Therapy Intensives in Southwest Michigan & Online
Integrative Mental Health & Somatic EMDR for women Across Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan & New York
What Is an Intensive Therapy Experience?
Intensive therapy is an accelerated, immersive approach to healing that condenses months of traditional weekly therapy into several consecutive days of focused therapeutic work. Rather than brief weekly sessions that interrupt the momentum of deep processing, you engage in extended daily sessions that allow you to go deeper, faster, and achieve breakthroughs that might otherwise take months or years.
The Format
Our intensive programs typically run 1-3 consecutive days, with 3 hours of therapeutic work each day. This isn't group therapy or a workshop—this is dedicated one-on-one time where every moment is tailored specifically to your healing journey. Between sessions, you'll have time for rest, integration, and gentle activities that support your process.
Weekly therapy isn’t always the answer.
Weekly therapy is invaluable for many situations.
But the traditional 50-minute weekly format has inherent limitations that can work against deep healing.
Here's what happens: You spend the first few minutes settling in and catching up. You begin to access deeper material, your nervous system starts to respond from a place of safety, and just as you're reaching the emotional core of what needs to be processed… your time is up. You leave in a vulnerable state, return to daily life's demands, and by the time you return the following week, you have re-established your protective patterns… and it can feel like you’re starting from square one. This cycle can continue for months or years, with glimpses of breakthrough but never quite enough momentum to create lasting transformation.
What you need is uninterrupted time where your nervous system can settle fully, where you can move through multiple layers of processing without stopping and restarting, and where integration happens naturally as part of the journey. This is exactly what intensive therapy provides: concentrated focus, sustained nervous system regulation, and an immersive environment that allows transformation to unfold at the pace your healing actually requires.
Traditional Weekly Therapy:
You begin opening up, then must leave just as you're getting to the difficult material
A week passes; you lose momentum and must recap previous sessions
Your nervous system returns to baseline between sessions, never fully settling into the depth of work
Life demands interrupt the continuity of healing
Work unfolds over 12-24+ months
Intensive Therapy:
You move through layers of experience without interruption, reaching depths not possible in 50 minutes
Momentum builds each day as we continue from where we left off
Your nervous system has time to truly settle, allowing authentic regulation and integration
You step away from daily demands to focus entirely on your healing
Achieve months of progress in one week
This Work Is For You If:
You've experienced a serious illness, injury, or diagnosis that changed how you see yourself
You're struggling to rebuild after loss, trauma, or a life event that shattered your assumptions
You feel disconnected from your body and don't trust your physical self anymore
Traditional talk therapy hasn't created the shift you need
You're ready for intensive work but need the safety of nervous system regulation first
You want to compress months of healing into a dedicated, immersive experience
You're capable of taking time away from daily demands to focus on deep therapeutic work
You're willing to feel uncomfortable emotions in service of genuine transformation
How Therapy Intensives Work
Our intensive packages are thoughtfully designed to provide comprehensive support before, during, and after your immersive sessions. This isn't just about scheduling longer appointments—it's about creating a contained, sacred experience where real transformation can unfold.
What's Included in Every Intensive Package:
1. Custom-Designed Therapy Intensive Consultation (90 minutes)
Before we begin the intensive work, we meet for a thorough planning session to identify your goals and prepare for the experience. Together, we'll explore the painful memories, limiting beliefs, difficult emotions, or intrusive images from which you're seeking relief. This session helps us design an intensive that's truly tailored to what your system needs.
2. Personalized Intensive Workbook
You'll receive a comprehensive workbook that includes assessments and preparatory activities to help you get the most from your intensive experience. The workbook also serves as a record of your progress—documenting your treatment goals before, during, and after our sessions. This becomes a resource you can return to as you continue integrating the work we do together.
3. The Intensive Sessions
The heart of the experience: concentrated therapy sessions that take place over 1-3 consecutive days, with 3 hours of face-to-face work each day. These sessions are available both in-office and virtually for clients in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York. Each intensive includes targeted Somatic EMDR, Integrative Mental Health exploration, and nervous system resourcing activities—all customized specifically for you and what you're working through.
4. Post-Intensive Integration Session (90 minutes)
After completing your intensive, we meet again to debrief the experience and reflect on the areas of insight, relief, and transformation that emerged. This session helps you make sense of what shifted, identify your next steps, and create a plan for continued growth and healing beyond the intensive.
Invest In Your Healing
Intensive therapy represents a significant commitment of time, energy, and resources. The investment starts at $2,000 depending on the length and specific needs of your intensive. This includes all therapeutic sessions, preparation and integration support, and personalized materials.
While this is a substantial investment, consider that this represents 6-12 months of weekly therapy condensed into one transformative week, with the added benefit of nervous system-focused work that creates lasting change at a neurobiological level.
