Therapy Intensives
Time and space to go deeper.
You know the drill. You spend the first 15 minutes of a standard therapy session recapping your week, 20 minutes getting to the real stuff, and then just as you’re on the verge of a breakthrough the hour is over and we have to tuck all that deeper work you opened up back in.
Verdant’s Counseling Intensives are designed to disrupt that cycle. We trade the 50-minute hour for deep-dive sessions (half-day to multi-day) designed to get under the logical brain and actually clear the subcortical junk that keeps you stuck.
Weekly therapy is a wonderful resource, support, and ongoing therapeutic relationship.
And there are more paths to change.
Pre-Intensive Consultation
I offer free 45 minute consultation calls.
During this call we will discuss:
Background on your present concerns
Goals for a therapy intensive
What an intensive involves (including time, cost, and what to expect)
My approach to therapy intensives
Tailoring an intensive that’s best for you
This time is to address your questions and concerns. It is also a time for us both to determine if an intensive is the best route for you. There is no pressure or commitment to book.
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General Intensive Structure
History Taking
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We will explore the relevant background and how it is effecting your life, experience, and relationships either in the first hour or so we are together or in a session separate from the full intensive.
Exploring Self Energy
I will introduce the concepts of parts and self-energy. This often includes inward focus guided meditations to help identify the 8 C’s of Self: Calm, Curiosity, Courage, Confidence, Clarity, Creativity, Compassion and Connectedness. I will guide you to help get a felt sense of what healing may feel like during and after reprocessing.
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Mapping your Internal Experience
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This is where we get creative! Through journaling, drawing, or portraying your parts through cards or sandtray figurines we will explore the different parts and experiences that relate to your current distress. This takes the most time and is transformative on its own. Most people gain a world of insight from this exercise and it is a great resource to inform any future internal exploration.
Witnessing and unburdening the original wound
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Through an integrated approach of IFS and EMDR, and with a felt sense of permission and safety, we will explore the original images, memories, and negative beliefs that we mapped previously. Using bilateral stimulation (via a light bar, buzzies, tapping) and internal dialogue, I will guide you as your Self and Nervous system do the healing.
Integrating your insights into your present and future experiences
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Once some of the distress is lifted and your beliefs are more aligned to where you currently are in life, we will process how that can now show up for you day to day. We will invite the qualities that have had to be pushed down for your protection to take up more space in your life.
Explore Next Steps
We will review our work together and discuss options for future care. Whether this is returning to your individual therapist, continuing individual therapy with me, or if your system feels settled for the time being. I will provide you with the resources and summary of what we worked on together and can review the progress made with your current care team.
Whichever next step you decide on, I will follow up a month post-intensive to check in.
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Choose your path
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3-Hour Intensive Session
One afternoon = One month of weekly counseling
$450
You show up weekly, you do the work - but there is one specific recurring trigger, a looming decision, or a recent "micro-trauma" that your logical brain can't seem to shake. Spend an afternoon to gain clarity and confidence to move through.
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Multi-Day Deep Dive
Pre- and Post-session and materials Available
$900/Day
6 Clinical Hours
You don’t have months to keep opening up and then wrapping up your trauma. But, you can make space for a few days of focused work. An experience like this doesn’t erase the trauma, but it can give you a real opportunity to put a chunk of it down.
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Flexible Pacing Packages
Save 15% when you Pre-Pay for 10+ Clinical Hours
Starting at $1,275
Use your time in 90-minute blocks or a full-day deep dive. The choice is yours.
Pre-purchasing a package is an act of self-advocacy. It removes the barrier of earning your rest and spares you the internal battle of justifying your need for recovery to yourself or the world around you.
A Note on the Investment
"Why not just do weekly 50-minute sessions that insurance covers?"
Deep work can’t be rushed into a lunch hour. Your story deserves dedicated time and space.
Intensives vs. Weekly Therapy
Therapy Intensives
Great for:
Digging deeper into the pattern
Negative beliefs about yourself
Relationship dynamics that feel unchangeable
Exploring more than the logic and insight of why
Time, space, and comfort to put down the “shoulds” (at least for a little while)
Time to reach a calm and connected space to feel, witness, and reprocess the why.
