Therapy Intensives

What are Therapy Intensives?

You may be familiar with the traditional model of therapy, a weekly therapy appointment often lasting between 45 and 55 minutes, then moving to maintenance where you decrease sessions. Depending on both your history and the issues you bring into the therapy container, this timeframe may be too short to get the progress, processing, and reframing you desire to produce sustainable growth over the course of a couple of months. Therapy intensives give you longer access to your psychotherapist, greater processing and co-regulation times, and a deeper, condensed container to move through conflict, trauma, and issues. They are unique, goal driven containers to work, where success, like all modes of therapy, depends heavily on what you bring to session, how you approach things outside of session inclusive of skills learned and awareness experienced, and your individual readiness.

Who are intensives for?

·       Intensives may be a good fit if you feel that 45–55-minute sessions are not enough time for you to approach underlying issues and work towards resolve.

·       Intensives may be ideal for individuals with extensive trauma or wanting a deeper and shortened therapeutic experience (in terms of weeks of therapy attended).

·       Intensives may be for you as a couple if your relationship is experiencing growth pains resulting from a change, being new to therapy as a couple, or if things have reached the point where it feels unbearable to approach connection and withdrawal and avoidance have become your primary actions in the relationship.

·       Intensives can be productive for couples, families, and parents who have conflict and issues that would benefit from a longer period of time to process, address, and connect with a licensed professional to guide conflict resolution, connection, awareness, and approach shifting perspectives within relationships. 

·       Intensives can be beneficial for neurodivergent and sensitive individuals due to the extended therapeutic container and additional processing, regulation, and integrated time for varying therapeutic modalities that are aligned with each person's preference and needs.

·       Intensives can also be a space to discuss and explore new diagnoses and understand yourself following such, inclusive of how you interact with others and how family members can support you in how your brain works.

What are some of the benefits of an intensive?

·       Intensives allow for greater immersion into the therapeutic experience which can lend to improved understanding of self, as well as partners or family members, if they are a part of the process.

·       With the additional time and focused, more intense concentration, the attention on specific concerns can produce greater progress when in alignment with action outside of session.

·       Scheduling in blocks of time, typically 2-hour sessions for 8 weeks at a time, can allow for greater flexibility, reduced travel time, and often, more convenience in terms of sustained efforts towards specifically outlined goals.

·       The package rates associated with Intensives cost less than per session therapy as a way to help you reduce stressors associated with resource allocation.