It’s not a lack of insight. It's a lack of access.

You can narrate your patterns better than most therapists. You know why you shut down, why you over-function, why the same relationship dynamic keeps showing up.

Yet 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. The problem is knowing has nowhere to land and nothing to do.

It's an access problem: the insight lives in one part of your system, and the part running the show when you're triggered 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 time & space than an hour a week gives them.

Patterns, Interrupted

a three-session experiential arc for people who are done with just knowing why they do what they do and are ready to do things a little differently.

01 — Preparation Session (90 minutes) We map the terrain before we ever go in. 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. Embodied active imagination + parts work, supported by techniques 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.

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

  • You’re ready for compressed and intensified work — not shortened

Who this isn’t for:

  • You’re in a mental health crisis and need stabilization or acute management

  • You have mental health symptoms impeding the ability to function in your daily life

  • If you're in acute crisis or don't currently have professional support, this isn't a replacement for ongoing care of mental health diagnose

  • 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.

  • That's what Prep is for. Most people arrive with a feeling more than a diagnosis, and that's plenty to start with.

  • Typically three to seven days — enough time for the work to settle before we check what held.

  • I offer in-person sessions in Pasadena, CA &/or the whole arc of the intensive can be facilitated over telehealth.

  • "Lauren took great care to hold a sturdy environment for self-exploration. Her presence held me in safety so I could feel what was once un-feelable. "

    -S.O.

  • "I couldn't tell you how the changed happened, but I can tell you what changed. I genuinely no longer feel the paralyzing fear that used to grip me at work. I am confident and more efficient in a way I never thought possible. "

    -N.Z.

REC SPACE Intensive

If you're interested in a more compressed and intensified experience, complete the form and I’ll get back to you within a few days.