Extended Time Focused Healing Sessions
Does it feel like weekly 50-minute sessions haven’t been enough to help you live the life you want? At Lifeway Counseling & Consulting, we offer a tailored approach designed for those who seek deeper insights and lasting change. We work closely with individuals, couples, and families to address complex challenges and foster personal development. Experience a supportive environment that encourages exploration and growth, helping you to break free from limitations and embrace a fulfilling life.
My Approach to Intensive Therapy
My work is grounded in the belief that meaningful healing involves more than simply understanding your patterns intellectually. Many of the women I work with are highly self-aware, thoughtful, and insightful, yet still find themselves feeling emotionally stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or caught in recurring cycles they cannot seem to break.
Intensives are designed to create the space needed for deeper therapeutic work that often feels difficult to access within the limitations of traditional weekly therapy.
My intensive model is guided by my own signature model, the ARC Framework:
Awareness
Together, we begin by identifying recurring emotional, behavioral, and relational patterns that may be contributing to distress, burnout, overthinking, or disconnection. This phase focuses on increasing self-awareness, emotional insight, and understanding the deeper roots of these patterns.
Regulation
Intensives incorporate grounding techniques, emotional processing, nervous system support, and coping strategies designed to help clients feel more emotionally regulated, supported, and connected to themselves throughout the process.
Connection
The final phase focuses on strengthening the relationship with yourself through boundaries, self-trust, emotional integration, body connection, and personalized action steps designed to support lasting change beyond the intensive experience.
Therapy Intensives are thoughtfully designed for women seeking a more focused, immersive, and personalized therapeutic experience than traditional weekly therapy. Intensives provide the opportunity to slow down, gain deeper insight into recurring patterns, and create meaningful momentum in a supportive and structured format.
Each intensive is tailored to your unique goals, experiences, and emotional needs using my signature ARC Framework: Awareness, Regulation, and Connection.
Designed for women who feel mentally exhausted from constantly thinking ahead, replaying conversations, questioning themselves, or struggling to slow their mind down.
This intensive may be beneficial for women who:
- struggle with chronic overthinking and anxiety
- appear high-functioning externally while feeling overwhelmed internally
- experience perfectionism, emotional burnout, or difficulty relaxing
- feel emotionally exhausted from constantly anticipating or analyzing situations
Focus areas may include:
- overthinking and anxiety patterns
- perfectionism and self-pressure
- nervous system regulation
- emotional burnout and overwhelm
- rebuilding self-trust and emotional clarity
Designed for women seeking deeper insight into recurring relationship dynamics, attachment patterns, boundaries, and emotional responses within relationships.
This intensive may be beneficial for women who:
- struggle with anxious attachment or fear of rejection
- feel emotionally preoccupied in relationships
- have difficulty setting or maintaining boundaries
- notice patterns of people-pleasing or emotional over-functioning
- find themselves repeating unhealthy relationship dynamics
Focus areas may include:
- attachment patterns
- emotional regulation within relationships
- boundaries and communication
- self-worth and relational dynamics
- developing healthier relationship patterns
Designed for women struggling with body image concerns, disordered eating patterns, perfectionism, shame, or difficulties feeling connected to themselves and their body.
This intensive may be beneficial for women who:
- experience body image distress or preoccupation
- struggle with disordered eating behaviors or emotional eating patterns
- feel shame around food, weight, or appearance
- use control, perfectionism, or restriction as coping mechanisms
- feel disconnected from themselves or their body
Focus areas may include:
- body image and self-worth
- emotional coping patterns
- nervous system support and regulation
- perfectionism and control
- rebuilding trust and connection with self and body
Therapy Intensives are intentionally structured to feel supportive, emotionally safe, and clinically grounded rather than overwhelming or emotionally chaotic. Each intensive includes thoughtful pacing, scheduled breaks, grounding moments, and individualized support throughout the experience.
The goal is not simply to spend more hours in therapy, but to create a more focused and intentional space for deeper therapeutic work, insight, emotional processing, and meaningful progress.
