Intensive Anxiety Therapy Retreats
Deep Healing Beyond Surface Symptoms
Transform Your Relationship with Anxiety Through Multi-Day Intensive Therapy
Are you tired of managing anxiety symptoms without experiencing lasting relief? At Soul & Psyche, we offer a revolutionary approach to anxiety therapy that goes beyond traditional weekly sessions. Our multi-day intensive therapy retreats combine specialized trauma processing modalities to address the deeper roots of anxiety disorders, helping you reclaim your peace, authenticity, and inner strength.
Based in California and serving clients throughout the state, we provide both online therapy and in-person intensive retreat experiences designed for individuals ready to move beyond coping toward genuine transformation. We also welcome English-speaking clients from international locations who are seeking specialized intensive anxiety therapy.
The Foundation of Our Partnership: 23 Years of Shared Growth
The foundation of our work extends far beyond clinical expertise – it is captured in our 23-year relationship to one another, a partnership that has weathered seasons of growth, held space for each other's evolution, and deepened our capacity to hold space for others. This profound professional and personal bond creates a unique therapeutic environment where healing can flourish through the depth of trust, understanding, and complementary strengths we bring to every client interaction.
Rather than simply alleviating surface-level expressions such as depression and anxiety, our practice seeks to uncover and heal the underlying wounds and unmet needs that give rise to these symptoms. Central to our approach is guiding clients on a journey of self-discovery, helping them fulfill the fundamental human need to realize their True Self.
Why Traditional Anxiety Therapy Often Falls Short
Many people with anxiety disorders have tried various treatments for anxiety – from talk therapy to traditional weekly sessions – yet continue to experience persistent symptoms. Traditional approaches often focus on managing anxiety symptoms rather than addressing the underlying wounds, trauma, and disconnection from your True Self that fuel anxiety disorders.
Our clients typically come to us having experienced:
Persistent anxiety despite previous therapeutic efforts
Complex trauma from family systems, professional environments, or religious institutions
Emotional exhaustion from carrying the weight of unprocessed experiences
Shame, self-worth issues, and esteem problems affecting daily functioning
Effects of neglect, verbal, or physical abuse creating ongoing anxiety patterns
Burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness
The psychological demands of high-level success and leadership responsibilities
For those with stable recovery (12+ months of sobriety), underlying trauma and emotional pain that contributed to past substance use patterns
Our Specialized Approach to Anxiety Disorders
Multi-Day Intensive Therapy Retreats
Our signature anxiety therapy approach centers on multi-day intensive retreats that provide sustained therapeutic attention impossible to achieve in traditional weekly sessions. This concentrated format allows for profound transformation that can shift long-standing anxiety disorder patterns in days rather than months or years.
Day One: Foundation and Safety The first day focuses on establishing a trusting relationship, sharing information about your life experience and goals for the retreat, and developing a sense of safety so that you will be ready to move forward with intensive therapeutic work.
Subsequent Days: Deep Processing The afternoon of your first day and following days focus on using the most effective trauma processing modalities to clear traumatic memories and help you move forward in your life. We utilize specialized approaches – EMDR, Ego State Therapy and IFS theory, Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT), and Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST).
Integration and Transition Your retreat concludes with integration work ensuring you can take your newfound ease and insights into daily life, providing practical strategies for continued growth and maintaining transformation.
Ego State Therapy and IFS Theory
Our approach integrates Ego State Therapy and IFS theory to address internal conflicts and fragmentation underlying persistent anxiety disorder patterns. These complementary approaches recognize that we all have different internal "parts" or ego states, some of which developed protective strategies – including anxiety – in response to past wounds.
Through Ego State Therapy and IFS theory work, we help you develop a compassionate relationship with anxious parts while accessing your core Self – the wise, calm, confident essence capable of leading your internal system with clarity and compassion. This approach supports clients who are ready to know and integrate their often unacknowledged shadow aspects of the ego – the parts that cling to control and resist vulnerability.
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Kimberly Sanders brings specialized expertise as a Level III Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment practitioner, trained directly by Dr. Janina Fisher. TIST is designed to help individuals develop internal resources necessary for processing trauma and managing anxiety disorders effectively.
This modality focuses on building stability and capacity before processing traumatic material, ensuring clients have internal resources necessary to integrate healing safely and sustainably. TIST is particularly effective for individuals who have experienced complex trauma or whose anxiety disorders stem from early developmental experiences.
Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT)
ImTT works directly with imagery, memories, and internal representations maintaining anxiety disorder patterns. Many individuals with anxiety disorders carry vivid internal images of feared outcomes, past traumatic events, or negative self-perceptions that continue triggering anxious responses.
This specialized approach transforms these internal images, reducing their emotional impact while creating new, empowering internal representations that support calm, confidence, and emotional regulation.
Types of Anxiety Disorders We Treat
Our comprehensive anxiety therapy addresses various anxiety disorders:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Persistent, excessive worry about multiple life areas creating constant tension and hypervigilance that interferes with daily functioning.
