Patterns, Interrupted.
You can narrate your patterns better than most therapists. You know why you shut down, why you over-function, why the same relationships keeps showing up wearing a different face.
But the knowing doesn’t seem to lead to change. Thats because the knowing has never been the problem.
The problem is that knowing has nowhere to land and nothing to do.
That’s where REC SPACE’s ‘Patterns, Interrupted’ Intensive comes in — a three-session experiential arc for people who are done with just knowing why they do what they do and are ready to do therapy a little differently.
The Problem:
You've read the books. Maybe you've done years of therapy. You could teach a class on your own attachment style. And still — under pressure, in the moment that matters, you do the same thing you always do.
That gap between what you know and what you do isn't a discipline problem. It isn't a "try harder" problem. It's an access problem: the insight lives in one part of your system, and the part running the show when you're triggered has never gotten the memo.
Weekly therapy, at fifty minutes a week, is often too shallow and too interrupted to close that gap. Not because it doesn't work — because some things need more room than an hour gives them.
Who this is for:
You're insight-rich and still stuck — you understand yourself and it hasn't been enough
You've done therapy, it helped, and something specific is still not moving
You want depth over duration: one concentrated container instead of another year of Tuesdays
You're ready to feel something shift, not just talk about shifting it
The Mechanism:
Real change happens when three things occur together, not in sequence:
Know — naming the pattern and the belief underneath it, in your own words
Feel — meeting it in the body, where it actually lives
Do — generating a new, embodied experience that contradicts the old one, in real time
None of these alone moves anything. Insight without feeling stays theoretical. Feeling without a new experience just re-confirms the old story. An intensive exists to hold all three in the same room, close enough together in time to actually fuse into something new.
Who this isn’t for:
This isn't crisis stabilization, and it isn't a replacement for ongoing care if that's what you need right now. It's real work, compressed and intensified — not shortened. If you're in acute crisis or don't currently have support outside of this container, let's talk about what's the right fit first.
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Either. Some clients do an intensive as a standalone container for one specific pattern. Others use it alongside ongoing weekly work — I'm glad to coordinate with an existing therapist if that's helpful.
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That's what Prep is for. Most people arrive with a feeling more than a diagnosis, and that's plenty to start with.
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These are different ways of helping your system activate all parts necessary to create lasting change: the Brain (and it thinking, feeling, and doing parts), the Body (and all its sensory information), and the Container (the relationship with a guiding witness as you unlearn patterns of the past).
Not everyone needs them, and not everyone's system responds to them the same way. We decide together in Prep, based on how your material actually organizes itself.
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Typically three to seven days — enough time for the work to settle before we check what held.
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I offer in-person sessions in Pasadena, CA &/or the whole arc of the intensive can be facilitated over telehealth.
How it works:
01 — Preparation Session (90 minutes) We map the terrain before we ever go in. Using two frameworks built for exactly this — SPACE and SPIRAL — we locate where your pattern actually lives (body, image, belief, behavior, or emotion) and the loop that keeps it running. No surprises walking into the deep work. You'll know what we're aiming at, and so will I.
02 — Process Session (2+ hours) This is the work itself. Imaginal parts work, held in the body, supported by Brainspotting or ART where it fits your system. We find out what the pattern has actually been trying to do for you — and give your system a real, felt alternative, not just a new thought about the old one.
03 — Integration Session (60 minutes, a few days later) We check what held. We build the bridge back into your actual life — the version of this that survives a bad Tuesday, not just the room. And we make sure this doesn't stay a nice thing that happened once.
It was never a lack of insight. It's a lack of access.
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