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Intensive Therapy

Intensive therapy designed for lasting transformation. Experience focused EMDR, Brainspotting, and IFS therapy to create meaningful change.

Intensive Therapy

 Why Choose an Intensive

Traditional therapy can be effective, but progress is often interrupted by busy schedules, limited session time, and the need to stop just as meaningful work begins.

Individual therapy intensives are designed to help you make meaningful progress in a focused, accelerated format. These extended sessions allow for deeper exploration and sustained therapeutic work, making them ideal for addressing trauma, breaking through emotional barriers, or gaining clarity in a specific area of your life. Christ-centered perspsectives can be integrated into each session to gain a deeper spiritual connection. 

​Are You a Good Fit 

You are successful on the outside but struggling on the inside.

You may:

  • Feel stuck in recurring patterns

  • Experience anxiety, overwhelm, or burnout

  • Carry unresolved trauma or painful experiences

  • Struggle with perfectionism or people-pleasing

  • Feel emotionally exhausted from holding everything together

  • Aspire for deeper healing than traditional weekly therapy has provided

  • Desire a faith-integrated approach to emotional healing

 Intensive Approach

I combine powerful, evidence-based approaches that work together to create lasting transformation:

EMDR

Helps your brain reprocess unresolved experiences and reduce emotional distress.

Brainspotting

Accesses deeper emotional and nervous system healing beyond conscious awareness.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Helps you understand and heal the parts of yourself that developed to protect you.

Faith Integration

Invites God's truth, wisdom, and healing into the therapeutic process for those who desire a Christian approach.

Investment Cost

An intensive is an investment in your emotional, relational, and spiritual well-being.

  • Pre-intensive consultation and assessment

  • Customized treatment planning

  • Extended EMDR, Brainspotting, and IFS sessions

  • Personalized workbook and preparation materials

  • Integration support and follow-up recommendations

I offer flexible time options, including as little as 2 hours, and customized longer intensives, tailored to your unique goals and needs.

If you’re ready to move forward with intention and depth, an individual intensive can provide the space and structure to support lasting change.

​Payment Information

Therapy intensives are typically a private-pay service and may not be fully covered by insurance, as they often fall outside standard session structures. However, clients may be able to use HSA or FSA funds, and in some cases request partial reimbursement using a superbill.

Because intensive therapy requires significant preparation and scheduling, payments is required before the intensive begins.

What is involved?

Pre-intensive

The pre-intensive session is a focused, 90-minute meeting designed to prepare and personalize your experience. During this time, we explore your history, clarify your goals, and begin identifying key patterns that will guide our work together. You’ll also receive a customized workbook tailored to your specific needs, integrating clinical insight with faith-based reflection to help you arrive at your intensive with clarity and intention.

Intensive:

Our individual therapy intensive is a structured, extended session designed to create meaningful movement in a short period of time. Unlike traditional weekly therapy, this format allows for uninterrupted focus, helping you move beyond surface-level insight into deeper healing and resolution. Intensives are especially effective for addressing trauma, anxiety, relational patterns, and areas where you may feel stuck or have plateaued in previous therapy.

Using evidence-based approaches such as EMDR, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), we work to process experiences at a deeper level while helping you develop practical tools for ongoing growth.

 

Faith-Based Version

Many clients view their intensive as an investment not only in their mental and emotional health but also in the relationships, calling, and future God has entrusted to them.

This experience can also be grounded in a Christian framework, integrating prayer, Scripture, and spiritual reflection as desired, allowing your faith to be an active part of the healing process.

      

Post Intensive

The post-intensive follow-up session provides a dedicated space to process your experience and solidify the progress made during your intensive. In this 90-minute session, we reinforce key insights, address any emerging challenges, and create a clear plan for continued growth. With ongoing integration of clinical strategies and faith-based support, this session helps ensure that the work you’ve done translates into lasting, meaningful change in your daily life.

 

After your intensive, the focus shifts to integration—turning insight into consistent, lasting change. Continued support through follow-up sessions with your therapist to help reinforce progress, address challenges as they arise, and strengthen new patterns.

This phase emphasizes applying what was learned in everyday life, supporting both emotional and spiritual growth. The goal is not just breakthrough in the moment, but sustained transformation over time. Additional intensives may be needed.

Healing has a ripple effect. When we experience greater freedom and wholeness, it often impacts our marriages, families, friendships, work, and spiritual lives.

Healing has a ripple effect. When we experience greater freedom and wholeness, it often impacts our marriages, families, friendships, work, and spiritual lives.

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Now it's time to care for you.

 

Let's determine whether an EMDR, Brainspotting, and IFS Intensive is the right fit for you.

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18830 Stone Oak Parkway

(located inside the Birdy Realtor Building)

San Antonio, TX 78258

Phone: 210-209-8189

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The laws and standards of counseling in Texas require the therapist to keep treatment records. These records are confidential and will not be released to anyone without the client’s consent.  Please be aware that the client may choose not to release these if they can be emotionally or legally damaging.  The therapist will make these records available to another mental or medical health professional at the clients request.

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