Brainspotting and IFS Therapy Intensives offer a powerful, accelerated approach to healing by condensing the work of multiple weeks of therapy into just hours or days. Instead of the stop-and-start rhythm of weekly sessions, intensives create uninterrupted space to go deeper—helping you move through trauma, perfectionism, self-doubt, anxiety, or long-standing patterns with greater clarity and momentum. Sessions typically last 90 minutes to 4 hours at a time, often scheduled over one or several consecutive days, allowing you to address the root of your concerns without losing progress between appointments. This focused format can significantly reduce the total number of sessions needed overall and helps you feel better sooner.

Regular therapy sessions can sometimes feel interrupted due to their shorter time frame - especially when you find yourself taking a chunk of session time “catching up” about the previous week’s events.

Intensives give you unbroken time and space to continue to explore relevant information without running out of time. We can continue to go down the “rabbit hole” of related symptoms and try to make more relevant connections to help you heal.

During our free consultation call we will discuss what your unique needs are and come up with our Intensive plan.

This typically includes:

Intake session (1 hour) - to gather relevant information and make a plan for what you would like to work on

Intensive session(s) - where we do the work! These sessions range from 90 minutes to 4 hours at a time (with breaks for longer sessions). These can be anywhere from 1 day to multiple days.

Follow Up (1 hour) - during this session we will review what you learned and what would be helpful moving forward. You will receive personalized strategies to help you absorb and apply what we’ve worked on, and we’ll discuss next steps for continued support, whether that’s additional therapy, intensives, or work that you can do on your own.

Intensives can be scheduled on weekends, weekdays, and weekday evenings (prices might vary depending on day/time).

There are a few different reasons that you might choose to do a Brainspotting & IFS Intensive! This could be because:

You only have a small amount of time in your schedule and the timing of Intensives makes more sense for you.

You aren’t sure that you can pay out of pocket for weekly therapy sessions but feel more comfortable making an investment for a shorter period of time.

You are seeing a regular therapist for weekly/bi-monthly/monthly sessions and want a few more intensive sessions to get to the bottom of some of your negative core beliefs/stressors/traumas, etc, to be continued in your regular work.

You have tried regular therapy sessions before and didn’t have the results that you were hoping for.

Absolutely! I love coordinating care with other therapists (or other providers such as dietitians and psychiatrists) to ensure you are getting your needs met.

Intensives are set up to be either a standalone service, or to be an additional space to process in additional to other work you are doing.

The idea behind Brainspotting is that where you look (ie where your eyes gaze) has a deep impact on how you feel. 

Brainspotting can help you gain insight and process things that you might not even realize were there. It helps to target traumas or other experiences and emotions at the root. Instead of utilizing our “thinking brain” (the part of the brain that uses language - like we do in traditional talk therapy), we instead tap right into parts of our brain that hold onto memories, feelings, and emotional regulation. You may notice in your everyday life that you find yourself “zoned out” and staring at a specific spot on the wall or the floor. Sometimes when we do this we can give ourselves the space to really process something - and in doing so we may also be inadvertently finding what we call a “Brainspot,” or spot in our visual field that is directly tied to an experience or emotion. We can harness this to help you process a specific memory, trauma, or feeling to facilitate deep healing and relief.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a transformative approach that can help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself.

IFS is a compassionate approach to healing and self-discovery that views each person as made up of different parts. Just like a family is made up of individuals who have unique roles and personalities, our own inner world consists of various parts, each with its own emotions, beliefs, and motivations.

IFS uses a “bottom up” approach, which basically means we are getting out of our logical (or cognitive) brain and into our more emotional brain. We do this by allowing ourselves to truly be “in” our bodies (something you might not be used to and might even feel scary - but that is normal!) and understand our deep internal experiences. Many traditional talk therapies do their work from the more logical brain, and although you might experience some temporary relief from that work, Clients often tell me that it is short-lived and is not a long term solution to the struggles that they are experiencing.