Therapy Intensives
Meaningful progress doesn't have to take months.
Therapy intensives bring together a personalized approach drawing from EMDR, Brainspotting, somatic therapy, and other methods into a concentrated period of hours or days. With more time to stay engaged in the work, we can build momentum and accelerate the pace of processing without repeatedly stopping and starting between appointments.
In-person in Orlando, Florida · Virtual intensives available across Florida, Georgia & Colorado
Why choose a therapy intensive?
Something has to give.
You've done a lot of work to understand yourself. You know your patterns, you recognize your triggers, and you have a pretty good idea of where some of this comes from.
But knowing where a reaction comes from doesn't translate into showing up differently on a Tuesday morning. You could have done all the research, read every book, or even be a therapist yourself—and still struggle to respond the way you want to.
Why women choose therapy intensives
Something important is at stake. Your relationship is at a crossroads. You're going through a divorce, dealing with a significant loss, or noticing a familiar relational pattern causing pain again. You don't want to spend months circling something that needs attention now.
You understand the pattern, but it's not changing how you live. You've gained insight and made connections, but you still find yourself reacting in the same ways. You feel like you've hit a wall.
You're ready to focus on something specific. There's an experience, reaction, or issue you want to work through, and you'd rather give it dedicated time than address it in pieces over several weeks.
Your therapist has recommended specialized work. You have a therapist you trust, but there's something you want to address through EMDR or another approach they don't offer. You want to do that work while maintaining your existing therapeutic relationship.
You want a different rhythm for therapy. Weekly appointments may not work well with your schedule, or you may prefer setting aside dedicated days to focus on the work.
What is a therapy intensive?
A therapy intensive is a concentrated, individualized approach to therapy that gives us dedicated time to work on something you want to change.
Instead of spreading the work across appointments over several weeks or months, we set aside one to three days, with three to five hours of focused therapy each day.
Think of it as stepping away from your everyday life for a little while—almost like a retreat, but with individualized therapy at the center and intentional time for rest, recovery, and support built into the experience.
I draw from EMDR, Brainspotting, somatic therapy, and other approaches depending on what you need. With this time intentionally set aside, we can stay engaged in the work, build momentum, and make room for integration between sessions.
What therapy intensives can help with
These are some of the experiences and concerns women bring to therapy intensives.
Is a therapy intensive right for you?
Therapy intensives can be a good fit when there's something in your life you're ready to give focused attention to.
People come to intensives with different experiences and goals. You might be looking to work through:
A specific experience, fear, or trigger that's affecting your life today.
Several connected experiences or a longstanding pattern you've understood for years but haven't been able to shift.
Body reactions or early experiences you can't easily put into words. You may not have a clear memory or know exactly why you're reacting the way you do. We can work with that, too, using approaches that don't depend entirely on talking through what happened.
Having a more complex history doesn't automatically rule out an intensive. If you're already working with another therapist, we may also coordinate with them so the intensive complements the support you have in place.
An intensive may not be the right format right now if you're in an active crisis, your immediate safety is uncertain, or you need more ongoing support than a concentrated piece of work can provide.
You don't have to determine fit on your own. We'll consider your readiness, the support you have in place, and what you're hoping to address as part of deciding whether an intensive makes sense for you.
We start with where you are now.
We start with what's happening in your life right now—where you feel stuck or limited, or keep finding yourself in the same situation.
Tell me what you wish could be different, even if you're not sure it's possible.
You don't have to come in with a specific memory to work on or understand why it keeps happening. Some women do, but it's not a requirement.
From there, we work backward.
I'm listening for the patterns, experiences, beliefs, body responses, and survival strategies connected to what's happening now—and paying attention to where the work may need to go.
That might include EMDR, Brainspotting, somatic work, movement, resourcing, or IFS-informed parts work, depending on what you bring and how you respond as we work.
You don't have to know which modality you need or how to combine different approaches. That's my job.
And we won't keep using something simply because it was part of the original plan. I'm paying attention to what's moving, what's working, what isn't, when we need to slow down, and when another approach may give us a better way forward.
Rebeca offers thoughtful, grounded, and accurate information in her work as a therapist and as an EMDR consultant. She worked for our team providing counseling to clients with advanced trauma and had great success helping them stabilize and work through core issues.
Jennifer Stuckert, MA, MFT, LPC, CPCS, ACS
Clinical Director, Restoration Counseling of AtlantaHi, I’m Rebeca.
I love facilitating therapy intensives.
