Therapeutic Intensives
Focused, Deep Work Tailored to You
Sometimes the usual 50-minute sessions just don’t fit what’s going on inside. Maybe you’re juggling too much and need longer, uninterrupted time to make sense of your experiences. Or maybe you want to focus on something specific without committing to ongoing weekly therapy.
Therapeutic Intensives are focused, extended sessions designed to give you the space and time to explore what really matters without the usual start-stop rhythm of weekly therapy. Unlike typical 50-minute appointments, intensives allow us to slow down, go deeper, and work collaboratively on what you’re carrying—whether that’s clarifying your values, navigating a life transition, or unpacking relational patterns.
This work can be done in a single longer session or over multiple days, depending on your needs and availability.
Why Consider an Intensive?
Here are a few reasons people find Intensives helpful:
Deep Exploration Without Limits: You get more time to slow down, reflect, and dive beneath the surface, beyond what weekly sessions often allow.
Navigating Big Life Changes: Transitions, identity shifts, or major decisions can benefit from focused, uninterrupted support.
Clarifying Your Values: Values Intensives help you reconnect with what matters most and begin living with greater intention.
Relational and Identity Work: Whether you’re processing attachment patterns or exploring aspects of your identity, intensives create space to engage in meaningful change.
What to Expect in an Intensive:
Intensives are held virtually and last from about 4 hours up to several days, with breaks built in for rest and integration.
We’ll work collaboratively to create a container that fits your needs—whether that’s a single focused session or multiple sessions over a few days.
The pacing allows you to slow down and stay with challenging feelings or questions, rather than rushing through them.
After the intensive, I offer optional follow-up support or integration exercises tailored to you.
What’s Special About Values Intensives?
Values Intensives are designed to help you reconnect with what truly matters to you—beyond external pressures and expectations. This format offers a supportive space to:
Explore where your current life feels out of sync with your core values
Identify internal conflicts or barriers that hold you back
Develop practical steps to live with more clarity, purpose, and intention
If you’ve been feeling disconnected from yourself or unsure how to move forward, this is a focused way to rediscover your compass and take grounded action.
How to Schedule an Intensive:
Intensives are scheduled individually and begin with a consultation to understand your needs and goals. They are a flexible way to engage in therapeutic work when a traditional weekly schedule feels overwhelming or insufficient.
If you’re interested in learning more or want to schedule a consultation, please contact me.
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Weekly therapy can be deeply supportive, but the structure also comes with limits. With only 50 minutes, you may spend much of the time settling in and orienting before needing to wind down again. It can be hard to drop into deeper work or stay with complex emotions under that kind of time pressure.
Intensives give us space to slow down and stay in the work. Instead of stopping just as something meaningful begins to emerge, we can explore more fully, follow threads, and process at a more natural pace. They are especially helpful when something big feels “right there” but you haven’t had the room to unpack it.
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Intensives are co-created based on your needs. A common 3-day format might look like this:
Day One: 10:00am–1:00pm, break for lunch, resume 2:00–4:00pm
Day Two: 10:00am–1:00pm, break for lunch, resume 2:00–5:00pm
Day Three: 10:00am–1:00pm, with the afternoon reserved for integration or optional add-ons (like a follow-up session or written reflection)
I offer Intensives starting at 5 hours (usually split into a one hour intake and planning session followed by two 120-minute sessions with a break) up to multi-day options spanning 15–18 hours total.
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Pricing is based on a 1-1.5x multiplier of my standard therapy fee, ranging approximately from $1,500 for a 4-hour Intensive up to $5,400 for a multi-day Intensive.
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Therapeutic intensives offer focused and deep work, but they aren’t the best fit for everyone at every moment. You might want to consider other forms of support if:
You’re currently in a situation where your safety or stability feels at risk, such as an actively abusive relationship.
You’re navigating a crisis that requires ongoing, frequent check-ins or immediate interventions.
You need long-term, consistent support to manage symptoms that feel overwhelming or unmanageable on your own.
