Accelerated Therapy Intensives in Massachusetts & Maryland

Make months of progress in a matter of days—without spending years in traditional talk therapy.

You are busy, highly capable, and tired of spending 50 minutes a week barely scratching the surface before the clock runs out. If you’re ready to get to the root of burnout, overthinking, and nervous system exhaustion without dragging the process out for months, an intensive was built for you.

Focused trauma processing for meaningful emotional change.

Traditional weekly therapy models assume you have the luxury of infinite time to chip away at old wounds. But if you are a busy professional, a first-gen high achiever, or someone managing chronic burnout, trying to fit trauma recovery into a random 50-minute block on a Tuesday feels like a logistical corporate heist.

You may already understand your history intellectually. You can analyze your childhood patterns like a corporate case study, and you know exactly where your high-functioning anxiety comes from. But knowing your trauma isn't the same as healing it. Your logical brain knows you are safe, but your nervous system is still operating in survival mode.

Our EMDR & Brainspotting Therapy Intensives create the dedicated, concentrated space needed to move beyond talk therapy insight and experience true, somatic emotional change. By bypassing the weekly stop-and-start cycle, we give your brain the extended time it needs to completely process stuck trauma and find lasting relief.

What Trauma Therapy Intensives Can Help You Work Through:

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    Relationship & Attachment Trauma

    Patterns shaped by difficult or painful relationship experiences.

  • Woman standing with one hand on the wall, gazing into the distance — illustrating the emotional whiplash of feeling anxious when a partner doesn’t respond and emotionally numb when they finally do.

    High-Control Religion or Spiritual Trauma

    Processing the impact of rigid religious systems, spiritual manipulation, or the loss of community and identity after leaving a high-control group.

  • Phobias or Fear-Based Trauma Responses

    Phobias or Fear-Based Trauma Responses

    Persistent fears linked to specific experiences, such as driving anxiety, medical trauma, or other trauma-related phobias.

  • Woman watering a plant with a distracted expression — symbolizing the internal confusion of rapidly shifting from emotional shutdown to obsessive thoughts within moments.

    Anxiety & Trauma-Related Stress

    Including relationship anxiety, chronic overthinking, panic, and persistent feelings of being on edge.

  • Woman sitting at a table with a pencil poised over a notebook, gazing off in thought — capturing the quiet self-protection of avoiding emotional closeness to guard against disappointment.

    Childhood & Developmental Trauma

    Early experiences of emotional neglect, instability, or unmet emotional needs

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    Racial Trauma & Cultural Stress

    Experiences of discrimination, racialized stress, or generational trauma connected to identity and lived experiences.

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    Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)

    Long-term exposure to stressful or harmful environments, often involving family systems, relational trauma, or repeated emotional harm over time.

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    Perfectionism, Burnout & People-Pleasing

    Patterns of over-responsibility, difficulty setting boundaries, and chronic pressure to perform or meet others’ expectations.

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Why Weekly 50-Minute Sessions Feel Like an Uphill Battle

In standard weekly therapy, the first 10–15 minutes are often spent catching up on your week, and the last 10 minutes are spent winding down so you can get back to work or family obligations. That leaves only 25 minutes of actual deep work.

When you're trying to shift deep-seated survival patterns, high-functioning anxiety, or generational pressure, that 50-minute container can feel like opening a drawer, peeking inside, and slamming it shut before you can organize anything.

The Intensive Advantage:

    • Deep Momentum: Extended, uninterrupted time allows your nervous system to fully drop out of fight-or-flight mode and settle into real processing.

    • Efficient Healing: Achieve what typically takes 3 to 6 months of weekly therapy in a focused 1-day or multi-day retreat setting.

    • More Deep Healing: We don't spend hours analyzing every painful memory. Using gentle somatic approaches like EMDR & Brainspotting Therapy, we help your brain release emotional weight safely and efficiently.

    Who Therapy Intensives Are Designed For

    Intensives are a high-impact, focused option tailored for adults in Massachusetts and Maryland who want deep results without adding another weekly appointment to their calendars.

    • Driven Professionals & First-Gen Adults: Whether you are navigating high-pressure careers in corporate, tech, or medicine, or carrying the weight of being the first in your family to build wealth and success. Intensives offer efficient, concentrated care for busy adults of all backgrounds. (Learn more about my work with First-Gen Professionals and Black Women & BIPOC Adults).

    • Clients Trapped in Over-Functioning & Boundary Fatigue: If you are exhausted from carrying everyone else's needs, managing chronic perfectionism, or finding yourself stuck in the same people-pleasing and relational dynamics, an intensive gives you uninterrupted space to get to the root of these patterns.

    • "Intellectualizers" Stuck in Their Heads: If you can analyze your past logically, understand your triggers, and map out your story on a timeline—but your body still responds with high-functioning anxiety, heart palpitations, tight shoulders, or chronic rest-guilt—an intensive bridges the gap between what your brain knows and what your nervous system feels.

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How Our Accelerated Trauma Retreats Work

During an intensive, we utilize extended, multi-hour blocks to work with advanced neuro-experiential approaches like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Brainspotting.

Because your brain isn't interrupted by a ticking 50-minute clock, your nervous system can safely access deeper subcortical structures where trauma is physically stored. This allows us to:

  • Accelerate the Desensitization Process: Move through multiple interconnected layers of a core belief system in a single day.

  • Integrate Somatic Shifts: Give your body the actual physical time to settle, rest, and experience true regulation before you go back to your day-to-day routine.

  • Maximize Financial & Emotional Investment: Eliminate the months of administrative "catch-up" conversations that stall traditional therapy.

