When You're Ready to Go Deeper

A couple in an intensive counseling session with a therapist

Traditional therapy meets for 50 minutes once a week. For many people, that rhythm is exactly right. But for others — especially those navigating deep trauma, relational crisis, or persistent patterns that haven't shifted — weekly sessions can feel too slow, too fragmented, or simply not enough.

An intensive is a longer, focused block of therapeutic time — typically a half day, full day, multi-day or series of concentrated sessions — designed to help you go further, faster. Built around a customized agenda and drawn from proven therapeutic frameworks, intensives give you the depth and continuity that a standard session simply cannot provide.

Intensives are available for both individuals and couples, and are tailored to meet your specific goals, history, and pace. Many clients find that a single intensive produces breakthroughs that would have taken months of weekly sessions to reach.

How Intensives Work

Intensives are structured, purposeful, and designed around you. Here's what the process looks like.

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Initial Consultation

We begin with a thorough consultation to understand your goals, history, and what you hope to achieve — ensuring your intensive is built around your unique needs.

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Customized Agenda

Your therapist develops a personalized agenda drawn from proven frameworks, structured to guide you through your most important work efficiently and effectively.

Extended Sessions

Intensives are typically half-day, full-day, or multi-day sessions, giving you uninterrupted time and space to go deeper than a standard weekly session allows.

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Integration & Follow-Up

After your intensive, we provide guidance on how to integrate your insights into daily life and discuss next steps for continued growth and support.

Intensives for Individuals & Couples

Individual Intensives are ideal for those working through trauma or addiction recovery. Intensives are tailored to meet your specific needs and allow for deep work and profound healing to be expeditiously completed. If you are ready to heal with focused attention, an individual intensive may be exactly what you need.

Couples Intensives are designed for partners who want to repair trust, rebuild intimacy, or invest significantly in their relationship — especially when busy schedules make weekly sessions difficult to sustain, or when a relational crisis calls for immediate, immersive care. Spending extended blocks of time together in the therapeutic space produces the kind of momentum and breakthroughs that weekly sessions rarely achieve at the same pace.

Healing Our Core Issues Intensives (HOCI) are developed from the HOCI model. This attachment-based and trauma-focused intensive is ideal for a group experience with up to 3 individuals participating at a time. This intensive is also ideal for couples going through this specific healing journey in tandem and can lead to deeper knowing and understanding of one another and build closeness and increase intimacy within the marriage. The HOCI model is a developmental and relational trauma framework created by Jan Bergstrom and Dr. Rick Butts, expanded — with her blessing — from Pia Mellody's renowned Post Induction Therapy model. It integrates core issues work, attachment theory, mindfulness, and body-based neurobiology to help restore balance in five core areas of emotional development: self-esteem, boundaries, reality, dependency, and moderation. Because it addresses the root childhood wounds that drive adult patterns — rather than just managing symptoms — HOCI creates deep, lasting change in how you relate to yourself and others.

Contact us to discuss whether an intensive is the right fit for where you are right now.

The Benefits of an Intensive Format

Intensive therapy isn't just faster — it's a fundamentally different and powerful way to heal.

Accelerated Progress

Accomplish in one or two days what might take months in weekly therapy, with sustained focus and momentum throughout.

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Deep, Uninterrupted Work

No start-stop rhythm between sessions. You stay in the therapeutic space long enough to process at a truly meaningful depth.

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Ideal for Busy Schedules

Rather than carving out weekly appointments, intensives let you block focused time and get significant work done in a single commitment.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

Contact us to learn more about intensives and find out if this format is the right fit for where you are in your journey.