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A Resource For Clinicians

When your client is stuck, an intensive may be the next right step.

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Some Clients Get Stuck

Some clients plateau in weekly therapy. They're showing up, doing the work, and still not moving. Sometimes the issue is time — one hour a week isn't enough to reach what needs to be reached. But often it's something else: the client needs a different approach entirely, a new way of engaging with the issue that weekly sessions haven't offered.

A therapy intensive provides both. Extended, focused time — half day, whole day, or multi-day — combined with somatic and experiential methods that work at the level where the pattern actually lives: in the body and nervous system, not just in conscious thought. Using Brainspotting, Somatic Tapping, Parts Work (IFS), CBT, and Cognitive Reframing, we come at the problem from a different angle — often reaching what talk therapy alone hasn't been able to touch.

What Intensives Address Well

Clients who benefit most from an intensive often present with:

  • Trauma, including sexual assault and war-related experiences

  • Anger

  • Betrayal — personal or relational

  • Guilt and regret

  • Phobias, including social anxiety

  • Flashbacks and intrusive memories

  • Negative cognitions a client is unable to release

Alabama Intensives

Experiential & In Vivo Work Intensive

Not all intensive work takes place in an office. Depending on the client's goals, sessions may include real-world settings — walking on the beach for emotional release, visiting a public space to work through social anxiety, or facing a specific phobia in the environment where it shows up. This kind of in-vivo work is built into the intensive design when clinically appropriate.

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Your Client Comes Back To You

A referral to Alabama Intensives is not a transfer of care. Clients return to their referring clinician after the intensive is complete. The intensive is designed to move something specific — not to replace the ongoing therapeutic relationship you've already built.

Ready To Refer

To discuss a potential referral or ask questions about fit, email is preferred.

Diana Sturm, LPC Therapy Intensives

Email: [email protected] Call: 251-283-2112

Diana Sturm, Licensed Professional Counselor

Alabama #4426; Florida TPMC 1055

Email is preferred: [email protected]

Phone: 251-283-2112 Please leave a message.

The Mobile, Alabama location for in-person sessions is near Tillman's Corner or other mutually agreeable location. The address will be provided to current clients.

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Mail: PO Box 850053, Mobile, AL 36685-0053

Sessions are by appointment only.

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