  • How the Intensive Process Works

    Step 1: Free 30-Minute Consultation

    We meet virtually to discuss your goals, answer your questions, and ensure an intensive is the right clinical fit for where you are right now.

    Step 2: The 90-Minute Assessment & Prep Session

    All intensives begin here. We spend 90 dedicated minutes mapping out your nervous system, identifying internal parts, and building somatic resources. This guarantees you feel completely safe and prepared before your intensive day.

    Step 3: Your Custom Intensive Experience

    We dive into targeted processing during your scheduled 3-Hour Session, 2-Day Shift, or 3-Day Retreat.

    Step 4: Integration & Ongoing Support

    Real healing happens in the integration. We follow up with a dedicated integration session and determine your next steps—whether that's moving into ongoing 90-minute weekly/biweekly therapy or taking space to process independently.

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Personalized Intensive Options & Custom Pricing

Every intensive is a highly tailored experience designed around your specific career schedule and pacing needs. All intensives begin with a comprehensive 90-Minute Assessment & Resourcing Session ($350), where we map out your history, identify target memories, and prepare your nervous system for deeper processing work. This assessment fee is applied directly toward your chosen intensive package. Payment plan options are available.

Choose Your Intensive Experience

(Note: All options require the initial Step 1: 90-Minute Assessment & Prep Session)

  • 3-Hour Focused Intensive Session — $875

    Virtual (MA & MD)

    A concentrated single-day session ideal for breaking through a specific bottleneck, boundary pattern, or acute stressor. Includes the self-care plan, workbook, 3-hour session + post-intensive integration check-in.

  • 2-Day Deep Shift Retreat — $1800

    Virtual or in person coming in the Fall

    6 to 7 total hours spread across two days. Designed for deeper relational patterns, generational untangling, and high-functioning burnout. Includes the self-care plan, workbook, 3-hour session + post-intensive integration check-in.

  • 3-Day Comprehensive Immersive — $2600

    In person coming in the Fall

    An immersive, multi-day sanctuary experience. Built for major life transitions, deep historical trauma processing, and dedicated restorative healing. Includes the self-care plan, workbook, 3-hour session + post-intensive integration check-in.

All Major Credit Cards, FSA/HSA accepted; payment plans provided through Klarna.

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Convenient Virtual Access Across MA & MD

You don't need to travel far to experience transformative care. Intensives are conducted virtually via a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform, allowing you to participate from the comfort and quiet of your home anywhere in:

  • Massachusetts: Serving clients near Raynham, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Quincy, and statewide.

  • Maryland: Serving clients across Montgomery County, Silver Spring, Bethesda, Baltimore, Prince George's County, and statewide.

  • In-Person Intensives (Launching Fall): Looking for an immersive, in-person retreat experience? In-person intensives will be officially available in Massachusetts starting this Fall.

Slots for both virtual and upcoming in-person intensives are intentionally limited to maintain high-touch care.

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EMDR Intensives: Frequently Asked Questions

Here’s what you should know

  • The most important preparation is clearing your schedule so your brain has room to integrate the work. Because intensives bypass your standard cognitive defenses, you will experience deep emotional shifting.

    I provide you with a preparation workbook to complete before we meet. Beyond that, your only homework is to protect your time: treat the days of your intensive like a private health retreat. Cancel non-essential meetings, arrange for a quiet space, and stock your space with comforting food, hydration, and cozy layers.

  • Typically, no. Traditional health insurance companies operate on a rigid, medical-model system that only reimburses for standard 45-to-50-minute weekly time slots. They do not recognize or provide billing codes for premium, custom-scheduled, multi-hour intensive trauma containers. While I can provide a specialized superbill upon request for the initial 90-minute assessment portion of our work, the half-day and multi-day intensive packages are an out-of-pocket, private-pay investment in your accelerated emotional freedom.

    • Use HSA or FSA funds to pay for your intensive

    • Submit a superbill for possible partial reimbursement (if your plan includes out-of-network benefits)

    • Apply for Victim Compensation (if eligible due to a violent crime)

    All intensives are private-pay. Payment plan options may be available. I’m happy to walk you through your options during a consult.

  • Intensives are ideal if you have a busy lifestyle, have hit a plateau in standard talk therapy, or want targeted relief for a specific issue (like perfectionism, acute stress, or relational patterns) without spending months in therapy. We will evaluate your goals during our initial consultation.

  • All EMDR and Brainspotting intensives are conducted completely virtually via a secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform. At this time, I do not offer in-person sessions.

    This virtual format is highly intentional: it allows you to complete deep, intensive trauma work from the absolute privacy and comfort of your own space anywhere in Massachusetts or Maryland. You don't have to navigate stressful traffic or sit in a clinical waiting room afterward; you can slide straight into your own space for the vital rest your body needs to integrate the day’s shifts.

    I am hoping to offer in-person intensive sessions in the late summer/fall.

  • Intensives are a private-pay investment in your long-term health and time. While insurance does not cover multi-hour intensive formats directly, I partner with Thrizer and can provide a Superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement for the eligible portion of your session. Full details can be reviewed on my Fees & Investment Page.

  • Here is an example schedule of a Half-Day (3-Hour) Accelerated Intensive:

    • 09:00 AM – 09:30 AM | Grounding & Intention Setting

    • 09:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Resourcing & Parts Mapping

    • 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Spacious Integration Break (Stretch, Walk, Hydrate, Eat)

    • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Parts Work & Reprocessing

    • 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Nervous System Regulation & Closure

  • No. Actually many people travel from Boston, Rhode Island sometimes even further. Online intensives are avliable for client who are physically located in Boston.

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