Clarify Patterns
Identify the emotional and relational patterns that keep repeating in your life.
Therapy Intensives · Denver, Colorado
Accelerate Your Progress.
See the Change.
High-impact single-weekend therapy for individuals and couples in Denver, Colorado.
Get to the root of painful patterns, emotional wounds, and relationship dynamics so you can move forward with greater clarity, connection, and confidence.
Focused TimeTailored GoalsPrivate Setting
A focused alternative
What Are Intensive Therapy Weekends?
You want relief now.
Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe weekly therapy has helped, but you want to go deeper. Or maybe there is one particular issue you are ready to finally address with sustained attention.
Intensive Therapy Weekends offer focused, individualized psychotherapy delivered over a single weekend. Instead of stopping just as important material begins to emerge, an intensive gives us the time and space to stay with the work and address the deeper emotional, relational, and behavioral patterns keeping you stuck.
These are not workshops or group retreats. They are private therapy experiences designed collaboratively around your goals.
Condense months of therapeutic progress into a single weekend.
Why intensives
Why Choose a Weekend Intensive?
Because it’s faster than weekly therapy.
In weekly therapy sessions, progress usually unfolds gradually. While effective, time can be lost in "warming up," and important material often surfaces just as time runs out.
An intensive retreat format allows us to remain with the work long enough to create profound shifts, without dragging it out for months.
Explore Dynamics
Understand how past experiences, relationships, and emotional learning continue to shape the present.
Break Cycles
Work directly with entrenched patterns rather than simply managing their symptoms.
Integrate Insight
Move beyond intellectually understanding a problem toward experiencing change at a deeper emotional level.
Areas of focus
What Concerns Can Be Addressed?
Anxiety & Stress
Relationship & Attachment Issues
Depression & Mood Difficulties
Life Transitions & Identity
Trauma & PTSD
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Addictive Patterns
Grief & Loss
Is This Format a Good Fit?
A Weekend Intensive may be a good fit if you:
- Want concentrated time to make meaningful progress.
- Feel ready to finally move the needle on something that has kept you stuck.
- Prefer focused work rather than months of once-a-week pacing.
- Want more than insight alone and are open to deeper emotional work.
- Want traction on a particular pattern, relationship issue, memory, or concern.
- Have already done therapy and want to go deeper in a specific area.
- Have a busy life and prefer setting aside one dedicated weekend for focused work.
The process
Convenient 2-Day Retreat Format
Your intensive is structured to allow deep work while maintaining appropriate pacing, breaks, reflection, and integration.
Saturday + Sunday15 total hours of concentrated therapy
- 1
Initial Consultation
We begin with a conversation about what is happening, what you want to change, and whether an intensive is the right fit.
- 2
Preparation
Before the weekend, you complete relevant assessments and introductory material so we can clarify goals and begin with a strong understanding of what we want to address.
- 3
The Intensive Weekend
We spend two focused days working directly with the patterns, emotions, memories, or relationship dynamics at the center of your concern.
- 4
Follow-Up Plan
After the intensive, we identify what changed, what still needs attention, and how to integrate your progress into everyday life.
Personalized care
How Do We Do It?
There is no single technique that fits every person or every problem. Your intensive is tailored to your goals using evidence-based and experiential approaches designed to address both the patterns you understand intellectually and the emotional learning underneath them.
EMDR
EMDR helps the brain process distressing memories and experiences that continue to trigger present-day emotional reactions. As these experiences are reprocessed, they often become less emotionally charged and easier to hold in perspective.
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy helps you slow down and work directly with emotions that may normally be avoided, suppressed, or overanalyzed. By accessing and transforming core emotional experiences, we can create change at the level where many persistent patterns are maintained.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic work helps identify recurring patterns shaped by earlier relationships and experiences, including dynamics that may operate outside conscious awareness. Insight is paired with emotional experience so that understanding can translate into meaningful change.
Gottman Method for Couples
For couples, Gottman-informed interventions provide practical tools for understanding conflict patterns, repairing injuries, strengthening communication, and rebuilding connection.
Designed around you
Individuals and Couples
Individual Therapy
Individual intensives provide focused, one-on-one work tailored to a specific goal or concern.
Common areas of focus include trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, shame, identity, grief, persistent emotional patterns, and relationship difficulties.
The goal is not simply to understand why a pattern exists, but to work with it deeply enough that something begins to change.
Couples Therapy
Couples intensives provide concentrated time to step outside the normal cycle of conflict and work directly on the dynamics affecting your relationship.
We may address unresolved injuries, communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, recurring conflict, trust, attachment needs, and longstanding relational patterns.
Couples work draws primarily from Emotion-Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method.
Meet the people
Our Team
Mason Fraley
Psychotherapist
I’m a therapist who specializes in experiential, trauma-informed work designed to help people understand and change the deeper patterns shaping their lives and relationships.
My approach is active, collaborative, and focused. I draw from EMDR, Emotion-Focused Therapy, attachment-oriented approaches, and other experiential methods to help clients move beyond simply talking about a problem and begin working with it directly.
Intensive therapy allows us to do that work with unusual depth and continuity.
- Licensed in Colorado
- Advanced Training in Trauma & Experiential Therapy
- Individual & Couples Intensives
Zachary Zaldivar
Life Coach
Zachary Zaldivar brings more than a decade of experience working with individuals, couples, and families, along with six years of service in the U.S. Army. His work is grounded, practical, and focused on helping people navigate challenges, strengthen relationships, and move toward meaningful change.
Zach holds a BS in Crisis Counseling and is currently in graduate school pursuing a master’s degree in counseling psychology.
He lives in Denver with his wife, Kyra, and their five daughters.
- 6 Years U.S. Army
- 10+ Years Working With Individuals, Couples & Families
- BS in Crisis Counseling
- Graduate Student in Counseling Psychology
A dedicated investment in change
Investment
Weekend Intensive — $2,000
Colorado Intensive Therapy is a private-pay practice.
Payment is made directly rather than through insurance. Upon request, we can provide an itemized statement that you may submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Coverage is determined by your individual plan.
Your weekend includes
- 15 hours of concentrated therapy
- Pre-intensive assessment and preparation
- Individualized treatment planning
- The full Saturday–Sunday intensive experience
- Post-intensive follow-up and recommendations
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Thoughtful answers to help you decide whether this concentrated format may be right for you.
A therapy intensive is an extended period of individualized psychotherapy conducted over a concentrated block of time rather than spread across weekly sessions. This allows us to remain engaged with important material without repeatedly stopping and restarting the process.
Begin with a conversation
Ready to Finally
Move the Needle?
If there is something you are tired of circling around, managing, or carrying with you, an intensive may offer the time and depth needed to approach it differently.
Schedule a consultation and we’ll talk through what you want to change, what you have already tried, and whether an Intensive Therapy Weekend makes sense for you.
Schedule a Consultation