Payment plans are available, and I'm happy to provide documentation for insurance reimbursement (though intensive therapy is typically an out-of-pocket expense).
Intensive Package Options
We offer three formats, each designed to meet different needs and depths of work. All packages include the consultation, workbook, intensive sessions, and integration session described above.
1-Day Intensive: Foundation for Change
8-hour program | 6 face-to-face hours
Weekday Investment: $2,000
Weekend Investment: $2,800
Available Tuesday through Saturday
This single-day intensive provides concentrated time to work with a specific memory, belief system, or area of developmental trauma. It's ideal for clients who have a focused treatment goal or who want to experience the intensive format before committing to a longer program. The 6 hours of face-to-face work allows us to move through preparation, processing, and resourcing in a complete arc.
2-Day Intensive: Deeper Processing
11-hour program | 9 face-to-face hours
Weekday Investment: $2,750
Weekend Investment: $3,850
Available Tuesday through Saturday
The two-day format offers more spaciousness for complex trauma work. With 9 hours of face-to-face time spread across consecutive days, your nervous system has the opportunity to process, rest overnight, and return to continue the work with more capacity. This format is particularly powerful for somatic EMDR processing of multiple memories, exploring various parts, or addressing developmental trauma that has roots in different periods of your life.
3-Day Intensive: Transformative Immersion
14-hour program | 12 face-to-face hours
Weekday Investment: $3,500
Weekend Investment: $4,900
Available Tuesday through Saturday
Our most comprehensive format provides the deepest level of immersive work. With 12 hours of face-to-face time over three consecutive days, we can address multiple layers of trauma, work with complex parts systems, and create significant shifts in your nervous system's baseline capacity for regulation. This format allows for the kind of sustained attention that can produce profound and lasting change—the kind that might otherwise take many months of weekly sessions to achieve.
Who Benefits from Therapy Intensives?
Intensive therapy can be especially valuable if you:
Have been in traditional weekly therapy and feel ready for deeper, more concentrated work
Are traveling from out of state and want to maximize your time with a trauma-focused therapist
Have a specific traumatic event or period you're ready to process more fully
Feel stuck in patterns that weekly sessions haven't been able to shift
Want to work with EMDR, somatic approaches, or IFS in a more immersive way
Have limited ongoing availability but can dedicate several consecutive days to your healing
Are experiencing a transition point in life and need concentrated support
Have complex developmental trauma that benefits from sustained, uninterrupted attention
Virtual Therapy Intensives
We offer virtual intensive packages for clients in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York. Online Somatic EMDR therapy intensives, virtual trauma processing, and remote somatic work can be just as powerful as in-person sessions—especially when you're in your own space where your nervous system already feels safe. Virtual intensives also eliminate travel logistics, allowing you to rest and integrate between session days without the stress of commuting.
Scheduling Your Intensive
Therapy intensives are available Tuesday through Saturday, with both weekday and weekend options to accommodate your schedule.
Because these packages require dedicated preparation and scheduling, we recommend reaching out at least 3-4 weeks in advance to ensure we can find dates that work for both of us and give you adequate time to prepare with your workbook.
Insurance and Intensive Packages
Therapy intensive packages require upfront payment, and it's important to know that insurance reimbursement for intensive formats is often limited or unavailable—even with out-of-network benefits. Most insurance companies are structured around traditional 50-minute weekly sessions, and intensive work doesn't always fit within their reimbursement frameworks.
That said, when you consider the bigger picture, intensives can actually be more cost-effective and time-efficient than months of weekly therapy. What might take six months to a year of weekly sessions—at $225 per session—can often be accomplished in a concentrated intensive format. You're investing more upfront, but potentially saving both time and money in the long run while creating the kind of meaningful shifts that accelerate your overall healing journey.
We do provide detailed superbills for each component of your intensive package, and you're welcome to submit them to your insurance to see what coverage may be available. Our partnership with Reimbursify can help you understand your specific benefits and submit claims, though we encourage realistic expectations about reimbursement for intensive formats.
Intensive therapy represents a significant investment—in time, resources, and courage. It's also an investment that can create transformative shifts while honoring both your schedule and your healing process. You deserve the kind of concentrated, attentive care that meets you where you are.
Therapy Intensives as Adjunct Treatment
Complementing Your Ongoing Therapy Work
You don't have to choose between your current therapist and an intensive experience. Many clients find that therapy intensives work beautifully as an adjunct to their ongoing weekly therapy with another provider.
If you're already working with a therapist you trust and value, an intensive can serve as a powerful catalyst for the work you're doing together. Perhaps you've been building resources and stability in weekly sessions and now feel ready for concentrated trauma processing. Maybe you've identified a specific memory or belief system that needs focused attention beyond what your regular sessions can provide. Or you might be at a plateau in your current therapy and need a different modality or approach to help you move forward.
