ANXIETY AND TRAUMA THERAPY INTENSIVES IN ILLINOIS:
Deep Focused Healing Beyond Weekly Sessions
You’ve done therapy before, maybe for years, and it helped. But something still feels stuck.
You keep talking about the same patterns, same triggers. same old reactions that show up no matter how much you understand them.
And honestly? You don’t want to spend another year slowly circling the same pain.
Most women don’t come to an intensive because they want more insight.
They come because they’re tired of repeating the same patterns and living in survival mode.
If you’ve been living with anxiety, unresolved trauma, chronic stress, or the emotional chaos of midlife transitions, weekly therapy can feel slow or even frustrating. You might be ready for meaningful change now, not months or years from now.
What if the intensity of your experience could be met with an equally intense commitment to your healing?
That’s why I offer private INTENSIVE THERAPY SESSIONS.
Instead of rushing, you’ll have 2 - 15 HOURS OF DEEP, FOCUSED TIME to stay with your process, move through it, and find deeper relief.
This is therapy without interruption, the emotional stop-and-start.
Without postponing the breakthroughs or healing you’re ready for.
Why Intensives Feel Different
Therapy intensive is extended, focused time where your healing is held with care and without interruption. It's not about “pushing harder,” but designed to give you the time and attention you’ve always needed but rarely get.
• Accelerate your progress - what might take months of weekly therapy can often be reached in days with focused, immersive work.
• With space to slow down, your nervous system can finally learn to regulate.
• With room to stay present, emotions can emerge and settle without being cut off.
• With dedicated time, you can connect dots, release patterns, and actually feel shifts take root.
• Integrate and anchor - every intensive ends with tools and practices to help you carry the work into your daily life, so you leave feeling steady, not raw.
Extended therapy may feel right for you if:
• Weekly therapy is not giving you the shifts you want.
• You’re navigating trauma, anxiety, or overwhelm in midlife.
• You’re craving deep, focused healing time.
• You want clarity and tools you can carry with you long after the session.
Therapy intensive can help with:
• Trauma, including complex PTSD and childhood wounds
• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Depression and emotional numbness
• Relationship struggles and insecure attachment patterns
• Low self-worth, shame, and inner criticism
• Life transitions and decision-making
• Grief/loss
• Peri/menopause mental health
• Feeling stuck or disconnected from yourself
How the Sessions Work
• 2–6 hours: Space to focus on one theme, gain clarity, and create meaningful shifts.
• 10-15 hours: Spread over 2–4 days, giving you time for deeper healing while keeping you supported and grounded.
Want to talk about different options?
Your Therapy Intensive Investment
I offer tiered pricing. You decide what length feels right whether that’s a shorter reset, a half-day of focused work, or a multi-day immersive healing.
This is meaningful work and deep commitment to yourself. Intensive therapy asks for time, presence, and energy, It's an investment in real shifts that are often more difficult to access in traditional weekly therapy.
Online Intensive Therapy Options
2-Hour Extended Session - $450
A focused session for targeted work on specific challenge, pattern, or block when you need more than 50 minutes.
• 20 minutes: Grounding, nervous system check-in, intention-setting
• 80 minutes: Core therapy work (trauma processing, parts work, somatic practices)
• 20 minutes: Integration, reflection, and tools for aftercare
Includes a 30-minute follow-up session for further support and integration (within 2 weeks)
Half-Day Intensive (4 Hours) - $880
More time for exploring patterns, doing deep processing, and anchoring new insights.
• 30 minutes: Grounding and intention-setting
• 2.5–3 hours: Focused therapy (trauma processing, parts exploration, somatic work, attachment repair) with short breaks as needed
• 30–45 minutes: Integration, reflection, and personalized coping plan
Full-Day Intensive (6 Hours) - $1290
A retreat-like day of immersive therapy, allowing time for deep work with rest and reflection built in.
