The Therapist
Intensive Immersion
More impact. More income. Less burnout.
Bring intensives into your practice, in the modality you already work in.
Apply for Your Free Consult$6,950 USD
More impact. More income. Less burnout.
Bring intensives into your practice, in the modality you already work in.
Apply for Your Free Consult$6,950 USD
A single intensive generates real revenue from focused, concentrated work, work that actually matches the depth of what you’re capable of delivering and leaves you feeling filled with purpose and aware of the impact of what was just delivered.
Compare that with seeing the same client weekly for six to twelve months: the same therapeutic relationship, but slower, less resourced, more settling and small talk, a fraction of the income, and none of the momentum that consecutive days make possible.
Intensives are not a side hustle bolted onto your practice. Bringing them into your work opens up a new world: a different relationship between your clinical skill, your client’s outcomes, and your own sustainability as a therapist.
Traditional weekly model
One client, fifty sessions a year, $120 a session. Roughly $6,000 in annual revenue for fifty separate hours, fifty separate preparations, fifty points of administrative drag.
Intensive model
One client, a focused multi-day intensive. Most therapists price their first booking from around $3,500, often close to what they’d have charged for several weeks of sessions combined, for roughly 12-15 hours of total time, including preparation and integration.
Scale that across eight to ten intensives a year and you’re looking at genuinely different revenue, built on a fraction of the hours a weekly caseload demands, with far more energy left over for the clients in front of you and the life outside your practice.
Confidence builds with evidence. Once you’ve experienced and then delivered your first intensive and felt what’s possible in that kind of container, pricing the next one gets easier, and most therapists raise their rate naturally as a result. In the Immersion, that’s exactly what your 60-day follow-up session is built for: debriefing what worked, refining your approach, and setting your price for intensive two with real outcomes behind it, not a guess.
Lucy Orton
Intensives Specialist and Founder of The Spacious Practice
I currently charge from $4,500 a day for individual intensives (you can see my client-facing pages here), $5,500 for couples (here), and from $6,500 for in-person retreats. My own practice runs roughly half couples work and half individual work, built on flat day rates I hold consistently, no discounting, no weekly sessions sitting alongside it. That structure is part of what lets me work around forty weeks a year, around my own family’s school calendar, without burning out. It’s exactly the thinking we’ll work through together for your practice too.
But you don’t even need new clients to begin with. You don’t need to master marketing, build a following, or launch a funnel.
Two or three of the clients already on your books would likely say yes to an intensive if you offered it properly and felt confident in pricing and delivering. Your existing practice is your first market, the people who already trust you, who are already doing deep work with you, and who are ready to go further than a weekly hour allows.
Most therapists book their first intensive within sixty to ninety days of completing this programme, often with a client who was already waiting for exactly this.
Spaciousness for you.
Step off the weekly treadmill and design a practice that supports your life, your energy, and your family, not just your client load.
A genuine clinical uplevel.
Whatever your modality, IFS, Brainspotting, RLT, or another depth-oriented approach, you already know the power of concentrated time. And you likely also know the frustration of the fifty-minute hour, watching exactly how much more is possible when it isn't rationed. Intensives remove that ceiling.
Deeper impact for your clients.
Concentrated time allows clients to process, settle, and genuinely shift in a way that months of fragmented weekly work often can't reach with the same momentum, whether that's individual parts work or a couple's rupture and repair.
A sustainable income model.
Fewer hours. Fewer clients. More impact, more revenue, and a practice built to last rather than one that quietly burns you out.
The best way to confidently offer intensives is to experience one yourself, as a client, and understand exactly how to build it as a genuine, profitable part of your practice.
Roughly half the intensives I run are couples work, so if that’s your focus, the business side of this Immersion is built entirely around couples pricing, positioning, and structure. You don’t need formal IFS or Brainspotting training to take part. In the clinical half, where you experience the work as a client, I draw on whichever approach genuinely fits what’s alive for you. What matters is that you’re already working at depth in your own modality and ready to bring that into an intensive format.
