Some things become clearer when you can experience them, not only explain them.
Choose a Starting Point
Different work needs different kinds of space.
Sometimes what you need is ongoing therapy. Sometimes it is a focused conversation,
a personalized discovery experience, a structured profile, or protected time
to go deeper than a standard session allows.
You don't have to figure out what kind of help you need before you arrive. We help you discover it.
Therapy can be a place to work through what hurts, but also a place to understand
yourself more clearly: your history, your patterns, your relationships, your strengths,
and the ways you learned to adapt.
My work often includes trauma and complex trauma, anxiety, identity and self-worth,
neurodivergence, relationship patterns, life transitions, grief, and experiences that
are difficult to reduce to a single category.
I draw from psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, acceptance-based, motivational,
parts-informed, relational, and trauma-informed approaches. The method matters, but it
should serve the person, not the other way around.
Good to know
Ongoing therapy is distinct from the focused services and Discovery Experiences listed below.
An intensive is not a longer version of the therapy you have already done.
Talking about everything is not the same as seeing how everything fits together. A Personal
Discovery Intensive begins with the work you have already done, then creates a prepared,
assessment-informed process for bringing separate pieces into one coherent picture.
You do not have to begin again or retell your entire history. We begin with what you already
understand, but we do not assume that familiarity is the same as clarity or that your current
explanation is the whole picture. You can know a pattern well because you have lived it for years
and still be unable to see what keeps it operating from inside the experience. Together, we look
beyond what happened and why it began: what the pattern still protects, what continues to reinforce
it, how it lives in your body and relationships, and why insight has not yet produced change.
What Clients + Clinicians Notice
Weekly therapy and a Personal Discovery Intensive are built to do different jobs.
This is not only how I describe the difference. Across clinical writing about intensive formats and in the words clients use to describe the experience, the same themes appear repeatedly: fewer starts and stops, greater continuity, sustained focus, and more room for insight to become usable.
Neither format is automatically better. The question is what kind of space the work needs.
Weekly TherapyPersonal Discovery Intensive
Time + Focus
Weekly Therapy
A fifty-minute session may need to hold recent events, immediate needs, and ongoing goals. The work pauses on schedule and continues another week.
Personal Discovery Intensive
A protected multi-hour block is organized around a defined question, pattern, or transition. We can stay with the thread instead of closing just as the pieces begin to connect.
Continuity
Weekly Therapy
Time between sessions creates room to practice, notice, recover, and live. Each visit also requires re-entering the context of the work.
Personal Discovery Intensive
Preparation happens before the intensive, the core work unfolds in a concentrated block, and integration is built into the process so momentum is not left to chance.
How We Work
Weekly Therapy
Conversation, the therapeutic relationship, reflection, skill-building, and steady change develop over time.
Personal Discovery Intensive
Carefully selected assessment, mapping, education, reflection, experiential or body-based work, and integration are combined around the person rather than pulled from a standard menu.
What It Is For
Weekly Therapy
Ongoing support, evolving needs, change practiced in real life, and work that benefits from a steady therapeutic relationship.
Personal Discovery Intensive
Connecting years of insight, examining what familiarity may have made difficult to see, and giving one meaningful pattern enough room to be understood in context.
An intensive is not the better version of therapy. It is a different structure for a different kind of task.
You may know it well. That does not mean you can see it clearly from inside it.
Your explanation may be accurate and still incomplete. It may explain where a pattern started without showing what keeps it active now; describe what you do without revealing what the adaptation protects; or name the insight without making it usable when the pattern is activated. The intensive does not discard what you know. It treats what you know as the starting evidence, then helps examine what familiarity may have made difficult to see.
Connect
Experiences, adaptations, relationships, beliefs, body-based responses, and strengths.
Work Differently
Use individualized assessment, mapping, education, reflection, and experiential work when appropriate.
Integrate
Turn scattered insight into clearer understanding, practical direction, and a meaningful next step.
More time is not the point. More room to work differently is.
What the investment includes
The cost reflects the whole arc of the process, not only the hours we sit together. It begins
with a complimentary 30-minute Discovery Consultation. If an intensive appears appropriate,
a separate 90-minute Pre-Intensive Interview helps clarify your history, goals, prior treatment,
strengths, barriers, and where the work may need to begin.
From there, the intensive is designed around you. It may include clinician preparation,
a personalized workbook, carefully selected assessments, visual or life mapping,
psychoeducation, experiential or body-based work, extended working time, and integration
or next-step planning. You are investing in an individualized process built around you before,
during, and after the time we spend together.
For Couples, Too
Your relationship does not have to be falling apart to deserve closer attention.
