Private Therapy Intensives
EMDR Therapy Intensives for High-Achieving Women
Focused EMDR Therapy Intensives • In Person or Virtual Throughout Ohio
When the Time for Healing is Now.
You've spent years being the one everyone else depends on. You've managed the anxiety, pushed through the burnout, and carried responsibilities that few people fully see. But now, something feels different. Perhaps a major life transition, a painful experience, or years of carrying everyone else have brought buried wounds to the surface, making it harder to move through grief, anxiety, or simply keep functioning the way you always have.
You've done everything you know to do. You understand your patterns, you've read the books, maybe you've even been to therapy before—and yet something still feels stuck. You've reached the point where you know something has to change. You're ready for something deeper.
A therapy intensive is designed for women who are ready to make meaningful progress without waiting months between weekly sessions to build momentum. By setting aside dedicated, uninterrupted time, we can focus on the experiences, beliefs, and nervous system patterns that have kept you feeling stuck—creating space for lasting healing and meaningful change.
Is a Therapy Intensive Right for You?
You're ready. to move beyond coping and experience deeper healing
You've tried weekly therapy but still feel stuck in familiar patterns
You want focused time and support to address anxiety, trauma, burnout, or grief
Your schedule makes weekly therapy difficult to maintain
You're preparing for—or recovering from—a significant life change
You're ready to invest dedicated time to your healing
Why Choose a Therapy Intensive?
Healing takes more than time—it also takes space.
Weekly therapy can be incredibly meaningful, but it is designed to fit within the rhythm of everyday life. Therapy intensives offer something different: dedicated, uninterrupted time to focus fully on your healing without having to pause just as the deeper work begins.
Instead of spending part of each session catching up on the week or setting difficult emotions aside until next time, an intensive allows us to stay with the work. Together, we'll gently explore the experiences, beliefs, and nervous system patterns that have kept you feeling stuck, creating the momentum needed for meaningful and lasting change.
Stepping away from your daily responsibilities also gives your mind and body permission to do something many high-achieving women rarely allow themselves to do: slow down. Therapy intensives create a protected space for deep healing—without the constant pull of work, caregiving, or the demands of everyday life.
Using EMDR alongside evidence-based, trauma-informed, and spiritually integrated approaches, I'll create a personalized intensive designed around your goals. My hope is that you leave with more than insight—you leave feeling lighter, more grounded, and better equipped to move forward with greater peace and confidence.
What Your Therapy Intensive Includes
A personalized experience designed around your goals, your nervous system, and the areas where you're ready to experience lasting change.
During your intensive, we will work together to:
Process the experiences that continue to feel emotionally charged or keep you feeling stuck.
Identify and shift the beliefs, patterns, and coping strategies that no longer serve you.
Calm an overwhelmed nervous system using EMDR and other evidence-based approaches.
Address perfectionism, over-functioning, and people-pleasing that leave you emotionally exhausted.
Reconnect with your values, your sense of self, and the life you want to create moving forward.
A Personalized Approach to Healing
No two therapy intensives are alike.
Your intensive is thoughtfully tailored to your goals and may include EMDR, somatic approaches, CBT, mindfulness, and spiritually integrated therapy. Together, we'll choose the approaches that best support your healing and help you move beyond the patterns keeping you stuck.
Depending on your goals, our work may include:
Every Intensive Includes:
Intensives include preparation and grounding and include attention to your pace, safety, and desire to process. They are fully customized and include:
A 90-minute consultation and planning session to clarify your goals and design your personalized intensive
A detailed intake questionnaire to guide our work together
A fully customized one-on-one therapy intensive
Personalized workbook, reflections, and resources to support your healing
A treatment plan incorporating EMDR, somatic therapy, CBT, mindfulness, and spiritually integrated care, as appropriate.
A thoughtfully prepared welcome basket to help you settle into the experience
A 90-minute follow-up session within 30 days to reinforce progress and support continued integration.
Every therapy intensive is intentionally paced. While we'll do meaningful, focused work together, there is no expectation that you push beyond what feels safe or manageable. Healing happens through collaboration, not pressure, and we'll move at a pace that honors both your goals and your nervous system.
Areas we can focus on…
Moving beyond anxiety instead of simply managing it
Healing from trauma without carrying it into the future
Letting go of perfectionism, over-functioning, and people-pleasing
Recovering from burnout and reconnecting with yourself
Navigating grief, loss, and major life transitions
Creating healthier boundaries and more fulfilling relationships
Rediscovering your values, purpose, and direction
Integrating Islamic psychology and spirituality into the healing process, if that is important to you
Creating sustainable practices that support lasting change long after your intensive is complete
As an EMDR-trained therapist who has also trained specifically in designing and facilitating therapy intensives, I bring a calm, grounded presence to our work together. I see therapy intensives as an opportunity to create a focused container of time and space in which to do transformative healing. I'll be with you every step of the way — offering warmth, support, and practical tools tailored specifically to you.
