Betrayal Trauma Intensive

Sharon Nicholson
Registered Member, MBACP Accred
Trauma Therapist
Betrayal Trauma Therapy Intensive

The betrayal may be in the past, but your mind and body haven't caught up

3 days online · three hours each day · weekend dates available each month

You keep going back over it.

The conversation. The discovery. The moment you realised. The things you wish you'd seen sooner. The things you still can't make sense of.

Perhaps you're still in the relationship, so hurt you can't find your way back to trust.

Perhaps it ended, and you're carrying it into the life you're rebuilding.

Perhaps it was a while ago, and you've finally got the space to work on it.

You may already understand what happened. You've talked, read, analysed. Perhaps had therapy.

And your body still reacts as though it isn't over.

This intensive is dedicated time to work with the impact of betrayal, so it can begin to change how it lives in you now. And so there's room for what comes after: trust in yourself, steadiness, and a life that feels like yours again

Begin with a clarity call

Betrayal trauma has a particular quality

Your mind can stay on alert, continually searching for the piece of information that might finally make sense of what happened.

You’re not deliberately choosing to go over it again. It can feel as though something in you is still trying to solve what happened - as if finding the missing piece might finally allow you to rest.

And underneath the searching is often grief: for what happened, for what you thought you knew, and for the future you thought you had.

Your response isn't a sign that you're failing to move on. It can be part of what happens when your sense of trust, safety and certainty has been profoundly disrupted.

Who chooses this

People often choose the intensive when they understand it all and it still hasn't shifted. Or when weekly sessions have helped but haven't reached the depth they hoped for. Or when they want to go deep on this one thing, with the time set aside to do it.

The shape of the days

There's no formula, but there is a shape.

Settle. We begin by arriving: grounding, resourcing, and getting clear on what you most want to work with. You don't need to arrive knowing.

Process. Brainspotting and parts-informed work with what is still held in your body: the looping, the hypervigilance, the grief, the part of you still searching for the missing piece. At a pace that feels safe, and you choose how much to say.

Expansion. Healing isn't only about loosening what hurt. It's also about what returns. Trust in your own judgement. The ability to let someone close. Rest that feels like rest. The parts of you that went quiet. We make room for these too.

Then a 90-minute integration session, 7-14 days later.

🌿 "I have tried CBT, hypnotherapy, mindfulness, compassionate mind training and have a whole library of books on the subject, but nothing has really worked long term until I discovered Brainspotting."

— Client experience

Book a free 20-minute clarity call

Why an intensive?

When trust has been shattered, your mind rarely gets a day off.

You keep functioning. You answer emails. You make dinner. You smile, but underneath, your mind is still trying to solve something that refuses to settle.

An intensive creates something different.

Dedicated space where you don't have to keep starting and stopping.

Where the work can continue, rather than having to stop just as something important is beginning to emerge.

An intensive isn't simply several therapy sessions placed next to one another.

The value is in the continuity.

When you've been carrying something for years, sometimes what you need isn't another session next week - it's enough uninterrupted space to stay with the work.

Weekend dates available each month

If three weekdays are difficult to fit around work, family or other commitments, this intensive can be arranged to include a weekend.

Limited weekend dates are available each month so please enquire for current availability.

Not rushed. Just uninterrupted.

— Client experience

Why Brainspotting

Talking about what happened can help you understand it, but understanding doesn't always reach the deeper emotional and bodily responses that can remain after a deeply impacting experience.

Brainspotting works with those responses, alongside the thinking mind, which is why some arrive here having already tried talking therapy, sometimes for years, and still feeling emotionally or physically stuck.

Developed by Dr David Grand, Brainspotting is a brain-body psychotherapy that emerged from his work with EMDR. It uses your visual field and your body's responses to help you access and process emotional material that may not shift through talking and understanding alone. There's no need to relive every detail, or find the perfect words.

This work isn't about forgetting. What can change is the grip the experience has on you.

A memory that once sent your whole body into a spiral may become something you can remember without feeling completely pulled back into it.

This isn't a guarantee, and everyone's process is different, but it is the kind of shift I have witnessed across years of this work.

How it works, step by step

You don't have to work any of this out alone before you reach out. Here's exactly what happens, step by step.

1. Free 20-minute clarity call

A short, informal conversation to explore what's bringing you here, answer any initial questions, and see whether working together feels like the right fit.

2. 90-minute initial consultation — £185

Everyone starts here, whether you are considering an intensive or ongoing therapy. This is a therapeutic session: we'll explore your history, what's happening for you now, what you'd like support with, and what approach is likely to be most helpful.

If an intensive feels appropriate, we'll use this session to plan it together. If ongoing therapy feels like the better fit, we can discuss that instead. There is no obligation to book an intensive, or to continue beyond the consultation.

3. The right next step

If an intensive feels appropriate, we arrange three consecutive days of three-hour sessions. If ongoing therapy feels more appropriate, we arrange regular 90-minute sessions instead.

4. Integration

For intensive clients, a 90-minute follow-up session takes place 7-14 days later, giving us space to reflect on what has shifted and support the integration of the work.

All three of my digital healing resources, to use however's useful to you, whenever you need them

What the days look like

Your intensive takes place online, in your own space or somewhere that feels supportive.

Some people stay at home, others choose to spend a couple of days at a hotel, lodge, cottage or quiet space to step fully out of daily demands.

