Six named 90-minute entry points. A menu clients choose from. Each has a core theme, living questions, and 2–3 supporting practices. The arc mirrors the TIT-EM sequence: body → identity → function → power.
01
Domain 1 · Nervous System
Coming Back to the Body
Somatic Reset
For clients who have been dissociated, dysphoric, or absent from their own physical experience. Return as reclamation.
Living Questions
Where in your body do you feel most like yourself right now?
What has your body been trying to tell you that you haven't had room to hear?
What would it mean to stop bracing?
breathworkgroundingbody-based journaling
Session Arc
LandOrient to body
→MoveSomatic regulation
→IntegrateDaily anchor
02
Domain 2 · Identity
Telling Your Own Story
Narrative & Self-Witnessing
For clients in early recovery or transition making sense of what happened and who they are becoming.
Living Questions
Who is the "I" that survived all of this?
What parts of your story have only ever been told by someone else?
What do you know about yourself that no one has ever witnessed?
guided writingsomatic check-inart as metaphor
Session Arc
GroundSomatic opening
→WriteFree writing
→WitnessWhat you now know
03
Domain 3 · Function
Building the Day
Routine as Self-Respect
For clients discharging from treatment or in early recovery where daily life has collapsed. Structure as a form of care.
Living Questions
What does a day that belongs to you look like?
What small thing, done daily, would tell you that you matter to yourself?
What would you protect, if you let yourself have something worth protecting?
morning / evening anchorsaffirming rituals
Session Arc
MapCurrent reality
→DesignBuild together
→AnchorNon-negotiables
04
Domain 2 · Identity · Domain 3 · Function
Dressing the Self
Style as Embodiment Practice
For TGI clients ready to explore presentation as a site of affirmation. Getting dressed as an act of self-authorship. Not available in standard care.
Living Questions
What does it feel like to get dressed — and whose eyes are you seeing yourself through?
What would you wear if no one needed to understand it?
Where does joy live in how you present yourself?
mirror worksomatic check-injournaling
Session Arc
ExploreHistory with presentation
→PlayExpression not performance
→GroundDaily practice
05
Domain 1 · Nervous System · Domain 2 · Identity
Making Something
Art as Expression & Release
For clients when language isn't enough. Art as non-verbal channel. No skill required. Useful for clients with high verbal defenses or significant trauma histories.
Living Questions
What is moving through you right now that doesn't have words yet?
What color is this feeling? What shape?
What does this piece know that you didn't know before you made it?
somatic openingmark-makingreflective journaling
Session Arc
OpenWhat needs to move
→MakeUnstructured
→ReflectWhat emerged
06
Domain 2 · Identity · Domain 5 · Power
Beneath the Gaze
Authentic Self & Interpersonal Spatiality
For clients who have been performing rather than inhabiting themselves — navigating a world that offers conditional acceptance contingent on passing, on being approved of, on meeting someone else's idea of what trans looks like. The theoretical foundation all five other intensives rest on.
BettcherRilkeinfraintimate selfpassing pressure
Informed by philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher's concepts of interpersonal spatiality and the infraintimate — held alongside Rilke's invitation to live inside the questions rather than demand resolution.
Living Questions
What do you know about yourself that has nothing to do with whether anyone else can see it?
Where are you performing instead of inhabiting — and what does that cost?
What would it feel like to stop needing to pass, to be accepted, to be approved?
What is one expression that belongs entirely to you — not to the gaze?
Session Arc
NameWhere are you performing?
→LocateSelf beneath the gaze
→ClaimOne expression