Panic Disorder: Sudden, intense panic attacks including physical symptoms like rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, and intense fear of losing control.
Social Anxiety Disorder: Intense fear of social situations, public speaking, or being judged by others, often leading to significant social avoidance.
Specific Phobias: Intense fear of particular objects, situations, or activities that creates significant distress and avoidance behaviors.
People with anxiety disorders often experience both psychological symptoms and physical symptoms of anxiety, including muscle tension, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems, and other symptoms that create cycles of fear and avoidance.
Beyond Symptom Management: Addressing Root Causes
Healing Shame and Self-Worth Issues
Many individuals struggling with anxiety disorders experience fundamental disconnection from their inherent worth. This manifests in painful relationship patterns, persistent self-criticism, or chronic feelings of inadequacy that fuel ongoing anxiety about performance, acceptance, and safety.
Our work specifically addresses shame, self-worth issues, and esteem problems through therapeutic approaches helping you recognize and reclaim your inherent worth, often producing profound shifts in anxiety disorder patterns.
Integrating Shadow Aspects
Central to our approach is helping clients ready to integrate often unacknowledged shadow aspects of the ego – parts that cling to control, resist vulnerability, or maintain protective patterns no longer serving you. Anxiety disorders often involve shadow aspects carrying fear, shame, or unprocessed pain from past experiences.
By fostering deep inner work and authentic connection to the self, our practice empowers lasting change, greater freedom, and a more meaningful, conscious life.
Reconnecting with Your True Self
At our work's heart is the fundamental human need to realize and embody your True Self – the authentic, wise, compassionate core beneath layers of protection, conditioning, and wounding. Anxiety disorders often develop when we disconnect from this essential self, leading to vulnerability, instability, and fear.
Specialized Treatment Areas
Post-Traumatic Stress and Complex Trauma
Much of our work focuses on anxiety disorders stemming from various trauma forms – relational trauma, institutional betrayal, natural disasters, or significant life transitions. Our specialized trauma processing modalities effectively address how past experiences continue impacting current anxiety disorder patterns.
Drawing from our extensive backgrounds in clinical work, research, and diverse therapeutic settings, we bring deep understanding of how trauma manifests and can be healed through intensive therapeutic work.
Depression and Anxiety Disorders
Many clients deal with complex interplay between anxiety disorders and depression – conditions that often reinforce each other and stem from similar underlying wounds. Our intensive approach effectively addresses this combination by working with trauma, self-worth issues, and disconnection from authentic self underlying both conditions.
Spiritual Abuse and Religious Trauma
We have expertise in addressing spiritual abuse and religious trauma that can create profound anxiety disorders and spiritual crisis. Many individuals have experienced betrayal, manipulation, or abuse within religious or spiritual contexts that leaves lasting wounds affecting their relationships with themselves, others, and their spiritual life.
Our approach recognizes the unique challenges of healing from spiritual abuse, including ways religious trauma can create anxiety disorders around trust, authority, and spiritual connection. Through our compassionate, non-denominational approach, we help clients heal from religious wounds while honoring their authentic spiritual journey.
Trauma-Focused Work for Those in Stable Recovery
For individuals with stable recovery (12+ months of sobriety) who are ready for deeper healing work, we address underlying trauma, shame, and emotional pain that may have contributed to past substance use patterns. Our approach is trauma-focused rather than addiction-specific, emphasizing healing the root wounds that created vulnerability to addictive patterns.
We clarify that our expertise comes from extensive trauma work rather than decades of addiction-specific training. Our focus is on helping individuals who have established stable recovery to address deeper psychological and spiritual wounds through intensive trauma processing.
Who Benefits from Our Intensive Anxiety Therapy
Our approach serves individuals ready for deep healing work who are:
Seeking transformation beyond symptom management
Ready to address underlying wounds and unmet needs
Prepared to engage in intensive therapeutic work
Committed to their healing journey and personal growth
Looking to heal shame, self-worth issues, and esteem problems
Wanting to resolve burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness
Interested in exploring both psychological and spiritual dimensions of healing
For those in stable recovery, ready to address underlying trauma that contributed to past patterns
Dr. Hamilton is dedicated to helping his clients be their best selves, while Kimberly brings specialized expertise in working with individuals struggling with self-love deficits and relationship patterns. Together, we support anyone ready for the courage and commitment that intensive healing work requires.
Your Consultation and Treatment Journey
Initial Consultation Process
Your Soul & Psyche journey begins with an easily scheduled consultation call with our intake coordinator. They will answer your questions and guide you to determine who is most appropriate for your specific needs and goals.
Once your consultation call is scheduled, you will speak with one of us to see if an hourly format or a retreat is a good fit for your needs and schedule a time to move forward. If the retreat format is chosen, a deposit and your retreat dates will be reserved for you.
Evidence-Based Excellence with Heart-Centered Approach
Our treatment combines cutting-edge, evidence-based treatments proven effective for complex anxiety presentations with a deeply human, heart-centered approach that honors the full spectrum of your experience. Unlike approaches relying primarily on symptom management, our work addresses anxiety disorder root causes through comprehensive trauma processing, parts work, and integration processes.
