Therapy Intensives for Women
Deep, focused EMDR and Brainspotting work in a dedicated block, in-person in Austin, Brownsville, and the Rio Grande Valley, with multi-day intensives on South Padre Island. Online across Texas.
Keely Rodriguez, LPC-S
Certified EMDR & Brainspotting Therapist · BRIA Certified Menopause Mental Health Provider
Go deep on one thing, and actually move it.
You already know the thing. The one that keeps getting in your way, that you've managed around for months, that you keep meaning to deal with once life slows down. It hasn't. It won't.
A therapy intensive is how you get underneath that one thing and move it, in a focused block instead of stretched across months of weekly appointments you have to wedge between work, family, and everyone who counts on you. We use EMDR and Brainspotting, so we work at the level of your nervous system, not just talking about the pattern but shifting where it lives.
Deeper work, sooner. One dedicated stretch instead of months of sessions.
Every therapy intensive is one all-in price. It covers the preparation, the intensive, and the follow-up that makes it stick. No hourly add-ons, no surprise bills. You pay once, and everything below is included.
Weekly therapy is steady support over time, and for a lot of the work, that's exactly right. A therapy intensive is a different tool: focused, deliberate, and built to move one specific thing, faster.
It tends to be the right fit when:
There's one thing you're ready to work on, and you want traction on it now, not six months from now.
Your life doesn't have room for a standing weekly hour. You're running work, family, aging parents, and a calendar that was full long before therapy was on it.
You'd rather clear one focused stretch and go deep than spread the work thin across months.
You want real depth-oriented work with EMDR and Brainspotting, not just a place to vent.
This isn't therapy for everyone. It's for capable women who are carrying a lot, know what they want to work on, and want a format that respects their time and their intelligence.
WHY A THERAPY INTENSIVE, NOT ANOTHER WEEKLY SESSION
A therapy intensive does in one focused stretch what months of weekly sessions keep starting and stopping.
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Pre-Intensive Assessment
Before · Your Pre-Intensive Preparation Session
We start with a preparation session. We set your goal, take a focused history, build grounding tools you can actually use, and make sure an intensive is the right fit before we book the day. You'll also get a personalized focus workbook to complete beforehand, so we walk in ready and no time gets spent getting oriented.
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Intensive
Session
During · The Therapy Intensive
A dedicated block, anywhere from a two-hour session up to two half-day sessions across two days, depending on your tier. We use EMDR and Brainspotting, stay with the work instead of stopping at the top of the hour, build in breaks so you stay grounded, and close each session in a settled place, never opened up and sent off.
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Post-Intensive Follow-Up
After · Integration & Follow-Up
The work doesn't end when the session does. Every tier includes follow-up sessions built into the price, plus a plan to take home, so the shift actually holds. This is where change gets built in, not billed on the side.
Which therapy intensive fits you?
Start with one question.
How tangled is it?
If it’s…
One specific thing you can name
Your Fit:
Reset: $850
If it’s…
One situation that runs deeper than a single moment
Your Fit:
Realign: $1,300
Not sure where you land? That's exactly why we do free 15-minute consultation.
If it’s…
Several things, braided together
Your Fit:
Breakthrough: $1,800
TIER 1: Reset · $850
One specific thing you can name.
For a single, contained knot, usually recent or clearly identifiable:
A recent event still sitting in your body: an accident or a single disturbing event.
One conversation or moment you can't stop replaying.
Steadying before something big: a wedding, a court date, a procedure, a hard conversation you want to walk into grounded.
A trigger that keeps firing (a place, a smell, a tone of voice) even though you know you're safe now.
Your $850 covers everything below: the therapy intensive and the follow-up.
A live pre-intensive preparation session (60 minutes): we set your goal, take a focused history, build grounding tools, and confirm an intensive is the right fit.
A personalized focus workbook to complete beforehand.
One 2 hour EMDR or Brainspotting session.
One 55 minute follow-up session within 1 to 2 weeks, included, not extra.
Your Therapy Takeaways email.
TIER 2: Realign · $1,300
One situation that runs deeper than a single moment.
