Build Your Own Intensive
Therapy intensives in Raleigh offer extended, focused time to make meaningful progress without the stop-and-start rhythm of weekly sessions. Using 3-hour blocks, intensives allow us to move beyond surface-level context and into the patterns, decisions, or ruptures that need sustained attention.
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Designed for individuals or couples who want momentum, clarity, or concentrated support, each intensive is collaboratively structured around your goals.
Weekly therapy works well for steady growth. Intensives are designed for moments when you need momentum.
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Extended sessions allow us to:
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Move beyond surface-level context and into core patterns.
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Stay with emotionally significant material long enough to shift it.
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Complete assessments and integrate results in real time.
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Build clarity quickly when a decision cannot wait.
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For some, intensives serve as a powerful jumpstart to ongoing therapy. For others, they provide focused support around a specific goal.
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Some common intensive formats are listed below, but each intensive is customized to the individual or couple's needs.
Why Choose an Intensive?
Therapy Jumpstart
Gaining momentum right away.
Ready to dive in without spending weeks gathering context? This intensive is ideal for new or returning clients who want clarity, momentum, and a strong foundation for therapy. Across one to two 3-hour blocks (3–6 hours total), we’ll complete an in-depth intake process, explore your current concerns, clarify therapeutic goals, and begin values-based or skills-focused work. Your therapist will tailor any applicable assessments and offer tools to support you between sessions.
Foundational Skills
Practical tools for real-life change.
Whether you’re new to therapy or need practical tools to feel more grounded in the process, this intensive offers a focused space to build core emotional and communication skills that support meaningful, lasting change. Over one to two 3-hour blocks (3–6 hours total), we’ll cover psychoeducation on nervous system responses, identify emotional and behavioral patterns, and build personalized strategies for emotion regulation, boundary-setting, and effective communication. Your therapist will tailor tools and structured exercises to your goals, providing a strong therapeutic foundation to support deeper work moving forward. This option is suitable for individual or conjoint work.
Premarital Package
Strengthen your foundation.
This intensive is designed for couples preparing for long-term commitment who want to strengthen their foundation before marriage or cohabitation. Over three to four 3-hour blocks (9–12 hours total), we’ll explore key relational domains—communication, conflict, intimacy, finances, and shared meaning. You’ll complete the PREPARE/ENRICH or Gottman Relationship Checkup, and together we’ll use those results to guide rich, intentional conversations and build a roadmap for your future.
Discernment
Clarity when you’re at a crossroads.
When a relationship is at a turning point, clarity can feel out of reach. This intensive offers a structured and compassionate space to explore the question: Should we stay together or part ways? Across two to three 3-hour blocks (6–9 hours total), we’ll use structured protocols and values-driven dialogue to help each partner voice their truth, reflect on the relationship’s history, and identify next steps. Your therapist may integrate the Gottman Relationship Checkup and additional assessments as needed.
Couple's Crisis and/or Repair
When things feel urgent or stuck.
When a relationship has been rocked by betrayal, chronic conflict, or deep emotional disconnection, standard weekly therapy can feel too slow—or too shallow—to make meaningful headway. The Crisis or Repair Intensive offers a structured and supportive space to address the rupture, understand what’s beneath it, and begin rebuilding trust and emotional safety. Over the course of up to 18 hours of intensive work (typically spread across 2–6 blocks), we’ll use the Gottman Relationship Checkup, regulation tools, and repair-focused protocols tailored to your relationship’s unique needs. This process can stand alone or serve as a powerful on-ramp into ongoing relational therapy.
Individual Attachment Exploration
When things feel urgent or stuck.
This deep-dive intensive is for individuals who want to understand how past relationships shape their present experiences. Through two to three 3-hour blocks (6–9 hours total), we’ll explore your attachment style, key relational themes, and formative experiences using tools like an Attachment Inventory, genograms, and timeline exercises. This work supports greater self-awareness, emotional insight, and the ability to show up more intentionally in your current or future relationships. EMDR-informed processing may be incorporated into intensive formats when appropriate.
Format and Investment
Therapy intensives are offered in Raleigh, NC or via telehealth and may be scheduled in half-day or multi-block formats depending on your needs.
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Each 3-hour block begins at $600. Total investment varies based on the package and number of blocks selected.
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A free 15-minute consultation is required to determine fit and collaboratively design your intensive plan.