Welcome. I’m Sakina.
Intensive Structure and Investment
1-day Intensive (3 hours) $1750
Includes a 90-minute pre-intensive interview, 3 hours of concentrated processing, a customized client workbook, and a 90-minute integration post-intensive follow-up. Also includes a curated self-care welcome basket and private link to a list of guided grounding exercises and visualizations.
1-day Intensive (6 hours) $2500
Includes a 90-minute pre-intensive interview 6 hours of concentrated processing with a restorative lunch break, a customized client workbook, and a 90-minute integration post-intensive follow-up. Also includes a curated self-care welcome basket and private link to a list of guided grounding exercises and visualizations.
2-day Intensive (3 hours/day): $2500
Includes a 90-minute pre-intensive interview, 6 hours of concentrated processing over two consecutive days, a customized client workbook, and a 90-minute post-intensive follow-up. Also includes a curated self-care welcome basket and private link to a list of guided grounding exercises and visualizations.
3-day Intensive (3 hours/day) $3250
Includes a 90-minute pre-intensive interview, 9 hours of concentrated processing split across three consecutive days, a customized client workbook, and a 90-minute post-intensive follow-up. Also includes a curated self-care welcome basket and private link to a list of guided grounding exercises and visualizations.
Your Questions, Answered
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A therapy intensive is an accelerated therapy program designed to get results faster than months of weekly sessions of therapy. It is an opportunity to do deeper, focused healing, without interruption, in a concentrated block of time.
This is a private, one-on-one experience. We block half- or full-days so you can do the focused work. Most clients accomplish more in an intensives than months of one hour therapy sessions.
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Therapy intensives are for the person who is ready to make significant changes in their life and do the work required. You may have a full schedule and find it difficult to schedule weekly therapy sessions, or may already have a therapist, but want to do deep, impactful, and transformational work in a particular area or on a particular issue.
Therapy intensives can be a good option for people who have been managing a problem or felt stuck for years and have yet to be able to move past a pattern. It is very effective for high-achievers, entrepreneurs and individuals who want results without an open-ended or weekly commitment.
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Yes! Research shows that EMDR intensives, in particular, are effective for relieving distress associated with painful and traumatic experiences.
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Yes! Therapy intensives are an excellent adjunct to regular therapy sessions because they allow you to focus on an isolated issue and go deeper. Often, when clients reach a block in their progress in weekly therapy sessions it is because there is a deeper issue that needs to be addressed. A therapy intensive can help do the deeper, more focused work on a particular issue to be able to continue the work in their weekly therapy sessions. I provide free consultations for therapists who think that a therapy intensive may be a good service for one of their clients as a one-time service.
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The benefit of choosing a therapy intensive over weekly 50-minute sessions is that you receive a dedicated container of time in which to do the deeper processing and address an issue without the interruptions of time between sessions. This means you may potentially see accelerated results in a several days intensive over months of weekly therapy.
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We will discuss during our intake session the length of intensive that is most appropriate for your goals and the issues you would like to address. Typically a 3 hour intensive allows for one longer session of EMDR processing. A 2-3 day intensive allows us to address a deeper history of anxious patterns, trauma and attachment history than a single 3-hour 1-day intensive would allow, as well as practice coping strategies to integrate into your daily life.
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Clients must be located in the state of Ohio at the time of the session. This allows us to meet virtually if that is what works best for your schedule and needs. However, for clients located outside of Cincinnati who would like to travel for an in-person session, we can discuss what that would look like. You are welcome to book a place to stay for the duration of the intensive and I am happy to consult about other ways outside of our dedicated therapy intensive time to make your stay a restful and healing retreat.
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Intensives fall outside the scope of what insurance will cover. At this time, all therapy intensive costs are paid for out of pocket by the client.
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A 50% deposit is due at the time of booking your therapy intensive. The final balance must be paid in full two weeks prior to the intensive.
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An option for a payment plan can be provided using Care Credit. Please discuss during the consultation for further details.
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Intensives take place at my private office space in Mariemont, in Cincinnati, Ohio or virtually. For other accommodations, please discuss with me during the consultation.
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If you are interested in a therapy intensive, you may schedule a free consultation to discuss your questions and options. If you are unsure, you can take the time you need to make your decision. Additionally, clients who begin weekly or bi-weekly therapy with me may discuss scheduling an intensive at any point during our work together.
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At the end of your intensive, we'll recap the experience together and talk about how to continue integrating what you've learned. Your 90-minute post-intensive follow-up session, scheduled within 30 days, is a space to reflect on your progress and sustain movement toward your goals. Most clients don't choose to continue with ongoing therapy after an intensive, but some do for continuity of care, and others return for a future intensive when it feels helpful.