Intensives and Retreats
Intensives and retreats · For therapists and high achieving women
Beyond Survival
the work of becomingThe ways we learned to survive may have made our lives possible. Over time, those same ways of being can keep organizing a life that has grown much larger than surviving.
For therapists and high achieving women who have spent years holding everything together
It is time to turn toward your own life with the same depth and care you so often give everyone else. Beyond Survival comes in two forms.
a private psychotherapy intensive
The Work Beneath the Work
Concentrated, personalized psychodynamic work on one internalized belief, conflict, or relational pattern you are ready to understand more deeply. About three hours of focused work, with an assessment conversation before we begin and an integration session afterward. Virtual, for people located in Illinois, Connecticut, or New York.
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a small group retreat
Beyond Survival
An immersive relational experience exploring what it means to make room for desire, pleasure, freedom, connection, and a life beyond constant responsibility. Two or three days, informed by group psychotherapy, with time for reflection, embodiment, pleasure, and rest. Separate cohorts for therapists and for high achieving women.
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Leading a team? I also facilitate retreats for organizations.
How we begin
Join the interest list
Share your name and email, and tell me whether you are a therapist or work in another field, and whether you are drawn to an intensive, the retreat, or both.
A conversation
We talk about what you are carrying, what you hope for, and which format fits this season of your life.
Your invitation
Intensive openings and retreat dates go to the interest list first, along with everything you need to prepare.
More ways to do the work
Tools for reflection you can use on your own, with colleagues, or in community. Join the list to hear when each one opens.
for clinicians
DO YOUR WORK Reflection Deck
coming soon
Questions for the self of the clinician, for individual reflection, peer consultation, and clinical groups.
for you
Coming Home & Becoming Journal
coming soon
A guided reflection journal on identity, desire, pleasure, belonging, self-trust, and becoming.
for connection
Conversation Cards
coming soon
Prompts for honest conversation, with yourself and with the people you love.
a note from me
LaTasha Smith, PhD, LCSW, CGP
I am a psychotherapist and certified group psychotherapist, and for twenty years I have sat with people as they make sense of what they have carried and what they want for their lives. Many of the women I work with are the strong friend, the one everyone leans on, who rarely feels held herself.
My work offers a space to explore who they are beyond what others need from them, to question the expectations they've learned to live by, and to consider what it might mean to build a life that makes room for their own needs, relationships, desires, and possibilities.
Join the interest list
Share your name and email, and in your message let me know whether you are a therapist or work in another field, and whether you are interested in an intensive, the retreat, or both. You will hear about intensive availability and retreat dates before anyone else.