An intensive is an extended block of dedicated therapeutic time that works alongside and builds on the foundation that regular therapy provides. While weekly sessions are valuable in their own right, an intensive offers something different: the space to slow down, stay with what's coming up, and go further than a single hour allows. For many people, that uninterrupted time makes all the difference.

This format tends to resonate with people who find it hard to mentally leave their day behind and drop into meaningful inner work only to have to pick it back up again a week later. If your sessions often feel like they're spent catching up rather than moving forward, an intensive may offer a meaningful complement to the work you're already doing.

The uninterrupted time is the core advantage. With more time and fewer interruptions, the work can unfold at its own pace going deeper than a typical session's timeframe allows. This depth can potentially accelerate the overall healing process and while intensives require a greater investment of time and resources upfront, that can translate to meaningful savings in the long run.

Our intensive sessions draw on two powerful, evidence-based modalities: Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Prolonged Exposure is a highly effective approach for processing trauma and reducing the avoidance and distress that often keeps people stuck, while IFS offers a compassionate framework for exploring your inner world, understanding the different parts of yourself, and fostering deep healing from within. Together, these approaches allow us to work with both the cognitive and emotional dimensions of your experience in a thorough, meaningful way. During our initial consultation, we can discuss how each modality might factor into your intensive and tailor the approach to what feels most aligned with your needs and goals.

Intensive therapy tends to work well for people who:

• Are motivated and genuinely ready to engage deeply in the therapeutic process

• Have work or life commitments that make recurring weekly appointments a challenge

• Have been working with a modality like Prolonged Exposure therapy or IFS and want to go further than weekly sessions allow

• Are working through something meaningful — whether that's trauma, intimate partner violence, depression, anxiety, questions of racial identity, or the cumulative weight of daily stressors — that deserves sustained, concentrated therapeutic attention

Intensives are most effective when the right support is in place. If you're hoping for a quick resolution, don't yet have outside support, or your current environment doesn't feel emotionally safe enough to process and integrate the work, an intensive may not be the best fit at this time. That said, wherever you are, we can work together to figure out the right next step — and if an intensive is the right fit, we'll make sure a plan for continued care is part of it from the start.

We'll begin with an initial consultation to explore whether an intensive is the right fit for you and what you're hoping to work through. From there, we'll build a plan together one that supports you not just during the intensive, but in the days and weeks that follow.

90-Minute Intensive — $450 Allows for a fuller arc of exploration and processing, giving space to move through material more completely without feeling rushed.

Trauma Intensive (2 Hours) — $650 A dedicated, immersive experience for trauma processing work. These sessions are carefully structured to support titrated, contained exploration of difficult material with adequate time for stabilization before close.

A few things to know:

• Intensives are typically scheduled outside of regular appointment hours and require advance planning.

• Payment is due at the time of scheduling to reserve your session.

• If you're unsure which format is right for you, we're happy to talk it through.