Therapy Intensives: Focused Support When You’re Ready for Change
A focused therapy experience designed to help you move from insight into change
Sometimes weekly therapy is helpful. And sometimes, it feels too slow.
You may already understand a lot about yourself. You may know where certain patterns come from. You may have talked about them, journaled about them, read about them, and tried hard to shift them.
But insight alone does not always create change.
My therapy intensives are designed for people who are ready for a more focused, clinically sophisticated therapy experience — one that uses time differently and draws on advanced training in trauma, attachment, memory reconsolidation, parts work, and evidence-based treatment.
Rather than spending months slowly circling the same material, we create dedicated space to work intentionally with what you are ready to change, process, understand, or finally move through.
And because many intensives include Accelerated Resolution Therapy, you may not need to retell every painful detail in order to do meaningful work. ART allows us to work with how experiences are stored internally — including images, sensations, emotions, and body responses — while you remain in control throughout the process.
The goal is not just to talk about what happened.
The goal is to help your mind and body respond differently, so you can begin relating to yourself, your story, and your life in a new way.
This Is Not Just a Longer Therapy Session
It is a focused, carefully structured therapeutic experience designed around what you are ready to change.
A therapy intensive gives us time to move beyond the usual rhythm of weekly therapy: checking in, catching up, identifying what feels most important, and then realizing the session is almost over.
Instead, we begin with a clear focus and create enough space to work with it more deeply.
That might mean working with a memory, a belief, a body response, a relationship pattern, a grief experience, or a part of you that keeps reacting in ways you do not fully understand.
The structure is individualized, but the purpose is consistent: to help you move beyond insight and into a different lived experience of yourself.
Depending on your needs, the work may draw from Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment-focused therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, nervous system regulation, and integration planning.
Maybe You…
✅ Understand your patterns, but still feel pulled back into them.
✅ Know what happened, but still feel affected by it.
✅ Have done therapy before and want something more focused.
✅ Feel like you keep talking about the same things without enough movement.
✅ Want support that is deeper and more structured than a weekly session.
✅ Have a specific memory, relationship pattern, transition, or emotional reaction you are ready to work through.
✅ Want to do meaningful work without having to retell every painful detail.
✅ Already have a therapist, but want adjunctive trauma-focused support.
✅ Want to work with a therapist who brings advanced training, clinical depth, and a clear plan to the work.
Who Therapy Intensives Are For
For people who are ready to give the work more space.
Therapy intensives are designed for people who want more than a brief weekly appointment and more than open-ended conversation.
They are for people who are ready to devote focused time to something that matters — a pattern, a memory, a transition, a relationship wound, a loss, a decision, or an emotional response that keeps showing up in their life.
You may be functioning well. You may even be the person other people rely on. But that does not mean you are not carrying something that deserves your full attention.
An intensive gives you the space to pause, focus, and do meaningful therapeutic work without having to stretch the process across months of weekly sessions.
This is for people who are ready to move from managing, analyzing, and coping into deeper change.
This May Be a Good Fit If You Want To…
✔️ Make meaningful use of a concentrated block of therapy time.
✔️ Work with a therapist who brings clinical depth, structure, and advanced trauma training.
✔️ Focus on what you are ready to change instead of starting from scratch every week.
✔️ Do deeper work in a way that still feels thoughtful, contained, and paced.
✔️ Use therapy as an intentional investment in your emotional life, relationships, and future.
✔️ Step away from the usual demands of your life long enough to focus on what needs attention.
How Therapy Intensives Can Help
Therapy intensives are not about fixing you — you are not broken.
They are about creating the time, focus, and clinical depth needed to help something finally shift.
Instead of only talking about what happened, we work with how it lives in you now — in your thoughts, emotions, body responses, relationships, and sense of self. Using advanced approaches like Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, intensives are designed to help you move from insight into change.
You Don’t Have to Do This Alone
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of experience helping people understand and change the patterns that keep them stuck. My intensive work draws from advanced training in ART, IFS, CPT, EMDR, attachment and, psychodynamic therapies. I created therapy intensives for people who are ready for focused, meaningful work — not just more talking.