For a single storyline that's bigger than one event and has roots:
The discovery of one affair or betrayal, and everything it's kicked up about trust, and about you.
One relationship that shaped you, whether a parent, an ex, or a friendship rupture, that keeps steering how you operate now.
One significant loss you never had room to actually grieve.
One chapter of your life that still runs the show.
Your $1,300 covers everything below: the therapy intensive and both follow-ups.
A live pre-intensive preparation session 90 minutes: goals, focused history, resourcing, and fit.
A personalized focus workbook to complete beforehand.
Half Day Session (3 hours)
Two 55-minute follow-up sessions within 30 days, both included in the price.
A one-page Resourcing Plan so the calm holds between sessions.
TIER 3: Breakthrough · $1,800
Several things, braided together.
For when it isn't one thing. It's several, woven so tightly you can't find where one ends and the next begins:
Betrayal on top of grief on top of a shaky sense of who you are now.
Complex or layered trauma spread across years: more than one event, more than one relationship.
Long-standing patterns like people-pleasing, hypervigilance, or never being able to rest, with roots you can't fully separate.
When weekly therapy keeps circling because there's just too much to move in 55-minute pieces.
Your $1,800 covers everything below: the therapy intensive and six weeks of follow-up.
A live pre-intensive preparation session (about 60 to 90 minutes): goals, focused history, resourcing, and fit.
A personalized focus workbook to complete beforehand.
Two half-day sessions (3 hours each) across two consecutive days, with grounded closure each day.
Two integration sessions across 6 weeks, both included, not billed separately.
A Pattern Map + Plan (up to 2 pages) so you can see how the threads connect.
Priority scheduling during your package window.
Available in person in Brownsville, in Austin by appointment, or as the South Padre Island intensive below.
THE SOUTH PADRE ISLAND THERAPY INTENSIVE
A multi-day reset, off the island of your everyday life.
Some work needs more than a few hours. It needs you fully out of your routine. No carpool, no inbox, no walking straight from something deep back into making dinner. The South Padre Island therapy intensive is the most spacious version of this work: two half-days across two days, on the coast.
We work in focused morning or afternoon blocks, and we close each day in a settled place before you leave. The hours in between (the walk on the beach, the quiet dinner, a real night's sleep) aren't downtime. They're part of how the work settles. You process, you let it integrate somewhere beautiful, and then you come back the next day and we go further.
What's included:
A live 90-minute pre-intensive preparation session, plus your focus workbook, so we arrive ready.
Two half-day EMDR and Brainspotting sessions across two days, with grounded closure each day.
Two integration sessions across 6 weeks after you're home, both included.
Your Therapy Takeaways and a plan to carry home.
This is the Breakthrough tier, delivered on the island.
A note on your stay: lodging isn't included, so you book what suits you. I'll send a short list of places to stay and spots to eat on the island that fit the pace of this work, so you're not planning it from scratch.
Investment: $2,500, all-inclusive of the preparation, both half-day sessions, and both integration sessions. (Your lodging is separate, see the note above.)
Best for the Breakthrough-level work above, and for women across the Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville, McAllen, Edinburg, and the Upper and Lower Valley) who want to do this somewhere that already feels like an exhale.
THERAPY INTENSIVE LOCATIONS: AUSTIN, BROWNSVILLE, THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY & SOUTH PADRE ISLAND
In person in Brownsville and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Therapy intensives are held at my Brownsville office, serving women across the Lower Rio Grande Valley, including Brownsville, Harlingen, San Benito, and Los Fresnos.
Serving the Upper Rio Grande Valley: McAllen, Edinburg, and beyond. Women in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, including McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, and Weslaco, come to my Brownsville office for their therapy intensive, or choose the multi-day intensive on South Padre Island.
In person in Austin. In-person therapy intensives are available in Austin by appointment, in a private space I reserve for the day. (Ongoing weekly Austin therapy is online; the in-person option here is the therapy intensive.)
On South Padre Island. The premium multi-day, two-half-day intensive described above.
