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Therapy Intensives

I am excited to offer therapy intensives. This page will have all the details about intensives.

I wanted to create a therapy experience with a beginning, middle, and soft landing—because, honestly, mental health is rarely something we “cure” in one neat ending. An intensive gives us focused time to work with one meaningful area of your life, understand what may be happening beneath the surface, and begin making sense of how to carry what you learn into daily life with more clarity and support. Therapy intensives are non-routine services and are private pay.

My intensive fees are intentionally accessible while still reflecting the preparation, clinical experience, and individualized care involved in this service.

I offer intensives because this format creates more time, continuity, and space for focused therapeutic work. With Brainspotting and other experiential methods, important material often unfolds in layers. One session may bring forward a body sensation, image, emotion, memory, belief, or inner part. In an intensive, we have time to pause, reflect, write, use creative or somatic practices, and allow the next part of the work to build from what just emerged. This creates a more connected flow, rather than opening something important and then waiting a week or two to find the thread again.

Basic Intensive Structure

Currently, I offer online therapy (OK, TX, IL). Therapy intensives are available in concentrated sessions lasting between 6 and 15 hours.

For busy individuals, the concentrated time is practical. I do offer weekend appointments and flexible hours.

My own experience in Brainspotting helped clarify this even more. When we met over several days in a row and stayed with the same issue while it was still fresh in mind and body, the process felt more effective, and I felt I had greater clarity. That experience helped me recognize how powerful a concentrated format can be.

I take your time and your investment seriously. I care deeply about the quality of work I offer, and I continue to invest significantly in my own training, learning, and personal healing so I can bring depth, skill, and presence to the clients I serve.

Therapy intensives can be scheduled for August 2026!

Your Intensive Focus

An intensive begins with a theme. This gives our work a clear direction while still leaving room for what naturally unfolds. The goal is not to erase emotions like sadness, fear, grief, or self-doubt. These are part of being human. The goal is to build a more supportive relationship with yourself and your life so you can understand your inner world more clearly and show up with more of your authentic self.

During an intensive, we explore the thoughts, emotions, body responses, beliefs, memories, images, protective patterns, and inner parts connected to your theme. Instead of staying only in conversation, we use a layered process that helps you connect with the material in different ways.

A Brainspotting session or guided imagery may bring forward a memory, image, body sensation, belief, emotion, or inner part. From there, we may pause to write, reflect, use imagery, create a SoulCollage® card, explore a part, practice somatic mindfulness, or use guided meditation to deepen and integrate what emerged.

Examples of Intensive Themes

Inner Critic, Self-Doubt, and Perfectionism

We may explore the part of you that feels pressure to perform, prove yourself, avoid mistakes, or stay ahead of criticism. This theme often includes parts exploration, Brainspotting, expressive writing, somatic awareness, and practices for building a more supportive inner relationship.

Creative or Performance Growth

This may be helpful for artists, writers, athletes, helpers, or anyone wanting to work with inner blocks around confidence, expression, discipline, visibility, or achievement. We may explore the emotional patterns, body responses, and inner narratives that shape how you perform, create, or take action.

Relationship Patterns

We may explore patterns such as people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, defensiveness, fear of conflict, resentment, over-functioning, or difficulty asking for what you need. The focus is on understanding your own inner responses so you can relate with more clarity, choice, and self-connection.

Life Transition and Identity

This theme may fit when you are entering a new phase of life and trying to understand who you are now. This could include midlife, career change, parenting shifts, grief, spiritual questioning, relationship changes, or a sense that an old way of living no longer fits.

Health Motivation and Self-Care

This theme focuses on your relationship with your body, habits, motivation, resistance, and care. Rather than forcing change through pressure or shame, we explore the inner patterns that shape your choices and support a more connected way of caring for yourself.

Inner Child and Present Self Connection

Inner child work is not about staying stuck in old pain. It is about understanding how earlier experiences may still shape your current reactions, beliefs, and body responses. Through Brainspotting, imagery, parts work, and compassionate reflection, we create space for a corrective experience that helps your current self feel more grounded, connected, and present.

