The Deep Work Intensive
Deeper healing in less time
For people who are ready to actually get somewhere
In-person in Edmond, OK
Virtually across Oklahoma and Vermont
People come to intensive work for different reasons.
Some have been in weekly therapy for years and feel like they keep circling the same ground.
Others have never really done much therapy but know something is holding them back — in their relationships, their work, the way they move through the world — and they're ready to address it directly.
Some are high achievers who have managed anxiety, perfectionism, or old patterns for years and are finally ready to stop managing them.
What they have in common: they're done waiting for something to shift on its own. And they're ready to commit focused time to actually making it happen.
One 3-hour intensive feels like weeks of weekly therapy. That's not a marketing claim. It's just math — and it's why this format works so well for the right person.
The problem with the weekly format
Weekly therapy works well for a lot of people. But for deeper material — old patterns, stuck memories, things that haven't moved despite your best efforts — the stop-start format can get in the way.
Here's what actually happens in a typical 55 minute weekly session: you check in, manage whatever came up in life that week, re-orient to where you were last time, start to get somewhere — and then it's time to wrap up. For a lot of people, especially those who are highly compartmentalized, it takes significant time just to get past the surface. By the time something real starts to open up, the session is over.
Then you close the box, go back to your life, and come back next week and do it again.
Weekly therapy isn't a full hour of actual deep work. One check-in, one re-orientation, one wrap-up — and whatever's left in between is where the real work happens.
An intensive flips that ratio entirely. One check-in. One wrap-up. And then hours of sustained, directed focus without life interrupting in between.
How intensive work is different
Working intensively creates something that weekly therapy rarely can — genuine momentum. We can actually sit with a story. Really explore what's happening in the body. Stay with a memory through the full arc of reprocessing instead of stopping mid-process and losing the thread before next week.
For people who are highly compartmentalized — who are good at keeping the lid on, who take time to get to what's actually there — the intensive format is often the only one that can reach the material that needs to move. There's simply not enough time in 55 minutes to get past the defenses, into the work, and back out safely.
Three hours changes that completely.
What we can work on
EMDR and parts work aren't only for trauma. The Deep Work Intensive is exceptionally effective for a wide range of things that keep people stuck or holding themselves back:
Trauma & PTSD
Complex & developmental trauma
Anxiety & chronic worry
Perfectionism & the inner critic
Performance blocks
People pleasing & boundary patterns
Relationship patterns that keep repeating
Grief & loss
First responder & occupational stress
Identity & life transitions
What the work actually looks like
I work primarily in 2-3 hour intensive sessions over time. This allows us to go deep without overwhelming your system, and gives what surfaces room to integrate between sessions. Most clients find that 6-12 intensives over the course of several months is where significant, lasting change happens — the kind of transformation that feels impossible to achieve one hour at a time.
For specific, contained work — a single incident, someone traveling from out of state, or a very focused piece of work — a longer single-day format is also available.
Every intensive draws on whatever combination of approaches the work calls for: EMDR to reprocess what's been stuck, parts work (IFS informed) to understand what's been protecting you and help those parts update, and somatic techniques to work with what lives in the body — not just what you can name in words.
We start with a planning session — 60 minutes to clarify your goals, understand what you want to target, and design the work together. Nothing gets scheduled until we both know it's the right fit.
Who this is for
You've done some therapy and feel like you keep circling the same ground without real movement.
You're a high achiever who has been managing anxiety, perfectionism, or old patterns for years — and you're ready to actually resolve them.
You're ready to commit focused time and energy to actually resolving something — not just managing it.
Your schedule doesn't allow for consistent weekly sessions, but you can carve out dedicated blocks of time.
There's something specific — an event, a pattern, a phase of life — you're ready to work on directly.
You want results, not indefinite process.
Investment
Planning Session — $200 (60 minutes, required before scheduling an intensive)
3-Hour Intensive — $600
6-Hour Intensive — $1,200
A 50% deposit is required to schedule your intensive.
Intensives are private pay only — no insurance, no diagnosis required. That keeps things private, flexible, and entirely focused on what you actually want to address.
Telehealth intensives are available for clients in Oklahoma and Vermont.
You've gotten really good at holding it together.
But holding it together isn't the same as actually resolving it.
The Deep Work Intensive is for people who are done waiting for the weekly format to eventually get there — and who are ready to commit to doing something different.
If you're ready to stop circling and actually get somewhere, that's enough to start with. Fill out the inquiry form and we'll figure out if it's the right fit from there.