Bespoke Somatic Relational Intensives
The relational work that doesn't fit into an hour.
For people navigating something significant in their relationship, their family, or themselves, who need more than fifty minutes a week to actually get there.
Some things don't — or can't — resolve on a weekly schedule. This work is built exactly for that.
Available for clients worldwide. In-person, online, and by travel arrangement.
Francesca has been dedicating herself to compassion and awakening, and it shows.
Jack Kornfield, PhD — Teacher, author, and co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Intensives
The work you've been struggling to resolve isn't going anywhere.
Weekly therapy, for the people who do try it, often means spending the first twenty minutes catching up, the next fifteen finally touching something real, and the last five trying to close before walking back into the rest of the day. For what you're actually carrying, that rhythm isn't enough, and the unfinished feeling can leave you less inclined to keep going.
Intensives are structured differently. Immersive, concentrated, and designed for people who are used to going all the way in when the conditions are right.
"Nobody teaches us how to be relational, unless we had great modeling, which many of us have not. But it's a learnable skill."
- Couples at a crossroads, whether romantic, relational, or otherwise
- High-achieving individuals carrying something that hasn't shifted, despite years of trying
- Families navigating estrangement, transition, resentments, or repair
- Partners building extraordinary lives together, and feeling the cost of it
- Global relationships, where concentrated time bridges what calendars and time zones can't
How It Works
Four formats. One approach.
Couples Intensive
For couples facing consequential decisions about their relationship — or wanting to deepen what's already strong. Somatic, IFS-informed, and Relational Life Therapy structured around what the relationship actually needs.
Two · Three · Four-day intensiveRelational Intensive
For two people in any relationship — adult family members, friends, business partners — navigating something that requires more than a conversation. Family reunification, estrangement repair, relational reset.
Two · Three · Four-day intensiveIndividual Intensive
For individuals doing deep relational work on patterns, history, or a decision — without the weekly cadence. Extended sessions that reach what fifty minutes can't touch.
One · Two-day intensiveDiscernment Intensive
When the question isn't how to improve the relationship — it's whether to stay in it. Structured for clarity, not a predetermined outcome. One partner can begin alone.
Two · Three · Four-day intensiveFrom clients and colleagues
In their words.
"Francesca was pivotal in helping us navigate one of the most difficult periods of our lives. She helped us find not the life we thought we were supposed to preserve, but the life in which our family could genuinely flourish. More than two years later, we have each built happier, more authentic lives."
E.F. · Couples Client
"Francesca's work is deep and heartfelt. Her gifts include expertise, warmth, embodiment, skill, enthusiasm, knowledge, and compassion. Working with her is a client's and clinician's dream."
Diane Poole Heller, PhD
Author, The Power of Attachment · Founder, DARe
"Working with Francesca felt like coming back to the heart after many years living inside my head. Her presence brought clarity and lightness, with no less gravity, into my life."
L.I. · Individual Client
Somatic Relational Therapist & Coach
Francesca Maximé
Francesca Maximé holds a Harvard AB in English Literature and a Master's in Clinical Social Work from Fordham. Haitian-Dominican Italian-American, rooted in the intersection of identity, culture, and healing, she brings to this work a fluency that her clients, particularly those navigating race, immigration, and high achievement simultaneously, rarely have to explain.
Fifteen years of clinical work woven through Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, and Relational Life Therapy, trained directly under Terry Real, anchor the Somatic Relational Method she now brings to every engagement.
Host of the Rerooted Podcast, featuring conversations with van der Kolk, Porges, Levine, Schwartz, Kornfield, Heller, and Hanson.
- Harvard AB, English Literature · Fordham MSW
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New York, Massachusetts, Florida
- Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, all levels 1–3
- Certified Internal Family Systems Practitioner, all levels 1–3 · IFIO
- Certified in Relational Life Therapy, all levels 1–3, trained directly under Terry Real
- Certified Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy Practitioner
- IMTA-accredited Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, trained under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach