Foundations of Immersive Therapy: The Art and Science of Facilitating Intensives
Reimagine Therapy.
Co-Create Transformation.
Facilitate Deep Healing.
Traditional Therapy Has Its Limits. Intensives Unlock New Possibilities.
In a standard 50-minute session, just as your participants start to reach something deep, time is up. The cycle repeats—week after week—leaving breakthroughs unfinished, regulation incomplete, and trauma processing disjointed.
Therapeutic intensives change that.
By immersing participants in extended, structured healing experiences, intensives provide the time and depth needed for transformational change—the kind that traditional therapy often struggles to reach.
This four-day immersive training is designed to equip you with the skills, structure, and trauma-informed approach to facilitate intensives with confidence. You’ll learn how to create and guide powerful, immersive therapeutic experiences that help participants break through stuck points and accelerate healing.
This is more than a training—it’s an invitation to expand your practice, prevent burnout, and work in a way that feels more aligned, sustainable, and impactful.
Meet Your Facilitators
Aimee Hadfield, LCSW
Aimee is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma-informed care and experiential therapy. With years of experience facilitating therapy intensives, she brings a deep understanding of co-regulation, embodied presence, and transformative healing practices.
Julia Wright, LPC
Julia is a Licensed Professional Counselor with extensive experience in facilitating individual, family, and group intensives. She combines her specialized training in experiential therapy modalities with the power of the therapeutic relationship as she guides clients in deep, transformative therapeutic intensives. She has a passion for helping other clinicians gain the confidence and skills needed to facilitate this immersive healing work.
Why Add Therapeutic Intensives to Your Practice?
Deeper Breakthroughs, Faster Healing
In an intensive, participants can stay engaged in the process long enough to move through deep emotions, rewire patterns, and fully integrate what emerges.
More Flexibility, Less Burnout
Shift away from an overloaded weekly schedule. Intensives allow you to work more deeply with fewer participants while maintaining financial and emotional sustainability in your practice.
Expand Your Clinical Creativity
Move beyond talk therapy alone. Intensives allow you to integrate experiential, embodied, and action-based modalities that tap into healing in a way words alone cannot.
Enhance Your Clinical Skills & Offer More to Participants
For participants who feel stuck, need focused support, or don’t thrive in traditional therapy, intensives offer a powerful alternative—one that you’ll be fully equipped to facilitate after this training.
What You’ll Learn in This Training
This training will take you beyond theory and into practical, embodied facilitation of therapeutic intensives.
✅ How to structure an intensive from start to finish – Crafting an experience that is safe, effective, and tailored to individual needs.
✅ Trauma-informed facilitation skills – Ensuring safety, autonomy, and pacing for deep work without overwhelming participants.
✅ Experiential & embodied methods – Integrating action methods, creative arts, and nervous system regulation techniques.
✅ Creating a healing environment – Mastering presence, attunement, and group dynamics in an intensive setting.
✅ Business & ethical considerations – Practical strategies for integrating intensives into your practice while maintaining ethical boundaries and sustainable business practices.
This is a hands-on, experiential training—meaning you won’t just be learning concepts, you’ll be actively practicing, engaging, and embodying the role of a skilled intensive facilitator.
Who Is This Training For?
🔹 Licensed therapists, provisionally licensed therapists, and advanced graduate students with clinical experience.
🔹 Clinicians with a strong theoretical foundation who want to integrate intensives into their practice.
🔹 Therapists seeking a trauma-informed, experiential approach to deepen their work.
🔹 Those who feel called to work beyond the constraints of weekly therapy and co-create transformational healing experiences.
This training is not for therapists looking for a passive, lecture-based experience. This is an immersive, interactive, and experiential training designed for those ready to actively develop their skills and presence.
Training Overview
Hearten House presents Foundations of Immersive Therapy: The Art and Science of Facilitating Intensives, a four-day, highly experiential training for therapists looking to master the facilitation of therapy intensives for individuals, couples, and families. This training integrates trauma-informed practice, embodied facilitation, and structured frameworks to equip therapists with powerful tools for deep healing work.
Dates: March 13-16, 2025
Location: Hearten House, Salt Lake City, UT
Facilitators: Aimee Hadfield, LCSW & Julia Wright, LPC
Capacity: Limited to 12 participants, application required
Investment: $995 (Early Bird Discount: $200 off)
Payment: 50% deposit upon acceptance; full payment required before training starts
Review Process: Rolling review with priority for early applicants
Who This Training Is For
This training is designed for therapists who already have a strong theoretical foundation and some specialized training in a particular model. The specific model is not important—what matters is the ability to integrate various approaches into a cohesive, immersive therapy experience.
Ideal participants have experience beyond traditional talk therapy and are looking to refine their ability to combine techniques for deeper, more effective intensive work.
This training will not teach the foundations of any single model but will focus on how to integrate different approaches effectively.
While we will provide an overview of some experiential techniques, this training is not suitable for those with no prior experience in experiential modalities.
Participants should understand that this is a professional training. While personal growth may be a secondary gain, the primary focus is on developing facilitation skills and deepening professional expertise.
Why This Training?
Experiential Learning: Hands-on role-playing, real-time feedback, and immersive exercises.
Trauma-Informed & Embodied Facilitation: Master co-regulation, deep listening, and presence in intensive settings.
Practical Tools for Therapy Intensives: Learn about combining embodied, action,and creative therapies within structured frameworks to guide transformative experiences.
Exclusive & High-Impact: Small-group format ensures personalized attention and deep engagement.
Designed for Therapists Ready to Expand: Ideal for those with a strong theoretical foundation who want to refine their facilitation skills.
Information & Registration
To ensure this training is the right fit, we ask prospective participants to complete a brief information form. This helps us confirm that all attendees are clinical professionals or graduate students in a clinical program with experience beyond talk therapy.
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Course Title:
Foundations of Immersive Therapy: The Art and Science of Facilitating Intensives
Course Description:
This four-day experiential training provides therapists with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to facilitate trauma-informed therapeutic intensives. Participants will learn how to structure and guide intensives that promote deep healing, emotional integration, and sustained therapeutic progress. Through a combination of didactic instruction, experiential learning, and hands-on practice, this training equips clinicians with embodied facilitation skills, safety-focused trauma interventions, and experiential techniques to enhance their work with individuals, couples, and groups.
Designed for licensed therapists, provisionally licensed therapists, and advanced graduate students, this training provides clinically relevant education that integrates best practices in trauma-informed care, experiential therapy, and ethical facilitation of intensives.
Upon completion, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively integrate intensives into their practice, ethically and professionally.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Define and describe the structure of a therapeutic intensive and differentiate it from traditional weekly therapy models.
Apply trauma-informed principles to the facilitation of intensives, ensuring participant safety, autonomy, and emotional regulation.
Demonstrate embodied facilitation skills that enhance therapeutic presence, attunement, and co-regulation in immersive healing experiences.
Utilize experiential and action-based methods (e.g., psychodrama, expressive arts, role-play) to deepen participant engagement and integration.
Identify ethical considerations and clinical best practices for implementing intensives within a therapy practice while maintaining professional standards.
This program is designed to enhance clinical competency in facilitating immersive, trauma-informed healing experiences.