Online across Texas. Prefer to do focused work from home? Therapy intensives are also available virtually anywhere in Texas. (Virtual clients need to be physically located in Texas.)
Therapy intensives are held on weekdays and select Saturdays.
WHAT EVERY THERAPY INTENSIVE INCLUDES
Every therapy intensive is one flat price that covers the whole package: the live pre-intensive preparation session, your focus workbook, the intensive session, and all follow-up and integration sessions listed.
The follow-ups are never billed separately. Private pay; individual sessions only for now.
Available in person in Brownsville and Austin, on South Padre Island, and virtually across Texas.
Not billable to insurance directly, but I can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement, and HSA/FSA cards are accepted.
“Is A Therapy Intensive Right for You?”
This is for you if...
You've done some therapy and you're ready to go deeper, faster, in a dedicated block instead of 55 minutes at a time.
Something's been looping, and you're ready to actually move it.
You'd rather clear your calendar for one focused stretch than stretch the work across months.
You're open to EMDR and Brainspotting.
This might not be for you if...…
You're in acute crisis, or you're in a situation that isn't safe right now. Focused trauma work comes after you're stable and safe, not instead of it. We'll figure this out together in your consult, and I'll help you find the right support if an intensive isn't the right next step.
You want to ease in slowly over many weeks. Regular weekly therapy is the better fit.
You're hoping for a quick fix with no follow-through. The integration sessions aren't an add-on; they're where the change gets built in.
faqs
Other intensive questions? I’ve got answers.
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A therapy intensive is a longer, focused block of therapy, from a couple of hours up to two half-days across two days, that does in one concentrated stretch what months of weekly 55-minute sessions often can't. It uses EMDR and Brainspotting to work at the level of your nervous system, and it includes a preparation session beforehand and integration sessions afterward, all in one price.
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Before your intensive, we meet for a live preparation session. We set your goal, take a focused history, build grounding tools you can lean on, and make sure an intensive is the right fit for what you're carrying. It's not a form you fill out alone. It's real preparation, and it's part of why the intensive day works. You'll also get a personalized focus workbook to complete beforehand.
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Included. The price is all-in: the preparation, the long session, and every follow-up and integration session come with it. Nothing is billed separately.
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An intensive can move something that's been stuck for a long time, sometimes a lot in a short window. It isn't a magic reset, and I won't promise total resolution. It's focused, effective work plus the follow-up to help it hold. We'll set realistic goals together in your preparation session.
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Start with the "how tangled is it?" question above. The free 15-minute consult settles it. We'll figure out whether a therapy intensive, and which one, fits what you're carrying.
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No. Many women come for an intensive without an ongoing therapist. If you have one, I'll coordinate with them so we're moving in the same direction. If you don't, and it would help to have support afterward, I'll help you set that up. Focused work lands better when there's somewhere to bring what it stirs.
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A therapy intensive is a longer, dedicated block with real preparation beforehand and built-in integration sessions afterward. It's a structured package, not just a double session.
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No. We'll do a consult first, then your preparation session, to make sure a therapy intensive is the right call for you.
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A deposit reserves your date. Half is due to schedule, and the remaining half is due 48 hours before your therapy intensive.
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In Brownsville and across the Rio Grande Valley (including McAllen and Edinburg), in Austin by appointment, and as a multi-day intensive on South Padre Island. Focused work is also available virtually anywhere in Texas.
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Yes. In-person therapy intensives are available in Austin by appointment, in a private space I reserve for the day. Ongoing weekly Austin therapy is online, and the in-person option in Austin is the therapy intensive.
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Yes. Women across the Upper Rio Grande Valley, including McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, and Weslaco, come to my Brownsville office for their therapy intensive, or choose the multi-day intensive on South Padre Island. Virtual intensives are also available anywhere in Texas.
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I have a private pay practice. I can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement, and HSA/FSA cards are accepted. If using insurance directly is essential for you, I'm not the right fit, but I can refer you to colleagues who are.
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Book a free 15 minute consult. If a therapy intensive is the right fit, we'll schedule your preparation session and your date, take the deposit, and I'll send your focus workbook.