Accelerated, focused therapy to help you feel better — faster.
Therapy Intensives based in Southington & serving all of CT
You need a change. And you need it now — time is precious and you don’t have years to waste getting where you want to be.
You’ve done the weekly therapy sessions. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, and talked circles around the same stories with people you trust. And while all of that helped you understand what’s going on—it hasn’t helped you actually feel better.
Something in you still feels stuck. Like there’s a part of you that can’t quite break through, shift, or exhale fully — no matter how much insight you gain.
And you’re tired. Tired of waiting months or years to feel movement. Tired of trying things that only scratch the surface. Tired of feeling like relief is always just out of reach.
You’re motivated. You’re ready. You just need something that will actually get to the root—something to stimulate and nurture deep healing within yourself.
Maybe it’s time to try a different approach — Intensives can feel like months worth of therapy in just a few days time.
Want a pass to get to the front of the line for deep healing?
It’s finally your turn. Intensives are concentrated extended length therapy sessions — focused on your needs, customized to your goals, and based off of your preferred timeline.
Intensives might be right for you if you’re…
Preparing for an important transition or event (a new job, parenthood, a medical procedure, a move, a wedding, etc.) and want to feel mentally prepared for it
Wanting to experience deep, life-changing therapy with meaningful emotional, psychological, and physical shifts
Desiring performance enhancement in your career, creative work, athletics, parenting, or relationships
Still affected or triggered by a past painful or overwhelming experience or trauma
Exhausted by mental loops or behavioral urges that dominate your time and energy—even after trying ERP or ACT
Feeling stuck in weekly therapy and ready for deeper work, or have tried Brainspotting, IFS-Informed EMDR, or I-CBT before and found it helpful
when the traditional weekly talk therapy model isn’t always enough.
Why choose an Intensive therapy format?
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Experience meaningful change more quickly over a focused 1–3 days—rather than months of slow progress in weekly therapy
Align therapy with your schedule through extended 3-hour sessions instead of carving out weekly 45-minute appointments
Tap into your brain and body’s natural capacity to heal, rather than spinning your wheels talking about what’s wrong with no real change
Work through what’s been keeping you stuck with greater depth, momentum, and clarity
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Build practical tools and internal supports that help you feel steadier, safer, and more supported
Deeply process memories, beliefs, sensations, or body cues that are driving your symptoms
Access and heal the parts of you that are hurting, wounded or stuck
Integrate insights and new patterns that keep working long after the intensive ends
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Unlike weekly therapy, Intensives give you the time and space to stay with the process long enough for your system to shift—without rushing or stopping right as you're finally dropping in. It’s deep, focused and sacred work that provides quicker momentum and more clarity in your life. You’re not doing this alone—we’re doing this together, and I will be attuned to your needs throughout the process.
All about these transformative Intensive therapy methods:
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Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a mind-body therapy that helps you soothe and calm your nervous system. It can support you in breaking through performance blocks, easing recurring nightmares, and finding more balance and clarity within. Brainspotting can also help resolve issues you may not have words for—or that aren’t connected to clear memories. It engages deeper, unconscious parts of the brain, which often leads to meaningful breakthroughs.
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IFS-Informed EMDR
EMDR Therapy helps your brain process experiences or traumas that feel “stuck.” Difficult memories are reprocessed so they lose their intensity, helping to calm the nervous system and reduce emotional overwhelm. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model that views you as having different “parts” that each deserve understanding and care. IFS-informed EMDR helps bring those parts into greater harmony while addressing issues at their root cause.
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I-CBT
Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) is a structured, step-by-step approach to OCD treatment. It’s an exposure-free alternative to Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), focusing on the obsessional doubts at the core of OCD. I-CBT is designed to help you understand what’s happening in your mind and to ground yourself in reality. This can result in feeling steadier, more confident, and less pulled off course by intrusive thoughts and urges.
Pre-Intensive Intake Session
During a 90-minute online session, we’ll identify your goals and the experiences, beliefs, body sensations, or emotions you’re seeking relief from. Together, we’ll clarify what’s most important to address so that your intensive is focused, intentional, and personalized to your needs.
