Therapy Intensives for Couples & Individuals
An immersive therapeutic experience for you to heal your trauma, accelerate your healing, and explore your story in a concentrated and uninterrupted setting.
You probably go into the therapeutic process thinking you will be there for months if not years, but the truth is, you don’t have to spend years of your life in therapy to finally see change.
Immersive therapy intensives give you the opportunity to do deep healing in a focused, concentrated way, so that you can finally start living the life you want to live.
Intensives are about giving you your life back.
What is a Therapy Intensive?
A therapy intensive is an immersive counseling experience designed to accelerate your healing process. Over the course of 2 days, we’ll explore your story and heal your trauma in a focused, uninterrupted manner.
Unlike traditional weekly sessions, where we might need to pause the healing work due to time constraints and then recap that work in the following session, an intensive allows us to dive deep into your healing without losing momentum.
Before the intensive, we meet to get a full picture of what you are struggling with–the ins and outs of the dynamics involved–so that I can craft an intensive for you that is both targeted and focused on your specific goals.
By concentrating our efforts into a short, dedicated period, you’ll be able to settle into this deep, explorative space without the interruptions of daily life.
This is not an experience of “so how’s your week been?” I come in with a specific roadmap that will get you where you want to be.
We go deep. We are thorough. You will feel the change, and yes, you will also feel exhausted by the end–so really ask yourself if you are up for a deep healing experience!
**I only offer the intensive format to couples or individuals, who are committed to doing the work it takes to experience real change in their lives. If you are not quite ready to do this deep level of healing, consider a weekly therapy approach.
A Therapy Intensive may be a good fit for you if…
You want to make significant progress in your healing, but can’t fit weekly therapy sessions into your schedule
You find that the constraints of a 50-min therapy sessions don’t allow you to go as deep as you would like
You have a window of time coming up in your schedule, and you would like to do as much healing work as possible
Your sporadic schedule has made it difficult to keep the momentum in weekly therapy and you want to give yourself the chance to finally do some deep healing
A life event is creating a large disruption in your life (move, new job, divorce, separation, seeing family), and you want to navigate this as well as you can
You are at a point in life when you feel like you can finally dig deep, and you want to jumpstart your healing process
Therapy intensives offer you the gift of time.
When trauma and relationship issues have robbed your days of so much joy and fulfillment, therapy intensives give you the chance to heal quickly, without compromising the depth of healing you experience.
It’s your chance to finally start living again.
Why should I do a therapy intensive?
Your Intensive, Your Setting
Whether it is from the comfort of home, in my cozy therapy office, or outside on a trail or crag, let’s meet together and craft an intensive that best suits you and your goals.
My #1 priority is crafting an intensive that is unique to you and fits your specific needs and goals. No two intensives are alike because I want you to finally experience the change you are looking for.
Your Therapy Intensive Includes…
INTAKE SESSION | 1.5 hrs
2-4 Weeks prior to your intensive, we will discuss your goals and explore the parts of your story relevant to our work together. Together, we will explore the various dynamics involved in your current struggles, so that I can develop a personalized and effective plan for your therapy intensive.
PRE-INTENSIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Prior to the intensive, I will send you assignments that prime you for the work we will do together during the intensive.
INTENSIVE SESSIONS | 2 days, 10 hrs of therapy
2 Days of focused, intensive therapy sessions to take you deep and accelerate your healing process. These sessions are personalized to your unique needs and goals. Depending on our treatment plan, these sessions may incorporate Parts Work (IFS), somatic approaches, Gottman tools, communication skills, narrative therapy, or adventure therapy approaches.
FOLLOW-UP SESSION | 50 min
2-3 Weeks after the intensive, we will meet for a 50 minute session to check in on how your healing work is progressing, offer support, and make a plan for how you will continue to practice the changes you experienced in the intensive.
FAQs
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A therapy intensive is an immersive counseling experience designed to accelerate your healing process. Over the course of 2 days and 10 hours, we’ll explore your story and heal your trauma in a focused, uninterrupted manner.
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Clients who have experienced my intensives typically experience the type of progress you would expect after 6mo of consistent, weekly therapy.
After completing an intensive, clients are typically ready for monthly check-ins or therapy on an as-needed basis.
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Therapy intensives can be more cost-effective than weekly therapy sessions in the long run. In the 50-min weekly therapy format, time is spent checking in at the beginning of the session, navigating recent crises or concerns that came up over the week, and grounding at the end of the session. This takes away from time that could be spent on the deeper healing work.
In addition, the weekly format creates space for the focus to shift week to week due to changes in life circumstances. This can disrupt the momentum needed to do the deeper work.
Therapy intensives allow you to go deeper faster because of their targeted, uninterrupted, and immersive approach that keeps the momentum flowing.
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Therapy intensives are for people who are ready to go deep and work on the underlying dynamics of the struggles they face.
They are not for you if you are just wanting to squeeze some therapy work in or aren’t ready to take the work seriously.
I always like to give my clients a full disclaimer that these intensives are INTENSE. And by that I mean you will leave changed, yes, but exhausted by the end.
It takes a lot of courage to face ourselves and learn new patterns. If you are ready to truly heal, then yes, you are ready for an intensive. If you are not sure, then maybe wait and try some weekly therapy first :)
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Nope! I’ve done it both ways with both couples and individuals and it is not a requirement that we meet for weekly therapy first.
I have developed a throughout intensive intake session process that has worked great in being able to craft an intensive specifically tailored to your unique goals and needs.