When you begin considering a therapy intensive, we start with a 60-minute intake session. This is a space for us to get to know each other and for you to share what you’re currently navigating, as well as where you’d like to be.
We’ll explore your history, your goals, and what feels most important to focus on. Together, we’ll decide whether a therapy intensive is the right fit for you, and if so, what structure would best support your needs.
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. Some people choose to begin with a single 3-hour session. Others prefer a deeper immersion, such as three consecutive days of 3-hour sessions. Some clients schedule weekly intensives over the course of a month, while others prefer to space them out monthly.
We’ll collaborate to find a rhythm that feels supportive, sustainable, and aligned with your life and schedule.
Why Choose a Therapy Intensive Over Traditional Therapy?
Therapy intensives offer a more immersive and focused experience than traditional weekly sessions.
In a typical session, it’s common to spend 10–20 minutes checking in and another 5–10 minutes wrapping up, leaving a relatively small window for deeper work. While these sessions can absolutely be helpful, they often move at a slower pace.
A 3-hour therapy intensive is different.
It allows for approximately 2.5 hours of focused, uninterrupted therapeutic work. That’s roughly the equivalent of five traditional sessions—or more than a month of therapy—within a single day.
More importantly, intensives allow us to stay with what’s coming up, rather than having to pause just as things begin to open. This continuity can create meaningful momentum and deeper, more lasting shifts.
Will We Just Talk for Three Hours?
No.
Therapy intensives with me are not simply extended talk therapy.
While being heard and understood is important, lasting change usually requires more than insight alone. In an intensive, we move beyond talking about your experiences and into working directly with them.
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These methods help us access deeper layers of your internal world so that healing can happen at the level where patterns are actually held, not just understood cognitively.
Experiential and somatic therapies are powerful on their own. In the context of an intensive, they become even more impactful, supporting meaningful, embodied shifts that translate into real changes in your daily life.
What Is the Therapy Intensive Process?
Each therapy intensive is tailored specifically to you—your goals, your nervous system, and your preferences for how you like to work.
We might spend time:
- Exploring parts of you that feel stuck, overwhelmed, or protective
- Processing past experiences in a safe, supported way
- Working with the body to release tension or stored emotion
- Building awareness of patterns and practicing new ways of responding
We also build in space for integration.
Depending on your needs, this may include gentle movement, grounding practices, or supportive techniques such as tapping (EFT), guided meditation, chakra work, or other mind-body approaches.
There’s also time for breaks if needed. A pause to stretch, step outside, or use the restroom.
The pace is intentional. There is room to go deep but also room to pause, regulate, and integrate along the way.
A Different Kind of Therapeutic Experience
Many clients find that therapy intensives feel different from anything they’ve experienced before.
There is more space.
More depth.
More continuity.
Instead of starting and stopping each week, we’re able to stay with your process and follow it where it naturally wants to go.
For many people, especially highly sensitive people, deep feelers, and therapists, this creates an experience of being able to finally access the level of healing they’ve been looking for.
Ready to Explore a Therapy Intensive?
If you’re curious whether a therapy intensive might be right for you, the next step is simple.
Schedule a 60-minute intake session, and we’ll explore what you’re needing, what you’re hoping for, and whether this approach feels like a good fit.
You don’t have to figure it out alone. We’ll decide together.
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