HOW IT WORKS
What does a Therapy Intensive include?
Personalized Treatment Workbook
You’ll receive a customized workbook filled with reflections, prompts, assessments, and curated resources to support you before, during, and after the intensive. Your workbook will deepen your insights and track your growth throughout the process.
Customized Intensive Sessions
Intensive sessions take place online or in-person over the course of 1-3 days. Each 3-hour day includes a custom plan with talk therapy, Brainspotting, IFS-Informed EMDR, or I-CBT. This incorporates resource building, targeted processing, and integration time.
Post-Intensive Support Session
During a 60-minute online session, we’ll debrief your experience, celebrate your breakthroughs, and continue integrating positive shifts. You’ll leave with clarity on how to continue your growth and support your healing moving forward.
Invest in yourself with an Intensive Therapy Package
1-Day
Investment of $2,475
7.5-hour program
5.5 face-to-face hours—
90-min pre-intensive intake
1-day 3-hour intensive therapy session
60-min post-intensive support session
Personalized treatment workbook, resources and assessments
2-Day
Investment of $3,465
10.5-hour program
8.5 face-to-face hours—
90-min pre-intensive intake
2-days of 3-hour intensive therapy sessions
60-min post-intensive support session
Personalized treatment workbook, resources and assessments
3-Day
Investment of $4,455
13.5-hour program
11.5 face-to-face hours—
90-min pre-intensive intake
3-days of 3-hour intensive therapy sessions
60-min post-intensive support session
Personalized treatment workbook, resources and assessments
Intensive therapy can help you with…
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Sleep more soundly
Quiet your mind and inner critic
Release physical tension and stress
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Get unstuck from emotional wounds
Feel calmer, clearer, and more grounded
Reconnect with your true core Self
Mentally prepare for major life events
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Accelerate your healing process
Fit therapy into your busy schedule
Save time and money
Performance enhancement and anxiety
Frequently asked questions about intensive therapy
FAQs
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Intensives allow you to work through symptoms, trauma, or stuck places much more efficiently than the weekly model. Instead of stopping just as you’re dropping in, the intensive format gives your brain and body the time they need to go deeper.
Intensives may reduce your total time in therapy because you’re not spending sessions…
Checking in or catching up
Managing weekly crises
Rebuilding stabilization before diving back in
Re-grounding yourself at the end of each short 45-min session
For many people, Intensives offer faster progress, deeper healing, and more focus—especially when weekly therapy isn’t possible or hasn’t provided the results you hoped for.
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Intensives are extended therapy sessions clustered over a short period of time. I offer a 1-day, 2-day or 3-day format with 3-hour sessions, scheduled within a week or month depending on your needs. This model provides the momentum and continuity needed for deeper healing.
Here’s what the process looks like—
1. Free Consultation
A complimentary 15-20 minute call to discuss what you’re hoping for and to determine if an Intensive is the right next step for you. At the end of the consultation, you may choose to book your Intensive by selecting an intake date and placing a 50% deposit.2. Pre-Intensive Intake (90 minutes, online)
We clarify your goals, assess readiness, identify life challenges and what’s getting in the way of where you want to be, and map out your Intensive schedule.3. Personalized Treatment Workbook
You’ll receive a personalized treatment workbook with assessments, prompts, reflections, and resources to support you before, during, and after your Intensive. You’ll send completed portions back to me so they can be woven into your treatment.4. Intensive Therapy Sessions (online or in-person)
Your Intensive includes one, two or three days of 3-hour sessions of Brainspotting, IFS-informed EMDR, and/or I-CBT. Each day includes grounding, resourcing, and targeted reprocessing. One or two short breaks are always included for your comfort.5. Post-Intensive Support Session (60 minutes, online)
We’ll reflect on your progress, integrate positive changes, and plan for future work. Some clients schedule periodic intensives; others return to regular ongoing therapy or book another intensive later in the year. -
Yes. Intensives often work beautifully alongside your ongoing therapy. Many clients come to Intensives because they’re experiencing a felt sense that something profound is trying to shift—but they’re not sure how to access that deeper movement within the weekly format. Maybe you now cognitively understand new things, yet your body is still confused, so you’re curious about how adjunct Brainspotting, IFS-Informed EMDR Therapy or I-CBT Intensives can help.
