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 multiple hours at a time 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.
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—whichever modalities we use are entirely up to you. An intensive day can range from 2-4 hours in length.
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—Parts mapping: getting to know your parts
12:30pm-1:30pm—Lunch Break
1:30pm-2:30pm—EMDR preparation and resourcing
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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.
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Intensive work is intense! It can be very hard to spend multiple 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.
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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.
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It depends! Some insurance companies are willing to cover some of this work out of network. It would be worth a call to your insurance company to see what they’re willing to cover.
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I charge $250/hour for intensive work—this does not include any lunch breaks we might take.