Intuition, Inner Wisdom, and Spiritual Growth

For clients who are open to this, we may explore intuition, meaning, inner guidance, symbolism, dreams, archetypes, nature-based connection, or spiritual identity in a grounded and open-minded way. The focus is on helping you listen inward while staying connected to real-life choices, relationships, and emotional honesty.

Your intensive includes more than our session time. My goal is for you to leave with something useful, practical, and personal to your process. This includes a customized workbook, daily practices, detailed notes from our work together, activities to continue on your own, guided meditations, practical ways to apply what we discovered, and psychoeducational materials to help you keep integrating the work into daily life.

Intensive Modalities

Brainspotting/Guided Meditation

Somatic mindfulness to notice how your body holds stress, protection, emotion, memory, and possibility.

Guided meditation and imagery to support grounding, inner connection, emotional care, and integration.

Brainspotting is a mind-body therapy that uses focused eye positions to help access emotions, memories, body sensations, and inner responses that may be difficult to reach through talk therapy alone.

In a Brainspotting session, we explore where your eyes naturally connect with the issue, emotion, body sensation, or inner experience we are focusing on. Sometimes this may involve one specific eye position, and other times we may work with several spots or shift the focus as the process unfolds. You stay connected to your chosen theme while noticing what naturally arises in your body and awareness, such as emotions, images, thoughts, memories, sensations, or shifts in perspective.

The process gives the brain and nervous system space to process without needing to explain every detail. In an intensive, Brainspotting can be combined with parts work, meditation, writing, and creative reflection so the material that emerges has more room to be explored, understood, and integrated.

Expressive Arts

Creative practices can help give shape to what may be difficult to explain with words alone. In an intensive, we may use writing, imagery, drawing, collage, SoulCollage®, symbols, movement, or other expressive activities to help you connect with what is unfolding in a more personal and meaningful way.

This is not about being artistic. It is about using creativity as another doorway into self-understanding. Sometimes an image, color, symbol, phrase, or body movement can help express something your thinking mind has not yet fully named.

When paired with Brainspotting, expressive work can help us stay connected to what emerges during the process. A Brainspotting session may bring up a memory, sensation, emotion, inner part, belief, or image. Afterward, we may use writing, collage, drawing, meditation, or reflection to explore that material further and help it become more integrated into your daily life.

In this way, creative practices become part of the flow of the intensive. They help us slow down, notice what is meaningful, deepen the connection to your theme, and create something tangible you can return to after our work together.

Parts & Archetypes

Think of your mind not as one single voice, but as a team made up of different parts, each with its own feelings, needs, and protective roles. Parts work is simply a gentle way to get to know the different sides of yourself—like your inner critic, your inner child, or the part that gets anxious—so you can understand what they need and help them work together in harmony. Archetypal work and other modalities that utilize parts work can be especially meaningful in an intensive format because it gives us time to stay with a pattern long enough to really understand it; we can look more closely at the recurring roles, themes, and inner dynamics that shape your experience. Over several sessions, it often becomes easier to see how a particular pattern shows up in relationships, decision-making, self-image, or life transitions. The idea of working with different aspects of the self appears in many therapeutic traditions, including Voice Dialogue, Psychosynthesis, Focusing, IFS, Jungian psychology, ego state work, inner child work, and trauma-informed approaches.

Intensive Time Options

While intensives are traditionally priced as a premium service, my goal is to keep this format accessible as much as possible. My goal is to make focused, depth-oriented therapy more accessible while still honoring the care, preparation, and clinical experience this work requires.

Which Intensive Is Right for You?

Focus | 6 Hours (Two 3-Hour Days)

A Focus Intensive is often a wonderful place to begin. It gives us time to build a strong foundation, clarify your goals, understand the patterns you'd like to change, and begin meaningful therapeutic work. Throughout the two sessions, we may combine teaching, experiential exercises, nervous system education, parts work, Brainspotting, guided imagery, journaling, expressive arts, meditation, or other approaches that best support your needs.

