About Therapy

A Different Kind of Therapy: Intensive Trauma Healing

Traditional weekly therapy sessions can be deeply valuable — but for many trauma survivors, the pace can feel slow and fragmented. Each week, just as you begin to open up, time runs out.

Intensive trauma therapy offers a different path: focused, immersive sessions that allow you to go deeper, faster, and with greater continuity. This approach can help you achieve in a few days what might otherwise take months or even years.

Therapy takes place in-person at my office in Northampton, Massachusetts:

43 Center Street, Suite 304
Northampton, MA 01060

The Office Space

My Approach

My work combines two powerful, evidence-based trauma therapies:

1. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

EMDR helps you process traumatic memories without having to relive every detail. Through guided bilateral stimulation (eye movements or tapping), the brain reprocesses memories so that they lose their emotional intensity. EMDR allows healing at both the emotional and physical levels — addressing the ways trauma is stored in the body and nervous system.

2. IFS (Internal Family Systems)

IFS helps you connect with and heal your internal “parts” — the protective, wounded, and wise aspects of your mind.
In this model, there are no bad parts — only parts that have taken on extreme roles in response to pain. The goal is not to eliminate these parts, but to help them trust your Self — the calm, compassionate center within you — to lead.

When EMDR and IFS are combined, they create a powerful synergy:
During EMDR, protective parts sometimes step in out of fear. Instead of “pushing through” that resistance, I use IFS to build safety and understanding — allowing the work to continue without re-traumatizing.

Why Intensive Therapy Works

  • Deep Focus: Extended sessions eliminate the “start-stop” rhythm of weekly therapy. You stay in the work long enough for real transformation to occur.

  • Faster Relief: Clients often describe feeling lighter, calmer, and more grounded after just a few days.

  • Mind–Body Integration: Trauma isn’t only psychological — it’s physiological. EMDR and IFS help release stored tension and rebalance the nervous system.

  • Profound Connection: The immersive format fosters a stronger therapeutic relationship, creating safety and trust that allow for deep healing.

Cost and Booking

Full day (up to 6 hours): $1,550/day

Half day (up to 3 hours): $830/day

  • Minimum of three days, with five recommended for most clients

  • A deposit equivalent to one full day is required at booking (deducted from your total).

  • Payment plans are available.

  • Accommodations and meals are not included.

  • (Insurance does not currently cover intensive therapy.)