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Intensive Services

 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. 

I offer flexible options, including half-day and customized 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.

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. The goal is not just breakthrough in the moment, but sustained transformation over time. Inquire for more details

PreIntensive 

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.

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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. This experience is also 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.Each intensive is tailored to your specific goals, creating a personalized and focused experience that honors both your story and where you feel called to grow. Whether you are seeking breakthrough, clarity, or deeper emotional healing, this extended format provides the time, structure, and support to help you move forward with intention and lasting change.

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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.

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What Next After Intensive

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.

Text 210-209-8189 for more information

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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