Pain that is not transformed will be transmitted.
— Richard Rohr
Individual Intensives
When it comes to many couples, the pain they wish to recover from and the progress they hope for can seem too overwhelming and significant to gently work through over months or even years. This is precisely why I developed and now offer an intensive approach.
Utilizing my twenty years of experience as a couple therapist, I work with couples to address the core issues. Trained in Gottman Couple Therapy, Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy, and Developmental Model Couple Therapy, my primary therapy models include Dynamic Enriched Experiential Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and Intimacy from the Inside Out. Additional training in Interpersonal Neurobiology, EMDR, and ETT allows me to synthesize these recovery models, providing clients with a grounded and compassionate experience that leads to transformation. This experience helps them discover that their most authentic self has been there all along, guiding the way to a healed relationship with skillfulness and well-being.
If you've been in therapy before, you may have noticed that a portion of each session is spent reestablishing contact with your therapist and providing updates since your last session. This can consume twenty to thirty minutes of a session. The intensive format eliminates the need for this 'catch-up' content, ensuring your time and money are maximized. To put it in perspective, twenty hours of couples therapy in an intensive format is equivalent to forty hours of regular sessions or, in other words, ten months of therapy.
The initial part of the intensive is, indeed, intense. You'll engage in sessions lasting two to three hours over 2.5 days. Every individual is unique, so I adapt our time together to meet your needs, and shorter or longer intensives may also be available. The cost for the intensive is $5,500. The intensive will likely include some of the following…
Learning new skills
Exploring how the brain works
Trauma healing work
Identifying the unhelpful patterns that you, as a couple, engage in
Engaging in practices that will interrupt those patterns
Learning how to make an authentic repair
Witnessing the work of your partner
Developing a healthy strategy with which to move forward