Therapy Intensives in CA & AZ
Dedicated time and space to bring your inner experience and the life you're living into greater alignment.
What Is a Therapy Intensive?
A therapy intensive is an extended, personalized session that offers more time to explore what may feel difficult to fully access in weekly therapy.
Therapy intensives aren't a replacement for weekly therapy or a "better" way to do therapy. They're simply a different format that offers extended, uninterrupted time for focused therapeutic work when it feels like the right fit.
Whether you're navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, relationship patterns, a life transition, or a specific experience you'd like to focus on, an intensive allows us slow down, stay with what's emerging, and move at a depth that supports meaningful insight, nervous system regulation, and lasting integration.
When a Therapy Intensive May Be the Right Fit
Sometimes weekly therapy is exactly what's needed. Other times, having more uninterrupted time can create space to stay with what is emerging without feeling like you have to pause just as something important begins to unfold.
A therapy intensive may be a good fit if:
You're feeling stuck in familiar patterns.
You find yourself returning to the same anxiety, self-doubt, relationship dynamics, or emotional overwhelm despite understanding where they come from and wanting something to shift.
You're moving through a significant life transition.
Whether you're navigating a career change, relationship changes, parenthood, grief, or another major transition, an intensive can provide dedicated time to process your experience with intention and support.
You've done therapy before but want more focused time.
You may already have insight into your patterns and still find yourself wanting more uninterrupted space to explore what's beneath them than weekly therapy can sometimes provide.
You want support around a specific experience or decision.
Perhaps you're preparing for an important conversation, processing a difficult event, or facing a decision that feels emotionally significant. A therapy intensive allows us to slow down and thoughtfully work through what's coming up.
Your schedule makes weekly therapy difficult.
If you travel frequently, live outside my local area, or simply find it challenging to attend regular weekly sessions, a therapy intensive offers another way to engage in meaningful therapeutic work.
You're longing for space that's devoted entirely to you.
Life often asks us to move quickly from one responsibility to the next. An intensive creates intentional space to step out of the demands of daily life, reconnect with yourself, and give your inner experience the attention it deserves.
Areas of support
What We Can Focus On During a Therapy Intensive
Every therapy intensive is personalized to your unique goals, experiences, and needs. While no two intensives look exactly alike, they can provide dedicated space to explore concerns such as:
WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE PATTERN BUT STILL FEEL STUCK
You may already know why you respond the way you do, yet find yourself returning to the same reactions, choices, or ways of relating. An intensive gives us more space to stay with the pattern as it unfolds and explore what may be harder to reach through insight alone.
PEOPLE-PLEASING & OVER-RESPONSIBILITY
We can explore what happens when you feel responsible for keeping things okay, meeting other people’s needs, or preventing disappointment, while becoming curious about the adaptations that have made these patterns feel necessary.
SELF-PRESSURE, PERFECTIONISM & BURNOUT
If slowing down feels uncomfortable or your sense of worth has become closely tied to what you accomplish, we can explore the pressure you carry and what makes it difficult to step outside of familiar cycles of striving and overdoing.
A DECISION OR TRANSITION THAT FEELS HARD TO NAVIGATE
An intensive can offer dedicated space for a decision, transition, or period of uncertainty that has been taking up a lot of mental and emotional space, especially when competing needs, expectations, or fears make it difficult to know what feels right for you.
RELATIONSHIP PATTERNS THAT KEEP REPEATING
We can spend more time exploring patterns that emerge around closeness, boundaries, conflict, caregiving, or fear of disappointing others, including how earlier relationships may continue to shape what happens in your relationships now.
FEELING DISCONNECTED FROM YOURSELF
Sometimes the issue is harder to name. You may feel numb, disconnected, unsure what you want or need, or as though you’ve spent so much time responding to everything around you that you've lost touch with yourself. An intensive can give us room to slow down and become more curious about that experience.
An Approach Tailored to You
Therapy intensives give us more time to stay with what’s unfolding rather than having to pause just as something begins to take shape. Depending on what brings you in, our work may include conversation, reflection, attention to what your body and nervous system are carrying, or slowing down enough to notice patterns that can be harder to recognize when you’re moving quickly through daily life.
Drawing from Somatic Experiencing®, NARM, psychodynamic, and relational therapy, I pay attention to both what you understand about yourself and what happens internally as we explore it together. We may become curious about how earlier experiences and relationships have shaped the ways you protect yourself, relate to others, manage responsibility, or respond when something feels uncertain, vulnerable, or outside of your control.
Somatic work gives us another way to explore what may be difficult to reach through insight alone. Rather than only talking about a familiar pattern, we can become curious about how it takes shape in the moment and what begins to shift when there is space to stay with it. This can create space to become more familiar with your internal signals, understand the adaptations that have helped you navigate your life, and explore what it feels like to respond with greater choice.
The extended format gives us room to move at a pace that supports the work while allowing time for reflection, experiential exploration, and integration along the way.
What to Expect From the Therapy Intensive Process
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Consultation & Planning
We’ll begin with a consultation to determine whether a therapy intensive is a good fit for your needs. If we decide to move forward, we’ll identify what you’d like to focus on and create a plan for our time together.
