Karuna House Psychotherapy Intensives

A 65-Hour Multidisciplinary Clinical Immersion

Karuna House Psychotherapy Intensives

We are an 8-day, clinically immersive Psychotherapy Intensive designed for people who want to understand why they feel, think, and relate the way they do, and who are ready to do that work in a real, human, deeply connected way.

The Karuna House 8-Day Psychotherapy Intensive offers 70 hours of structured therapeutic work within a compassionate and supportive clinical environment. Our approach is not lecture-based. We provide intensive, in-depth individual psychotherapy, where meaningful, transformative work unfolds, alongside experiential relational group therapy in which the group becomes a catalyst for insight, change, and healing. This work is complemented with psycho-educational groups to support learning and skill development. This immersive format allows individuals and couples to explore trauma, relational wounds, emotional patterns, and behavioral challenges with the time and depth often difficult to achieve in traditional weekly therapy.

8 day Multidisciplinary treatment program
-30 plus hours of Individual, couples, and/or family therapy
-30 plus hours of group therapy
-10 hours of experiential and psycho-educational workshops

❋ Deep Clinical Immersion

Engage in over 70 hours of structured therapeutic work designed to move beyond surface insight. 

❋ Holistic Healing

Our integrative approach addresses the cognitive, emotional, relational, and somatic dimensions of experience, supporting healing across mind, body, and relationships.

❋ Personalized, Multidisciplinary Care

Work with a collaborative team of experienced clinicians who tailor each aspect of the intensive to your unique history, needs, and goals.

❋ Transformation Without Disruption

Experience the depth of intensive therapy in a focused, outpatient setting, allowing for profound breakthroughs while staying connected to your daily life.

Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Model Approach

Treatment plan focused on your specific needs

Our program integrates evidence-based trauma therapies and experiential modalities that support healing across the cognitive, emotional, relational, and somatic dimensions of experience.

Our approach includes:

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Experiential Psychotherapy

  • Experiential group therapy

  • Somatic Movement

  • DBT

  • CBT

  • Family systems/Parts Work

  • Psychiatric

  • Nutritional evaluation

  • Art therapy

  • Equine-assisted therapy

  • Aikido-based movement and stability practices

Together, these approaches create a comprehensive therapeutic experience designed to support meaningful and lasting change.

Designed for those seeking deeper healing, greater clarity, and meaningful change beyond what weekly therapy can offer.

Structure of the Week

Karuna House Intensives run over 8 days from Saturday through Sunday, offering approximately 70 hours of structured therapeutic work within a compassionate and supportive clinical environment. The intensive is designed as a carefully paced clinical immersion that creates the conditions for deep and meaningful psychological exploration, allowing participants to move beyond surface insight and into sustained, transformative work.

Throughout the week, participants engage in a balanced and thoughtfully sequenced combination of:

  • Experiential group therapy

  • Individual psychotherapy sessions

  • Psychoeducation groups

  • Somatic therapy groups

  • Individual Adjunctive Sessions

This multidisciplinary structure allows each person to explore their experiences from multiple perspectives while building emotional awareness, nervous system stability, and a deeper understanding of relational patterns.

Rather than approaching healing from a single lens, the integration of these modalities supports whole person change, helping participants not only gain insight into longstanding patterns, but also develop practical tools and embodied experiences that support lasting transformation.

The rhythm of the intensive is intentionally designed to be both focused and sustainable. Time is built into each day for meals, rest, and reflection, recognizing that integration is as essential as the therapeutic work itself. Just beyond Karuna House, the natural landscape along the Maumee River and the surrounding Metroparks offers quiet trails, open green space, and a steady, grounding environment. Many participants find that time spent walking, sitting in nature, or simply stepping away between sessions becomes an important part of the process, allowing the work to settle and deepen in a natural and supportive way.

Day 1: Orientation and Preparatory Workshop: Orientation and The Karuna House Therapeutic Road Map

Days 2–7: Therapeutic Exploration and Processing

  • Experiential Group Therapy

  • Individual Psychotherapy

  • EMDR trauma processing

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Experiential Psychotherapy

  • Cognitive and relational approaches

  • Psychoeducation Groups

  • Art as a Therapeutic Process

  • Experiential and Somatic Therapies

  • Functional Nutrition

  • Occupational Therapy

Day 8: Concluding Workshop and Integration

Who It’s For

When Therapy Feels Stuck

You may feel as though something important remains just out of reach in therapy. Perhaps you sense deeper layers of experience that have not yet had the space to unfold. An intensive offers time and focus to explore these layers with care and intention.

When Life Feels Overwhelming

Periods of crisis, transition, or emotional overwhelm can make it difficult to find steady ground. Intensives provide a structured and supportive environment where difficult experiences can be processed safely and compassionately.

When You Want Meaningful Change Without Residential Treatment

Some people need more support than weekly therapy provides but do not require, or cannot commit to, a 30-35 day residential program. A Karuna House Intensive offers a powerful middle path: focused therapeutic immersion without the disruption of inpatient care.

Concerns We Address

  • Persistent sadness, emotional exhaustion, or chronic worry often have deeper roots in unresolved experiences or nervous system dysregulation. Intensive therapy allows us to work more directly with these underlying patterns.

  • Early childhood experiences that continue to influence present-day perception, affect regulation, and attachment behaviors. Often outside of conscious awareness and negatively impact current relationships and self-perception.

  • Prolonged, repeated exposure to physical and emotional abuse during childhood that continues to negatively influence present-day mood, stress responses, and overall emotional functioning.

  • Accidents, falls, surgeries, and medical complications can alter how a person experiences their body, often leading to shifts in their sense of safety, identity, and functioning. These experiences can significantly impact emotional well-being, nervous system regulation, and how one engages with the world.

  • This occurs when trust is violated within significant relationships, disrupting an individual’s sense of safety, connection, and self-worth. These experiences can impact not only the relationship in which the betrayal occurred, but also other relationships and how a person understands and makes meaning of themselves.

  • Loss is a natural part of the human experience. At times, however, grief and loss can feel overwhelming and exceed one’s capacity to cope, affecting physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

  • Many compulsive behaviors emerge as attempts to cope with overwhelming emotions or unmet relational needs.

    These may include:

    • Substance or alcohol misuse

    • Sex or love addiction

    • Gambling

    • Workaholism

    • Eating disorders

    • Compulsive exercise

    • Other repetitive or high-risk coping strategies

    Through integrative trauma therapy, we gently explore the emotional and somatic drivers beneath these patterns and support the development of healthier ways of regulating and relating.

  • When addiction or trauma affects a relationship, partners and families often carry deep emotional wounds. Karuna House Intensives can create space to process betrayal, grief, and relational pain while beginning the work of rebuilding trust, safety, and connection.

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