Somatic Integration and Embodied Healing
Kimberly's over 700 hours of yoga teacher training and somatic healing background brings essential embodied dimensions to our anxiety treatment. Anxiety disorders often involve disconnection from the body and its wisdom, and our approach helps clients reconnect with their somatic experience as a source of grounding, regulation, and healing.
Creative and Spiritual Dimensions
Dr. Hamilton's background in theatre arts and spiritual direction brings unique creative and spiritual dimensions to our therapeutic work. Many clients find that anxiety disorders limit their creative expression and authentic self-presentation, and our approach helps restore access to creativity, spontaneity, and authentic self-expression.
Online Therapy and In-Person Options
Soul & Psyche offers both online therapy and in-person services, recognizing different individuals have varying preferences and needs for anxiety therapy. Our online therapy provides accessibility for clients throughout California and internationally, while our intensive retreats offer immersive experiences many find most transformative.
Online therapy proves particularly valuable for follow-up work and integration support after intensive retreats, allowing continued connection as you integrate healing into daily life.
Meet Our Team: Depth, Experience, and Transformative Presence
Dr. Jordan Hamilton: Bridging Art, Business, and Deep Psychological Inquiry
Dr. Jordan Hamilton's psychology practice is uniquely shaped by a rich professional journey bridging art, business, and deep psychological inquiry. His educational foundation includes a master's degree in theatre arts from the University of Michigan and early experience in Shakespearean theatre, bringing creative and empathic presence to his therapeutic work.
His transition into real estate as a residential manager and later Vice President of a national investment firm provided invaluable insight into high-level leadership, responsibility, and the psychological demands of success. Motivated by a personal calling to explore the inner life, Dr. Hamilton began volunteering as a lay counselor, eventually earning his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 1993 with a dissertation focused on the nature of intimacy and bonding in men's groups.
Dr. Hamilton integrates his EMDR training (completed in 1997) with his artistic sensibility and strategic acumen. He also provides spiritual direction services, supporting clients in exploring both psychological and spiritual dimensions of healing. This multifaceted background allows him to support clients with a rare blend of depth, creativity, and grounded pragmatism.
Dr. Hamilton is dedicated to helping his clients be their best selves, focusing on healing shame, self-worth issues, esteem problems, and the effects of neglect or verbal and physical abuse. His work particularly addresses resolving burnout, compassion fatigue, hypervigilance, and loneliness that often accompany anxiety disorders.
Kimberly Sanders, M.A.: Three Decades of Clinical Excellence
Kimberly Sanders brings depth and breadth of experience spanning over 30 years of clinical work and service. From working at Camarillo State Hospital and supporting children and foster families in San Luis Obispo and Placer Counties, to contributing to groundbreaking research on genetic factors at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, her path demonstrates dedication to healing across diverse settings.
Originally certified in EMDR in 1991, Kimberly is a Level III Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment practitioner trained directly by Dr. Janina Fisher. She integrates somatic healing through over 700 hours of yoga teacher training and brings a spiritual dimension to her work through certification in the Global Mystics program. Clients often describe her presence as grounding and transformative, blending science, deep compassion, and humor to bring lightness to even the most difficult trauma work.
With a foundation in rigorous education—graduating cum laude from Pepperdine—and a lifelong commitment to service, Kimberly brings a unique synthesis of clinical expertise, embodied practice, and heartfelt connection. She specializes in working with individuals struggling with self-love deficits, often caught in painful cycles of relationships with emotionally unavailable partners.
Take the First Step Toward Freedom
If you're ready to move beyond managing anxiety disorders toward genuine healing and transformation, we invite you to schedule a consultation call with our intake coordinator.
During this call, you'll:
Share your specific situation and healing goals
Learn about our retreat-based approach and how it addresses your unique needs
Ask questions about our therapeutic modalities and what to expect
Determine whether Dr. Hamilton, Kimberly, or our collaborative approach best fits your journey
Discuss practical aspects including scheduling and retreat preparation
Explore whether hourly sessions or intensive retreat format aligns with your readiness
Transform Your Life Beyond Anxiety Symptoms
Anxiety disorders don't have to permanently companion your life. Through intensive retreat-based approaches combining EMDR, Ego State Therapy and IFS theory, Image Transformation Therapy, and Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, we create conditions for deep healing transforming not just anxiety symptoms, but your entire relationship with yourself and life.
Your journey toward peace, authenticity, and freedom is unique, and our personalized approach honors the specific path supporting your individual healing and transformation. Whether you're drawn to Dr. Hamilton's integration of creative, business, psychological, and spiritual insights, or Kimberly's three decades of clinical excellence and embodied wisdom, or our collaborative partnership approach, we're here to support your transformation.
Contact Soul & Psyche today to begin your transformative journey toward anxiety relief and authentic healing. Schedule your consultation call and take the first step toward reclaiming your peace, freedom, and authentic self-expression.