Psychotherapy Intensives in Whitefish Bay, WI

There are times when we feel stuck, defeated, or like something is just holding us back. It can be really frustrating. You know something needs to change, and it would be great if that would happen quickly.

Maybe there’s a few things that you’d like to work through, but going to therapy long term just doesn’t feel like the right option. Psychotherapy intensives can be a great alternative - they provide highly motivated clients with a safe and supportive environment to work through their trauma or conflict via a targeted treatment plan in the most efficient way possible, so you can finally move forward.

intensive psychotherapy for trauma, perinatal, anxiety, and more

Benefits of intensives include: 

  • A Customized Assessment & Treatment Plan: We personalize each client’s goals and treatment plan to ensure it caters to your individual needs and priorities. This enables our time together to be goal directed and targeted, so we can work through as much as possible in the time we have together.

  • Rapid Therapeutic Progress: Longer therapy sessions allow clients to work through their goals at a much faster pace than traditional therapy approaches, leading to quicker healing and symptom relief. 

  • Deep Somatic Healing through Brainspotting: a powerful, brain/body focused treatment method that identifies, processes, and releases deep neurophysiological and emotional trauma, negative self beliefs, problematic behaviors or distressing symptoms, and performance blocks.

Brainspotting Intensives

Brainspotting is a powerful, brain-body-based therapeutic approach that helps individuals process and heal from emotional trauma, anxiety, performance blocks, and deeply rooted psychological distress.

Developed by Dr. David Grand, Brainspotting works by identifying, targeting, and releasing unprocessed trauma or negative beliefs stored in the subcortical brain—the part of the brain responsible for emotions, memory, and physical regulation.

Using this method in an intensive format allows us to work on deeply held or long-standing beliefs or trauma, even things that you thought you’d never be free from.

Two Half Day Intensives

  • 10 hours total

  • 1 hour intake

  • Two - 4 hour processing sessions

  • 1 hour follow up

  • Total Fee: $2500

Three Half Day Intensives

  • 15 hours total

  • 1.5 hour intake

  • Two - 4 hour processing sessions

  • 1.5 hour follow up

  • Total Fee: $3750

Brainspotting intensives include a mandatory intake and assessment session in part to assess appropriateness of this modality. If during or following that session your therapist determines that other services are more appropriate, the intensive will not proceed and further sessions will be cancelled. If your intensive is cancelled by the therapist, session fees for subsequent sessions will be refunded.

*Fees and paperwork for intensives must be completed at least 48 hours (2 business days) in advance of the first session in order to allow adequate time for your therapist to fully prepare for your session. The full fee for each intensive session is billed 24 hours prior to the session at a rate of $250 per hour.

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Intensives include a mandatory intake and assessment session in part to assess appropriateness of this modality. If during or following that session your therapist determines that other services are more appropriate, the intensive will not proceed and further sessions will be cancelled. If your intensive is cancelled by the therapist, session fees for subsequent sessions will be refunded.

*Fees and paperwork for intensives must be completed at least 48 hours (2 business days) in advance of the first session in order to allow adequate time for your therapist to prepare and hold your slot. The full fee for each intensive session is billed 24 hours prior to the session at a rate of $250 per hour.

FAQs About Psychotherapy Intensives

  • Psychotherapy intensives are most appropriate for clients who have a few specific issues that they would like to work through fairly rapidly. Clients should be overall stable, without active suicidal or homicidal ideation, substance abuse, or recent psychosis. Many clients have therapists they are currently seeing and continue to see. Therapy intensives are not meant as a long-term relationship, but as targeted intensive short term therapy.

  • That’s ok. Part of the assessment process is getting really specific with your goals. You don’t have to know it all before you start. One of the guiding principles of Brainspotting is uncertainty - we don’t have to know everything in order to heal.

  • Yes. Many clients opt to do this to continue to work on other trauma, limiting beliefs, or self confidence. Additional sessions are intended to be spaced out as needed.

  • Great! We don’t currently offer any intensives other than Brainspotting, but they are coming soon!

  • Yep. These can be a great addition to other therapy work. We do ask for a Release of Information to be able to communicate with your therapist as needed about your treatment.

  • Brainspotting is a brain-body-based therapy that helps individuals process trauma, emotional pain, and performance blocks. By identifying specific eye positions, called “brainspots,” therapists can guide the brain to release unresolved experiences and foster deep emotional healing.

  • While both Brainspotting and EMDR target trauma processing, Brainspotting focuses on eye positions linked to subcortical brain activity and often involves a slower, more somatic approach. The methods are very similar, and Brainspotting was founded by someone extensively trained in EMDR and based in the same theories. Brainspotting tends to be thought of as more flexible, and EMDR more protocol based, but this depends a lot on the provider you see, as each will have their own style. Truly - they’re quite similar, some people prefer one or tolerate one better over the other.

  • Brainspotting can help with trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, emotional regulation, performance anxiety, limiting self beliefs, and psychosomatic symptoms such as chronic pain or tension.

  • During a session, the therapist guides you to notice subtle eye positions (brainspots) associated with unresolved emotions. You remain present and supported while your brain processes and integrates these experiences. Sessions may also include mindfulness or bilateral sound techniques to facilitate healing. Each session looks different, as a guiding principle of Brainspotting is that it is client led.

  • Absolutely. Brainspotting can release mental blocks, increase confidence, and improve focus for athletes, performers, professionals, and creatives.