Sooo...What is a therapy intensive?
A therapy intensive is a focused, immersive experience designed to help you move through deep emotional work in a condensed period of time. Instead of spreading sessions over months, an intensive allows you to dedicate uninterrupted space to explore the patterns, memories and emotions that keep you stuck. It’s ideal for people who feel ready to dive in, who want to experience momentum in their healing or who need more time and containment than a weekly session allows.
During an intensive, we weave together evidence-based therapy, mindfulness and somatic approaches so you can access both cognitive insight and body-based release. The extended format gives your nervous system the space to slow down, process and integrate — something that’s harder to achieve when you have to “wrap up” after 50 minutes.
What sets therapy intensives apart
Therapy intensives: What to expect
Choose the right intensive for you
3-Hour Mini Online Intensive
This virtual option is ideal for clients who prefer to work from home or who want to explore intensive work without committing to a full-day format. It’s best for focused goals — like working through a specific memory, decision or emotional block.
6-Hour One Day In-Person Intensive
We’ll move between seated talk therapy, breathwork, gentle movement and periods of rest and reflection. The one-day intensive is designed to help you access deeper emotional processing while maintaining a strong sense of safety and regulation. Breaks are built in for journaling, nourishment and integration — allowing your nervous system to process in real time.
12-Hour Two Day In-Person Intensive
This is the most immersive experience I offer. The two-day format creates a sense of continuity that allows for profound transformation — your system has space to unwind, explore, rest and return for even deeper integration the next day.
Modalities used in therapy intensives
Benefits of therapy intensives
Achieve relief more quickly
What might take months in weekly therapy can unfold in a matter of days within the intensive format. It’s an opportunity to accelerate your healing while still honoring your pace and readiness.
Address the root cause of symptoms
Intensive therapy gives us the space to go beyond surface-level coping and uncover the deeper experiences driving your patterns. By working at the root — rather than just managing symptoms — you create lasting change from the inside out.
Invest in cost-effective progress
While intensives are a higher upfront investment, they can save money over time by condensing months of therapy into one or two transformative days. You get more concentrated support, fewer weeks of scheduling and faster relief.
Save time and emotional energy
Intensives let you do deep, uninterrupted work without the constant scheduling, commuting or emotional gear-shifting that comes with weekly sessions. Instead of drying your tears to hop into another meeting, you get the space to fully process.
Effectiveness of therapy intensives
Therapy intensives are not just another wellness fad — they’re an evidence-based way to help people heal more deeply, more efficiently and with lasting results. Research shows that when clients have uninterrupted time to process trauma and regulate their nervous systems, they often experience the same (or greater) progress as months of weekly therapy in just a few days.
Beyond symptom reduction, intensives support lasting integration. By combining extended therapeutic time with body-based and mindfulness approaches, clients learn to regulate their nervous systems more effectively — creating transformation that endures long after the sessions end.
Who are therapy intensives for?
High-achieving professionals, moms and caregivers
If you’re used to holding everything together for everyone else, an intensive gives you permission to finally focus on you. It’s an opportunity to slow down, release constant pressure and reconnect with your needs without interruption.
Clients feeling stuck in weekly therapy
Sometimes traditional therapy starts to feel like you’re circling the same patterns without real movement. Intensives allow you to go deeper and create momentum where you’ve been feeling stagnant.
Those navigating major life transitions
Big changes — in identity, relationships or roles — (even positive ones!) can bring up old emotions that need space to process. Intensives help you navigate these shifts with support, clarity and confidence.
People ready to heal at the root
If you’re tired of managing symptoms and want lasting change, this format creates the time and depth needed for real transformation. Intensives help you uncover the through-lines between patterns that share the same emotional roots.
Therapy intensives go beyond symptoms and get to the core
Many people come to therapy wanting relief from anxiety, depression or relationship struggles — but these symptoms often trace back to deeper roots.
Intensives are designed to address the issues beneath the surface: the experiences that shape how you think, feel and connect.
Here are the real issues that are often at the core of so many psychological and relationship issues...
What's at the core of symptoms?
Trauma
Intensives create the space and safety to move beyond simply talking about what happened and begin processing how it lives in the body. We’ll work gently with the nervous system to release stored survival responses so you can be more present in your life.
Grief and loss
Loss changes us — and often, the fear of losing again keeps us from living fully. An intensive offers space to process grief at its roots, so you can move from guarding against pain to allowing yourself to love, trust and engage with life unapologetically.
Attachment wounding
Are old wounds in relationships still shaping how you show up today? Through relational and somatic work, intensives help you repair trust in yourself and others while learning what true emotional safety feels like.
Identity transformation
Whether you’re moving through a life transition, recovering from childhood trauma or finding yourself in motherhood, intensives offer a grounded space to explore where you've been and who you’re becoming.
Finding the best therapy intensive
Look for a trauma-informed approach
Not all intensives are designed with the nervous system in mind. Choose a therapist who prioritizes safety, pacing and body awareness so healing doesn’t feel overwhelming or rushed.
Consider the therapist’s specialization
The best fit therapist is someone who deeply understands your concerns — whether that’s trauma, attachment or burnout. Their training and experience should align with the work you want to do.
Evaluate the structure and format
Intensives can vary from half-day to multi-day experiences. Make sure the schedule allows enough space for integration, rest and reflection rather than packing too much into one day, especially if you're traveling into LA for the intensive.
Trust the therapeutic connection
Even the most advanced methods fall flat without a genuine relationship. Choose someone you feel comfortable with — therapy works best when you feel safe, seen and supported. Think best-friend energy but who happens to be a therapist.
Meet your Los Angeles therapist
Hi, I'm Natalie! 🙋♀️ I help high-achieving women, recovering people-pleasers and those carrying invisible trauma reconnect with themselves and create lasting change.
Over the past decade, I’ve guided hundreds of clients through deep emotional work using a holistic and somatic approach that integrates mind, body and nervous system healing.
I created therapy intensives for clients who were ready to go beyond the surface — to process what’s been held for years and finally feel free.
My work blends somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, breathwork and parts mapping to help you understand not just why you feel the way you do, but how to shift it at the body level.
Whether you’re healing from loss, navigating a major life transition or simply feeling stuck in old patterns, our work together focuses on helping you return home to yourself — at your own pace, and on your own timeline.
