PSYCHOTHERAPY
Relational Integrative Therapy Intensive
A concentrated clinical container for restoring stability, coherence, and orientationf. Six two-hour sessions across ten to fourteen days, held within a structure built for depth.
What it is
The intensive is the psychotherapy offering of this practice: short-term, focused clinical work delivered in concentrated form rather than spread across months of weekly appointments.
It begins with a ninety-minute intake session. The intensive itself is six two-hour sessions, scheduled every other day across a ten to fourteen day window, with a natural break in the middle for integration. Thirty to sixty days after it concludes, a ninety-minute integration session closes the container. All sessions are held via secure telehealth for clients located in Minnesota.
When an intensive makes sense
- A period of relational or emotional disruption that calls for restored stability and coherence
- Survival patterns that have been reactivated and are interfering with your life now
- A discrete experience, such as loss, transition, or rupture, that warrants concentrated clinical attention rather than open-ended weekly therapy
- Inner child, parts, and relational repair work that benefits from depth and continuity
When it does not
- Acute crisis requiring immediate stabilization
- Active substance use, a recent return to use, or untreated active addiction
- Active suicidal or homicidal thinking with intent or plan
- Untreated psychotic symptoms, or severe untreated mood, anxiety, or eating disorder symptoms that need symptom-focused care
- Chronic concerns that call for ongoing weekly therapy
Screening happens during the discernment conversation and the intake session. If the intensive format is not the right fit, I will refer you to a provider or modality that is.
How the work is done
The intensive is integrative in the clinical sense: methods are chosen based on your presentation and treatment plan, drawn from a deliberately broad repertoire that includes relational and depth-oriented psychotherapy, parts and inner child work, somatic and embodied awareness, and imaginal and experiential methods. The orientation is relational because the work centers on your relationships: with yourself, with others, and, where it is part of how you make meaning, with the Divine as you understand it.
Everything happens within licensed psychotherapy, is documented as psychotherapy, and is discussed openly in informed consent before the work begins. Specific methods are matters of clinical judgment and conversation, not marketing.
What this work supports
Outcomes vary with readiness and circumstance, and no specific result is guaranteed. The container is designed to support restored stability and orientation after disruption, repair of relational ruptures with self and others, integration of insight that has not yet become embodied, and the internal coherence that can hold whatever comes next.
Why an intensive is priced the way it is
$6,000. That covers the whole container: the ninety-minute Intake session, six two-hour sessions, and the integration session that closes the work weeks later. Roughly fifteen hours of direct clinical care, delivered inside a single arc. The price is the same for every client; what varies is the clinical plan, not the number.
It is worth being clear about what you are and are not paying for, because the intensive is not a premium-priced version of weekly therapy. It is a different instrument.
Weekly therapy spreads its hours across many months. Every session opens something, and then life closes it again before the next one. Seven days later you spend part of the hour finding your way back to where you were. The deep material often stays perpetually half-open, which is part of why open-ended therapy can run for years.
The intensive concentrates the same caliber of clinical work into two weeks, while the material is still open. Nothing has to reset. The momentum builds instead of restarting. And it ends, on purpose, with an integration session that helps what moved actually settle into your life. You are paying for what concentration makes possible that spacing cannot, and for a beginning, a middle, and a real ending.
The honest comparison. At a common private-pay rate, eight months of weekly therapy runs in the same range as this intensive, and can leave the hardest work still reopening every week. The intensive is a comparable investment for a contained, complete piece of work with a defined end. Private pay only; no insurance, no superbills. Payment is due in full before the intensive begins. Payment terms, policies, and your right to a Good Faith Estimate are on Practical Details.
The path in
- Submit the Discernment Application
- Discernment conversation with me, by phone or video
- Therapy agreement and informed consent
- Intake session, then the intensive begins
Looking for growth work after stability, rather than clinical repair? See the Post-Recovery Alignment Program.