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An intensive is an extended, concentrated therapy session that includes several hours of focused therapy for one or more days instead of spreading sessions across weeks or months.
An intensive is an extended, concentrated therapy session that includes several hours of focused therapy for one or more days instead of spreading sessions across weeks or months.
Sessions typically last 3 to 6 hours per day and span a single day, a few consecutive days, or several day long sessions spread across a few weeks. Instead of reviewing recent weekly events, treatment targets one specific goal, core issue, or trauma. The continuous format avoids weekly interruptions, helping clients achieve deeper focus and faster breakthroughs.
Sessions typically last 3 to 6 hours per day and span a single day, a few consecutive days, or several day long sessions spread across a few weeks. Instead of reviewing recent weekly events, treatment targets one specific goal, core issue, or trauma. The continuous format avoids weekly interruptions, helping clients achieve deeper focus and faster breakthroughs.
Therapy intensives offer the rare opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday life and create intentional space for your healing and well-being. Whether you’re moving through a season of change, tending to old wounds, navigating grief or loss, or seeking support around something happening in your life right now, an intensive gives us the time and spaciousness to slow down, go deeper, and focus on what matters most. Together, we’ll shape the experience around your unique needs, goals, and timeline—creating a thoughtful, personalized container for meaningful movement and change.
Therapy intensives offer the rare opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday life and create intentional space for your healing and well-being. Whether you’re moving through a season of change, tending to old wounds, navigating grief or loss, or seeking support around something happening in your life right now, an intensive gives us the time and spaciousness to slow down, go deeper, and focus on what matters most. Together, we’ll shape the experience around your unique needs, goals, and timeline—creating a thoughtful, personalized container for meaningful movement and change.
Nature Based Intensives
Nature Based Intensives
Nature-based intensives invite you to step outside the ordinary rhythms of daily life and into a deeper, more intentional therapeutic experience. Together, we can focus on a particular body of work—such as grief ritual and ceremony, rites of passage, trauma healing, attachment, or navigating a significant life transition—while drawing on the natural world as an active resource in the healing process. Through guided time outdoors, reflective practices, movement, ritual, somatic exploration, and therapeutic conversation, nature becomes more than a setting; it becomes a partner in the work. These intensives offer space to slow down, listen inward, mark meaningful transitions, and reconnect with the parts of yourself that may be asking for attention, integration, or renewal.
EMDR Intensives
EMDR Intensives
EMDR intensives offer dedicated time and space to focus more deeply on experiences, patterns, or wounds that you’re ready to work through. Rather than spreading the work across weekly sessions, an intensive creates a concentrated therapeutic container that can allow for deeper processing and integration. Intensives can be tailored around specific goals, whether you’re working through a particular traumatic experience, addressing longstanding patterns, or seeking to move through something that feels stuck. EMDR intensives may take place in the comfort and privacy of the office or outdoors, where the natural environment can provide additional opportunities for grounding, movement, regulation, and integration. Together, we’ll thoughtfully pace the work according to your nervous system, needs, and capacity, creating space for meaningful healing and change.
FAQs
FAQs
What does a typical day in an Intensive look like?
What does a typical day in an Intensive look like?
Typically, sessions will begin around 9 am, with a lunch break around noon and ending around 4 pm, though that schedule is entirely flexible to accommodate the work being pursued. Depending on the nature of the processing, breaks will be taken as needed. The amount of time we will be working each day will fluctuate depending entirely on the work we are doing. The nice part about Intensives is the flexibility afforded to tailor fit the work to what your system needs at the time. A one-hour lunch break (sometimes longer if needed) will be taken each day.
Typically, sessions will begin around 9 am, with a lunch break around noon and ending around 4 pm, though that schedule is entirely flexible to accommodate the work being pursued. Depending on the nature of the processing, breaks will be taken as needed. The amount of time we will be working each day will fluctuate depending entirely on the work we are doing. The nice part about Intensives is the flexibility afforded to tailor fit the work to what your system needs at the time. A one-hour lunch break (sometimes longer if needed) will be taken each day.
How much will it cost?
How much will it cost?
When I reserve time for your Intensive, I will be reserving that entire day for working with you. I charge a daily rate of $950/day. The half day rate is $500. A 50% deposit will be required to confirm your Intensive reservation, and the remaining 50% will be paid on the last day of the Intensive. Cash, Check, or Bank Transfer are accepted
When I reserve time for your Intensive, I will be reserving that entire day for working with you. I charge a daily rate of $950/day. The half day rate is $500. A 50% deposit will be required to confirm your Intensive reservation, and the remaining 50% will be paid on the last day of the Intensive. Cash, Check, or Bank Transfer are accepted
What if I need to cancel?
What if I need to cancel?