Pushing past a stuck point
Exploring all sides of a major decision
Gaining clarity around a negative belief you just can’t shake
Expanding confidence and clarity around personal identity and/or relationship dynamic
Learning what generational, spiritual, or cultural beliefs are heirlooms you want to hold on to, and which are burdens that are not yours to carry
Weekly Therapy
Great for:
Addressing current issues
The fight with your spouse
Anxiety around an upcoming work project
An established therapeutic relationship that evolves over time
Support structure
Having someone who knows your story as it continues to unfold
Accountability
Crisis management
Resource Building
Ongoing encouragement
Processing through trauma in small chunks over time
Parts of you aren’t sure if you’re ready yet
Above all else - trust yourself around pacing!
Common “Buts”
I have a therapist I love, but feel I need additional support
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Not all therapists are trauma specialists and that’s okay. There are so many paths to mental wellness.
There are specific approaches that are dedicated to the treatment and processing of trauma, negative beliefs due to early attachment rupture, and focus on the subcortex (where danger, attachment, and automatic responses are stored).
Internal Family Systems
Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) for Couples
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy)
Somatic Experiencing
Brainspotting
Sandtray
An intensive is a way to keep your therapist, but explore the deeper work. The 3 hour option for one stuck point, or the multi-day intensive to dig in deep would be the best options in this scenario.
I do feel I could benefit from an intensive, but I want to go slow first.
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Not a problem! A therapy intensive is a great option during individual therapy with me.
We would meet weekly/biweekly for standard 50 minute sessions and then add intensives when they make sense clinically. This structure would be a good fit for the 3 hour intensive or the flexible package option. This would also allow the weekly/biweekly 50 minute sessions to have more rich and transforming work post intensive.
If you already have a therapist you love and want to stay with, but would like to take it slow to build a relationship with me prior to an intensive here’s what I would suggest:
Pause with your current therapist while you’re building that foundation for the deeper work with me in standard 50 minute sessions. Return to your therapist post trauma work.
Why?
2 sessions a week with 2 different therapists is a lot!
It allows me to observe the whole story of what comes up for you while we are preparing and testing the waters. There are some things that you wouldn’t even think to tell me if you worked on it with another therapist. That’s not your job to know or to keep track of.
Can we make it work? Yes, and it would be an ongoing conversation to ensure that you are getting what is best for you. Sometimes it’s pausing with your therapist or pausing with me. Sometimes it doesn’t pose a difficulty at all. You make the choice that works best for you. Your current therapist and I want the best for you.
I don’t have the time or capacity for weekly therapy, but I wouldn’t say I have “trauma”
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You don’t need to identify your childhood or life experience as traumatic to benefit from an intensive. What I often tell my clients is that their adult brain looking back can rationalize and understand that they had parents who did the best they could, that they were bullied but it doesn’t need to define them, or that others definitely “had it harder than me”.
What’s important to remember, though, is that a child’s brain experienced these events and developed these beliefs. The frontal lobe isn’t fully formed until 25. We can’t think abstractly until late adolescence or adulthood.
Sometimes those childhood experiences get stuck and those hurt parts of us continue to leak out in our choices and behaviors.
The multi-day or flexible package could be a great option for you to address these things, reprocess what is there, and gain benefits from months of weekly therapy in a shorter span of time.
This sounds like what I’m looking for, but cost is a factor.
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I get it. I hate that cost is a barrier to the care people can benefit from. That’s why I do my best to provide as many options as I can to make this work accessible and sustainable.
Payment plans
Sliding scale
Pre-paid packages that include a discounted rate
Billing the first hour for insurance coverage
I accept Aetna, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield (Options, Value, CMMN, and HMO Blue Car plans)
I am an Out of Network Provider for all other insurance (How to Navigate OON) and can provide a superbill for your plan to reimburse you (depending on your benefits)
Requires a separate diagnostic intake (eligible for OON reimbursement)
This is insurance-specific as some do not provide OON benefits or do not allow split billing
My long term plan is to have partnerships to provide scholarships to significantly reduce or cover the cost. I am also committed to holding 20% of my intensives revenue to build up a deeply discounted or pro-bono spot.
Subscribe to my newsletter to get updates on my progress. Full disclosure - it may be six months to a year before I’m able to offer this option.
A Note from Kelsey
You won't be rushed, and you won't be pushed further than you're ready to go. We move at the pace your system needs.
This work isn't about leaving with a list of things to do differently. It's about gaining a new way of understanding yourself, one that shows up naturally in how you move through your life, your relationships, the moments when old patterns resurface.
You’ll have a new internal language that you always have access to.
It’s transformative work and I’d be honored to join you on that journey.
-Kelsey, LCMHCA