While most therapy practices still operate on the traditional 50-minute weekly model, a Texas-based counseling service is building its entire approach around a different timeline. Open Heart Healed Mind offers multi-hour and multi-day therapy intensives, condensing months of progress into concentrated sessions designed for clients who want faster results.
Founded by Licensed Professional Counselor Andrea Duran, the practice treats trauma, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, and relationship issues through extended sessions that allow for deeper work than typical appointments permit. Andrea has facilitated over 10,000 hours of therapeutic care across individual, group, and family settings, and now holds licenses in Texas, Colorado, and Idaho.
Beyond the Weekly Appointment
The intensive therapy model reflects a growing conversation in mental health care about efficiency and depth. Each session is tailored to a client’s clinical history and nervous system patterns, using modalities like Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and somatic approaches that address both psychological and physiological aspects of healing.
Andrea also integrates breathwork—she’s a certified facilitator—and offers ketamine integration therapy, providing structured support before and after ketamine experiences to help clients process and implement insights. She’s currently completing advanced training in play and sex therapy, expanding the practice’s capacity to address intimacy and relational dynamics.
The client base includes high-functioning professionals dealing with internal struggles that don’t match their external success, Spanish-speaking clients, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Services are available both in-person in Austin and via telehealth across multiple states.
Expanding the Intensive Care Model
Andrea’s plans for Open Heart Healed Mind extend beyond a single-provider practice. Over the next few years, she aims to build a team of clinicians trained in intensive mental health care, scaling access while maintaining the personalized approach that defines the work.
More ambitiously, she’s developing luxury healing retreats designed to take clients out of their daily environments entirely. These immersive experiences would combine clinical expertise with somatic practices, breathwork, and integrative therapies in locations worldwide—a model that treats healing as something requiring dedicated time and space, not just incremental weekly check-ins.
Andrea graduated Summa Cum Laude with degrees in psychology and clinical mental health counseling and holds memberships in multiple academic honor societies. She’s been featured in media and podcast interviews discussing her methods, which position trauma-informed therapy as something that can be both evidence-based and experiential.
The broader vision points toward a shift in how mental health services might be structured—moving from maintenance-based care toward time-intensive transformational work. Whether that model scales or remains a premium alternative, it represents one answer to clients who feel traditional therapy isn’t moving fast enough.