Many clients leave with greater clarity, practical tools, and a renewed sense of direction. Some find this is all they need, while others choose to continue with weekly therapy or return for another intensive in the future.

Deep Dive | 9 Hours (Three 3-Hour Days)

A Deep Dive allows more time for themes to unfold naturally. As we explore one area of your life, additional layers often emerge—old experiences, protective patterns, relationship dynamics, beliefs, emotions, or parts of yourself that have been waiting for attention.

Having an additional day gives us room to remain curious, follow these discoveries with greater depth, and begin integrating what you've learned before completing the intensive.

Immersion | 12 Hours (Four 3-Hour Days)

An Immersion offers space for more comprehensive exploration when an issue has developed over many years or touches several areas of your life. With additional time, we can move thoughtfully between insight, emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and integration while allowing the work to unfold at a pace that feels steady and supported.

Many clients appreciate having enough time to both understand longstanding patterns and begin practicing new ways of relating to themselves before returning home.

Extended Immersion | 15 Hours (Five 3-Hour Days)

This option is often well suited for longstanding patterns, significant life transitions, complex trauma, or individuals who simply value having generous time to explore, process, learn, and integrate.

The additional sessions create room for education, experiential therapies, reflection, and nervous system integration while honoring your own pace throughout the week.

Weekend Immersion | 12 Hours (Friday–Sunday)

The Weekend Immersion offers the same depth as the four-day Immersion while gathering the experience into one intentional weekend. Many clients enjoy stepping away from everyday responsibilities and dedicating several days to their emotional well-being.

With spacious four-hour sessions each day, there is time for therapeutic work, reflection, and integration while maintaining a gentle rhythm across the weekend.

After any intensive therapy, follow-up therapy may still be helpful for support and integration.

Therapy intensives are not meant to “cure” you of being human. Life is an ongoing process of unfolding, adapting, learning, and growing. It is normal to feel anxious, sad, overwhelmed, uncertain, or emotionally stretched at times. The goal is not to eliminate the human experience but to change how you relate to yourself, others, and life as you experience it.

Every intensive is based on how much time we have together and goals

1. Goals, Preparation & Mapping Session (Included)

Every therapy intensive begins with a 90-minute Preparation & Mapping Session, scheduled separately before your first intensive session.

This meeting gives us time to slow down, get to know your story, and thoughtfully prepare for the work ahead.

Together, we'll explore your current concerns, personal history, emotional and relationship patterns, strengths, goals, and the areas that feel most meaningful to focus on. We'll also begin identifying the themes, protective patterns, and inner resources that will guide our work together.

By taking time to create a clear roadmap before the intensive begins, we can devote your intensive sessions to deeper exploration, experiential work, learning, and integration rather than spending valuable time gathering background information.

This 90-minute Preparation & Mapping Session is included with every therapy intensive.

2. Nervous System Education
We may explore how your nervous system responds to stress, how old patterns show up in the present, and what your mind and body may be trying to protect.

3. Brainspotting, Guided Meditation, or Parts Work
This is where we slow down and work more directly with the material through Brainspotting, guided imagery, mindfulness, somatic awareness, or parts/archetypal exploration.

4. Processing and Reflection
After deeper work, we take time to notice what happened, what shifted, what felt important, and what your mind/body may still be holding.

5. Expressive Integration
This may include SoulCollage®, journaling, imagery, symbols, drawing, writing, or another reflective activity. This helps bring the work out of “just talking” and into something you can see, sense, and remember.

6. Pulling It Together
At the end of the intensive, we make connections, name what emerged, and talk about how to carry the work into daily life. This may include practices, reflections, nervous system tools, or suggestions for moving forward.

Payment, Scheduling, and Refunds

A 25% non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your intensive dates. This deposit reserves extended time in my schedule that is being held and is applied toward the total cost of your intensive.

The remaining balance is due 48 hours before the intensive begins.

Payment is made through Stripe Pay. If you prefer installment payments, Stipe has options at checkout.

