Short-Term Intensive Programs: Accelerated Therapy for Real Momentum

Some breakthroughs deserve your full attention.

Sometimes situations call for more focused work. Maybe the school year is about to start, you’re ready to focus fully on something that you’ve been living with for long enough, and you’re ready to condense months of weekly sessions into weeks of intensives.

Our intensives are built for those moments. Multiple sessions a week, one focused goal, and the kind of concentrated work that can create meaningful breakthroughs in a short amount of time.

This Might Be the Right Fit If…

You Have an Open Window of Time A school break, a lighter summer, a slow season at work, and you want to use it to come out the other side feeling better.
You're Really, Truly Stuck You’ve been in weekly therapy for a while and things are fine, but you feel like you’d benefit greatly from a more intensive immersion to finally break the patterns you’re stuck in.
You're Coming from Out of State You've been looking for someone who specializes in exactly what you're dealing with and you're willing to come to Brooklyn or Manhattan for a concentrated stretch of work.
You're Facing a Specific, Acute Stressor A big move, a scary transition, or something on the horizon that you want to walk into with more tools and less dread.
Your Child Needs Help and Weekly Feels Too Slow Watching your child suffer while progress inches forward is brutal. An intensive can create momentum that creates visible progress faster.

"Dr. Zendegui and her team are an exceptional resource for specialized therapy for anxiety and OCD across children, adolescents, and adults."

Dr. Kristen Roman

New York

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How an Intensive Actually Works

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Step 1: The Pre-Intensive Chat
Before anything starts, we get clear on what we're working toward. One specific, achievable goal like "walk into the grocery store without a panic attack" or "sleep in my own bed for three nights in a row."
Step 2: The Schedule Sessions happen 3-5 times a week over 2-4 weeks. We'll mix individual work, parent sessions, or family meetings depending on what is needed to create momentum.
Step 3: The Daily Work The real change happens outside the room, not in it. Between sessions you'll have specific things to practice that build on what we did together.
Step 4: The Handoff You leave with a clear plan to keep the progress going, and if you have a therapist at home, we'll coordinate with them so nothing gets lost in the transition.

SIMPLE, STRESS FREE

Real Change in Weeks, Not Months.

If there’s a window right now, we’d love to talk about whether an intensive makes sense. Available in person in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and via telehealth across New York with the same goal as always: give you what you need, make it stick, and get out of the way.

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