Therapy Intensives
Need more support than a traditional therapy session can provide?
At Course Counseling, intensive therapy sessions are exclusively offered by practice owners, Jen Stobart and Karen Lee, who specialize in trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and relational therapy for individuals and couples seeking deeper levels of care.
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These sessions are designed for clients who feel that weekly therapy is not enough, especially during periods of emotional overwhelm, relational distress, trauma recovery, or when long-standing patterns feel difficult to shift without more time and focused attention.
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Intensives provide a structured, supportive environment to slow down, move beneath surface-level coping, and engage in meaningful therapeutic work with greater depth and continuity.
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Our approach is grounded in advanced clinical training in trauma treatment, attachment-based therapy, experiential work, and emotionally focused care. We draw from modalities including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and other trauma-informed approaches tailored to each client’s needs.
80 -100 min Individual
Individual intensive sessions are designed for clients who are seeking a more focused, supportive space for deeper emotional healing and personal growth. Unlike traditional weekly therapy, intensives provide extended time to slow down, settle into the work, and explore experiences that may feel difficult, layered, or emotionally overwhelming without feeling rushed.
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These sessions can create space for meaningful insight, emotional processing, and lasting shifts by allowing us to stay with what is emerging rather than stopping just as deeper work begins. Many clients find intensives especially helpful when they feel “stuck,” emotionally exhausted, disconnected from themselves, or ready to move beyond surface-level coping.
Throughout the process, we move at a pace that prioritizes emotional safety, nervous system regulation, and compassionate support. The goal is not to overwhelm you, but to help you feel grounded enough to gently process and understand patterns, experiences, emotions, and beliefs that may be impacting your daily life, relationships, or sense of self.
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Individual intensives may be especially helpful for:
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Trauma and complex trauma
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Anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or emotional shutdown
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Attachment wounds and relational patterns
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Grief, loss, or life transitions
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Feeling “stuck” in traditional weekly therapy
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Desire for deeper emotional clarity and healing
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High levels of stress or burnout
100 min Couples
Couples intensive sessions are designed for partners who feel caught in painful relationship patterns such as recurring conflict, emotional distance, communication breakdowns, betrayal, or unresolved attachment wounds.
When a relationship feels strained, disconnected, or emotionally fragile, weekly therapy may not always provide enough space to fully slow down the cycle, understand what is happening underneath the conflict, and begin meaningful repair. Intensives offer dedicated time to focus more deeply on the relationship without the interruptions or time limitations of traditional sessions.
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These sessions help partners move beyond surface-level arguments and explore the deeper emotions, needs, fears, and relational patterns driving disconnection. The goal is not simply to “solve problems,” but to create greater emotional safety, understanding, honesty, and connection between partners.
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Throughout the intensive, we move at a pace that supports both emotional regulation and productive dialogue.
Couples find that having extended, intentional time together in a supportive therapeutic setting allows for deeper insight, clearer communication, and more meaningful progress than can sometimes occur in weekly therapy alone.
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Couples intensives may be especially helpful for:
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Ongoing conflict or communication struggles
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Emotional disconnection or distance
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Betrayal, trust ruptures, or attachment injuries
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Difficulty feeling heard, understood, or emotionally safe
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Repetitive relational patterns that feel “stuck”
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Major life stressors or transitions impacting the relationship
Half Day Intensives (4 hrs)
Half-day intensives are designed for individuals and couples who are needing a more comprehensive level of therapeutic support than can often be achieved in weekly therapy or shorter extended sessions. These intensives provide dedicated time and therapeutic continuity for clients who are navigating complex emotional experiences, relational distress, significant life transitions, or longstanding patterns that require more depth, attention, and care.
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Unlike shorter sessions that may focus on one immediate issue or therapeutic goal, a half-day intensive allows space for a more complete process — including deeper exploration, emotional processing, insight, regulation, reflection, and integration within the same experience. This extended format can be especially valuable when clients feel emotionally overwhelmed, chronically “stuck,” disconnected from themselves or their partner, or aware that important therapeutic work has remained unresolved over time.
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For many clients, the benefit of a half-day intensive is not simply the additional time, but the opportunity to engage in therapy with greater momentum, consistency, and immersion. The uninterrupted nature of the experience often allows deeper emotional material, relational dynamics, and core patterns to emerge more organically, creating opportunities for meaningful shifts that can feel more difficult to access in traditional therapy formats.
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Half-day intensives are thoughtfully structured to balance depth with emotional safety and nervous system support. Clients are guided through the process with care, attunement, and clinical intention, allowing space for both insight and stabilization throughout the experience. Many individuals and couples leave feeling a greater sense of clarity, emotional understanding, connection, and movement forward.