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    Individual Intensives

    Traditional weekly therapy nourishes maintenance and steady growth, like tending a well-tended garden. However, some challenges require a deeper dive, like uprooting a stubborn weed. Intensives offer a concentrated therapeutic experience, moving us past the “check-in” phase and directly addressing the root of healing, much like pruning a tree to encourage new growth.

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Below is a concise list of various aspects and considerations when thinking about pursuing intensives versus weekly/biweekly individual therapy.

    • Weekly/biweekly individual therapy: Regular short sessions (commonly 45–60 minutes) scheduled once or twice a week. Treatment is paced over weeks, months, or years depending on goals, complexity, and progress.

    • Brainspotting/EMDR intensives: Focused trauma-processing sessions delivered in longer blocks (several hours in one day or across a few consecutive days). They concentrate on accessing and resolving specific traumatic memories or deeply held distress in a condensed time frame.

    Weekly/biweekly therapy provides steady, broad-based work skills, insight, and gradual processing while Brainspotting/EMDR intensives concentrate trauma processing into extended sessions aimed at faster resolution of specific targets. Both have valid uses and depend on what you’re searching for and hoping in therapy.

  • Targeted trauma resolution and rapid reduction in trauma-related symptoms. Aim to process and reprocess specific disturbing memories or entrenched patterns until distress and maladaptive responses decrease.

  • Long sessions (2–3+ hours) or multiple long sessions over consecutive days. This being after the 90 minute intake.

    Deep, sustained access to somatic and memory networks without long gaps between exposures.

    Rapid sequencing—several targets can be processed in one intensive.

    Requires careful preparation and follow-up stabilization.

  • Best for motivated clients with discrete traumatic targets or for those who have plateaued in weekly therapy and want accelerated processing.

    Not appropriate if stabilization, safety, or grounding skills are insufficient; requires screening for dissociation, suicidality, severe substance use, or unstable life context.

    Useful for clients who have time-limited availability or who can commit to the emotional/physical aftercare needed.

  • Faster symptom relief for some trauma-related issues, concentrated momentum, often fewer total sessions needed.

    Can produce breakthroughs that are harder to achieve with widely spaced sessions.

    Quicker processing timeline as we can clear the discrete trauma as soon as possible without the need to continuously re-engage the target trauma(s).

  • Higher risk of emotional flooding or post-session dysregulation if undersupported.

    Requires careful pre-intensive preparation and post-intensive integration plan.

    Not a guaranteed “quick fix”; some material may emerge that needs ongoing follow-up.

  • Some clients prefer a mixture of weekly individual therapy and intensives when the client feels ready to target the specific memories.

    This can look like: doing preparatory weekly work (stabilization, resourcing, assessment) followed by an intensive for targeted trauma processing, then follow-up weekly sessions for integration and maintenance.

  • I invite folks to consider their symptom severity, target specificity (single vs. multiple traumas), current stability, capacity for self-care and supports, scheduling constraints, and treatment history.

    Before an intensive, I will discuss expected courses of actions, provide preparation, and ensure post-session supports before choosing an intensive.