If you need to cancel before the intensive begins, the 25% deposit is not refunded. Any payment made beyond the deposit will be refunded, applied to traditional therapy sessions, or applied toward a rescheduled intensive.

Intensives may be rescheduled up to two times. The 25% deposit may be applied to the rescheduled intensive or traditional therapy sessions.

Once an intensive has begun, completed therapy hours are not refundable. If you need to stop or adjust the remaining scheduled time, unused hours may be refunded, applied to traditional therapy sessions, or rescheduled for another intensive block.

All fees, payment dates, cancellation policies, and rescheduling options are reviewed clearly before scheduling.

Therapy intensives and weekly therapy are separate services.

Please review the following guidelines regarding how counseling intensives are billed and processed:

By choosing a private-pay therapy intensive, you understand and agree that the intensive session itself will not be submitted to, or billed through, standard insurance channels. I am private pay.
Thrizer Eligibility and Alma: While I utilize Thrizer (current clients, this applies to ALMA) to help you maximize your out-of-network benefits, this automated service is strictly available for standard, single integration sessions (60, 45, or 30 minutes). Thrizer billing cannot be applied to multi-hour therapy intensives, nor can intensives be processed through Alma (only applies to current clients) or any other third-party insurance payer.
In accordance with healthcare regulations, you will receive a comprehensive written fee agreement, an informed consent form, and a formal Good Faith Estimate (GFE) detailing all exact costs before your services begin.
If we transition into traditional, ongoing therapy sessions after your intensive is complete, those standard sessions are considered completely separate from your private-pay intensive and may be processed under your applicable insurance or out-of-network benefits.

Payment plans are welcome. At checkout, Stripe lets you spread your payment into smaller amounts over time.

Included with Therapy Intensive

Before Your Intensive

I will send you a packet with questions and assessments so I can understand your goals, learn more about what you would like to focus on, and shape the experience around your needs.

You will also receive tools to help you prepare, which may include:

Reflection questions on your future journey
Resources, ideas, suggestions, psychoeducational material
A workbook and preparation guide

These materials are designed to help you organize your thoughts, clarify your focus, and begin connecting with the themes you want to explore.

During Your Intensive

During an intensive, we work in extended blocks of time with plenty of built-in space to pause, reset, move around, eat, reflect, and let things settle. The schedule can be shaped around your goals, your capacity, and both of our availability.

Every intensive day follows the same rhythm: 4-5 hours of focused work, divided into a morning block and an afternoon block, with the spacing between them arranged around what works for you.

If you choose the 8-hour or 12-hour package, each day still holds just 4 hours — you'll simply have 2 or 3 intensive days to schedule. Those days don't need to be back-to-back. You'll have 14 days to use them, so we can meet on consecutive days, spread them over one week, or space them over two weeks.

The process is designed to feel supportive and paced, rather than rushed. We move thoughtfully, staying connected to what feels important while also respecting your system's needs.

Beginning of Intensive

At the beginning of an intensive, we take time to understand your inner and outer landscape. Through discussion, we explore your past experiences, current patterns, goals, emotions, beliefs, and the way you make sense of yourself, others, and life. This helps us create a clear map of what you are bringing into the work and where you want to focus.

When we explore past experiences, the purpose is to support you in the present. This work is not about staying in blame, seeing yourself as broken, or victimizing yourself. It is about giving your mind, body, and nervous system a different experience now—one that may help you process, reorganize, and relate to old experiences in a new way.

We also include nervous system education and regulation practices so you have tools to stay grounded, connected, and supported throughout the process.

After Your Intensive

After the intensive, you will receive tools to help support integration and continued reflection. These may include:

Practical ideas on how to use what we discussed in your daily life
Summary of our time together
Reflection prompts
Coping tools and Psychoeducational material
Integration ideas and tools for continued support

Contact me with questions or to schedule a free 15–20 minute consultation. This gives us time to talk through what you’re looking for, discuss the intensive format, and make sure it feels like a good fit for your needs.