Each intensive typically includes:

3 consecutive days of 3-hour therapeutic sessions, incorporating Brainspotting

Bilateral music, if this feels supportive for you

Parts-informed therapy - recognising the different parts of you carrying this

Nervous system regulation and grounding

A 90-minute follow-up integration session (7–14 days later)

Each intensive is tailored carefully to where you are, and paced to feel safe throughout.

There is no fixed programme to work through, and no packaged formula applied the same way to everyone.

Each intensive is built around your history, your current circumstances, and what you want to work towards.

After the intensive

The work doesn't have to stop when the intensive ends.

You'll receive my complete collection of self-guided resources to return to in the weeks that follow, alongside your 90-minute integration session.

They give you somewhere to pause, reflect, write and continue noticing what is changing - without turning your recovery into another programme you have to complete.

Some people feel the intensive has given them the space and support they needed at that point. Others choose to continue with ongoing 90-minute sessions, to keep building on what the intensive began. There's no expectation either way.

What happens next is shaped by what you actually need, not by a predetermined next step.

This may be right for you if…

You are dealing with betrayal, infidelity, a shattering of trust or the aftermath of being deeply hurt by someone you trusted

You find yourself replaying events, conversations or memories

You experience intrusive thoughts or images

You feel stuck between knowing and not knowing

You experience anxiety, hypervigilance or emotional exhaustion

You are grieving not only what happened, but what you thought your relationship or future would be

You feel unlike yourself and can't pinpoint when that changed

You have tried talking therapy but still feel emotionally or physically stuck

You want dedicated time away from everyday demands to focus on the work

You want support that goes beyond talking alone

You feel able to set aside the time and space needed for concentrated therapeutic work

Whether you are experiencing many or just a few of the above, you deserve to heal.

Uncertainty is often where this begins, so you don't have to wait until you know more - your enquiry is welcome now.

Begin with a clarity call

Frequently Asked Questions

Please contact me via the enquiry form if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Why do intensives help process more than the same hours spread across weekly sessions?

In a standard session, some time goes into settling in and closing down before and after the work itself. In an intensive, that only happens once a day, rather than once per session - so more of the time goes into the work itself, and the material can stay active and build from day to day, rather than needing to be picked back up each week.

Will you tell me whether to stay or leave?

No - and that is intentional. This work is not about guiding you towards a particular decision. It is about helping you find yourself clearly enough to trust what you already know. Whatever you decide, the goal is that you make that decision from a steadier, clearer place — not from the noise of the aftermath.

I'm still in the relationship. Is that okay?

Yes. Many people come here still in the relationship, uncertain about what they want, or hoping to find enough clarity to know. You do not need to have made any decisions before you begin. That is exactly what this work can help with..

How long ago does the betrayal need to have happened?

There is no time limit. Some clients come in the immediate aftermath. Others have been carrying this for months or years and find that something still hasn't settled. Whenever it happened, if it is still affecting you, this work can help.

What if the betrayal wasn't by a romantic partner?

Betrayal by a close friend, a family member, or someone else you trusted deeply can be just as devastating - and is just as valid a reason to be here. This work is not limited to relationship betrayal.

If trust was broken by someone who mattered to you, that is enough.

What if I'm not sure an intensive is right for me?

That is exactly what the clarity call is for. It is a quiet, no-pressure conversation about where you are and what feels right. You do not need to have decided anything before you reach out - just a sense that something needs to shift.

What is your cancellation policy?

For 90-minute sessions, I ask for at least 48 hours' notice if you need to reschedule or cancel. For intensives, I ask for at least two weeks' notice. Please note that intensive deposits are non-refundable, though I will always do my best to find an alternative date where possible.

Healing is about finding your way back to yourself

Take the first step

Many people reach this page having spent months or years trying to make sense of what happened.

Still replaying. Still questioning. Still carrying something that no longer seems to belong in the present, but hasn't stopped affecting it.

You don't need to have worked out what happens next.

You don't need to know whether you're staying, leaving, rebuilding or starting again.

You can come as you are, and we can start with what is still hurting.

🌿 "Best decision I've ever made."

- Client experience

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Online betrayal trauma therapy and bespoke intensives across the UK, including Weymouth, Dorset and surrounding areas. I specialise in betrayal trauma, including narcissistic abuse, childhood relational trauma and profound loss, and the anxiety, self-doubt and loss of self these experiences can leave behind. The content on the website is for informational purposes only. It Is not intended as professional advice, treatment or diagnosis. Please seek appropriate qualified support from your healthcare provider where necessary.

Betrayal Trauma Intensive

The betrayal may be in the past, but your mind and body haven't caught up

Betrayal trauma has a particular quality

Who chooses this

The shape of the days

Why an intensive?

Why Brainspotting

How it works, step by step

What the days look like

After the intensive

This may be right for you if…

Investment

Consultation 90-minutes (required for everyone)

3-Day Intensive (3 x 3 hrs) + 90-minute integration session 7-14 days later

Frequently Asked Questions

Healing is about finding your way back to yourself

Healing is about finding your way back to yourself

Take the first step

Book a free 20-minute clarity call

Betrayal Trauma Intensive

The betrayal may be in the past, but your mind and body haven't caught up

Betrayal trauma has a particular quality

Who chooses this

The shape of the days

Why an intensive?

Why Brainspotting

How it works, step by step

What the days look like

After the intensive

This may be right for you if…

Investment

Consultation 90-minutes (required for everyone)

3-Day Intensive (3 x 3 hrs) + 90-minute integration session 7-14 days later

Frequently Asked Questions

Healing is about finding your way back to yourself

Healing is about finding your way back to yourself

Take the first step

Book a free 20-minute clarity call

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