After 20 years as a therapist and three years of offering therapy intensives, I'm still amazed by what can happen when we give something important the time and attention it deserves.
What's possible through therapy intensives
I come into an intensive expecting that meaningful change is possible—not putting pressure on you or promising a particular outcome.
I've seen enough to believe in what's possible. And if you have a hard time believing that for yourself right now, I can hold some of that hope for you while we begin.
Sometimes change shows up in ordinary moments:
You say no without spending the next three days wondering if you did something wrong.
You stay present in a hard conversation instead of automatically shutting down, fighting, or trying to make everything okay.
You notice what you want before organizing yourself around what everyone else needs.
You sleep through the night more often instead of waking from the same nightmare or with your body already on high alert.
You ask for what you need without rehearsing it seventeen times—or talking yourself out of asking altogether.
You get back behind the wheel after an accident without your body reacting as though the crash is happening all over again.
And sometimes the changes are more noticeable. I've worked with people who were afraid to fly and later boarded a plane without relying on medication, and people who had avoided highway driving but eventually felt able to get back on the road.
Sometimes change is unmistakable. Sometimes it's a hundred ordinary things becoming easier. Both matter.
You don't have to hold everything together here
A therapy intensive gives us more than concentrated hours together. We intentionally create and protect space around the work, too—so you have time to settle, receive support, and let what we're working on sink in without immediately having to shift your attention to something else.
You might take time off work, arrange childcare, or travel to Orlando and stay in a hotel for a few days. Instead of moving straight from therapy back into being a partner, parent, business owner, or the person everyone depends on, you have time that's been set aside for you.
We plan for what happens between sessions, too. Together, we think through what will help you rest, recover, and integrate the work. Maybe that's taking a nap, ordering room service and watching Netflix from your hotel bed, or going for a long walk. For multi-day intensives, that time between sessions is an intentional part of the experience—not something you have to figure out on your own.
You don't have to make every decision around what someone else needs—or rush back into your usual routine. You can choose how to spend that time based on what feels right for you.
And if you'd like to make your time here feel a little more like a personal retreat, I'm happy to share recommendations for trusted local providers, including trauma-informed massage therapists, yoga instructors, and facialists, to help you create an experience that feels restorative to you.
What's included in your therapy intensive?
Your intensive is so much more than the face-to-face hours we spend together. Behind every intensive is thoughtful, deliberate preparation and skill honed through 20 years of clinical experience and specialized training.
That experience shapes how I work with you: knowing when to stay with something difficult, when a reaction may be protecting you from something deeper, when to slow down, and when to draw on a different approach to help us move forward.
Each intensive includes:
A customized preparation workbook based on your goals and circumstances.
Individualized treatment planning informed by your history, completed workbook, and what you're hoping to change.
A 60-minute pre-intensive intake session to clarify your goals, discuss what I'm noticing, and talk through the approach I'm recommending. This is typically held virtually before your intensive.
Your scheduled intensive treatment time, with my focused attention, room for breaks, and flexibility to adjust our work as we go.
Personalized integration and resources, with time set aside on your final day to reflect on the work and identify grounding exercises, somatic practices, or other resources that fit your needs.
A 30-minute follow-up session, approximately two weeks later, to talk about what you've noticed since the intensive and anything that may need further attention. This is typically held virtually.
I also pay attention to the smaller details of your experience, from having snacks and comfort items available to considering your sensory preferences, so the space feels welcoming and supportive of the work we're doing.
Your Therapy Intensive starts before day one.
By the time we sit down together, I don't want to be meeting your story for the first time.
Your intensive includes thoughtful preparation before we begin, focused time together, and support afterward to integrate the work and consider what comes next.
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Personalized preparation and planning
After your consultation, I'll customize your preparation workbook based on what you're coming in to work on. You'll return it before our pre-intensive session so I have time to review it closely and come into that conversation already oriented to your history, your goals, and the people and experiences that matter.
We'll meet for a 60-minute virtual pre-intensive session to clarify your goals, share what I'm noticing as I review your history, and talk through the approach I'm recommending.
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Focused treatment, adapted to you
When you arrive, we'll orient you to the space, the resources available to you, and how we'll work together.
From there, the intensive is designed around you. Half-days include three hours of therapy, while full days include five hours of therapy, divided into two longer blocks with a lunch break between them. We'll make room for breaks, movement, and integration along the way.
And I'll keep paying attention.
