Intensives — Transcend Counseling
Transcend Counseling The Map Series Catherine Lovern, LCSW
The Map Series · Intensives

Intensives

Private, extended sessions for the work that won't fit in a weekly hour. One focused day to move beneath the pattern to what is actually driving it.

The Case for the Day

Why an Intensive?

Most of the deepest work never happens in a weekly hour — because the hour gets spent arriving. Many clients take the full session just to establish enough safety in the body to open up; the moment they are finally in the place to work, it is time to close. Extended time changes the math: we establish safety once, and then we stay — hours in the depth instead of minutes, and months of work in one contained arc.

Section One Couples — The Map FamilyA Map Series Intensive
01 The Flagship

Coming Back Home to Each Other

A Six-Hour Couples Intensive

One focused day to step out of the cycle, and back toward each other.

What It Is

A private, extended session for couples who feel stuck, disconnected, or caught in the same fight on repeat. In one day we move beneath the argument to what is actually driving it, so you can finally talk about the real thing.

What It Is Not

It is not about deciding who is right, or whether to stay or go. It is not endless venting. It is purposeful, guided work that respects your time, your intelligence, and your relationship.

Who It Is For
— Stuck feeling disconnected, or constantly in conflict.
— Tried therapy weekly sessions without real traction.
— At a threshold navigating trust, betrayal, or a major transition.
— Ready wanting depth and momentum, not months of drift.
How the Day Moves

Each part builds on the one before, at a pace your nervous systems can hold: Safety. Understanding your nervous systems. The body. The cycle you are caught in. The wounds beneath it. Being truly seen. Coming home.

What You Leave With
— A shared language for what happens between you in conflict.
— Your map how each of your histories shapes the present.
— A way to repair that you can actually use at home.
— Real requests spoken cleanly, and finally heard.
The Approach

Grounded in attachment, nervous-system, and somatic work, and led with warmth, structure, and full presence from the first hour to the last.

The work is to keep coming home to each other.

Six hours · 10:30 am – 4:30 pm From $1,600
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The Map

The Shape of the Day

10:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon

Each part of the day builds on the one before it. Nothing is rushed, and nothing is skipped.

10:30
Arriving & settling in

We begin by slowing down and creating safety. A few simple ground rules and some quiet breathing together, so the real work has somewhere steady to land.

11:15
Understanding your nervous systems

Most conflict is not a character problem. It is two nervous systems reacting, and you will learn how you set each other off without meaning to.

12:00
Listening to the body

Before words, the body already knows. A short somatic practice helps you feel what you have been carrying, and turn toward each other from a calmer place.

12:30
Lunch

A real pause to rest and reset.

1:15
The cycle you keep landing in

We map the dance you fall into, the roles and the moves and the moment it tips, without blame, and find the way each of you can step out of it.

2:00
The wounds beneath the pattern

The heart of the day. Each of you traces today's reactions back to where they began, and sees your partner with new eyes.

2:45
A short break

Time to breathe before the deepest part.

3:00
Being truly seen

With care and structure, you each share what usually stays hidden, and are met rather than judged. This is often where something between you begins to shift.

3:45
Coming home

We move from insight to action. Clear requests, real commitments, and a closing that ends not with what is broken, but with what is true between you.

You leave with a shared language, a way to repair, and a clearer path forward.

Timing flexes with the couple in the room · The arc stays the same
02 From $1,400

Coming Apart Whole

An Uncoupling Intensive

Ending a relationship without destroying each other or yourselves.

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Ending a relationship without destroying each other or yourselves. One structured day to grieve what was, take honest ownership of what happened, and separate with dignity instead of scorched earth.

4–5 hours · From $1,400
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03 From $850

The Alignment Session

A Pre-Commitment Intensive

Before the vows, the merge, or the ring: get underneath the assumptions.

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Before the vows, the merge, or the ring: get underneath the assumptions. Money, family, roles, conflict styles, old wounds each of you brings — mapped together before they become the fight you have for ten years.

3 hours ($850) or full day (from $1,400)
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04 From $2,600

Into the Light

Affair Recovery Intensive

Affairs thrive in darkness — they require secrecy.

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Affairs thrive in darkness — they require secrecy. Putting light on it brings the data to the surface: what was happening in the relationship before the affair began, and the wounded parts that got lost along the way. The affair partner is almost always a direct mirror of where the unmet needs are in the primary relationship. This is a full accounting — and then boundaries and clean asks moving forward.

