Intensives

An intensive offers an opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday life and dedicate meaningful, uninterrupted time to yourself. Through focused work over one or two days, we can explore the patterns that are keeping you stuck, build practical coping skills, and create a personalized toolkit you can continue using long after our time together ends. Intensive therapy is a concentrated therapeutic experience designed for people who want to make meaningful progress in a shorter period of time. Intensives may include up to 10 hours of therapeutic work across a two-day period, depending on your needs, goals, and clinical appropriateness. Rather than spreading our work across many weeks, we create space for deeper exploration and practice in a short, intentional window.

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Your intensive may incorporate both cognitive and somatic approaches, including:

• Understanding thoughts, beliefs, and behavioral patterns

• Identifying triggers and patterns of stress or overwhelm

• Somatic awareness and nervous-system regulation

• Grounding and mindfulness skills

• Emotional regulation strategies

• Coping with anxiety, burnout, transitions, or relationship challenges

• Building greater awareness of your body's signals

• Practicing skills in real time rather than simply talking about them

• Developing a personalized plan for continuing your progress independently

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The goal isn't simply to understand yourself better. It's to leave with skills you can actually use.

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​​​An intensive can provide concentrated work that might otherwise unfold gradually over many weekly sessions. We can identify the areas you want to address, work through them in a structured way, and spend substantial time practicing strategies that fit you.

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You'll leave with a collection of individualized tools and practices that you can continue using on your own between sessions and beyond therapy.

 

Depending on your goals, we may develop a plan addressing:

• Mind

  • Understanding thoughts, beliefs, patterns, and behaviors.

• Body

  • Learning to recognize and respond to physical signs of stress, activation, shutdown, or overwhelm.

• Emotions

  • Developing ways to identify, tolerate, process, and regulate difficult emotions.

• Daily Life

  • Creating realistic strategies that work within your actual life—not an idealized version of it.

• Your Toolkit

  • Leaving with concrete practices you can return to independently.

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​​An intensive may be a good fit if you:​

• Are experiencing a major life transition

• Are feeling burned out or overwhelmed

• Want focused support around a specific challenge

• Have limited availability for ongoing weekly appointments

• Want to learn practical coping skills quickly

• Prefer immersive, focused experiences over traditional weekly therapy

• Want dedicated time to reconnect with yourself and establish a new direction

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An intensive isn't necessarily about doing more therapy. Sometimes it's about creating the space and continuity needed to do different work.

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Neither approach is inherently better. The right format depends on your needs, goals, schedule, and preferences.

Weekly individual therapy can be helpful when you want ongoing support, gradual exploration, accountability, and the opportunity to apply new insights between sessions. It can also provide continuity when you're working through complex or evolving concerns over a longer period of time.

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An intensive may appeal to you when you want concentrated attention, fewer interruptions between sessions, and substantial time to learn and practice skills in a short period.

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Some people may also choose a combination—beginning with an intensive and transitioning into weekly therapy, or using an intensive periodically while maintaining their existing therapeutic support.

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Intensives are offered by consultation and are scheduled based on clinical fit, availability, and your individual goals.

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Intensives are not billed through insurance. Most commonly intensives last 8 hours and cost $1800.