somewhere worth going
Every intensive includes an online preparation session before and at least one online integration session after.
Location,
language, fees
In person in Durango, Mexico, in the mountains. Other locations possible for 3-day experiences. English or Spanish.
Intensives involve many variables — duration, location, preparation, your context. I work through costs transparently in conversation rather than publishing a reductive menu that might miss what you’re really looking to build.
How to start
Existing clients: bring it up in session. New to me: request a free 10–15 minute intro call via WhatsApp or email.
Small Group Intensive
In-person • 3 to 5 days • Any location • English, Spanish, or with interpreter
What happens when a small group commits to being fully present with each other for a few days?
Something that certainly can’t happen in a weekly online group or in an hour. These intensives are relational laboratories for 3–8 people — held by a Gestalt therapist trained in both individual and group process, shaped entirely by who shows up and what moves between you.
Who this is for
- Therapists and practitioners seeking deep personal process work and peer connection outside the clinical frame
- People in non-traditional relationship configurations — open relationships, ENM, polycules — exploring relational patterns in shared space
- Friends, creative collaborators, or professional partners ready to go beneath the surface
- People in individual therapy who want a relational container for that work — I also occasionally create invitational groups when I have a resonant group of individuals who don’t know each other (yet)
- Groups forming around a shared theme, question, or area of development
What we do
The structure is co-created. Before the intensive I meet with the group or organiser; from there we build a container with enough shape to feel held and enough openness for something genuine to emerge. Depending on the group: live relational experiments, individual work in the presence of the group, somatic approaches, thematic exploration, creative and movement-based modalities.
These intensives tend to be fun — laughter is often how genuine contact moves. Committed, not solemn. Shared meals are woven in from the planning stage, not treated as logistics.
Format, location, fees
3–8 participants, 3 to 5 days, custom itinerary. Online preparation before, integration after. Anywhere — Durango, elsewhere in Mexico, or internationally by arrangement. English or Spanish; interpretation can be arranged.
Costs depend on group size, duration, location, and each participant’s context — worked through transparently in conversation.
How to start
Existing clients: bring it up in session. Otherwise: free 10–15 minute intro call via WhatsApp or email.
