Therapy Intensives

Focused support in 2 sessions with tools you can use immediately.

 

When you don’t want to wait months to make meaningful progress, a therapy intensive offers a concentrated way to focus on what matters most. Intensives are available for individuals, couples, and adult family members.

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In this two-part experience, we’ll map the patterns keeping you stuck, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and practice tools and strategies in real time. Depending on your goals, this might include nervous system regulation, executive functioning, communication and relationship dynamics, or a combination of approaches.

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You’ll leave the first part of the intensive (3 hours in length) with greater clarity and a personalized plan you can begin using right away, plus a 2-hour follow-up session (within 2–4 weeks) to support integration and continued progress.

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What is a Therapy Intensive​​

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A therapy intensive is an extended, focused session designed to create clarity, relief, and momentum in a short period of time. Rather than spreading work out over many weekly sessions, we take a deep dive into the patterns that matter most and practice skills in real time, so they’re embodied, not just discussed.

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Intensives are offered via telehealth and can be used for individual or relational work, including couples and adult family members. They’re best suited for people who want focused, structured support around a particular concern or recurring pattern, with dedicated time to understand what’s happening and develop a clear path forward.

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Common Focus Areas

(Or we can design a blend that fits you!)

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1. Somatic & Nervous System–Focused Intensive

This focus is centered on nervous system regulation and understanding why your body reacts the way it does under stress.

Helpful if you’re experiencing:

• Anxiety, chronic stress, burnout, or emotional reactivity

• Shutdown, overwhelm, or feeling constantly “on edge”

• Trauma responses or attachment-related patterns

• Difficulty calming your body even when you “know” what to do

• A desire for somatic, nervous system-informed tools rather than talk-only therapy

 

We focus on helping your nervous system feel safer, more regulated, and more flexible, so you have greater access to choice instead of automatic reactions.

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2. Executive Functioning–Focused Intensive

This focus is designed for neurodivergent minds and adults who feel overwhelmed by tasks, decisions, and follow-through.

Helpful if you’re experiencing:

• ADHD traits, task initiation challenges, or procrastination

• Decision fatigue, time blindness, or difficulty prioritizing

• Burnout from forcing yourself into systems that don’t fit

• Frustration with traditional productivity advice

• A desire for practical, brain-friendly systems that actually stick

 

We focus on building realistic, neurodivergent-affirming strategies for planning, follow-through, regulation, and daily life. 

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You do not need a formal diagnosis to use an intensive to explore neurodivergent-affirming strategies. However, intensives are treatment-focused and do not include formal ADHD or autism diagnostic assessment. If your primary goal is determining whether you meet diagnostic criteria for ADHD, autism, or both, a diagnostic assessment or comprehensive evaluation is the better fit.

 

3. Relationship-Focused Intensive

This focus is designed for couples or adult family members who want dedicated time to understand and shift patterns that have become difficult to change on their own.

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Helpful if you’re experiencing:

• Recurring conflicts or communication patterns that don’t seem to get resolved

• Difficulty feeling heard, understood, or connected

• Emotional reactivity, withdrawal, shutdown, or escalation during conflict

• Differences in communication, regulation, or neurodivergence that affect the relationship

• Stress related to life transitions, caregiving, parenting, or changing family roles

• A specific relationship concern that would benefit from focused time and attention

 

We slow the pattern down together so we can understand not only what you’re disagreeing about, but what happens between you when you get stuck. From there, we practice different ways of communicating, responding, and navigating difficult moments so you leave with greater understanding and concrete strategies to continue using after the intensive.

 

4. Customized Intensives

Many concerns don’t fit neatly into one category and that’s expected. During the free consultation, we can design an intensive around the areas most relevant to you or your relationship.

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That might mean combining nervous system work with executive functioning support, exploring how neurodivergence affects a relationship, addressing burnout alongside relationship stress, or focusing on a specific pattern or transition that has been difficult to navigate.

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The goal is not to fit you into a predetermined format, but to identify what would make our focused time together most useful.