If any of these resonate, that’s okay. I’m happy to help connect you to resources or talk through next steps that feel right for your current needs.
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Are you feeling disconnected from yourself?
You feel adrift, or uncertain of what the future holds for you
The hopelessness and helplessness you feel sometimes gives way to pure pessimism, even nihilism–after all, what is the point of doing this math homework if the world’s just going to end soon?
You struggle with knowing who you really are and what is important to you against the backdrop of global grief and suffering
It feels impossible to figure out how to live a meaningful life when you are acutely aware of all the injustice in the world
What does it even mean to truly be yourself, or to live an authentic life? And how do you do that when you’ve got bills to pay?
You wish you could talk to others about this, but you end up feeling like you’re bringing down the mood, or others don’t want to go there, or you all just end up “joking” about death
You try to cope by pushing those thoughts away or looking for escape in the form of distraction or even dissociation
Existential Overwhelm
Identity and Values Work
Maybe at one point you had a clear idea of what it meant to be You. But recently, the last few years especially, it has become increasingly difficult to know what your role is and how to find meaning
You have a few identities that drive your day-to-day life (student, parent, friend, spouse), but these feel disjointed or incomplete and don’t necessarily provide you with a sense of purpose
You’re vaguely aware of the values you hold in life, but could you list them all out? And do you have an idea of how to utilize them to really guide your life?
You likely have other identities that impact you and are worth exploring:
maybe you’re questioning your sexuality or gender
maybe the way you relate to your cultural or ethnic identity is changing as you age and grow
maybe you feel isolated as a disabled person in an increasingly inaccessible world
You want some clarity on who you are, and to know what is really important to you
Most of all, you want to live a life that feels authentic and captures your true values
It is time to bring back meaning in your life. Processing existential themes and exploring aspects of your identity can help.
You can live a more open, meaningful, and authentic life. You deserve the space to talk about the world and your role in it, without being judged or dismissed. These topics are heavy and overwhelming–and they’re also so important and can provide relief.
Addressing Existential Overwhelm and Exploring Identity can help you:
Increase your understanding of what your needs are, and how to pursue them
Demystify your values and create a sense of purpose and belonging
View yourself as a holistic being and feel more grounded in your day-to-day life
Explore intersections of your identities and how social pressures and systemic oppression impact you
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My approach to existential topics in therapy is informed by my study of Existential-Humanism, a philosophy of treatment that emphasizes supporting you through phases of grief, acceptance, and growth.
I am dedicated to creating a therapeutic space where you can grapple with the heaviness of the human experience without having to worry about me trying to cheer you up, talk you out of your feelings, or deny how all your complex identities influence important parts of your life.
By not shying away from the upsetting realities of the world, or pretending that everything is fine, I can support clients increase self-awareness in a world that encourages us to stay shut off from ourselves.
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Most modern approaches to therapy pathologize surface-level “symptoms” like anxiety and depression and attempt to “fix” them via coping skills, cognitive restructuring, or behavioral modification.
Existential and client-centered approaches acknowledge that it makes sense for people to feel helpless and lost in what can be an oppressive and uncaring society. Existential and Humanistic therapies focus on empowering the client to increase self-awareness, self-choice, and psychological growth. The benefit of this approach is that I can acknowledge the sometimes terrifying nature of reality, life, and death, and work within those bounds to support my clients find meaning and live authentically.
I acknowledge this approach is not for everyone! If you are interested in learning concrete ways to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, substance use, disordered eating, interpersonal conflict, or other issues, I do offer skills-based therapy for these concerns based in my training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). If this is something that interests you, please navigate to the Anxiety Therapy tab and the About Me tab for more information.
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I look forward to working with you on (re)discovering who you are and what you want out of life. To start, schedule a free 20-30 minute consultation so we can discuss if this approach is right for you and if we are a good fit for one another.
Group Therapy
Deepening Connection Through Relational Practice
Group therapy offers a powerful way to explore the patterns, defenses, and longings that shape how you show up with others. It is not just about talking about relationships — it is about practicing them in real time with real people.