If you currently work with a therapist, you’re welcome (and encouraged) to sign a release so I can coordinate care. Having a supportive weekly therapist during or after your Intensive can help you integrate changes and continue growing with ongoing support.
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Many people come to Intensives when they can feel that something inside is ready to shift—but weekly therapy isn’t giving that deeper movement. You might understand things logically, yet your body or nervous system still feels unsettled or confused.
Intensives offer a focused space to create the change you’ve been craving, whether you’re working with a primary talk therapist or starting fresh. You may be a good fit for an intensive if…
Your schedule is hectic and weekly appointments feel more overwhelming than supportive
You need help now—and don’t want to wait months to feel relief
You’re a busy parent, working professional, college student, or athlete who needs efficient support
Traditional talk therapy has helped you understand things, but hasn’t shifted what you feel in your body
You’re a current weekly client needing deeper, focused support quickly
You prefer intensive work from the very beginning
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Intensives are always paced to your nervous system. If you need to slow down, take a break, or switch into supportive talk therapy, we absolutely will. You’re never pushed beyond what feels tolerable.
There’s also tremendous value in “processing the process” and integrating things verbally. While Brainspotting, EMDR and I-CBT are deep healing modalities, the therapeutic relationship and the skills we build together are just as important. You will always be met with warmth, collaboration, and respect for your moment-to-moment needs.
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Immediately following the Intensive therapy sessions, you may feel tired as you have engaged in some deep healing self-work. If possible, I recommend planning for some down-time to rest, relax, and integrate your progress following your Intensive sessions.
While everybody comes with their own unique history, strengths and challenges and everybody’s process will look different over time—most clients describe feeling a shift inside of them where they feel lighter, less burdened and more integrated. My clients are typically getting less triggered, better able to connect with theirselves and loved ones, and with a more positive outlook on their lives.
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EMDR and Brainspotting (BSP) are both change-based therapies that facilitate deep transformative brain-based healing with profound psychological, emotional, and physical benefits. EMDR Therapy is therapist-directed and structured with specific phases. BSP is flexible and client-led with a somatic focus. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation such as eye movements, tapping, or sounds to desensitize trauma symptoms. BSP uses the visual field to identify resource spots for coping and brainspots to work through trauma.
EMDR is like having a tour guide with a detailed map whereas BSP is compared to the client as the head of the comet and the therapist as the tail following along in support. You might prefer EMDR if you favor a structured approach and want to work on a single traumatic event or issue. You might prefer BSP if you favor a more flexible self-led approach, have multiple issues you want to work on, don’t have words or specific memories, and you want to work with your body sensations. I may recommend a combination of these two modalities to help achieve your goals.
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Investment
When you compare the cost of weekly therapy to the cost of an Intensive, the difference often comes down to time and momentum. In weekly therapy, it can take months to build enough continuity to reach the deeper layers of work—especially if you’re navigating trauma, chronic stress, or long-standing patterns. An Intensive condenses that same amount of therapeutic time into one carefully structured experience. Instead of pausing and restarting each week, you get uninterrupted support, focused processing, and a level of depth that’s hard to access in a traditional 45-minute format.
Many clients choose an Intensive because it allows them to make meaningful progress in days rather than months—saving them time, emotional energy, and, in some cases, the additional financial investment of long-term weekly care. The investment reflects the level of preparation, customized treatment planning, and dedicated support you receive, as well as the accelerated momentum this format can create.
Insurance
In many cases, yes, you can use your insurance out-of-network (OON) benefits. Most insurance companies reimburse a portion of OON psychotherapy services. I am considered an OON provider for most plans.
It’s best to contact your insurance directly to determine:
What your out-of-network benefits are for outpatient therapy
Whether they reimburse multiple hours of therapy in a single day or week
I provide a Superbill for all direct therapy services included in your Intensive. You are welcome to submit this to your insurance company for potential reimbursement. 50% payment is due out-of-pocket at booking and the remainder is due on day 1 of your Intensive. You are able to cancel up to two weeks prior to your Intensive for a full refund.