Intensives

If you've been in weekly therapy for months (or years) and still feel stuck — yes. An intensive gives you the focused, uninterrupted time your nervous system actually needs to process and heal. Instead of touching something painful for 50 minutes and then packing it back up until next week, you stay with it long enough to move through it. Many of my clients start experiencing a shift within the first few hours. You're not spending more time in therapy — you're using your time in a way that actually works.

An intensive condenses what would typically take months of weekly sessions into focused, full-day sessions — usually one to five days. In my practice, a standard processing day runs from 9am to 3pm, with an hour for lunch and breaks built in throughout. We use that concentrated time to go deeper than a 50-minute session ever allows. It's not about turning up the emotional intensity — it's about giving the healing process the space it actually needs to complete.

The biggest difference is momentum. In weekly therapy, you finally touch something vulnerable — and then time's up. You pack those emotions away, get through your week, and try to pick it back up seven days later. An intensive eliminates that stop-start cycle. You stay with the work long enough to actually move through it, which is why so many of my clients experience more progress in a few days than they did in months of traditional sessions.

It depends on your goals. A targeted intensive is a single 3-hour session focused on one specific issue — like a single-incident trauma or a specific time period that was stressful. A comprehensive intensive runs one to five full days (9am–3pm each day) and is designed to tackle every significant category of unresolved pain at the root. During your free consultation, I'll provide an estimated number of days based on what you want to accomplish.

You arrive at my office in Lone Tree, Colorado. We spend the morning clarifying your key goals, resources, and limiting beliefs — then we map the target memories underneath. From there, we do three 90-minute processing sessions using EMDR, IFS, and Somatic Experiencing, with as many breaks as you want in between. The last 30 minutes are devoted to helping you calm, regulate, and plan for the next day. After your final day, I provide a comprehensive treatment summary covering everything we worked on, what was completed, and any remaining areas of focus.

Intensives are effective for both single-incident experiences — like a car accident, assault, or bad breakup — and complex, developmental trauma that spans years, like growing up with a parent who had undiagnosed mental health or substance use issues. They're also powerful for the things that don't always get labeled as "trauma" but still run your life: limiting beliefs like "I'm not good enough," imposter syndrome, burnout, chronic self-doubt, and panic that seems to come out of nowhere. If it's stuck and it's causing you pain, an intensive can help.

Despite the name, an intensive isn't about pushing harder. It's about giving the process enough time and space to actually complete. In weekly therapy, you often leave feeling activated because the work got cut short at 50 minutes. In an intensive, we have the time to move through the distressing material and bring your system back to a regulated, calm state before you leave. Most clients describe the experience as deeply relieving — not overwhelming.

I work primarily with driven, high-achieving women who are tired of spinning their wheels in weekly therapy and ready to get to the root of what's holding them back. Many of my clients are executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders who don't have time to stretch their healing over years of weekly appointments. If your default is "just try harder" and it's stopped working, an intensive was built for someone like you.

I provide a comprehensive summary that contains the targets we worked on, what processing was completed, identification of any major parts work we did, and any remaining topics of concern. I send this treatment summary to you and any additional therapists or providers you wish. If I'm collaborating with your individual or couples therapist, I'll coordinate a debriefing call with them to connect your intensive experience to your ongoing therapy goals. You don't just walk out the door — you leave with a clear picture of the work we did and what comes next.

That's exactly what the free 45-minute consultation is for. I'll ask about your goals, your history, and what you're hoping to get out of the experience — and I'll give you an honest assessment of whether an intensive is the right fit for your nervous system right now. If it is, I'll offer you my first available opening so you can get started. No pressure, no obligation — just a straightforward conversation about whether this is your next move.