Intensive Therapy

Perhaps you’re a client of mine looking to deepen your work and make progress more quickly, maybe you’re already working with a trusted provider and you just need an extra boost of trauma work; maybe you’re just dipping your toe into healing and you’d like to get a head start on reducing your symptoms. Whatever your goals may be, I’d love to talk with you about intensive therapy.

Intensive therapy is just what it sounds like—it’s 3 days of deep work—it can be intense! It can also be incredibly rewarding and healing. Intensive work is some of my favorite work because we can get so much done in a short period of time and you can reap the benefits of the work much more quickly.

Overall Structure of Treatment

This 3 day experience can take a few different forms:

3 weeks in a row—If you’re local to Los Angeles and can come to the Santa Monica office more easily, I would suggest we meet 3 consecutive Saturdays for 5 hours each day (with many breaks throughout the day).

3 days in a row—if you’re traveling to Los Angeles for intensive therapy, this would be the structure that makes more sense. We would meet Saturday, Sunday and Monday for 5 hours each day (with many breaks throughout the day).

We can discuss other structures if neither of these work for you!

While I offer many embodied trauma healing modalities like Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, EMDR and parts work, and I find them all to be healing, I defer to you to decide what combination of modalities you’d like to focus on. I will provide info about all of them upfront and you can make your choice. Also if we’ve already started intensive therapy together and we’re doing something you decide in that moment you’re not interested in continuing, you can always veto at any point.

Your “no” is important to me. I can’t fully believe your “yes” until I’ve witnessed and experienced your “no.”

Agenda for each day

Each day can look like a mix of all the healing modalities I value so much. It’s 6.5 hours all together, but you pay for only the 5 hours of therapeutic work.

A typical first day of intensive treatment might look as follows:

10:00am-10:45am—History taking and identifying goals for our work together

10:45am-11:00am—Break

11:00am-11:45am—Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga

11:45am-12:30pm—Identifying boundaries exercise, practice embodying boundaries

12:30pm-1:30pm—Lunch Break

1:30pm-2:30pm—Parts mapping: getting to know your parts

2:30pm-2:45pm—Break

2:45pm-4:30pm—EMDR preparation and resourcing

  • Intensive work can be a great way to experience progress more quickly in your healing journey. We can dive deeper into EMDR and clear out challenging memories more quickly, you may build trust in your body more effectively and you may learn to connect more securely with the parts in your system.

  • Intensive work is intense! It can be very hard to spend 5 hours a day doing this deeper work. It’s a lot of time to be present in your body and with your emotions.

    Before we start this journey together, I always make sure this type of work makes sense for each client. I do not want to overwhelm your nervous system and set you up for distress. If it does make sense and we decide to move forward with doing intensive therapy, I am sure to incorporate lots of grounding and lighter experiences throughout the intensive work to make sure you’re able to stay present and grounded as much as possible.

  • At my office in Santa Monica, CA! I will send you the precise office location when you sign on. We can also do this work virtually if that’s the only feasible option.

  • Unfortunately, insurance companies are not yet willing to cover this type of work in an individual setting in network; however, we can try to submit a superbill and see if your insurance company will cover anything out of network. There are intensive outpatient programs or partial hospitalization programs that will offer group-based work that is covered by insurance.

  • For all 3 days of intensive therapy, the cost is $3500. If we take a different structure than the 3 day model, the cost will look different.