If something is moving, we stay with it. If you're getting overwhelmed, disconnected, frustrated, or stuck, we respond to that information. We can slow down, change the way we're working, move our bodies, use additional support, or try another approach.
You're not expected to make the treatment work. That's something we're doing together.
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Integration and continued support
We don't simply reach the end of the last treatment block and send you on your way.
We'll leave time on your final day to come back to the goals you started with, notice what feels different and what may still need attention, and help you transition out of the concentrated work.
With your permission, I can also coordinate with your ongoing therapist and provide a clinical summary when that would support your continued care.
About two weeks later, we'll meet virtually for a 30-minute integration session to talk about what you've noticed since the intensive, what's settling in, and whether anything needs additional attention.
The structure is intentional: we begin with a plan and stay responsive to what happens when we get there.
How much time do I need?
The most hours aren't necessarily the best fit. What matters is setting aside enough time for the work you're coming in to do.
As a general planning framework, I often think in terms of one primary focus or target per day. Sometimes we can work through more, particularly if you've had EMDR before. But there are several things I consider, including your history, how you respond to the work, and how much time you need to process and settle.
Someone coming in with one specific goal, previous experience with deeper therapeutic work, and the ability to stay grounded when difficult material comes up may need less time.
Someone wanting to change longstanding relationship patterns, find her voice, or become more comfortable setting boundaries may need more time because those goals often involve several connected experiences.
I'll also consider whether shorter days with more room to rest and regroup, or longer days with breaks built in, would suit you better.
You don't need to figure out the right combination before contacting me. I'll listen to what you're bringing in, walk you through the options, and recommend the format I think makes the most sense for your goals, history, and needs.
Investment
Every therapy intensive is personalized around what you're coming in to work on. The options below give us a starting point for planning how much time to set aside, with room to tailor the experience to your goals, history, and needs.
Half-day intensives
Each intensive includes a 60-minute pre-intensive intake session, 3 hours of intensive therapy per treatment day, and a 30-minute follow-up session. Breaks are built into the experience.
1 half-day $1,800
2 half-days $2,950
3 half-days $4,100
Full-day intensives
Each intensive includes a 60-minute pre-intensive intake session, 5 hours of intensive therapy per treatment day, and a 30-minute follow-up session. Full days include a lunch break, with additional breaks as needed.
1 full day $2,450
2 full days $4,250
3 full days $6,050
Traveling from outside Florida, Georgia, or Colorado?
If you're traveling to Orlando from a state where I'm not licensed, we'll incorporate your pre-intensive intake and follow-up time into your in-person experience while you're here in Florida, rather than scheduling virtual appointments before or after your visit.
You'll still receive the same amount of dedicated time and care. We'll simply plan for it differently.
Ready to take the next step?
You don't need to know exactly how many days to set aside before scheduling a consultation.
We'll talk through what you're bringing in, I'll answer your questions and tell you what I recommend. And if I don't think an intensive is the right fit, I'll tell you that, too.
Therapy Intensive FAQs
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Therapy intensives are a more concentrated way of working. We start with clear goals and a focused plan for what we want to address, while staying responsive to what happens along the way.
Instead of working within shorter weekly appointments, we set aside three or five hours of therapy per day, depending on the format. For multi-day intensives, we can continue the work across consecutive days. That gives us room to build momentum, stay engaged in the process, and work without repeatedly stopping and starting between appointments.
We're still paying attention to what your mind and body can tolerate, taking breaks and adjusting as needed.
I've had clients report significant shifts after just one to three days of intensive work. That's one of the reasons I believe so strongly in this format.
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As a general planning framework, I often think in terms of one primary focus or target per day. Something relatively contained may fit well into a one-day intensive, while several connected experiences or more layered work may call for two or three.
You don't need to figure out how many days you need on your own.
Based on what you want to work on and what I learn during our consultation, I'll recommend how many days to set aside and whether half-days or full days make the most sense.
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You don't have to be struggling with something for years to benefit from a therapy intensive.
Sometimes an experience is recent, but the emotional or physical reactions haven't settled. You may find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, on edge, or responding in ways that don't feel like you.
A therapy intensive offers dedicated time to address those reactions, process the experience, and work with the ways your mind and body are responding.
We'll consider what happened, how recently it occurred, and what you're experiencing now to determine whether an intensive is the right approach for you.
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Yes. Having a complicated trauma history doesn't automatically mean you need years of weekly therapy before meaningful change is possible. Even when experiences are layered, longstanding, or deeply rooted, focused trauma treatment can make a significant difference.
