What if you could do months of work in a matter of days?
A DIFFERENT APPROACH
Weekly therapy is valuable, but the one-hour-per-week format has real structural limits. For trauma, grief, and relationship work, momentum matters. Time depth matters. The ability to stay in the material without a week-long gap matters.

Willow Creek’s intensive therapy model gives you that time. Structured clinical days, guided by an experienced therapist, in an environment designed to support deep and focused work.
2–5
Days of Focused Work
Structured therapeutic sessions
1:1
Individual Attention
Every intensive with Kathy directly
15+
Years of Experience
Trauma-informed clinical care
A MORE FOCUSED APPROACH TO HEALING
What is an Intensive Session?
Maximum Progress
Intensive therapy provides extended, focused sessions that allow you to work through challenges more deeply than traditional weekly appointments. This approach creates dedicated time to address trauma, reduce emotional distress, and work toward meaningful progress.
Feel Better Faster
Instead of spreading therapy across weeks or months, intensives offer concentrated therapeutic support within a shorter timeframe. This can help maintain momentum and continuity in your healing journey, although everyone's progress is different.
Can I Afford an Intensive?
While intensives may require a larger upfront investment and are typically not covered by insurance, the focused approach may reduce the need for multiple separate appointments. Willow Creek also offers CareCredit financing options to help make treatment more accessible.
Flexible Schedule
Consulting
Intensive therapy offers longer, dedicated sessions that can fit around your work, family, and personal commitments. It's a flexible alternative to traditional weekly appointments, giving you space to prioritize your overall well-being.
Explore Your Intensive Therapy Options
FOCUSED SUPPORT FOR DEEPER HEALING
EMDR Intensives
Focused Healing for Trauma, Grief, and Emotional Distress
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Sometimes, traditional weekly therapy may not provide enough time to fully explore the experiences keeping you feeling stuck. EMDR Intensives offer extended, personalized sessions to help you process distressing memories, address trauma-related challenges, and work toward meaningful change through a focused, evidence-based approach.
What is EMDR Intensives?
Willow Creek Counseling provides both EMDR and Couples intensive therapy. Work with a specialist trained as an EMDR Consultant and Level 2 Trained Gottman-Institute Therapist treating trauma, grief, and relationship struggles in an intensive format. Intensives are designed for patients who know their treatment goal and are ready to address them in an accelerated way.
Additional Benefits Include:
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Traditional Therapy has not resolved your symptoms
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Desire for accelerated treatment to remove blocks to creating your ideal life.
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Skip the waitlist and gain faster access to select spots
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Receive focused therapy with more results in shorter time
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Plan with intention according to your preferred schedule and time
Experience Willow Creek. Create space. Focus on what matters.
RECONNECT, REBUILD & GROW TOGETHER
Couples Intensives
Reconnect, Communicate, and Strengthen Your Relationship
Every relationship faces challenges, but finding time to work through them together isn't always easy. Using Gottman-based principles, Couples Intensives provide dedicated time to better understand relationship patterns, strengthen communication, navigate conflict, and build a healthier, more meaningful connection.
What is the Gottman Method of Couple's Therapy?
Improve relationship health and satisfaction based on the most extensive study of marital stability from the Gottman Institute. Accelerate your healing in an intensive format, outside of daily life distractions with dedicated time to your relationship.
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Why Gottman Intensives?
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Couples intensives save time while enhancing therapy with a comprehensive online assessment specific to each couple.
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Each partner meets individually to assist in assessing the relationship and developing your intensive treatment plan. Each partner will contribute personalized results and specific treatment recommendations for you as a couple.
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Save time with busy work schedules and take time based on your schedule to address your relationship comprehensively, vs. traditional weekly models of therapy.
Comparing Intensives to Traditional Therapy
Intensives offer a more immersive therapy experience, allowing for more therapeutic work to be done in a shorter period of time. They involve multiple hours of therapy in a given day, scheduled in one-day or multi-day increments, providing a deep dive into treatment away from interruptions and distractions.
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In contrast, traditional therapy typically involves hour-long sessions once a week, eventually transitioning to less frequent maintenance sessions. While traditional therapy is suitable for simpler issues, more intensive treatment may be necessary for deeper-set issues that require more frequency, intensity and duration of sessions.
Intensive therapy can provide rapid and effective treatment for severe symptoms and is ideal for those who have not seen as much improvement with traditional therapy. At Willow Creek, it is structured as intensive outpatient therapy offering an 8 hour program or a 14 hour program. The intensive packages vary depending on weekdays, weekends and evenings and are congruent with your treatment goals. Options are available for more extensive treatment outside of the 8 and 14 hour programs. All participants of the intensive program are eligible for extended treatment sessions after the intensive.
Ultimately, the choice between intensives and traditional therapy depends on the individual's specific needs, schedule, and the level of intensity and frequency of therapy required for their circumstances.
“Healing doesn’t mean forgetting what you’ve been through. It means finding the strength to move forward with compassion for yourself.”
THE PERSON BEHIND YOUR CARE
Kathy Couch
Kathy is a Trauma Therapist & EMDR Consultant. She brings years of experience supporting individuals and couples through trauma, grief, relationship concerns, and intensive therapeutic work. 


Her approach is thoughtful, personalized, and grounded in creating a safe space for focused care. She specialize in EMDR, Grief and Couples Intensive Therapy, offering an accelerated, research-based path to lasting relief from trauma, grief, and relationship distress. Sessions are available both virtually and in-person.​
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