Before, During & After Your Intensive
Before Your Intensive
- Pre-Intensive 30 min. consultation and screening call
- Detailed intake paperwork and clinical assessments
- Personalized treatment planning
- Preparation guidance and optional reflection exercises
- Personalized pre-intensive reflection packet
During Your Intensive
- Structured and focused therapeutic support
- Grounding and nervous system regulation strategies
- Scheduled breaks and intentional pacing
- Tailored interventions based on your goals and needs
After Your Intensive
- Personalized recommendations and resources
- Personalized integration summary and therapeutic resources
- Post-Intensive 30-minute follow-up integration session
Therapy Intensives are offered virtually for clients located in Florida, Michigan, and Virginia.
A non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your intensive dates. Limited availability may be available for weekend and extended-hours intensives, which may include an adjusted rate due to scheduling availability and scheduling demmands.
Because Therapy Intensives are a highly personalized and focused therapeutic service, they require significant preparation, clinical energy, scheduling flexibility, and dedicated time reserved exclusively for your care. The investment reflects the depth and individualized nature of the experience, including preparation, treatment planning, and focused therapeutic support designed to help facilitate meaningful progress in a shorter period of time.
Therapy Intensive Options
The Focus Intensive — $1,500
A focused and immersive therapy experience designed for clients seeking deeper support beyond traditional weekly therapy. This format allows space to slow down, process more intentionally, and explore recurring emotional patterns, anxiety, attachment dynamics, perfectionism, burnout, relationship struggles, or life transitions in greater depth.
Includes:
- 30-minute consultation and screening call
- Personalized pre-intensive reflection packet
- 3-hour therapy intensive
- Personalized integration summary and therapeutic resources
- 30-minute follow-up integration session
Ideal for clients seeking focused support around one primary area of concern or emotional pattern.
The Deep Dive Intensive- $3,000
An extended and highly personalized therapy experience designed for clients wanting more immersive therapeutic work and deeper emotional processing. This format offers additional space for insight, nervous system regulation, attachment work, relational patterns, emotional overwhelm, and long-standing recurring struggles that may feel difficult to fully address in weekly therapy alone.
Includes:
- 30-minute consultation and screening call
- Personalized pre-intensive reflection packet
- 6-hour therapy intensive with intentional breaks throughout the day
- Personalized integration summary and therapeutic resources
- 30-minute follow-up integration session
Ideal for clients seeking deeper exploration, more extensive processing, or support around multiple interconnected themes and patterns.
Therapy Intensives may be a good fit for individuals who:
• Feel stuck in recurring emotional or relational patterns
• Want deeper progress than traditional weekly therapy allows
• Are navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, or life transitions
• Prefer a more focused and immersive therapeutic experience
• Are seeking meaningful insight, clarity, and sustainable change
Are Therapy Intensives Right for Everyone?
Therapy intensives are not appropriate for everyone or every stage of healing. Because intensive work can bring up deeper emotions and patterns, all clients participate in a consultation and screening process to help determine whether this format is clinically appropriate and supportive for their current needs. In some cases, ongoing weekly therapy, additional stabilization, or a higher level of care may be recommended instead, particularly for individuals experiencing active crisis situations, severe emotional instability, unmanaged substance use concerns, psychosis, severe dissociation, or active eating disorder behaviors requiring more specialized support.
Extended Therapy Sessions are designed for clients who would benefit from additional space beyond a traditional therapy session. These 90-minute sessions allow for deeper exploration, emotional processing, and integration in a more intentional and focused format, and may also be scheduled in extended 3-hour blocks or longer intensive formats as clinically appropriate and needed.
These sessions can be helpful during emotionally overwhelming seasons, relationship challenges, life transitions, attachment-related struggles, burnout, heightened anxiety, or periods where you may feel stuck in recurring patterns and need more time and support to process thoroughly.
Extended sessions may be scheduled as needed, as a stand alone session or incorporated periodically into ongoing therapy for clients seeking deeper, more immersive work.
Extended Sessions May Be Helpful If You:
- Feel like 50-minute sessions often feel rushed or fragmented
- Want more time to process emotions and patterns in depth
- Are navigating a difficult relationship or breakup
- Feel emotionally overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck
- Want focused support around anxiety, attachment, perfectionism, or self-worth
- Benefit from slower pacing and additional space for reflection and integration
Investment
90-Minute Extended Therapy Session: $450
Extended sessions are available for existing clients and approved new clients based on clinical appropriateness and availability.
These sessions allow for deeper exploration and integration than traditional weekly therapy while remaining more flexible than a full therapy intensive.