Research supports the potential of intensive treatment, even for people with severe PTSD and multiple traumatic experiences. In a 2018 study of 347 adults, nearly 83% experienced clinically meaningful improvement following an eight-day intensive treatment program, and approximately 55% no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD.
That program combined EMDR with other trauma-focused approaches and was longer than the one- to three-day intensives I offer. So while those results aren't a prediction of what will happen in your intensive, they challenge the assumption that complicated trauma always requires years of treatment before meaningful progress is possible.
An intensive doesn't have to resolve every layer of your history to be worthwhile. My approach is individualized, taking into account your experiences, current stability, support system, and treatment goals to determine what kind of focused work makes sense for you.
Van Woudenberg, C., Voorendonk, E. M., Bongaerts, H., Zoet, H. A., Verhagen, M., Lee, C. W., & de Jongh, A. (2018). Effectiveness of an intensive treatment programme combining prolonged exposure and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for severe post-traumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1), 1487225.
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An intensive isn’t three hours of nonstop processing. I’m paying attention throughout the day to how you’re responding, what your mind and body can tolerate, and whether we need to keep going, slow down, take a break, move, resource, or change what we’re doing.
Getting activated doesn’t mean you’re doing the intensive wrong. Part of my job is to track what’s happening and adjust the work as we go.
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You don't need to come in with the “right” memory—or a clear memory at all.
Sometimes we start with a specific experience you already know you want to work on. Other times, the starting point is what's happening now: a trigger, body sensation, reaction, fear, or pattern that keeps showing up.
Bring me the thing that keeps happening and what you wish could be different. From there, we work backward.
I'll help identify where the work may need to go and recommend how we approach it.
You don't have to find the right memory or choose the right modality before you get here. That part is my job.
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People respond differently after an intensive. Some clients tell me they feel relaxed—one client described it as feeling like she’d had a massage. Others feel tired or drained. There isn’t one “right” way to feel afterward.
Your mind and body have been doing hard work, so regardless of how you feel, I recommend treating the time after your intensive as recovery time. Keep your schedule light, don’t plan to go straight back to work or make major decisions, and give yourself room to rest.
Go for a walk. Move your body. Get a massage. Eat something nourishing. Hydrate. You don’t need to journal about the session, prepare for the next day, or give yourself more therapy homework. Give yourself permission to receive the work and recover.
On the final day, we’ll talk about reentry and what you may need as you return to regular life. You’ll also receive a personalized follow-up summary, and we’ll meet for an online integration session approximately two weeks later to talk about what you’re noticing and what comes next.
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Yes. If you're physically located in Florida, Georgia, or Colorado during your appointments, therapy intensives are available virtually. We'll talk through what a virtual intensive looks like and make sure you have what you need to create a comfortable, private space for the work. I'm also happy to discuss whether a virtual intensive is a good fit for what you're coming in to address.
You're also welcome to travel to Orlando for an in-person intensive and think of your time here as a bit of a retreat. There's plenty to enjoy nearby, from nature and quiet places to explore to Orlando's theme parks.
If you decide to come to Orlando, I'll share some of my favorite local recommendations—including trauma-informed massage therapists and bodyworkers—so you have options if you'd like to build some extra rest and care around your intensive.
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Therapy Intensives are not usually covered by insurance, although plans and policies vary. I recommend checking directly with your insurance company if you’d like to know what your specific plan may cover.
I’m an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. Your Therapy Intensive is paid directly to my practice according to the payment schedule in your agreement. If you choose to seek out-of-network reimbursement afterward, I’m happy to provide a superbill and talk with you about what you’ll need to submit.
In my experience, clients have generally received little reimbursement for Therapy Intensives because of the way intensive sessions are coded.
I don’t want you to schedule an intensive assuming insurance will cover a significant portion of the cost.
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Because Therapy Intensives require substantial time, preparation, and a reserved block of my schedule, a 50% non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your dates. The remaining balance is due seven days before your intensive.
Your deposit covers both the dates reserved for you and the preparation that happens before your intensive, including reviewing your materials and developing your treatment plan.
If you cancel 14 or more days before your intensive, you forfeit your deposit. If you cancel less than 14 days before your intensive, the full intensive fee is due and non-refundable.
If you need to reschedule, I’ll be glad to offer new dates when possible. Rescheduling is based on my current availability and cannot be guaranteed within a specific timeframe. A new 50% deposit is required to reserve new dates.
Cancellation and rescheduling policies are strictly enforced.