Intersections Wellness Intensive treatment, LLC

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Customize your treatment to fit YOU - in SC or PA

Intensives are 2-6 hours of treatment, often for multiple days - scheduled consecutively or intermittently as best suits your individual needs. Paula will collaborate with your primary/referring therapist to ensure you are adequately prepared for and supported after your intensive.

SC Intensives: Are available in Charleston and Greenville. The beach setting in Charleston and nature settings in Greenville can be incorporated into your retreat experience.

PA Intensives: Are typically conducted in my Beaver, PA office; or choose a retreat-style setting to enjoy nature.

At this time, Paula is primarily in SC with limited availability for in person services in PA. Intensive treatment with Paula is adjunct only,; clients must have a primary therapist.

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Advantages of intensives

Fast results: Most intensive clients experience significant improvement in mood and functioning following their intensive.

Less hours overall are spent in therapy with intensives.

Schedule therapy when it fits in your life - no need to center your weekly schedule around a therapy appointment.

EMDR Intensives alleviate much unnecessary suffering. No more struggling to manage symptoms between weekly/hourly sessions, when memories are activated and unresolved.

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Intensives may be ideal for you if:

You have insight from being in therapy, but are still struggling in some areas. You have already put in the hard work; the EMDR will shift what is stuck.

You are busy and need to prioritize your functioning : executives, healthcare professionals, first responders, college students, parents

You have difficulty accessing emotional material in a short amount of time

You experience your emotions intensely - thus benefit from a flexible structure that allows for restorative/stabilizing activities to be integrated throughout the reprocessing.

You have a treatment goal of sexual assault recovery, VCAP* funds can be used to pay for intensives. If the event took place in Pennsylvania, you do not need to have reported it.

*VCAP has been impacted by federal funding issues; please inquire about parameters for using VCAP at this time.

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Why an intensive may NOT be right for you at this time:

Insurance does not cover intensive treatment at this time. Cost can be prohibitive, unfortunately.
Some people do best with the hour per week model. For these people, an hour gives just enough time to have a helpful therapeutic experience; and they function well during the days between sessions, or use the days between sessions to rest and recover from the toll of the reprocessing.
If you have significant dissociation that is not yet well managed, an intensive would likely be destabilizing. To be clear, people with dissociative disorders can benefit from intensives. Clients who have a solid awareness of their dissociative profile, and are grounded in working with their parts/ego states, may be good candidates for intensives.

Rates and policies

Rates

2 or more hour session: $275/hour

Some portions of your treatment may be clinically supported by shorter sessions. Sessions of 90 minutes or less are billed at adjunct self pay therapy (non-intensive) rates

Adjunct Therapy Self Pay Rates -90 minutes or less session

1 hour session - $175

45 minute session - $135

30 minute session - $95

Extended session 1.5 hours - $250

Options for payment - potential resources

HSA/FSA
VCAP - programs funding treatment for crime victims; PA's program for sex crime victims does not have a reporting requirement nor statute of limitations cutoff.
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Sliding Scale options will be offered when possible - please inquire.

Policies - prospective new client/therapist referral inquiry

Paula works adjunct only: All clients must be engaged with a primary therapist who maintains responsibilty for ongoing clinical support and is willing to communicate collaboratively with Paula, to ensure continuity of care.

If you do not currently have a therapist, one place to begin your search is EMDRIA.org

Paula may be able to assist with your search for a good-fit primary therapist. Please email to inquire about this service.

Paula prioritizes the ethics and practices of informed consent, client-directed care, and risk management. Thus, Paula will work with you and your therapist to assess your preparedness for EMDR reprocessing and trauma focused intensive work. Preparation can be done by your primary therapist, or via extended or intensive sessions with Paula.

Preparation for EMDR reprocessing may include assessment for dissociation, working with ego states/parts, and somatic practices to increase affect tolerance (ability to experience intense emotional states/body sensations without flooding or shut down). Paula offers Flash Predictive Processing as an option for clients wishing to relieve trauma symptoms without activating trauma memories.

Many EMDR intensive therapists do not require clients to have a primary therapist or to engage in preparation work. Prospective clients are encouraged to explore options, educate them selves, and choose the provider who best fits their needs and goals.

Please email Paula to inquire about adjunct intensive treatment.

Cancellation and Rescheduling policies

Policies will be provided in initial consult.

Privacy policies

All services and PHI records are HIPAA compliant. Additionally, because Intensive Treatment is provided outside of the insurance based system, no formal diagnosis will be added to your health records; documentation of treatment is for the use of the clinician(s) and clients - thus your PHI will not be released to your insurance company.