 

Who Intensives Are For

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• Busy professionals, caregivers, students, or high-achievers who want focused support without months of weekly therapy

• Adults feeling overwhelmed, burned out, dysregulated, or stuck in repeating cycles

• Neurodivergent individuals who want tools that better match how their brain works

• Couples who want dedicated time to understand recurring patterns, strengthen communication, or work through a specific concern

• Adult family members who want support navigating conflict, changing roles, boundaries, caregiving, or other relationship dynamics

• People who already have a therapist and want a focused skills or nervous-system boost

• Individuals or relationships that prefer structure, clarity, and actionable next steps over open-ended therapy

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What to expect in  the first session (3  hours)

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1. Foundation, Mapping & Goals (≈ 75 minutes)

This first phase is a focused discussion designed to help me understand the history, patterns, and context surrounding what brought you in. We begin by grounding together, reviewing your pre-visit questionnaires, and identifying what you most want to understand or change.

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For relational intensives, we’ll also spend time understanding each person’s perspective and mapping the recurring dynamics that may be contributing to the concern.

 

Depending on your focus, we may explore:

• Nervous system stress, burnout, or activation cycles

• Executive functioning strengths and bottlenecks

• Perfectionism, people-pleasing, or avoidance patterns

• Communication, attachment, and relational dynamics

• Patterns of conflict, escalation, withdrawal, or disconnection

• Habitual responses such as freeze, overdrive, shutdown, or distraction

• Sensory, environmental, or structural stressors

 

Rather than trying to cover everything, we use this time to make sense of the patterns that matter most and identify 1–2 high-impact areas that will guide the rest of the intensive.

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2. Nervous System Reset & Break (15 minutes)

A structured pause to support integration, hydration, movement, breathing, or stepping outside, so the deeper work lands without overload.

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3. Skills, Processing & Strategy Deep-Dive (≈ 60 minutes)

This is the heart of the intensive. We move from insight to change through targeted work, which may include:

• Nervous system-informed regulation tools

• Somatic grounding and anchoring

• Neurodivergent-friendly planning and executive functioning strategies

• CBT/ACT tools for perfectionism, avoidance, and unhelpful thought loops

• Emotional processing and parts-informed work

• Boundary scripts and communication practice

• Burnout recovery and energy-budgeting

• Values-based goal alignment

• Identifying and interrupting recurring relationship cycles

• Communication and listening practice

• Regulation strategies for difficult conversations

• Boundary-setting and collaborative problem-solving

 

Tools are practiced in real time, so they’re easier to use afterward.

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4. Integration & Personalized Plan (≈ 30 minutes)

We weave everything together:

• Summarizing key insights and patterns

• Identifying personal and/or relational regulation supports

• Mapping a realistic 2–4 week plan

• Creating scripts, routines, communication strategies, or micro-habits that fit your real life

• Identifying what each person can practice between sessions when the intensive involves relational work

 

5. Personalized Toolkit

After the intensive, you’ll receive a custom PDF summarizing:

• Key patterns and insights

• The exact tools we practiced

• A personalized plan for putting the work into practice

 

This becomes your go-to reference: simple, structured, and usable.

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6. Follow-Up Session (2 hours)

Held 2–4 weeks later. We’ll check in on what has shifted, what you’ve learned from putting the plan into practice, and where you may still be getting stuck. We’ll troubleshoot challenges, refine strategies, and build on what’s working. For couples and family members, this also gives us an opportunity to revisit relationship patterns and strengthen the changes you’ve been practicing together.

 

What’s included

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• Pre-intensive digital questionnaires

• Three-hour intensive (telehealth)

• Personalized toolkit + action plan (PDF)

• Two-hour follow-up session

• Referral options and next-step recommendations when appropriate

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Investment

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$1,500 flat fee

Includes both the 3 hour and 2 hour intensive visits.

• Private pay only. Intensives are not eligible for insurance reimbursement and do not come with a superbill.

• Deposit: $750 non‑refundable deposit due at booking; $750 balance due 7 days prior to the intensive.

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Because of the time reserved for each intensive, a deposit is required to secure your appointment and honor the time we commit to this work.

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Scheduling & availability

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• Telehealth only at this time. You must be physically located in any of the 40+ PSYPACT states at the time of service, including Connecticut, Arizona, Virginia, Florida and Maryland.

• I am flexible in scheduling intensives, and often have availability on weekday mornings or evenings, with some weekend time slots available.

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Ready to move forward?

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Step 1: Request a free 15–20 minute consultation so we can talk briefly about what you're hoping to work on and determine whether an individual, couples, or family intensive would be a good fit.
Step 2: If we’re a fit, I'll reserve your date with the deposit and send your pre‑intensive forms via my secure portal.
Step 3: Meet for the first part of your intensive and leave with a concrete plan. We'll schedule our follow-up before you sign off.

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