05/01/2026
Dear Brave Therapy™ Friends,
I've been thinking a lot lately about what gets in the way of deeper healing work.
Often, it's not willingness — it's time. The rhythm of weekly 50-minute sessions doesn't always allow for the kind of sustained, immersive work that can shift things at a deeper level. By the time we settle in, attune, and begin to access what's underneath... the session is ending. Also the nervous system is slow to learn about safety if there has been lack of it in one's life.
That's why I'm now offering 3-Hour Therapeutic Intensives on some Friday afternoons and Saturdays.
These sessions bring together the modalities I've found most effective for working with the nervous system and early attachment patterns:
* Somatic Experiencing — tracking and releasing what's held in the body
* Co-regulating touch (Kathy Kain's and also Steve Terrell's approach) — using safe, boundaried touch to support nervous system regulation and help repair the deeper wounds of trust and isolation that live in our physiology
* Brainspotting — accessing and processing subcortical material
* Attachment-focused psychodynamic work — informed by my training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and as a certified coder of the Adult Attachment Interview
The touch work deserves a word. So much of early developmental trauma lives in the body — in patterns of tension, collapse, or disconnection that formed before we had words. Co-regulating touch works directly with this: helping your nervous system learn what safety actually feels like, from the inside. As one client put it: _"Now I know what my body feels like when it trusts someone"_
The AAI training means I can also recognise and work with your specific attachment patterns or states of mind — whether that's a dismissing pattern that keeps emotions and relationships at arm's length, a preoccupied pattern that floods you with feeling and makes you feel like you cannot handle them alone but cannot trust anyone to help, or unresolved trauma that makes relationships generally really hard. The approach is tailored to what _your_ system needs.
Each intensive also includes 6 months' access to either the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) or Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) — evidence-based listening programs that continue supporting your nervous system between sessions. We would also use these sound based treatment in the room together.
Investment:
$700 if you pay before the 15th January 2026
$800 after the 15th January 2026
This kind of extended, focused time isn't for everyone — but if you've been feeling like something needs more space to emerge, or need more time for your system to learn how to settle, this might be the container for it.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Existing clients who know me well and feel a longer, integrated session would be beneficial
People experiencing nervous system symptoms like IBS, chronic fatigue, or chronic pain—while one session won't resolve these, it can help build more capacity for restorative states
Anyone wanting dedicated space to work through one specific stressful or traumatic event that we agree on before the session
WHEN MIGHT IT HELP?
To integrate big cathartic experiences that still feel unresolved
To focus deeply on one agreed event without the constraints of a standard session
For general nervous system restoration and integration
WHO IS IT NOT FOR?
* People looking for a quick fix—this work is about building capacity in your nervous system, not bypassing it
* People who are brand new to therapy—intensives work best when you already have some foundation in self-awareness and emotional / nervous system regulation
* People currently in acute crisis or feeling very destabilised—we'd need to focus on stabilisation first before doing deeper integrative work
* Those who prefer a purely talking-based approach—these sessions involve somatic and body-based work, which requires a willingness to slow down and tune into physical sensation
The touch work or with other words 'table work' is optional and boundaried in these sessions.
When you book you pay for the session, the time we will agree on it together. I offer these sessions twice a months as it requires intense preparation and engagement from me.
Cancellation policy applies.
If you'd like to explore whether an intensive is right for you, reach out and we can talk it through.
Warmly, Andi
https://www.halaxy.com/book/appointment/psychotherapist/ms-andrea-szasz/519691/479491?feeId=10010171
