what is intensive therapy?
Intensive therapy condenses weeks or months of weekly sessions into extended blocks of time - often several hours in a day or multiple days in a row. Instead of 50 minutes once a week, you work with your therapist in longer, uninterrupted sessions, allowing you to go deeper and make progress faster.
This format is especially effective for trauma, anxiety, and relationship challenges, where the weekly start-stop rhythm can interrupt momentum. It's often a good fit for people who want to jump-start their healing, have schedules that make weekly sessions hard to sustain, or feel stuck in traditional therapy.
Intensives therapy vs. Traditional Therapy
Someone might choose intensive therapy over traditional therapy for several reasons:
Faster Progress : Intensive therapy sessions offer an accelerated form of treatment, which can be beneficial for those who are looking for quicker results or wish to work through their issues within a shorter time frame.
Crisis Situations: Individuals who are experiencing acute crises or severe symptoms may find that intensive therapy provides the immediate and focused support they need to stabilize.
Limited Availability: People with limited time due to professional or personal constraints may opt for intensive therapy to make significant progress during periods when they can dedicate time to their mental health.
Preference for Immersion: Some individuals prefer an immersive experience, where they can focus solely on their therapy without distractions, leading to potentially profound insights and changes
Plateau in Traditional Therapy: Individuals who feel they have plateaued or are not making adequate progress in traditional weekly therapy may find an intensive format reinvigorates their healing process.
Intensive Offerings
Couples Intensives
Couples meet for several focused hours over a short period, often a day or two, allowing you to quickly cover meaningful ground and discover what's working in your relationship and what needs to change for it to grow. Depending on the needs of the relationship, your time together will blend couples and individual work (with the individual work usually done in the presence of your partner). Your therapist will help identify the core dynamic that keeps you from communicating, understanding each other, and connecting, then guide you toward greater intimacy and reconnection.
somatic intensives
Clients meet for a total of 6 hours of focused, uninterrupted time, beginning with a 90-minute intake session and followed by two 3-hour sessions split across two days in the same week or back-to-back weeks. This extended format allows you to go deeper, faster, and more effectively than a standard 50-minute session- without the rush or interruptions. Rather than staying "in your head," somatic work brings you into your body, focusing on regulating the nervous system and releasing tension that traumatic events, transitions, and old patterns can store physically. Through a combination of talking, breathwork, grounding, body movement, imagination, and gentle vulnerability - with breaks whenever you need them - your therapist will help identify the patterns keeping you stuck and guide you toward release, regulation, and reconnection with yourself.
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