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Personalized Intention Setting
At the start of your intensive, we’ll clarify what feels most important to explore. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, relationship patterns, a life transition, or another area of focus, your intentions will help guide our work while leaving room for what emerges along the way.
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Extended Time to Explore
Unlike weekly therapy, an intensive gives us more uninterrupted time to stay with what’s emerging without feeling rushed by the end of a 50-minute session. This allows us to explore patterns, experiences, and connections with greater depth while moving at a pace that feels supportive.
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Time to Pause & Reset
Breaks are intentionally built into longer intensives, giving you time to rest, move around, have a snack, or simply pause before returning to our work together.
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An Experiential, Whole-Person Approach
Our work may include conversation, reflection, nervous system awareness, and experiential or somatic practices. Rather than following a predetermined process, we’ll stay responsive to what unfolds and what feels most supportive for you.
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Reflection & Integration
As we come to a close, we’ll reflect on what emerged and what feels important to carry forward. We can also explore how what you’ve discovered might begin to take shape in your daily life.
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Continued Support
Depending on your needs, we may schedule a follow-up session to check in, continue integrating the work we’ve begun, and consider what ongoing support might look like moving forward.
Therapy Intensive Options
Whether you're looking for a little more time than a traditional therapy session or a more immersive experience, therapy intensives are designed to provide dedicated space for focused, personalized work. I offer therapy intensives in the following formats:
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Ideal if you're looking for more time than a traditional 50-minute session to explore a specific concern, stay with what's emerging, or work at a pace that feels more expansive. This option can be especially helpful for anxiety, relationship patterns, life transitions, or moments when you simply need more space than weekly therapy allows.
Length: 90 minutes
Investment: $365Available in person in Brea, CA or online throughout California and Arizona
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Designed for people who would benefit from extended time to explore interconnected patterns, process a significant life experience, or focus on an area that needs space to unfold. The three hours are intentionally paced, with time for focused therapeutic work, a restorative break, and integration before we close.
Length: 3 hours
Investment: $695Your intensive includes:
5–10 minutes of planning and intention setting to ground into the session and clarify where we'd like to begin.
Focused therapeutic work with space to follow what emerges rather than working from a predetermined agenda.
A 30-minute break to use the restroom, have a meal or snack, move, rest, or regulate before we continue.
A final 15–20 minutes for integration and closing to reflect on what emerged and identify intentions or practices to carry with you after the intensive.
You don't have to know exactly which option you’re seeking before reaching out. If you're curious about therapy intensives, we can talk through your goals and determine whether this format feels like the right fit.
FAQs About Therapy Intensives
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A therapy intensive is an extended therapy session that gives us more uninterrupted time to explore a particular concern, pattern, or experience. Rather than stopping at the end of a standard 50-minute session, we have more time to stay with what feels important and allow the work to unfold at a supportive pace.
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Therapy intensives are offered in two formats: a 90-minute extended therapy session or a 3-hour therapy intensive. During the consultation and planning process, we’ll discuss what you’re hoping to focus on and determine which format may best support your needs. Breaks are intentionally built into the 3-hour intensive so there is time to pause, rest, or reset as needed.
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No. Therapy intensives may be available to both current clients and new clients who are interested in focused, extended therapy. If we haven’t worked together before, we’ll begin with a consultation to talk about what you’re looking for and determine whether an intensive is an appropriate fit.
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An intensive can offer more space to explore something that feels difficult to address within the rhythm of weekly therapy. This might include anxiety, relationship patterns, people-pleasing, self-pressure, a life transition, a recurring emotional pattern, or something you’ve understood intellectually but continue to feel stuck around.
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Therapy intensives are available in person at my Brea, California office and online for clients located in California or Arizona at the time of the session. We can discuss which format feels most supportive and practical for you.
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We’ll talk about this during the consultation. An intensive may be worth considering if you want more uninterrupted time to explore a particular area, feel limited by the pace of shorter sessions, or would benefit from a more focused period of therapeutic work. We’ll consider what you’re hoping to address and whether this format makes sense for your needs.
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Sometimes, yes. If you're currently working with another therapist, we'll discuss your situation during the consultation to determine whether a therapy intensive is appropriate and how it can best complement your ongoing care.
More Time Can Create Space for Something Different
SUPPORT AWAITS YOU
SUPPORT AWAITS YOU
Sometimes 50 minutes can feel like you’re just getting somewhere when it’s already time to stop. A therapy intensive offers more room to stay with what feels important, explore what’s underneath familiar patterns, and allow the work to unfold without the same time pressure.
If you’re curious whether an intensive could support what you’re working through, we can begin with a consultation to talk about what you’re looking for and whether this format feels like a good fit.
Therapy Intensives in Brea, CA + Online Across CA & AZ
I offer therapy intensives in person at my Brea office and online for adults located in California and Arizona. Both options offer extended time to focus on what feels most important without being limited by the pace of a standard therapy session.
If you’re considering an intensive, we can start with a consultation to talk about what you’re hoping to explore and whether this format feels like a good fit.
265 S Randolph Ave, Brea, CA 92821