Psychotherapy intensives

Psychotherapy intensives offer a unique and highly effective approach to mental health and personal growth, providing individuals with the opportunity to experience profound healing, transformation, and empowerment in a concentrated timeframe.

Intensives are ideal for couples, busy professionals, parents, complex trauma, or simply, patients who cannot wait to feel better any longer. 

Benefits of psychotherapy intensives

• Deep Dive into Healing: Extended and focused period for individuals to delve deeply into their emotional and psychological concerns, facilitating significant progress in a shorter timeframe compared to traditional 50-minute-per-session therapy.
• Accelerated Healing: Rapid progress and insight, enabling individuals to make significant strides in understanding themselves, resolving issues, and developing coping strategies. Healing which may traditionally take weeks or even months, can take place in a much more condensed timeframe.
• Breakthrough Moments:  Generate profound breakthrough moments and insights that can catalyze transformative change, leading to greater self-awareness, emotional healing, and personal growth.
• Focused Environment: Reduced need for pertinent “life updates” since therapy is condensed
• Holistic Approach: Sufficient time to unlock more a comprehensive and multitudinous therapeutic modality approach
• Continuity of Care: Build on momentum, allowing clients to build on progress and maintain therapeutic gains throughout the program.
• Cost Effective: May be less expensive than the traditional, protracted approach.

Intensives details and fees

• Individuals
  • 50 minute intake
  • 3 hour intensive session
  • 50 minute post session
  • One day: $1,750
  • Two day: $2,800
  • Three day: $3,850
• Couples
  • 50 minute intake
  • 3 hour intensive session
  • 50 minute post session
  • One day: $2,000
  • Two day: $3,200
  • Three day: $4,400

Intensives days may be scheduled consecutively or on different weeks. Pre- and post-intensive sessions may be scheduled on weekdays based on availability, typically 1-2 weeks before and after the intensive sessions.

Rapid breakthrough in therapy

We often think about therapy in terms of hour-long weekly sessions. During these sessions, you can expect gradual progress.

Therapy intensives deliver the same treatment benefits as conventional therapy but in a much shorter time frame. Intensive therapy sessions typically last 75 to 90 minutes, with much shorter intervals between sessions.

Key Points

• Therapy intensives offer rapid breakthroughs with longer sessions and shorter intervals between them.
• Intensive therapy sessions save time, reduce travel, and allow for deeper, more focused treatment.
• Longer sessions help couples resolve conflicts and support trauma/PTSD recovery with sustained focus.
• Sessions range from 75 minutes to multi-day intensives, tailored to your needs with an initial assessment.

What are the benefits of therapy intensives?

Therapy intensives often enable making tangible improvements rapidly. This immersive treatment allows a more extended focus on the issue rather than an off-again, on-again feeling that can often happen in weekly long-term sessions.

Intensive therapy can be more time-efficient because a client can have two sessions in one without an introductory 5 to 10 minutes before each hour that the therapist and client usually spend catching up and reviewing in conventional sessions.

Therapy intensives can save time and money, reduce the hassle of travel time, and eliminate the need to arrange childcare for every hour of therapy.

What kind of challenges are best suited for therapy intensives?

Couples therapy and treatment for trauma often do exceptionally well in longer sessions for a shorter amount of time.

The longer length allows couples to work through complex challenges and more rapidly achieve their goals.

For trauma/PTSD, longer sessions build a sense of safety and offer more focus to support sustained recovery.

What is the length and structure of a therapy intensive?

The length and the structure of a therapy intensive can depend on what works best for you in coordination with Dr. Gold. Sessions can range from over an hour to a full day or even a few consecutive days.

The structure of a session will be customized to your needs. Often, intensive therapy has hour-long blocks, with short breaks between each block.

Start with an assessment

Since intensive therapy will be tailored to your needs, we will start with an initial assessment. The assessment will drive the therapy plan and schedule.

This initial assessment usually lasts about an hour and allows the therapist and the patient to get acquainted, discuss the issue being treated, set goals, and determine the best way to approach the issue.

What are the expected outcomes of intensive therapy?

Intensive therapy often delivers similar outcomes to conventional treatment but more rapidly and with more noticeable and dramatic changes.

For couples, intensive therapy can rapidly enhance communication, restore intimacy, and build skills for long-term happiness.

Clients with anxiety, trauma/PTSD, and other challenges often see a rapid reduction in symptoms. Calm, focus, and balance can be achieved.

What happens after the intensive therapy is completed?

Dr. Gold may recommend a follow-up session following the therapy intensive to measure progress and to review what was dealt with during therapy sessions.