How Adjunct Intensives Work
When you participate in an intensive while maintaining your relationship with your current therapist, we work collaboratively to support your overall healing journey. With your permission, we can coordinate with your ongoing therapist before and after the intensive to ensure continuity of care. You'll return to your regular therapy sessions with new insights, processed memories, and increased nervous system capacity—all of which can deepen the work you continue with your primary therapist.
This approach is especially valuable when:
Your current therapist doesn't offer Somatic EMDR, Nervous System Work, or Integrative Mental Health, but you'd benefit from these modalities
You need concentrated trauma processing but want to maintain your established therapeutic relationship
Your weekly therapy provides essential ongoing support, but you're ready for deeper work on specific issues
You're interested in intensive Somatic EMDR therapy in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, or New York but already have a local therapist you see regularly
Many therapists welcome and encourage their clients to pursue intensive work as a complement to ongoing treatment. It's not about replacing the relationship you've built—it's about adding another layer of support and healing to your journey.
Hey! I’m Lynn,
I work with women who feel like they've lost touch with who they are after going through illness, trauma, or major life changes.
With advanced training in nervous system regulation, somatic EMDR, and Integrative Mental Health Counseling, I bring a deeply integrative approach to identity reconstruction work.
I understand that when your core assumptions about life have been challenged, you need more than weekly talk therapy. You need someone who can help your nervous system find safety again while guiding you through the complex process of discovering who you are beyond the crisis.
My intensive therapy practice emerged from witnessing how many clients needed more than weekly sessions could offer; they needed dedicated time and space to do the deep work of rebuilding from the inside out.
Learn more about me here
FAQs
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If you're able to take several days away from responsibilities, are willing to engage in emotionally challenging work, and feel that weekly therapy isn't providing the depth you need, you may be ready. Our consultation will help determine if this is the right time and approach for you.
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This is precisely why nervous system regulation is the foundation of our work. You'll learn to recognize overwhelm and have tools to manage it before we go deeper. We pace the work to match your nervous system's capacity, ensuring you're challenged without being retraumatized.
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Intensives are held in a private, comfortable therapy space in Southwest Michigan, easily accessible for clients in St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, and Chicagoland. For virtual clients across IL, MA, MI, and NY, we meet via a secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform that supports deep, focused work from the comfort of your own home.
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Integration is crucial. You'll have one follow-up sessions in the month after your intensive. Many clients choose to continue with monthly sessions after this period to maintain momentum, though this is optional. If you are working with another therapist on a weekly basis, I am happy to provide a summary of our work together, so you can continue your work there.
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While most insurance plans do not cover the full cost of an intensive format, I am an out-of-network therapist. I provide detailed superbills for PPO insurance which may allow for partial reimbursement. Many clients also use HSA or FSA funds to invest in this accelerated healing model.
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The ideal length depends on what you're working through and your nervous system's capacity. A 1-day intensive works well for focused work on a specific issue or as an introduction to this format. A 2-day Somatic EMDR intensive offers a good balance—enough time to establish nervous system regulation and begin meaningful processing. A 3-day intensive allows for the most comprehensive work, giving us space to regulate, process multiple layers, and thoroughly integrate. During our complimentary consultation, I'll help assess what length makes sense for your specific situation and goals.
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Absolutely. This is often called Adjunct Therapy. Many women who have a regular weekly therapist in New York, Boston, or Chicago come to me specifically for a Somatic EMDR Intensive to target a specific 'stuck' point, like medical trauma or a major life course correction, and then return to their primary therapist for ongoing support.
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A 50% non-refundable deposit is due at the time of scheduling to reserve your intensive dates. The remaining 50% is due on the first day of your intensive. The deposit is non-refundable because once your dates are reserved, I hold that time exclusively for you and turn away other clients. However, if you need to reschedule due to illness or emergency, we can work together to find alternative dates within 3 months. We'll discuss options during your consultation to ensure the investment is manageable for your situation.
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That's completely normal and exactly why I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation. This isn't a sales call—it's a genuine conversation where we explore whether intensive therapy is right for you at this time. We'll discuss what you're dealing with, whether your nervous system is ready for this depth of work, and honestly assess if this approach matches your needs and goals. You'll get a clear sense of what the experience would be like, and I'll tell you directly if I think weekly therapy or another approach might serve you better right now. There's no pressure or obligation. Sometimes people need more time, more preparation, or a different modality altogether—and that's perfectly okay. The consultation helps both of us determine if this is the right fit, at the right time, for your unique situation. If you're feeling even a small pull toward something more intensive, that curiosity is worth exploring.
Providing in-person therapy intensives in Southwest Michigan and virtual intensive retreats for residents of Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York.
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