When you’ve been living with trauma, progress can feel painfully slow. Weekly therapy can help—but sometimes it also feels like just enough support to keep going, not enough to truly move through what’s holding you back.

Trauma intensives offer a different path.

An intensive is a longer, more immersive therapy experience designed to help you process trauma more efficiently, gently, and intentionally without the stop and start rhythm of traditional weekly sessions.

What Is a Trauma Intensive?

A trauma intensive is a 4 hour therapy session that allows us to work deeply and continuously using evidence-based trauma modalities such as EMDR or Brainspotting.  This intensive can be done in person or virtually.

Instead of spending weeks building momentum, pausing, and re-orienting each session, intensives create the space for your nervous system to settle, engage, process, and integrate, all in one contained experience.

These sessions are carefully structured and paced to prioritize:

  • Safety

  • Choice

  • Nervous system regulation

  • Integration and grounding

This is not about pushing you faster than you’re ready.
It’s about giving you the time and support you need to do the work you want to do.

Why Consider a Trauma Intensive?

Many clients seek intensives when they:

  • Feel “stuck” despite months or years of therapy

  • Have specific traumatic events they want to work through

  • Are overwhelmed by how long healing seems to take

  • Can’t commit to long-term weekly therapy right now

  • Want meaningful progress in a shorter timeframe

  • Want to do their trauma work with a skilled provider that doesn’t have weekly availability

Trauma often lives beneath thoughts and words. Modalities like EMDR and Brainspotting work directly with the brain and nervous system—allowing healing to happen without having to relive or retell every detail.

With extended time, we can:

  • Go deeper without rushing

  • Follow your system’s natural rhythm

  • Stay with processing until it naturally resolves

  • Allow insights, emotional shifts, and relief to emerge more fully

 

What a 4-Hour Intensive Looks Like

Each intensive is individualized, but generally includes:

  • Preparation and resourcing

  • Trauma processing using EMDR or Brainspotting

  • Breaks as needed (you’re always in control)

  • Integration, grounding, and aftercare planning

You will never be pushed beyond your window of tolerance. We move at the pace your nervous system allows.  Each intensive is different but, as a reference point, we generally spend the first hour doing a history taking specific to the modality being used, then we do 2.5 hours of processing and save a half hour at the end for integration and resourcing.

Cost and open dates

The cost for a 4 hour intensive is $1000.  There is a $500 deposit due to book the date and the remaining $500 is due at the beginning of the intensive.

I book intensives over the next three months to avoid anyone having to wait longer than that for help.  Current intensives dates that are open through April 2026 are as follows:

Sunday March 8th 9am-1pm

Saturday March 28th 9am-1pm

Sunday April 26th 9am-1pm

Ready to Learn More?

If you’re curious about whether a trauma intensive could be a good fit, I invite you to reach out for a free consultation. We’ll talk through your goals, your history, and what kind of support would feel safest and most helpful for you without any pressure.  I schedule intensives on weekends currently.