Some problems are too costly to let them drag on and on. An intensive therapy retreat can save months or years of treatment. You may prefer to solve the problem and move forward. Our treatment approach and methods lead to meaningful results.
Residential/inpatient programs tend to offer a variety of activities (e.g., group therapy, yoga, etc.) which may be educational as well as helpful in coping with the symptoms. But information and coping strategies do not generally solve the problem. If the program even offers the trauma resolution work, it is typically for only an hour or two per week. Thus, the primary benefit of such programs is safety and stabilization.
In the therapy retreat, you’re doing the individual therapy — typically including trauma resolution work — all day long. Once you have healed from the trauma/loss wounds, you don’t have to cope with the associated symptoms anymore. For those who are safe and stable enough not to require inpatient confinement, the primary benefit of the therapy retreat is healing and resolution of problems. Click here for more info on how to choose.
The next step is to discuss your situation and your goals with our intake consultant. They will give you a recommendation, and you’ll decide how to proceed.
Together with our intake consultant, you will choose a clinician based on experience, areas of expertise, cost, location, scheduling, or other factors.
Some therapists offer weekend appointments. We generally recommend that you get the whole job done in a single block of days, if possible.
The number of treatment days needed varies considerably. Recovering from a single incident can take just a day or two, whereas recovering from a very significant history of trauma and loss can take one to several weeks. Shortly after the intake Zoom session, you’ll get an estimated number of days needed.
Some retreat participants may require extra professional services, such as an additional therapist (for couples or families, in some circumstances) or a translator. Personal services (e.g., child care) may also be required. Your needs and requests will be discussed ahead of time so that the appropriate services can be arranged.
Not all therapy is emotionally intense or tiring, and most people can do it. We do three therapy hours in the morning, break for an hour for lunch, and three therapy hours in the afternoon. However, some people do not use all of their hours, and that’s OK.
Then you don’t have to. Telling the therapist the details of what happened is not required to heal from a trauma or loss memory. You will have to think about it, though, in a particular way as guided by the therapist, to get the work done.
In our grant-funded program for victims of crime in Western MA, TICTI provides translators, as needed, for our therapy services (including therapy sessions, relevant documents, and client records).
En nuestro programa para víctimas de delitos en el oeste de MA, financiado por el estado, TICTI proporciona traductores, según sea necesario, para nuestros servicios de terapia (incluidas sesiones de terapia, documentos relevantes y registros de clientes).
It depends on several factors, including whether you will need a companion to support your stability during off hours (e.g., in the evening), and whether they are likely to participate in the therapy. You can discuss this with the intake consultant and then make your decision.
Most people will accomplish quite a lot in the retreat. However, if you want to do more, you have the option of returning for another retreat, following up with your therapist through telehealth, or completing your work elsewhere.
There is normally a two-day minimum fee, after which time you only pay for time used, in half day increments. For example, if you book for Monday through Friday, but finish halfway through Thursday morning, you would pay for 3.5 days.
Many generally effective treatment approaches fail for some people. This is often because the therapy did not address one or more of the major treatment obstacles. For example:
Our research-supported phase model approach systematically addresses the major treatment issues and obstacles. Proven-effective interventions are used to:
This maximizes the treatment’s efficiency as well as the likelihood of results that endure.
All therapists are required to keep information about you confidential. Depending on how the treatment is being paid for, the therapist may not even be communicating with an insurance company. And if you are going to a therapist away from your own home area, there’s little chance of even an accidental confidentiality breach (e.g., by seeing someone you know in the therapy office). Many consider the intensive model to be among the most confidential of therapy formats.
We do not request reviews from our clients. Thus the rare unhappy client is more likely to post a review than the usual satisfied client (because most people do not publicly discuss their therapy).
Yes. We encourage people to ask as many questions as they’d like. We want our clients to fully understand our therapy process, so that they will know if it is a good fit for them and also so they will know what to expect when they come to their first session.
Yes. We reach out to our clients post-treatment to ensure they are doing okay and to remind them that we are always here if they feel they need to come back for more therapy.
We operate a scent-reduced facility, meaning that we endeavor to avoid scented cleaning products and body products. However, we cannot guarantee a totally scent-free environment.
If you’re traveling to work with a therapist, we have a list of recommended lodging options.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Greensboro, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina
Buffalo, New York
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Northern California
For more information or to schedule a private intensive therapy retreat,
e-mail us or call us at (413) 282-7797.
TICTI offers life changing trauma therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. To learn more about our therapy process and/or see if it’s a good fit for you or your client, please reach out to us. We are happy to explain our therapy methods in more detail and will gladly answer any questions you may have.
Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute
285 Prospect Street Northampton, MA, 01060 USA
