Sometimes you don’t need more time in therapy. You need more time at once.

Therapy intensives offer individuals and couples an opportunity to step out of the constraints of the traditional weekly hour and devote sustained, focused time to the places where they most want change.

Over the course of 20 hours together, we identify the patterns that keep pulling you back into familiar ways of feeling, reacting, or relating—and work experientially to create something different. Rather than stopping just as we reach something important, an intensive gives us the time and space to stay with the work, deepen it, and help new experiences take root.

Intensives may be especially helpful if you already have a sense of what you want to change, have done therapy before but feel there is another layer to address, are navigating a significant relationship pattern, or simply want dedicated time for meaningful personal growth.

A Different Way to Do Therapy

Traditional weekly therapy can be enormously valuable. But it isn't the only way meaningful therapeutic work can happen.

In a weekly 50-minute session, some of our time naturally goes toward reconnecting, talking through what has happened since we last met, and finding our way back into the deeper work. And sometimes, just as we arrive somewhere important, it's time to stop.

An intensive gives us something different: time, continuity, and focus.

We work in extended sessions, scheduled relatively close together, which allows us to spend less time repeatedly starting and stopping and more time staying with the work as it unfolds.

The intention isn't to rush healing. It's to create enough space for it.

What Could We Work On?

An intensive is organized around one or two areas where you most want something to change.

You might come wanting to:

respond differently to your children instead of yelling or shutting down
develop greater self-compassion
set boundaries without being overwhelmed by guilt
understand why the same relationship patterns keep happening
feel more connected to your partner
stop being hijacked by old fears or experiences
become more emotionally available after years of protecting yourself
work through a particular trauma or attachment wound
feel more confident and grounded in yourself
move from understanding your patterns intellectually to actually experiencing something different

You don't need to be in crisis to benefit from an intensive. Some people come because life is painful. Others come because life is going relatively well, but they know there is a way they want to grow.

Both are welcome.

What the Intensive Looks Like

We begin with a two-hour session devoted to understanding what you most want from our work together.

Rather than trying to address everything, we'll get specific. What would be meaningfully different in your life or relationship if this work were successful? What keeps getting in the way? And what happens internally when you try to make that change?

From there, I tailor our work to you.

Your intensive includes 20 hours of therapy, with much of the work initially taking place in extended 2–3 hour sessions over approximately 7–21 days. Follow-up sessions are then scheduled over the following weeks as we complete our work and focus on integration.

The process may include:

identifying the core patterns underlying a current struggle
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work
attachment-focused work
somatic and nervous-system work
couples work using Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO)
trauma processing
psychoeducation about the brain, attachment, and nervous system
mindfulness, visualization, and experiential practices
developing new ways of responding when familiar patterns are activated
creating individualized practices to support what is changing
developing a plan for carrying the work forward after the intensive

This isn't a predetermined protocol. We follow what emerges and shape the intensive around what your particular system—or relationship—needs.

Why I Work This Way

After years of providing traditional longer-term psychotherapy, and through my work training therapists and facilitating retreats, I began noticing something important.

When people had sustained time to focus on their internal experience without having to stop after an hour, the work could unfold differently.

There was time to understand a protective pattern, become curious about what was underneath it, work directly with the experience, and then integrate what had happened. There was also time for the nervous system to settle rather than feeling pressured by the clock.

That observation led me to begin offering intensive therapy to individuals and couples.

The response has made this format an important part of my practice.

The Approach Behind the Work

My work is grounded in Interpersonal Neurobiology and informed by the understanding that our present-day reactions are shaped by networks of past experience, attachment, emotion, body sensation, and belief.

Often, the patterns we most want to change make complete sense when we understand what they were originally designed to do.

The problem is that a response that once protected us can continue operating long after the circumstances around us have changed.

So our work isn't simply about telling yourself to react differently.

We become curious about what is happening underneath the pattern and create opportunities for your system to experience something new.

My training includes Internal Family Systems (IFS), Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO), Somatic Experiencing, Interpersonal Neurobiology, attachment-focused approaches, and experiential methods of emotional transformation. I draw from these approaches rather than applying one technique to every person.

An important concept underlying this work is memory reconsolidation—the process through which previously learned emotional responses can be updated in light of new experience. Our goal is to help change become something you experience, not simply something you understand.

Couples Intensives

Sometimes couples know they need help but traditional weekly couples therapy simply doesn't fit their lives—or the work feels too important to contain within a weekly hour.

A couples intensive creates protected time to slow down the cycle between you.

Instead of focusing only on the latest conflict, we can become curious about what happens underneath it: the fears, protective responses, attachment needs, and earlier experiences each partner brings into the relationship.

The goal isn't to determine who is right.

It's to help each of you understand what happens inside yourselves and between you, so that there is greater possibility for vulnerability, responsiveness, repair, and connection.

Couples intensives can also be used alongside your work with an existing couples therapist when clinically appropriate.

Individual Intensives

You may already understand yourself quite well.

You might know why you react the way you do and still find yourself having the same reaction.

That gap between insight and change is often where experiential therapy can be especially valuable.

An individual intensive gives us dedicated time to work with the parts of you that learned to protect, perform, withdraw, accommodate, control, disconnect, or stay vigilant—and to understand what those responses need in order for something new to become possible.

The goal isn't to get rid of parts of yourself.

It's to help your internal system have more choice.

Investment & Scheduling

An Individual or Couples Intensive includes 20 hours of individualized therapy and is $8,000.

A $1,000 deposit reserves your intensive and is applied toward the total fee. The remaining $7,000 is due once the intensive begins. Payment arrangements and scheduling details will be discussed before your intensive.

Intensives are offered both in person and by secure video, and in some circumstances we may use a combination of the two.

Because intensives require substantial blocks of time in my calendar, advance scheduling is strongly encouraged.

Is an Intensive Right for Me?

You don't need to know the answer before reaching out.

Part of my job is to help us determine whether this format makes sense for what you're hoping to accomplish.

If you're curious about an intensive, we can begin with a brief consultation. You can tell me a little about what is bringing you in, I'll answer your questions about the process, and together we can consider whether an intensive feels like the right next step.

Interested in exploring an intensive? Reach out to schedule a consultation.