Business Strategy Session (90 minutes)
We map your intensive model: pricing for your market and experience level, how to raise it with existing clients, and your first ninety days. You leave knowing exactly what to charge and which three to five clients to approach first.
Pre-Intensive Session (90 minutes)
You experience the exact preparation process you'll use with your own clients, setting intentions and building the container before the deep work begins.
Your Own Healing Intensive (3 hours)
A full intensive, experienced as the client, in whichever modality genuinely fits your own work. This is embodied research as much as it is your own healing. You'll know the pacing, the depth, and the power of this format from the inside, so you can hold it for others with real confidence.
Post-Intensive Integration and Implementation (90 minutes)
We translate your personal experience directly into your business blueprint: structure, pricing, positioning, and exactly who to offer your first intensive to.
60-Day Follow-Up: Your First Intensive Debrief (90 minutes)
Once you've delivered your first real intensive, we debrief it properly. What worked. What to refine. How to price intensive two with real data behind you, and how to fill the next two or three spots.
You leave with the business model, the embodied clinical experience, the operational systems, and genuine implementation support, not a theory you have to figure out alone.
$6,950USD
Timeline: complete within 6 to 10 weeks, waitlist dependent
Most therapists recover this investment after their first or second intensive booking. Every one after that is profit, on fewer hours and deeper work.
Apply for Your Free ConsultI offered my first intensive to a long-term client two weeks after my immersion with Lucy. She said yes immediately.
SW
IFS Therapist, UK
My vision for my practice has become so much clearer since our work together. I credit our meetings with giving me the motivation and confidence to start transforming my practice into the vision I'd had for it.
AM
IFS Therapist, US
I thought I'd need to invest in marketing to find intensive clients. Turns out three of my current weekly clients were waiting for me to offer this.
KL
IFS Practitioner, Australia
Building an international therapy practice
How much do therapists charge for intensives?
It varies by experience, modality, and market, but most therapists price their first intensive from around $3,500, often close to what they'd have charged for several weeks of regular sessions. Pricing is covered properly in your Business Strategy Session, matched to your own market and experience level, not a generic formula.
How long is a therapy intensive?
Typically a single full day of around six to seven hours, though some run across two or three consecutive days depending on what the client needs. Total time including preparation and integration usually sits around 12 to 15 hours.
What's the real difference between weekly therapy and building intensives into your practice?
Weekly therapy spreads work across months, with time spent each session re-establishing where things left off. An intensive holds the work in one concentrated container, which changes both the clinical experience and the business model behind it. The result tends to be faster client progress, significantly higher revenue per hour of clinical time, and a lot less administrative drag.
Do intensives work better for trauma work specifically?
Trauma and deep parts work often benefit enormously from concentrated time, since material that's close to the surface doesn't have a week to settle and bury itself again before the next session. That said, intensives suit any work that benefits from sustained, uninterrupted focus, not trauma alone, which is why this Immersion works whatever your modality.
Can intensives be delivered online, or do they have to be in person?
Both. My own practice runs primarily online, worldwide, with in-person retreats available by arrangement. The Immersion itself is delivered online, so you can complete it from wherever you're based.
How do I actually price my first intensive?
This is the core of your Business Strategy Session. Pricing isn't guesswork, it's built from your market, your experience, and what the work is genuinely worth, with a clear number you leave the session able to state with confidence.
Permission to Expand
A smaller way in, a personalised, IFS-informed audio session built for the exact part of you that hesitates on premium pricing or intensive work.
Find out moreTherapy intensives for therapists, coaches, and practitioners
A full therapy intensive built for fellow helping professionals doing their own inner work, not business strategy, just the work itself, with someone who understands this way of operating from both lived experience and clinical specialism.
Learn moreOne-off business consults
Availability here is limited, since Immersions and intensives take priority in my diary. If you already have a clear direction and just need focused guidance on pricing, positioning, or logistics, I occasionally open a single 90-minute consult.
Contact meFor the full programme, the curriculum, and the community around it, visit The Spacious Practice. For client-facing intensive work, see lucyorton.com and couplesawaken.com. This programme sits within The Centre for Intensives.
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