Healing Retreats & Therapy Intensives in Alpine
Focused Time for Deep Personal Work
Sometimes meaningful change requires more than the rhythm of weekly sessions.
A personal intensive offers the opportunity to step outside the usual pace of life and spend focused, uninterrupted time exploring patterns, gaining insight, and cultivating meaningful shifts.
These intensives integrate my work as a licensed therapist, Medical Qigong practitioner, and relational guide, bringing together psychological insight, somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and energetic cultivation.
The result is a space where you can slow down, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with greater clarity and alignment.
What Is a Therapy Intensive?
A therapy intensive is a structured block of time—typically one or two days—dedicated to deeper personal exploration.
Instead of spreading the work across many weekly sessions, we create a focused container that allows us to:
• explore important patterns more thoroughly
• move through emotional material with greater continuity
• develop practical tools for change
• reconnect with your own internal clarity and direction
Many people find that intensives allow them to make significant progress in a relatively short period of time.
My Approach
My work integrates several complementary perspectives, including:
• Psychotherapy and relational insight
• Medical Qigong and energetic cultivation
• Somatic and nervous system regulation
• Mindfulness and meditation practices
• Symbolic and intuitive exploration
Together, these approaches support both understanding and transformation, helping clients gain deeper insight while cultivating greater internal steadiness and presence.
What We May Explore
Each intensive is personalized. Depending on your goals, our work together may include:
• Relationship dynamics and communication patterns
• Emotional regulation and nervous system awareness
• Intimacy, sexuality, and relational vitality
• Subconscious beliefs and internal narratives
• Life direction and identity transitions
• Energetic balance and cultivation practices
Throughout the day we may incorporate Medical Qigong movement, meditation, and guided reflective practices to support integration.
Who Intensives Are For
Intensives can be especially helpful if you:
• Feel ready to explore something more deeply
• Want focused time to work through a specific issue
• Are navigating a major life transition
• Feel stuck in a pattern and want to move forward
• Prefer a more immersive experience than weekly sessions
They are particularly helpful for individuals who value insight, reflection, and intentional personal growth.
Upcoming Intensive
Private Medical Qigong Transformation Intensive
May 1–2 | Alpine, Utah
This two-day experience combines Medical Qigong cultivation practices, meditation, relational insight, and individualized consultation in a focused and supportive environment.
Because this intensive is intentionally limited to only two participants, you receive both personalized one-on-one sessions and shared cultivation practices.
Over the two days, we will explore patterns that influence your emotional life, relationships, and overall vitality while learning practices that support greater balance, presence, and personal clarity.
This intensive includes
• Approximately 14 hours of guided work and cultivation practices
• Two private 90-minute sessions
• Medical Qigong movement and energetic cultivation practices
• Taoist meditation and reflective exercises
• Relationship and communication insight
• Integration and personalized guidance
Investment: $2,500
Optional private add-on sessions may also be scheduled during the intensive.
Couples Intensive
Two-Day Couples Intensive for Deep Relationship Repair
Private Couples Therapy Intensives in Alpine, Utah
Some relationship challenges require more space and focus than a weekly therapy session can provide.
A couples intensive offers an immersive experience designed to help partners step out of repetitive conflict patterns and reconnect with greater clarity, honesty, and emotional safety.
These two-day intensives combine relational psychotherapy, sex therapy, somatic regulation, and deeper insight work to help couples address the root dynamics shaping their relationship.
I offer private couples intensives in Alpine, Utah, serving couples from Utah County, Salt Lake County, and across the state of Utah who are ready for meaningful change.
Sex Therapy Intensive
A Focused, Deep-Dive Experience for Individuals & Couples
When weekly therapy isn’t enough—or when you’re ready for meaningful change without months of waiting—a sex therapy intensive offers a powerful alternative.
This is a private, structured, and deeply supported experience designed to help you move through stuck patterns, reconnect with your body, and create real momentum in your relationship or personal healing. Therapy Intensives in Alpine
Paige VanderSloot, LMFT, CST, DMQ
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
Doctor of Medical Qigong
Awaken Center for Healing
Alpine, Utah