Therapy Intensives Can Help You
Move beyond insight.
Understanding your patterns is important, but intensives are designed to help you create emotional and nervous-system change — not just talk about what you already know.
Process without retelling every detail.
With approaches like ART, meaningful work can happen without requiring you to describe everything that happened.
Work with what feels stuck.
We may focus on memories, beliefs, body responses, relationship patterns, grief, transitions, or emotional reactions that continue to show up in your life.
Use therapy time differently.
Instead of spreading deeper work across months of weekly sessions, intensives create dedicated space for focused therapeutic work.
Feel more clear and connected.
The goal is to help you leave with more clarity, steadiness, self-understanding, and a better sense of what support may be helpful next.
Types of Therapy Used in Intensives
I draw from several specialized approaches to help tailor the intensive to your goals, history, and needs.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Accelerated Resolution Therapy, or ART, is often a central part of my intensive work. ART uses eye movements to help the brain process painful memories, images, sensations, and emotional responses. Many clients appreciate that ART does not require them to retell every detail of what happened in order to do meaningful work. ART can be especially helpful when something feels “stuck” in your nervous system, even if you understand it logically. It allows us to work in a focused, structured way while helping you remain grounded and in control throughout the process.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma therapy that uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain process distressing experiences. In intensive work, EMDR concepts can be especially useful for understanding how past experiences are connected to present-day triggers, beliefs, emotions, and body responses. This helps create a clearer treatment focus and allows the work to be more targeted, thoughtful, and individualized. EMDR also offers a helpful framework for identifying the memories, themes, and patterns that may still be shaping how you feel and respond today.
Things to Keep in Mind When Starting a Therapy Intensive
Therapy intensives are focused.
Before we begin, we will clarify what you want to work on and what kind of change you are hoping for.
Your intensive is individualized.
The structure, pacing, and clinical approach will be tailored to your history, goals, current supports, and needs.
Preparation matters.
We will talk through your relevant history, current stressors, and what you need to feel grounded before moving into deeper work.
Integration matters, too.
After an intensive, it is important to give yourself room to notice what feels different and what still needs support.
Therapy intensives are not for every situation.
If you are in acute crisis, actively unsafe, or needing a higher level of care, an intensive may not be the right fit at this time.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Cognitive Processing Therapy, or CPT, helps people identify and shift painful beliefs that can develop after trauma or overwhelming experiences. CPT can be especially useful when you feel stuck in guilt, shame, self-blame, fear, trust concerns, or beliefs related to safety, power, control, esteem, and intimacy.
Internal Family Systems / Parts Work
Internal Family Systems, or IFS, helps us understand the different parts of you that may be trying to protect you, avoid pain, stay in control, or prevent you from being hurt again. This can be especially helpful when you feel conflicted, stuck, reactive, or pulled in different emotional directions.
Additional Clinical Approaches
My work is also informed by attachment-focused therapy, psychodynamic therapy, Schema Therapy, CBT, and nervous-system-based strategies. These approaches help me understand the full picture of what you are carrying and tailor the work to you.
Therapy Intensive Options
Each intensive is designed as a clear, contained treatment experience — not an open-ended therapy process.
Clients do not simply book time. Each package includes screening, preparation, focused treatment, and follow-up so the work feels thoughtful, clinically appropriate, and complete.
Before beginning, you’ll complete an inquiry and fit process to help determine whether intensive work is appropriate, which offering is the best fit, and whether the timing and scope of treatment make sense for your needs.
The first step is a paid consultation and assessment session. This session serves as both a clinical screening and a planning conversation. If you move forward with an intensive package, the consultation fee is credited toward the selected package.
The Resolute Reset
Half-Day Intensive | $1,800 - $2,200
For one clearly defined target, event, or emotional imprint.
The Resolute Reset is a half-day focused offering designed for a single-incident trauma or another clearly defined concern that continues to affect your life.
This may be a good fit if there is one specific event, experience, memory, fear, or emotional reaction you want to work through in a focused and contained way.
This is the most contained entry point into intensive work while still offering a complete therapeutic experience with preparation, focused treatment, and integration.
