A Therapy Intensive is a focused, accelerated way of doing deep therapeutic work, designed for people who want to invest in themselves more intentionally and make meaningful shifts in a shorter period of time. Rather than meeting for 53 minutes once a week, an intensive invites you to set aside a full day or weekend to go inward, with support.

This approach allows us to work at a depth that weekly sessions don’t always make possible, while still remaining attuned, relational, and nervous-system informed. For many people, Therapy Intensives support post-traumatic growth by creating enough continuity and spaciousness for real integration and completion to occur without the stop-start rhythm of weekly therapy.

Many clients describe a Therapy Intensive as feeling similar to a retreat. You might take time off work, arrange childcare, unplug from daily responsibilities, or even stay in a hotel nearby. For that dedicated period, the focus is entirely on you - your healing, your reflection, regulation, resolution, and reconnection with yourself.

There’s no requirement to commit to ongoing weekly sessions. Instead, a Therapy Intensive offers a contained, intentional container for deep work, followed by integration and post-intensive follow-up.

Therapy Intensives are perfect for people that are ready for relief now. If you’re ready to see things change in your life and your relationships but you don’t want to wait for that to happen next year - a Therapy Intensive may be right for you. If you have a specific topic, trauma, or stressor that you want support with, this can be the focus of your Therapy Intensive. The dedicated time will be customized specifically to you and your goals.

If you’ve lived through complex or long-standing trauma, or you’re navigating chronic pain, medical conditions, or functional neurological symptoms, you may notice that your body reacts even if your mind knows you’re safe.

Triggers and activation can show up as sudden emotional shifts, physical sensations, pain flares, shutdown, dissociation, a sense of being on edge, or becoming overwhelmed. A Therapy Intensive can offer a focused and supportive way to work and resolve these patterns from their roots.

The extended structure of an intensive allows us to slow down and track what’s happening in your nervous system in real time, rather than repeatedly containing reactions until the next session. Without the stop-and-start rhythm of weekly therapy, we can stay with somatic experience long enough for regulation, completion, and integration to occur. This creates space to work with reactivity and triggers in a way that feels both safe and effective.

Many people experience a Therapy Intensive as a contained, retreat-like environment where daily demands are set aside and the focus is fully on healing. This isn’t just about efficiency, it’s about creating the conditions for meaningful, lasting change in how your body responds, how you experience yourself, and how you move through the world.

Therapy Intensives are often more effective and more efficient than traditional 53-minute therapy sessions. In a standard session, time is naturally spent orienting at the beginning, checking in, settling the nervous system, tracking what’s changed since last week, and then closing out toward the end to ensure regulation and containment. This typically leaves about 30–40 minutes for deeper therapeutic work.

Therapy Intensives are structured differently. Because we are working in a longer, continuous block of time, there is far less need to repeatedly orient and re-orient. A 4-hour Therapy Intensive allows for approximately 3.5 hours of sustained depth work, with adequate pacing, breaks, and integration built in.

For many clients, this is equivalent to roughly a month of weekly therapy, accomplished in a single, intentional day. The work can unfold more organically, patterns become clearer more quickly, and there is enough spaciousness to move through activation and into integration, rather than stopping just as things begin to shift.

This depends on your goals for the Therapy Intensive. Some goals can be reached in a Half Day Intensive (4 hours), but other goals are more complex and may require a 3 Day Intensive. I can help you determine the number of days that would work best for your therapy goals.

I currently offer four Therapy Intensive packages. More information below.

1. Half Day

2. Full Day

3. Two Days

4. Three Days

Absolutely! Therapy Intensives work very well as an adjunct therapy. I would ask that you sign a Release of Information so that your current therapist and I can collaborate/coordinate to best serve you.

No. Therapy Intensives are not covered by insurance and are cash pay only. If you have a HSA, you may be able to use your HSA funds to contribute to the cost of your Intensive.

A 50% non-refundable deposit is due at the time you book your Therapy Intensive. The remaining 50% is due on the first day of the Intensive.

The 50% deposit and full fee is due if cancelled within 96 hours of the first day of the Intensive.

The 50% deposit and a $600 cancelation fee is due if cancelled between 2 weeks and 96 hours before the of the first day of the Intensive.

In-person at my office in Detroit or online throughout Michigan. Integrative Therapy Intensive sessions are similar to going on a personal retreat. It’s best to allow time outside of sessions to be unscheduled or filled only with self-care activities like body work (acupuncture, massage, sauna), movement, and creative expression (drawing, painting, cooking). For those traveling to Detroit, I will to share a list of nearby offerings to help you make the most of your time outside of session.

The Intensive is integrative psychotherapy, which means blending various methods, theories, and techniques tailored to each individual’s needs, aiming to address specific issues and effectively alleviate distress and access regulation and the felt-sense of safety. Some of the therapies we may integrate are: Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART); Critical Memory Integration (CMI); Somatic Experiencing (SE); Integrative Polyvagal Theory; The Flash Technique; Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP); Structural Dissociation Model; Internal Family Systems & parts work (IFS); Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB); Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)/Tapping; Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT); Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST); Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Therapy.

Let’s schedule a time to talk! I’m happy to answer any questions and explore your unique situation to see if a Therapy Intensive may be helpful for you. I offer a free 20 minute consultation call.