Therapy Intensives for Stress Relief: How to Reset Before Summer Begins
By Olga Konyakova, LCSW, CADC, EMDR Therapist for Complex Trauma & Self-Esteem
As summer approaches, many women—especially those in caretaking roles—start to feel a familiar heaviness creeping in. The calendar fills up, expectations rise, and suddenly the season that’s supposed to bring rest and joy feels like just another mountain to climb.
If you’re feeling mentally exhausted or emotionally frayed before summer even begins, you’re not alone. And more importantly, you don’t have to push through on empty.
Therapy intensives offer a powerful, focused form of mental health support for burnout—and they may be exactly what you need to reset before summer starts.
Therapy Intensives for Stress Relief: How to Reset Before Summer Begins
Why the Pre-Summer Season Feels So Overwhelming
Women who carry complex trauma often move through the world in a heightened state of alertness, constantly attuned to others’ needs and feelings. When you’re also a caregiver—whether to children, aging parents, clients, students, or a community—this emotional labor is doubled. Spring becomes a pressure cooker of end-of-year deadlines, emotional transitions, and unmet personal needs.
So by the time summer arrives, you’re not entering a season of ease—you’re stepping into it depleted.
What Are Therapy Intensives?
A therapy intensive is a focused, extended session or series of sessions designed to help you go deeper, faster. Rather than spreading healing out over months of weekly sessions, an intensive offers a concentrated space to process trauma, gain clarity, and reconnect with yourself.
As an EMDR therapist specializing in complex trauma and self-esteem, I use intensives to help clients move through stuck patterns, release built-up emotional tension, and develop grounding tools that support nervous system regulation.
This isn’t a quick fix—it’s a deeply intentional investment in your healing.
How Therapy Intensives Provide Stress Relief Before Summer
Here’s how therapy intensives help women like you find relief and reconnection ahead of summer:
1. Space to Put Yourself First
Caretakers rarely have uninterrupted time to focus on themselves. An intensive creates sacred space where you are the priority—for once, without guilt.
2. Deep Emotional Clearing
Complex trauma doesn’t just “go away” when life gets busy. Intensives allow for meaningful processing of old wounds, recent stressors, and emotional build-up before they spill into summer.
3. Rebuilding Internal Safety
If your nervous system is constantly in fight-or-flight, summer’s change in routine can feel destabilizing. Intensives focus on helping you return to a grounded, steady internal state—so you can meet the season with more calm and confidence.
4. Learning Tools for Real-Life Burnout
You’ll leave with more than insight—you’ll walk away with practical strategies for setting boundaries, regulating stress, and recognizing your own needs in the moment. This is mental health support for burnout that sticks.
Who Therapy Intensives Are For
If you’re:
A woman who tends to others before herself
Living with the effects of complex trauma
Feeling overwhelmed or on the verge of burnout
Craving space to breathe, reflect, and reconnect
Wanting to start summer from a place of clarity and calm
…a therapy intensive for stress relief before summer may be exactly the reset you need.
You Deserve to Start Summer Feeling Grounded
You don’t need to earn rest. You don’t need to wait until you're in crisis. And you don’t need to carry everything alone.
Therapy intensives are not about fixing you—they’re about supporting you. They’re a chance to meet yourself with care, to clear emotional clutter, and to enter summer with the tools and strength you deserve.
If you’re ready to make space for yourself before the season begins, I invite you to explore what an intensive might offer you.
Interested in booking a pre-summer therapy intensive?
Let’s talk. You can reach out here to learn more about my approach and see if an intensive is the right next step for you.
You’re not too much. You’re not too late. You’re right on time—for healing.
You’re not too much. You’re not too late. You’re right on time—for healing.