This package includes:
✔️ One paid consultation and assessment session, credited toward the package if you move forward
✔️ One pre-intensive planning session
✔️ One half-day private intensive
✔️ One follow-up integration session
✔️ Limited post-session email support for a defined period
The Mental Health Day
Full-Day Intensive | $3,500 - $4,200
For more layered, persistent, or emotionally charged concerns.
The Mental Health Day is a full-day private intensive designed for concerns that need more time, space, and clinical depth.
This may be a good fit if you are working with a persistent pattern, a more emotionally charged experience, or several related concerns you would like to address in a focused, immersive format.
As the flagship offering, The Mental Health Day is designed to provide a deeper and more complete intensive experience than traditional weekly therapy typically allows.
This package includes:
✔️ One paid consultation and assessment session, credited toward the package if you move forward
✔️ One pre-intensive planning session
✔️ One full-day private intensive
✔️ One follow-up integration session
✔️ Limited post-session email support for a defined period
✔️ Structured preparation materials or pre-work, when clinically appropriate
The Concierge Intensive
Customized Private Intensive | Starting at $6,500+
For the highest level of personalization, privacy, and flexibility.
The Concierge Intensive is a customized offering for clients who want a more tailored level of care based on complexity, time needs, scheduling, travel, and desired support.
This may be the best fit if your needs are more complex, if you want additional preparation or integration support, or if you are seeking a more private and flexible intensive experience.
Because this offering is individualized, the structure may vary. Together, we will determine what level of support is clinically appropriate and aligned with your goals.
This package may include:
✔️ One paid consultation and assessment session, credited toward the package if you move forward
✔️ Extended consultation and case planning
✔️ Customized preparation sessions
✔️ One or more intensive treatment days
✔️ One or more integration sessions
✔️ Expanded between-session support
✔️ Travel and accommodation coordination, where applicable
✔️ A tailored treatment structure based on your needs
A Note About Investment
Therapy intensives are an investment in focused, clinically sophisticated care.
Each offering is designed to provide more than extended time in session. The investment reflects the full treatment arc: screening, planning, preparation, focused intensive work, integration, and individualized support.
Rather than spreading deeper work across months of weekly therapy, intensives create dedicated space for concentrated therapeutic work. The goal is not simply to spend more time in therapy — it is to use the time differently.
This keeps the pricing clear while still helping prospective clients understand what they are actually paying for.
Is a Therapy Intensive Right for You?
Therapy intensives can be powerful, but they are not the right fit for every person or every situation.
This work may be a good fit if you are motivated, emotionally stable enough for focused work, and ready to devote time and attention to a specific area of change.
It may not be the right fit if you are currently in acute crisis, actively unsafe, needing a higher level of care, or looking for ongoing weekly therapy as your primary support.
Before any intensive is scheduled, we will complete a consultation and assessment process to make sure the timing, structure, and scope of the work feel clinically appropriate.
Already Have a Therapist?
You do not need to leave your current therapist to do an intensive.
Many clients use intensives as adjunctive work while continuing with their regular therapist. This can be especially helpful if you already have a strong therapeutic relationship but want focused trauma-processing work or a more concentrated experience around a specific concern.
The goal is not to replace the work you are already doing, but to support it with a focused therapeutic experience designed around a specific area of change.
With your permission, I can collaborate with your therapist before or after the intensive so the work feels connected and supportive.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. Many intensives include Accelerated Resolution Therapy, which allows meaningful therapeutic work without requiring you to retell every painful detail.
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Yes. Many clients use intensives as adjunctive support while continuing their ongoing therapy.
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Intensives may be available virtually for clients located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Florida, depending on clinical fit and the type of work being done.
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I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. I can provide documentation you may submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement, but coverage varies by plan.
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That is part of the consultation and assessment process. We will talk through your goals, history, timing, and support needs to determine whether an intensive is appropriate and which format may be the best fit.
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After the intensive, we will use your follow-up integration session to talk through what shifted, what still needs support, and how to continue caring for the work we did. Some clients return to their regular therapist, some schedule additional support, and some simply need time to notice what feels different.