A Focused, Intensive Approach to Healing

For some clients, I recommend approaching therapy as a short-term, focused, and intentional process, rather than open-ended weekly sessions. I recommend clients who are currently in therapy doing CBT or DBT, and are feeling stuck, consider a time limited season, focused on trauma reprocessing work, aimed at creating meaningful movement and lasting change in a relatively brief window of time.

The Rhythm of Our Work

I recommend we follow a clear and predictable rhythm, alternating between a one hour session and a three hour session:

  • One week: a 60-minute individual session
  • The following week: a 3-hour intensive session
  • These sessions alternate throughout our work together

This structure allows us to prepare well, go deep, and integrate thoroughly, rather than rushing or fragmenting the healing process.

What Happens in Individual Sessions

In our 60-minute sessions, we focus on preparation and integration. Together, we:

  • Practice awareness and resourcing skills
  • Review homework and insights from the previous intensive
  • Reflect on patterns that are emerging
  • Prepare for the next intensive session

These sessions help ensure that you feel grounded, supported, and ready for deeper trauma work.

What Happens in Intensive Sessions

The 3-hour intensive sessions are where we focus primarily on trauma reprocessing work, including EMDR and parts-based (IFS-informed) approaches.

Working in longer blocks of time allows us to:

  • Stay regulated and connected
  • Follow the work where it naturally leads
  • Make substantial progress without feeling rushed

I have found this format to be more effective than trying to do trauma work in short, weekly increments.

Between Sessions: Ongoing Support

Between sessions, you’ll continue your work through the (upcoming) Therapy Assistant portal, where you’ll:

  • Journal reflections and insights
  • Complete structured homework exercises
  • Track progress and patterns over time

This will help keep the work alive and integrated between sessions, rather than limited to the therapy hour.

A Small, Intentional Caseload

I plan to keep my practice small — which will allow me to offer:

  • Focused attention
  • Thoughtful preparation
  • A high level of presence and care

Clients will work with me for three to six months, with a clear beginning, middle, and end to the process.

What Clients Work Toward

Our work together is designed to help you develop skills and clarity that last well beyond therapy. Clients will leave this process with:

Greater Awareness

  • Living a more grounded, self-aware life
  • Understanding your internal patterns rather than being driven by them

Strong Resourcing Skills

  • Learning how to regulate your nervous system
  • Using resourcing as a lifelong skill, not just a coping tool

Confidence in Parts-Based (IFS-Informed) Work

  • Identifying key protector or survival parts
  • Helping those parts soften and release control
  • Identifying core exiles that carry shame, fear, or pain
  • Supporting those exiles in being seen, protected, and no longer exiled

Deep Trauma Reprocessing

  • Becoming skilled in trauma reprocessing work
  • Doing substantial EMDR work in a contained, supported way

Peace with Your Story

  • Coming to understand your story with clarity and compassion
  • Moving toward a sense of peace, coherence, and integration
  • No longer feeling controlled by the past

The Cost

This therapy format will be billed at $120 per hour and will not be covered by insurance.

The Goal

The overall goal of this work is simple and meaningful:

To move you significantly down the road toward healing, wholeness, and freedom — not just insight, but real change.

 

Disclosure: Drafted with assistance from ChatGPT from my original reflections; final edits are mine.