For self-aware young adults navigating anxiety, stress & trauma

in New York and Massachusetts

Brainspotting Intensives

Accelerated healing for powerful change.

Is traditional therapy no longer cutting it?

  • You feel like the 50-minute session isn’t enough time to explain an issue, process and release it

  • You feel like the time between weekly sessions is too long, and you have to hold everything inside until the following week

  • You find yourself talking about your problems, understanding where they came from, but still feeling stuck for how to move forward

  • Your mind has gained insights and awareness, but heavy emotions still hold you back

You’re craving deeper healing.

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What you’re really looking for:

  • Relief that doesn’t take months of weekly sessions

  • A faster way to move through what’s keeping you stuck

  • To release the stress and heaviness your body’s been holding

  • To quiet your mind and feel grounded again

  • Deep rest and emotional reset—without guilt

  • Real change you can feel, not just talk about

A Brainspotting Intensive can help .

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What is Brainspotting?

Brainspotting is a powerful therapy that goes beyond talk therapy to help you heal both your mind and body. It works by tapping into your brain and body’s natural capacity for healing, using specific eye positions or “brainspots” to access and release stuck feelings, helping you feel lighter and more at peace. With Brainspotting, you can heal from anxiety, stress, or trauma that’s keeping you stuck, let go of anxiety and overwhelm, and release the emotional and physical tension you’ve been carrying. It can help you find more balance, confidence, and peace in your life.

What is a Brainspotting Intensive?

A brainspotting intensive is a powerful way to accelerate the therapy process. 

Instead of going to therapy once a week, you can do a therapy intensive in 1-3 days.  Having longer intensive sessions that are dedicated to breaking through the barriers you face is so powerful.  With more uninterrupted processing time, you can make so much more progress than is possible in weekly therapy.  If you’re ready to feel like yourself again, say goodbye to intense feelings of stress and anxiety, and welcome more peace and balance into your life - then a Brainspotting intensive may be for you!

Hi, I’m Deanna!

I’m a Certified Brainspotting Therapist and Consultant and someone who truly understands how overwhelming anxiety and stress can feel. I’ve struggled with feeling stuck in my own mind and body, unable to fully relax or be present. Brainspotting changed that for me.

I integrate Brainspotting with inner child work, mindful movement, and somatic mindfulness to help you access your body’s natural ability to heal. This approach gently uncovers and releases what’s been holding you back - going deeper than talk therapy alone. That’s why I offer Brainspotting Intensives - for those ready to move faster, go deeper, and find real relief.

If you’re craving calm, connection, and a way to quiet the overwhelm, I’d be honored to support you on this journey.

Let’s take that deep dive - together.

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How does a Brainspotting Intensive work?

90 Minute Pre-Intensive Session

We meet for an initial session to discuss your goals for the Brainspotting Intensive.  I will ask some questions to get to know you and learn your story.  We talk about what’s going right in life at this moment and what you’d like to see change. 

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Customized Client Workbook

I will create a workbook customized specifically to you based on your goals for the Intensive and on your history.  You can complete this workbook in preparation for the Intensive to get the very most out of the experience. 

2.

Intensive Sessions

Intensive Sessions are 3 hours in length and are designed to help you go deeper and accelerate the healing process.  You can choose to schedule 1-3 intensive sessions.  I recommend no more than 3 intensive sessions per week.  Brainspotting Intensives allow for a greater impact and transformation in your life.

3.

60 Minute Post-Intensive Session

We will meet for a follow-up session to reflect on the shifts and changes that you have experienced.  We can check in on what work still needs to be done and discuss how to integrate the new insights and information into your life.  Together we will create a wellness plan for you moving forward.

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Why do a Brainspotting Intensive instead of traditional weekly therapy?

  • Faster results: Make meaningful progress in just a few focused days instead of months or years.

  • Save time. Skip the weekly appointments and dive deep with concentrated sessions that fit your busy life.

  • Save money. Investing in an intensive is often more affordable than paying for weekly therapy over many months - plus, you get faster relief.

Investment

1-Day Intensive 

Includes:

  • 90 min Pre-Intensive Session

  • Personalized Workbook

  • 1 Intensive Session (total of 3 hours)

  • 60 min Post-Intensive Session

Total Price: $1111

2-Day Intensive 

Includes:

  • 90 min Pre-Intensive Session

  • Personalized Workbook

  • 2 Days of Intensive Sessions (total of 6 hours)

  • 60 min Post-Intensive Session

Total Price: $1717

Three Day Intensive 

Includes:

  • 90 min Pre-Intensive Session

  • Personalized Workbook

  • 3 Days of Intensive Sessions (total of 9 hours)

  • 60 min Post-Intensive Session

Total Price: $23232323

Unlock healing & dive deep with a Brainspotting Intensive.

FAQS

Frequently Asked Questions about Brainspotting Intensives

  • Every person is different. During the initial consultation we can talk about your specific situation. Sometimes, one intensive session will be enough. More often, people benefit from multiple sessions. We are complex human beings and many things contribute to the cycles we get stuck in. I can help you decide what type of intensive is best for you.

  • The intensive can be customized specifically to you. Many individuals find that the intensive model allows them to make faster and more meaningful progress in their healing journey compared to weekly therapy. Based on each person, I use a blend of Brainspotting, meditation, and somatic movement. We can discuss what techniques are right for you.

  • Insurance companies do not cover Intensives. Intensives are a new format of therapy that is cutting edge and breaks the mold of traditional therapy. I am able to provide a superbill for you to submit to your insurance company for potential out of pocket reimbursement for a portion of the Brainspotting intensive. In order to provide a superbill, this requires me to provide a diagnosis which may impact insurance down the road.

  • Research on intensives is positive:

    • Intensive application of trauma-focused therapy seems to be well tolerated in patients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results, while reducing the risk that patients drop out prematurely. Learn more here and here.

    • The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time, because of time not spent on a) checking in at the beginning of each session, b) addressing current crises and concerns, c) focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that the client won’t need after trauma healing, or d) assisting the client in regaining composure at the end of the session. Learn more here.

  • Yes, I am happy to connect with your therapist to create an intensive experience that is in line with your current therapy goals.

  • Yes, I offer adjunctive therapy. Let’s connect to determine what type of intensive is right for your patient. I offer 1-3 day intensives, after which your patient will return to you for ongoing regular therapy.

  • A 50% non-refundable deposit is due at the time of booking your intensive and the remaining 50% is due 1 week before the intensive.

  • There is a 2 week cancellation policy: Any cancellation within 2 weeks of the Pre-Intensive Interview will result in full charge of the intensive program.

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.