• 45 minutes: Grounding, mapping protective parts, nervous system regulation
• 4–5 hours: Deep therapy work with breaks for reflection and rest
• 45–60 minutes: Integration, anchoring insights, creating a future-focused plan
Multi-Day Intensive (12 Hours over 2-3 Days) - $2420
A highly immersive option for profound healing, spread over two days to allow deep work while also giving time for reflection and integration.
Day 1:
• Grounding & nervous system mapping
• Identifying key themes and protective parts
• Initial processing work with parts, inner child, somatic techniques and attachment patterns
• Mid-day integration break to reflect and absorb insights
Day 2:
• Continued deep processing of trauma, relational patterns, or blocked emotions
• Further inner child and parts work, plus somatic regulation practices
• Extended integration period to anchor insights
• Building a practical plan for applying new coping strategies and sustaining progress
Multi-Day Intensive (15 Hours over 3-4 Days) - $2850
The most immersive option, allowing you to go deep while pacing the work across multiple days for rest and integration. This can be scheduled over the weekend, a week, or extended therapy sessions spread out across 3-4 weeks.
Day 1:
• Grounding & nervous system check-in
• Identifying themes and protective parts
• Initial processing work with parts, inner child healing, and somatic practices
• Mid-day integration break for reflection and absorption
Day 2:
• Deep immersion: processing trauma, exploring parts, inner child work
• Somatic practices and attachment-based interventions
• Integration period to anchor insights and regulate the nervous system
Day 3:
• Continued processing of deeper patterns and relational themes
• Extended integration: journaling, guided reflection, somatic regulation
• Creating a practical, future-focused plan to maintain progress and self-care
Why Do Intensives Cost More?
That's a fair question.
And the honest answer is:
You’re not just paying for more time.
You’re investing in a completely different level of care and focus.
Therapy intensive is not simply a longer session. It’s a carefully planned, highly personalized experience designed to help you move through what’s been stuck, not just talk about it.
Extended, focused clinical care
Your sessions are carefully structured to support deep emotional processing, nervous system regulation, and integration, not just conversation.
Preparation and treatment design
Before your intensive, I review your history, clarify your goals, and thoughtfully plan an approach tailored specifically to you.
Sustained therapeutic presence
Holding several hours of trauma-focused, nervous system-based work requires a level of clinical focus and attunement that goes far beyond standard sessions.
Integration and follow-up support
You’ll receive guidance and recommendations to help you stabilize, integrate insights, and carry the work into your daily life.
This level of preparation, presence, and follow-through is part of what you’re investing in.
THE REAL VALUE IS IN THE MOMENTUM
With weekly therapy, it’s easy to feel like you’re reopening the same material over and over.
In an intensive, we stay with your experience long enough for something to actually move.
Your nervous system has time to settle, and your defenses soften. Emotions process instead of getting packed back away.
The work builds hour by hour and that momentum often leads to shifts that might otherwise take months.
FOR MANY CLIENTS IT'S ABOUT THIS:
They’re tired of managing. They’re ready to feel different.
When anxiety eases, when old trauma responses loosen, when you feel more grounded and clear it affects everything: your relationships, your work, your energy, your sense of yourself.
That’s what you’re really investing in. Not just time.
Change.
What You Can Expect to Walk Away With:
Clients often tell me they notice changes like:
• Their anxiety is not running the show anymore
• Their body feels calmer instead of constantly on edge
• They’re not overthinking every interaction
• Triggers don’t hit as hard, or don’t take as long to recover from
• They feel more grounded, clear, and steady
• Old patterns in relationships start to loosen
• They’re less reactive and more present
• They feel more like themselves again
There’s often a sense of relief that’s hard to put into words.
Not because everything in life is suddenly perfect, but because they finally feel different.
Beyond symptom relief, many of my clients experience something even more important:
THEY FINALLY STOP FIGHTING THEMSELVES. There's more self-trust. More space to breathe.
If you’re curious about what an intensive could look like for you, I invite you to reach out. We’ll talk through your needs, your hopes, and if this approach feels like the right step.
Schedule a free consultation today.