Intensives in Grand Rapids, MI, OH, and FL
Whether you’re burned out on weekly therapy, aren’t able to commit to ongoing sessions, or just need a focused breakthrough, intensives are built to fit your life.
The 2 areas that I specialize in for intensives are working with couples/polycules and working with folx wanting to heal from C/PTSD or trauma via EMDR.
Picture traveling to beautiful West Michigan and selecting the perfect cottage or hotel and taking a break from your everyday routine.
I’ll meet you there and we can spend approximately 5 hours each day, for 2 or 3 days really diving deep into what’s been stopping you from moving forward.
(These services are also offered virtually)
Why a counseling intensive?
Longer sessions are highly effective, efficient and are designed for clients who are ready to go deeper. These longer sessions are available at any point in our work together and can be scheduled as often as you need them.
This can also be the only way that we work together if you feel we’re the right fit and want to just jump right in!
If you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, if you have a lot of background and context to share, or feel like traditional weekly therapy hasn't been enough in the past . . . extended sessions will be an incredible fit for you.
When you’ve gone through something traumatic, whether it's a single event or patterns that happened over time, your body learns to stay on high alert. It can take a while to feel safe enough to even notice what you’re feeling, let alone talk about it. A lot of symptoms (like shutdown, panic, people-pleasing, dissociation, or deep self-doubt) don’t always show up on command in short sessions. They’re smart like that. With extended sessions, we don’t have to rush. We can stay with emotions as they come, explore old patterns as they unfold, and follow your nervous system’s natural rhythm. That might look like going deep into a memory, sitting with a wave of emotion, or even just taking time to notice what's not happening . . . like numbness, disconnection, or the instinct to shut down.
If you have a primary clinician that you love, no worries! We can add EMDR work to enhance and build upon the work you’re already doing.
What to expect?
We will have 1 or 2 consultation calls prior to our intensive to make sure that we are a good fit, expectations are aligned, and I’m able to prepare the best experience for you that I can.
Once you’ve decided that a counseling intensive is the right structure for you, let’s talk dates!
Because this is a special service, it’s the only service that I offer in person and also the only service that is available on weekends. We can select any 2 or 3 consecutive days of the week that feel right and we both have available. I suggest traveling in a day early just for a settled nervous system and to allow for any travel delays.
You book your own travel and accommodations and I’ll come to you. I’m located on the West Side of Michigan and so I ask that you choose a location somewhere in South West Michigan for us. What kind of space could really represent a safe and happy space for you? Is that a cottage in the woods? Is that a view of Lake Michigan where you can hear the waves crashing steadily? We can communicate through this process in order to make sure the distance is something within range for me.
Once you’ve selected your accommodations, I can send you a few appropriate recommendations for some local entertainment, site seeing spots, and also referrals for other specialists and healers that might enhance your experience. These include travel massage professionals, yoga instructors, and artists that lead classes. There are no “shoulds” so just know you can design this experience specifically for what helps you heal.
We will spend approximately 5 hours each day (with breaks of course) doing the work. This structure allows us to utilize coping skills right in the moment when appropriate, to sit with discomforts and really understand what’s happening, and to make progress that typically could take months in traditional weekly counseling. We will utilize somatic body movement in order to help the nervous system too.
Before your experience ends we will formally debrief the work we’ve done, compile the insights gained, and explore ways to integrate them into everyday life.
Invest in it.
Therapy intensives include approximately 10-15 hours of counseling over the course of 2 or 3 consecutive days. The price also includes the consultations leading up to, the materials used, and me traveling to you (within a certain radius).
These sessions are private pay only and are not billable to insurance. The cost of intensives is financial. But the cost of not doing deeper work?
That can look like:
Spending years second-guessing yourself.
Struggling through another relationship where your needs stay unspoken.
Feeling stuck in old patterns even though you “know better.”
Living with an inner critic so loud you mistake it for truth.
Achieving on the outside, but constantly exhausted inside.
Each intensive day is $1,000.
This work asks something of you . . . but it also gives something back: clarity, confidence, relief, and the ability to move forward feeling more like yourself.
Intensive formatting can cost less than weekly therapy and hitting your deductible, while also speeding up your healing.
