Jenny Alzate LPC — Integrative Psychotherapist
Clinical psychotherapy intensives

More space.
More presence.
Room to go deeper.

You begin talking. You finally get underneath what has been happening. Something important opens.

And then the session is over.

Jenny with a singing bowl in her practice space
More room for the work

This isn’t about
rushing healing.
It’s about giving
healing more room.

For some experiences—and for some people—the traditional weekly therapy hour simply doesn’t provide enough space for the kind of work they are ready to do.

Clinical Psychotherapy Intensives offer another way.

Extended, individualized therapeutic experiences give me more time to help you understand what is happening beneath the surface, attend to your body and nervous system, process what emerges, and integrate the experience before you leave. This isn’t about rushing healing.

Starting at 6 hours & beyondOne day or multiple days
An individualized experience

What Is a Clinical Psychotherapy Intensive?

A psychotherapy intensive is an extended period of focused clinical treatment designed around a particular concern, experience, pattern, or therapeutic goal.

I offer focused therapeutic space starting at six hours, with additional time available based on your needs.

Depending on your needs, an intensive may take place over an extended session or across multiple sessions or days.

This additional time allows me to guide you organically between conversation, emotional processing, somatic awareness, nervous-system work, parts work, reflection, rest, and integration without constantly watching the clock.

The intensive is not a standardized protocol.

It is an individualized clinical experience designed around you.

Mind · Body · Nervous system

A different format.
The same integrative approach.

Whether I am working with someone in weekly psychotherapy or through a clinical intensive, my approach remains Integrative Psychotherapy.

That means I am not relying on one technique or working only with your thoughts.

Traditional Psychotherapy

Understanding your experiences, emotions, relationships, beliefs, and patterns.

Trauma-Informed Treatment

Working carefully with traumatic and overwhelming experiences while respecting safety, pacing, readiness, and your individual nervous system.

Somatic Experiencing & Body-Based Work

Noticing how emotional experiences and trauma may continue to show up through sensations, tension, activation, shutdown, and other bodily responses.

Nervous-System Regulation

Developing greater awareness of your stress responses and expanding your capacity for regulation, safety, and emotional processing.

Parts & Inner-Child Work

Exploring protective patterns and younger parts of yourself with curiosity and compassion.

Mind-Body Medicine & Mindfulness

Understanding the interconnected relationship among emotional experience, physical sensations, stress, attention, and overall well-being.

Spirituality, Intuition & Energetic Awareness

For clients who desire this dimension, there can also be room to explore meaning, spirituality, intuition, and energetic experience within an appropriate therapeutic framework.

I work with the whole person.

Six starting points

What are you
carrying right now?

You don’t have to know what modality you need. Start with what you’re experiencing.

These Aren’t Six Protocols.

They are six doors into deeper work.

You may enter through heartbreak and discover an old attachment wound.

You may come because of burnout and discover grief.

You may want to work on childhood trauma while also experiencing anxiety or depression.

Human beings don't fit neatly into categories.

Neither will your intensive.

These pathways help me understand where you want to begin.

From there, your intensive is designed around your history, therapeutic goals, current needs, nervous system, readiness, and clinical appropriateness.

Your care, thoughtfully considered

An investment
in coming home to yourself.

Choose a starting point. I’ll shape the care around you.

Ongoing support

Outpatient integrative
psychotherapy

Initial intake
$225
Therapy session
$175

A consistent space to be heard, understood, and supported.

Explore care with Jenny
All six intensive pathways

Clinical psychotherapy
intensives

Starting at$1,200

All six pathways start at six hours, with additional time available based on your needs. Add-ons are available and can be discussed during your consultation. Add-ons and additional time are priced separately.

What’s included
  • Clinical careAn intake, your individualized intensive, and a post-integration session.
  • A blend of your ownYour own essential oil blend to take home.
  • Space to reflectA workbook to use before, during, and after your intensive.
  • Thoughtful comfortsCatered snacks and drinks during your experience.
Made to fit your life

Your intensive may be completed in one visit or split across visits, on weekdays or weekends. I’ll discuss your needs and scheduling with you.

Explore the six pathways
Discuss your intensive
There is rhythm to the work

What might an intensive
actually feel like?

An intensive isn't only talking about painful experiences.

There is rhythm to the work.

TalkPauseNoticeRegulateReflectMoveRestIntegrate
Follow the rhythm of a session

I may invite you to talk.

Pause.

Notice what is happening in your body.

Work with a protective part.

Regulate.

Reflect.

Move.

Rest.

Return to something that surfaced earlier.

Integrate what you've discovered. The extended format allows me to follow the therapeutic process rather than repeatedly interrupting it because the hour has ended.

Depth without force. Structure without rigidity. Clinical care with room for the whole person.

Finding the right fit

Weekly therapy
or an intensive?

Both are forms of Integrative Psychotherapy in my practice. The difference is the therapeutic container.

Space to grow over time

Weekly Psychotherapy

Ongoing therapy provides continuity and consistent support over time.

The format
50–120 minute sessions, on a weekly basis
The focus
Multiple areas of life, ongoing circumstances, and change as it unfolds
The experience
A therapeutic relationship that develops gradually, with space to integrate between sessions
Explore weekly therapy
More room to go deeper

Clinical Intensives

Extended therapeutic time focused more deeply around a particular experience, issue, pattern, or goal.

The format
Starting at six hours, with additional time available; one day or multiple days
The focus
Concentrated processing and integration around an individual therapeutic goal
The experience
A carefully paced experience designed around your needs, readiness, and clinical appropriateness
Explore intensives

You don’t have to decide which one you need before contacting me. I can help you explore that during your consultation. Treatment recommendations and session format are determined through individual assessment.

A thoughtful decision

Is an intensive
right for everyone?

No.

Clinical intensives require thoughtful screening.

Before scheduling, I’ll discuss with you what you're experiencing, your treatment history, current supports, therapeutic goals, medical or mental-health considerations that may affect treatment, and whether an intensive is an appropriate level and format of care.

There are circumstances in which weekly treatment, psychiatric support, a specialized treatment program, crisis intervention, or another level of care may be more appropriate. The goal isn't to place everyone into an intensive.

The goal is to help determine the right therapeutic container for you.

How weekly therapy and intensives can work together

Neither is inherently “better.”

They serve different purposes.

Weekly outpatient psychotherapy provides continuity, relationship, support, and gradual therapeutic work over time.

Clinical psychotherapy intensives provide concentrated time for focused, immersive work around a particular concern, experience, or goal.

Some people may benefit from weekly therapy.

Some may benefit from an intensive.

Some may use both at different stages of their healing.

Part of the consultation process is determining which therapeutic format makes sense for you.

A conversation is a beginning

You Don’t Have to Know Exactly What You Need.

You only need somewhere to begin.

During your consultation, I’ll ask about what you're experiencing, what you hope will change, what you've already tried, and whether an intensive may be appropriate. If you and I decide to work together, your treatment experience is then designed around you.

A different way of healing begins with a different kind of conversation.

Schedule an intensive consultationConnecticut · In-person & telehealth

Clinical psychotherapy intensives are individualized mental-health treatment and are not a substitute for emergency or crisis services. Treatment recommendations and appropriateness are determined through clinical assessment.