Therapy Intensives
Weekly therapy is the right format for most people most of the time. It provides continuity, pacing, and the kind of sustained attention that lasting change requires.
It is not always the right format for every person or every situation.
Some problems are too urgent for incremental progress. Some schedules genuinely cannot accommodate a standing weekly appointment. Some clients have already done years of weekly therapy and are ready for something that moves faster and goes deeper. And some situations, a couple in acute crisis, a professional at a genuine inflection point, a person carrying something that has needed to be addressed for years, call for a different kind of investment.
That is what intensives are for.
What Makes Intensives Different
A standard 50-minute session includes time to settle in, time to close, and rarely more than 35 minutes of uninterrupted depth work. An intensive eliminates that inefficiency entirely. We go straight into the work and stay there.
The concentrated format allows us to get underneath a problem in a single session that might take months of weekly appointments to reach. There is no stopping at the moment of breakthrough because the hour is up. No losing momentum between sessions. No rebuilding context from week to week.
Some clients find that the progress that happens in a single intensive can be equivalent to several months of weekly work.
Formats and Investment
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The right entry point for individuals or couples who want more than a standard session allows but are not yet ready for a longer commitment. $600.
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The most common format. Sufficient time to go beneath the surface of a presenting issue and do real work on what is driving it.
$1,200
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For situations that require sustained depth: complex trauma, couples at a genuine crisis point, discernment work, or an individual ready to make a significant shift in a concentrated window of time. Includes a mid-day break.
$2,400.
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For clients requiring extended concentrated work, whether a couple navigating the aftermath of betrayal, an individual processing significant trauma, or an executive at a major life or career inflection point. Format and cost determined during consultation.
Who Intensives Are For
Executives and professionals with demanding schedules. Weekly therapy requires a level of scheduling consistency that some careers genuinely cannot accommodate. An intensive provides the equivalent of months of work in a single dedicated block of time.
Couples in crisis. When a relationship has reached an acute inflection point, waiting a week between sessions can feel impossible and can allow damage to compound. An intensive creates the space to stabilize the situation, get a clear picture of what is actually happening, and make considered decisions rather than reactive ones.
Trauma processing. Some trauma work benefits from extended time rather than the stop-start rhythm of weekly sessions. The concentrated format allows for deeper processing without the disruption of having to resurface to daily life mid-session week after week.
Out of area clients. Intensives are available in person at the Hermosa Beach office for clients traveling from outside the Los Angeles area, and virtually for clients anywhere in California.
Discernment counseling. For couples trying to decide whether to rebuild or separate, the discernment process benefits from concentrated, structured time that moves through the necessary phases without the weeks-long gaps that can allow ambivalence to calcify.