You may love each other and still feel disconnected. You may keep having the same argument
without understanding what is underneath it. You may be rebuilding trust, preparing for marriage,
navigating a transition, or simply wondering whether the relationship you have still reflects the
people you are becoming.
Couples Discovery work creates enough time to slow the interaction down, understand each person’s
experience, and become curious about the relationship itself rather than simply decide who is right.
An Intensive does not automatically replace ongoing therapy. Appropriateness, timing, format,
goals, professional capacity, and any applicable consent or recordkeeping terms are considered individually.
These services are active, structured, and experiential. Each one is built around a
specific pattern or goal and may include mapping, guided practice, visual tools,
body-based noticing, exposure work, or individualized exercises.
Each experience stands on its own. These are not add-ons to a Personal
Discovery Intensive, and you do not need to complete an Intensive first.
Nervous System Mapping
Make your patterns easier to recognize.
Identify your signs of activation, shutdown, and return to steadiness
Trace triggers, protective responses, and repeating patterns
Build a personalized map of what your system may need
This is a guided mapping experience using body cues, pattern exploration, visual
tools, and in-the-moment noticing. The goal is not simply to talk about stress, but
to make your own nervous-system responses more visible, understandable, and usable.
90-minute focused experience + personalized Nervous System Map$300
Explore movement, pressure, rhythm, temperature, sound, or visual orienting
Develop individualized ways to support regulation, choice, and agency
Somatic Integration uses carefully paced, body-based experiences to help connect
insight with what is happening in real time. You remain an active collaborator;
nothing is imposed, and the work is shaped around your responses and preferences.
Separate intrusive thoughts, urges, rituals, reassurance, and avoidance
Understand how short-term relief keeps the cycle going
Identify a clear, individualized place to begin
Together, we create a visual and practical map of how the obsessive-compulsive
cycle operates in your life. This focused work can clarify what is happening and
help organize the next phase of treatment rather than leaving you with a generic list of symptoms.
Practice a different response to fear and uncertainty.
Build a focused exposure plan around a specific fear or compulsion
Practice planned exposures with clinical support
Learn to make room for uncertainty without completing the usual ritual
Focused Exposure and Response Prevention is deliberate, collaborative work. It is not a
sudden leap into your biggest fear. We choose a meaningful target, prepare carefully,
practice actively, and learn from what happens.
90-minute active ERP treatment session + individualized practice plan$275
Help your brain learn that avoidance is not the only option.
Understand your fear response and avoidance cycle
Prepare for and practice gradual, purposeful exposure
Build confidence through repeated corrective experiences
This work combines preparation, education, active practice, and reflection around a
specific fear. The pace is intentional and collaborative, with enough structure to
move the work forward without treating fear as something you should simply talk yourself out of.
90-minute focused exposure-based session + individualized Fear & Exposure Plan$275
120-minute extended or off-site exposure session$375
Sometimes you need a focused experience without committing to a whole new ongoing schedule.
These options create protected space for a specific question, pattern, relationship,
decision, or area of self-understanding.
Focused Discovery Session
90 minutes
A longer, focused conversation around one meaningful question, pattern, decision,
or area of curiosity.
$275
Mini Discovery Experience
2 hours
A personalized mini-experience built around a specific area of discovery.
Examples may include attachment and relationship patterns, identity after survival,
values and direction, neurodivergence, life-story exploration, post-diagnosis understanding,
relationship-pattern discovery, premarital exploration, communication and conflict patterns,
rebuilding trust, or a focused couples check-in.
$375 individual $425 couples
Personalized Assessments & Discovery Profiles
Purpose-driven assessment
Carefully selected assessments and individualized profiles designed to create
meaningful conversations and deeper understanding rather than simply generate a score.
Pricing based on purpose & scope
Focused services vary in purpose and scope. Before a service begins, its professional capacity
and any applicable clinical, educational, assessment, consent, recordkeeping, or privacy terms are clarified.
Clinical thinking can be useful outside the therapy room, too.
I offer project-based consultation, education, and training for professionals,
organizations, healthcare offices, employers, schools, and community groups when the
work benefits from a mental-health lens grounded in clarity, context, and human behavior.
Clinical & Professional
Case consultation, clinician education, conceptualization support, and training.
Organizations & Employers
Mental-health education, trauma-informed training, resource development, and consultation.
Community & Healthcare
Educational presentations, referral collaboration, program support, and tailored resources.
Custom Projects
When a project needs clinical insight but does not fit neatly into one of the categories above, we can start with the problem you are trying to solve.
Each project is scoped individually. Availability, role, professional capacity, deliverables,
fees, and any applicable terms are clarified before work begins.