In group, we slow down so you can notice what comes up in connection: fears, expectations, desires, and protective habits. As the group builds trust, you will have space to experiment with new ways of relating, express needs, receive feedback, and work through conflict with clinical support.
This is the kind of work that cannot always happen in individual therapy. It can be deep, vulnerable, and transformative.
Is Group Therapy Right for You?
You might benefit from an interpersonal process group if you:
Want to improve your communication skills with others
Find yourself stuck in the same patterns in friendships, partnerships, or community
Feel unsure how to express needs directly or often avoid conflict
Struggle to set and maintain boundaries
Tend to suppress your feelings until they come out sideways
Have difficulty trusting others or allowing yourself to be seen
Often feel lonely but do not know how to build meaningful connections
Feel overwhelmed by your sensitivity or internal experiences
Want to understand your attachment style and how past relationships still affect you
Would like to practice giving and receiving feedback even when it is hard
What Happens in Group?
A common saying is “What happens out there tends to show up in here.” That is the power of group. The dynamics that show up in your life tend to emerge in the group space where they can be explored, named, and gently shifted.
Group therapy gives you a chance to:
Practice identifying and expressing your needs
Get feedback in a supportive, non-judgmental space
Process emotions that come up in connection
Work through conflict without withdrawing or escalating
Increase your capacity for vulnerability and honesty
Explore what it feels like to be fully seen and accepted
Develop more authentic and sustainable relationships
This work is not easy, but it can be deeply transformative. You do not have to do it alone.
Two Groups Are Currently Offered
Relational Rewire
Tuesdays 5:30-7pm Pacific
This group focuses on attachment dynamics and the ways we disconnect or anxiously pursue connection. If you struggle with trust, closeness, avoidance, or fear of rejection, this group offers a space to explore those patterns and begin shifting them in real time with others who are doing the same.
Both groups are ongoing and meet weekly via Zoom. New members are welcomed through a consultation process to ensure fit and readiness. Participants must commit to at least 6 sessions to support a stable and safe(r) environment.
Messy, Human, & Here
Thursdays 5:30-7pm Pacific
This group is for people who often feel like they are too much, too sensitive, too reactive, or not enough. We work with shame, people-pleasing, emotional repression, and the parts of ourselves that feel misunderstood or unseen. You will have space to explore how you protect yourself in relationships and how to let more of yourself be known.
You can improve your relationships and better understand your attachment styles in Group Therapy!
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An interpersonal therapy group is a group of people (usually 6 - 12 people) who meet together weekly with one or two therapists to work through relational issues that lead to distress or dissatisfaction in relationships.
Each group session is 90 minutes and members are expected to attend group regularly, as we are hoping to create a trusting and consistent environment to all participants.
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Interpersonal therapy groups are unstructured groups in that there is no formal agenda for each group meeting. The leader does not begin the session with a question and group discussions are not always topical in nature.
Instead, members are asked to mindfully pay attention to their thoughts, feelings, and reactions as they occur moment-to-moment as the group takes place and to report to the group on what they notice.
While this seems very simple, people often have a difficult time with this task. Most of us are so accustomed to acting on our thoughts and feelings that we seldom slow down to notice what is going on “behind the scenes” in our minds. Nevertheless, what goes on in the back of our minds has an impact on how we interact in our everyday lives.
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Absolutely! I incorporate aspects of interpersonal processing into my individual work with clients, as, at the end of the day, some of the same principles of group apply to individual therapy.
However, group provides an opportunity to get real-time feedback from your peers, who are perhaps better able to “tell you like it is,” or can provide multiple perspectives different from mine! Group therapy can often help individuals identify and tweak their interpersonal behaviors much faster than one-on-one therapy can, which many clients are relieved to experience.
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I love facilitating group and am always excited to work with folks who want to enact change in their relationships. To start, schedule a free 20-30 minute consultation so we can discuss if this setting is right for you, what changes you would like to experience in your relationships, and if this is something you can commit to weekly.