Full day + two 90-minute follow-up sessions across the commitment window · From $2,600
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Requirements to Begin

The affair fully ended, with clear uncoupling from the affair partner; no escape hatches open; six months fully committed and monogamous, working together authentically to deepen connection and meet previously unmet needs.

05 From $2,000

Truth and Repair

Recovery After Addiction Betrayal

For couples rebuilding after the lies, hiding, and broken trust that addiction leaves behind.

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For couples rebuilding after the lies, hiding, and broken trust that addiction leaves behind — whichever side of it you were on. Betrayal trauma is treated as real trauma; recovery and repair run as two tracks that finally meet.

Full day + one follow-up session · From $2,000
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06 From $1,200

Same Team

A Parenting Intensive for Couples

You love the kids and you're at war over how to raise them.

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You love the kids and you're at war over how to raise them. One day to find where the parenting conflict actually lives — usually in each parent's own childhood — and build one aligned approach.

4–5 hours · From $1,200
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07 From $1,200

Two Homes, One Childhood

A Co-Parenting Intensive for Uncoupled Parents

No longer partners, permanently family.

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No longer partners, permanently family. Structured, contained, and practical: communication rules, triangulation off the table, the kids out of the middle.

4–5 hours · From $1,200
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08 From $1,400

The Balance of Us

Masculine & Feminine Realignment

When the energetic roles in a relationship drift from what actually fits each partner, resentment moves in.

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When the energetic roles in a relationship drift from what actually fits each partner, resentment moves in. A day to name who's carrying what, what each of you needs to receive, and how polarity comes back.

Full day · From $1,400
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Section Two IndividualA Map Series Intensive
09 $325

Extended Session

Ninety minutes for work that won't fit in fifty.

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Ninety minutes for work that won't fit in fifty.

90 minutes · $325
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10 $850

Making Peace with the Mirror

Body Image & Dysmorphia Intensive

A half-day to work beneath the mirror.

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A half-day to work beneath the mirror: where the distortion began, what it protects, and building a different relationship with your body. An adjunct to, not a replacement for, ongoing care.

3 hours · $850
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11 $850

Steady in the Room

Social Anxiety Intensive

A half-day on the watched-and-judged feeling.

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A half-day on the watched-and-judged feeling: where it started, the body's alarm, and rehearsing regulated presence.

3 hours · $850
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12 From $850

EMDR Trauma Intensive

Accelerated EMDR with preparation and closure built into the day.

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Accelerated EMDR with preparation and closure built into the day. A screening session is required first.

Full day (from $1,300) or half day ($850)
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13 $850

The Cost of Perfect

Perfectionism & Control Intensive

What the standards protect, what they cost, and what enough feels like in the body.

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What the standards protect, what they cost, and what enough feels like in the body.

3 hours · $850
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14 $850

The Lack Story

Money, Scarcity & Enough

Financial insecurity as a nervous-system state and an inherited story.

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Financial insecurity as a nervous-system state and an inherited story; rewriting the money narrative from the wound up.

3 hours · $850
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15 From $1,000

My Recovery Blueprint

The Post-Care Intensive

A build session that leaves you holding your personalized recovery operating system.

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A build session that leaves you holding your personalized recovery operating system — your language, your warning signs, your tools, on paper.

3–4 hours + your printed Blueprint · From $1,000
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Section Three Family & TeenA Map Series Intensive
16 From $1,400

The Family Map

A Family Connection Intensive

Every family runs on a map nobody drew on purpose.

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Every family runs on a map nobody drew on purpose — the roles, the alliances, the silences, the one everyone talks through, the one nobody really hears. One day together to see the system you're all living inside, let every voice land, and rebuild the family as a team — with communication that holds and repair you can actually use at home.

4–5 hours · Designed for three to five family members (larger families by consult) · From $1,400
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17 From $850

Finding North

A Teen Intensive — with or without parents

Teens are carrying more than most adults remember.

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Teens are carrying more than most adults remember — pressure, comparison, anxiety, and a mask that works until it doesn't. A weekly hour often ends right when a teenager finally starts talking; extended time gives the guard room to come down. Runs solo, or with parents joining for structured segments — not a referee session: a contained way for a teen to be truly heard, and for parents to leave with tools. A screening consultation comes first.

3 hours solo ($850) · 4 hours with parent segments (from $1,000)
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