If something comes up and you are unable to attend your Intensive, please contact me as soon as possible to discuss rescheduling. Rescheduling will not affect your deposit or payment, however a rescheduling fee of $100 will apply if less than one week notice is given. If you need to cancel your Intensive entirely, any deposit money already paid will be returned minus a $100 scheduling fee if the cancellation is made more than 30 days before your scheduled Intensive. Deposits are fully non-refundable if the cancellation is made within 30 days of the scheduled Intensive.
If something comes up and you are unable to attend your Intensive, please contact me as soon as possible to discuss rescheduling. Rescheduling will not affect your deposit or payment, however a rescheduling fee of $100 will apply if less than one week notice is given. If you need to cancel your Intensive entirely, any deposit money already paid will be returned minus a $100 scheduling fee if the cancellation is made more than 30 days before your scheduled Intensive. Deposits are fully non-refundable if the cancellation is made within 30 days of the scheduled Intensive.
How much time do I need to schedule?
How much time do I need to schedule?
That is the magic question and the answer is: it depends. During your intake consultation, we will discuss what you would like to work on and the goals you would like to achieve through the Intensive. At that time you and I will make a determination regarding how much time will be needed. I may ask you to submit a brief written history to me ahead of time in order to most effectively utilize our consultation time on the phone.
That is the magic question and the answer is: it depends. During your intake consultation, we will discuss what you would like to work on and the goals you would like to achieve through the Intensive. At that time you and I will make a determination regarding how much time will be needed. I may ask you to submit a brief written history to me ahead of time in order to most effectively utilize our consultation time on the phone.
How do I prepare for an intensive?
How do I prepare for an intensive?
I suggest treating the days surrounding intensive sessions like a personal retreat. This is a time for you to really focus on healing. Schedule activities you enjoy around your sessions such as massages, yoga, and hiking.
I suggest treating the days surrounding intensive sessions like a personal retreat. This is a time for you to really focus on healing. Schedule activities you enjoy around your sessions such as massages, yoga, and hiking.
Where do Intensives take place?
Where do Intensives take place?
Intensives take place in Tamworth New Hampshire, either in the office or out on the land in nature.
Intensives take place in Tamworth New Hampshire, either in the office or out on the land in nature.
Considerations
Considerations
An Investment In Your Future
An Investment In Your Future
Intensive therapy is a financial investment in you and your future. Rather than being on the weekly payment plan of traditional therapy treatment, you will be investing a larger amount of money up front (that in the long run will likely still be less money than ongoing weekly therapy). Many people have to plan ahead and save before they can schedule an Intensive. Once the Intensive is scheduled though, you will have a fixed cost to work with rather than the unknown of ongoing weekly therapy.
Intensive therapy is a financial investment in you and your future. Rather than being on the weekly payment plan of traditional therapy treatment, you will be investing a larger amount of money up front (that in the long run will likely still be less money than ongoing weekly therapy). Many people have to plan ahead and save before they can schedule an Intensive. Once the Intensive is scheduled though, you will have a fixed cost to work with rather than the unknown of ongoing weekly therapy.
Change Has Impact
Change Has Impact
When clients make fast but highly effective changes in how they feel, that can often impact (both positively as well as negatively) the family system or close relationships that the client plays a role in. Sometimes other parts of the system don’t handle the healing very well. These issues and concerns will be addressed both on intake as well as at the wrap up of the Intensive. While Intensive work is amazingly healing, it can also be system disrupting which can take time, integration and adjustment.
When clients make fast but highly effective changes in how they feel, that can often impact (both positively as well as negatively) the family system or close relationships that the client plays a role in. Sometimes other parts of the system don’t handle the healing very well. These issues and concerns will be addressed both on intake as well as at the wrap up of the Intensive. While Intensive work is amazingly healing, it can also be system disrupting which can take time, integration and adjustment.
After Your Intensive
After Your Intensive
Many clients can complete an Intensive and then return to their lives ready to move forward. Some clients will benefit from having a working relationship with a therapist who can help them deal with things if they are only working on certain aspects of their treatment in the Intensive (pre-verbal trauma work for example). Some clients will need to schedule several intensives to fully process and heal their stories and in these cases a weekly therapist to help manage things between Intensives may be recommended or required. This will be thoroughly assessed and discussed in the intake telephone call.
Many clients can complete an Intensive and then return to their lives ready to move forward. Some clients will benefit from having a working relationship with a therapist who can help them deal with things if they are only working on certain aspects of their treatment in the Intensive (pre-verbal trauma work for example). Some clients will need to schedule several intensives to fully process and heal their stories and in these cases a weekly therapist to help manage things between Intensives may be recommended or required. This will be thoroughly assessed and discussed in the intake telephone call.
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