Accelerated Half Day Intensive Therapy

What Is an Intensive Session?

An intensive session is an extended block of therapeutic work designed to allow for deeper, more sustained engagement than a standard appointment. Rather than meeting for one hour at a time, an intensive gives you and your therapist 4 hours (with breaks) to move through material at a different pace with fewer transitions in and out of the work each week. We offer intensive therapy in these forms:

Traditional Therapy: every 1-2 weeks

Pros

Steady, sustained growth over time
Building skills and practicing them between sessions
Address ongoing relationships, work dynamics, or transitions
Spreads out the cost of therapy over time

Cons

More interruptions – an hour ends just as things are getting somewhere
Time is split between the ongoing stuff of life and the deeper themes and patterns that recur – sometimes helpful to start, but limits deeper work over time

Intensive sessions

Pros

Depth without interruption
Greater focus on root themes and patterns (traumas, relationship patterns, limiting core beliefs, etc.)
On average, more growth and healing across fewer hours of therapy
Efficiency of scheduling for busy people and couples
Can be combined with regular therapy occurring every 1-2 weeks to move through tough blocks

Cons

Greater up-front investment of time and money

Specialized help for Anxiety and Stress

Your stress and anxiety are unique. Your personalized treatment should be, too.

We offer several holistic, evidence-based methods for treating stress and anxiety, and we’ll be happy to guide you through the options that fit your needs best. Take a deep breath. You got this, and we’re here to help.

Holistic Talk Therapy

Work through your triggers, your challenges, and your deepest desires for your life through talk therapy with an insightful, holistic therapist. Learn the skills to facilitate your journey to healing.

EMDR

Rapidly reprocess and rewire emotional triggers leading to stress, anxiety, depression, and more. Adapted beyond the treatment of trauma, EMDR helps with everyday triggers effectively also.

IFS

Often blended with other approaches, IFS offers new insights into old patterns so you can work more effectively with your triggers and emotional challenges.

Somatic Therapy

Working with the physical body and nervous system in therapy is an important part of healing anxiety and stress. That’s why we blend in somatic therapy elements to facilitate your healing.

Accelerated Therapy

Half Day Intensive Therapy sessions for deeper work, greater focus and fewer interruptions.

Who May Benefit From an Intensive

Intensive sessions may be particularly well-suited for clients who:

Feel stuck in their current therapy and are ready for a different level of engagement
Have schedules that make consistent weekly appointments difficult to maintain
Are experiencing a more pressing need and want focused relief in a concentrated period
Have patterns that make it hard to fully drop into the work in a standard 60-min window
Tend to get pulled into day-to-day stressors between sessions, making it difficult to stay with deeper therapeutic themes over time
Are a couple navigating a relational crisis or acute need that calls for more than a weekly hour can hold, or a couple with schedules that are difficult to coordinate

What to Expect: Session Format

Your intensive session will be scheduled as a 4-hour block. The general structure is:

An opening check-in and orientation to settle into the space and the work
A first extended working block (approximately 90 minutes of active therapeutic work)
A mid-session break (approximately 15–20 minutes) – time to rest, eat a snack, step outside briefly, or decompress
A second extended working block (approximately 90 minutes)
A closing period of reflection and integration (approximately 30 minutes) to help you transition out of the session and orient toward the rest of your day

Session Fees

Fees are as follows for a 4-hour intensive block:

Christy Boaman, LPCA – $800
Mandy Duff, LMFTA – $850
Stephanie Adams-Rodriguez, LPC – $1050
Dena Ewing, LPC – $1050
Lisa Annan, LPC – $1050 – limited availability for intensives
Brooke Hill – $1200

Availability for intensives sessions varies by therapist at any given time. If you’re interested in accelerated therapy, check with us first to make sure your new therapist is available for this offering at the current time.

Why does this cost more than a regular session?
A four hour session is more than adding together four individual 1-hour sessions. It is a structured package that often replaces what could take several months of regular standard therapy. For many people, it is actually more cost-effective after factoring in the total investment over time. The prices also reflect the added clinical preparation and additional hours extended by the therapist.

Not sure if accelerated therapy is for you?

Your first stop is a 60-minute intake appointment to begin the therapy process. After talking in more detail about your current needs, we’ll help you think through which option makes the most sense for you and get that process started. We are also happy to talk through general questions on the phone any time at (843) 284-7340.