Online and in-person therapy for individuals in New York and New Jersey

Therapy Intensives for Healing the Impact of Oppression

Support for those carrying the invisible wounds of marginalization, internalized shame, and nervous system distress from systemic harm.

Heal from the weight you've carried for too long

Living under the weight of oppression—whether racial, gendered, class-based, or rooted in queerphobia, transphobia, ableism, or other forms of marginalization—can leave profound imprints on your body, your voice, your sense of worth.

When the world has questioned your identity, distorted your truth, or made your belonging conditional, it’s not just something you “get over.”

You may carry invisible burdens:
– a harsh inner critic that won’t let you rest
– a pattern of self-silencing in moments that matter most
– the instinct to freeze, fawn, or disappear in the face of microaggressions
– a quiet grief for parts of yourself that were never allowed to fully emerge

This pain lives not only in your thoughts but in your nervous system, your posture, your breath.

Therapy intensives offer a focused, compassionate space to turn toward what’s been exiled, held in, or armored over. To listen deeply to what your body has carried. To begin unbinding your identity from systems that were never built to see your full humanity.

What Is a Therapy Intensive for Healing the Impact of Oppression?

An intensive is an extended session—90 minutes to a full day—that allows space to go deeper than traditional therapy often permits. There’s time to slow down, drop into the body, and follow what’s ready to unfold, without rushing or cutting it short.

You don’t have to minimize or translate your experience here. You can speak the unspeakable—or sit in silence. You can shake, cry, rage, breathe, remember. There’s room.

We’ll work with an integrative, trauma-responsive approach tailored to your needs, which may include:

  • Liberatory framework that names systemic oppression as part of the healing context, making space to heal internalized oppression and shame related to race, gender, sexuality, class, neurodivergence, and more

  • Somatic healing for freeze, dissociation, and nervous system dysregulation

  • Parts work to tend to wounded, silenced, or protective inner voices

  • Brainspotting to access and process trauma and grief beneath the surface

  • Expressive and embodied therapies like drama therapy, ritual, and arts-based expression to engage healing through metaphor and embodiment

  • Welcoming traditional, ancestral, or culturally-rooted healing practices, if they’re part of your lineage or personal path

This is a space where your pain is not pathologized, and your survival strategies are seen as wisdom.

Who Is This For?

These intensives are for people who:

  • Feel the impact of chronic microaggressions, invisibility, or marginalization on their nervous system and self-worth

  • Carry internalized messages of not being “enough” or “too much” because of their race, gender, sexuality, class, body, or neurotype

  • Find themselves self-silencing, overachieving, or shrinking in relationships, workplaces, or communities

  • Long for a healing space where they don’t have to explain or justify their identities

  • Are ready to move beyond coping toward deeper integration, self-trust, and liberation

  • May not want or need ongoing weekly therapy, but desire a powerful, focused healing experience

  • Reside in or can travel to New York or New Jersey, with options for virtual or in-person (Brooklyn) sessions

What Happens in an Oppression Healing Intensive?

Each intensive is co-created based on your needs, readiness, and goals. A session may include:

  • Grounding and orienting your nervous system for safety and presence

  • Exploring internalized messages and connecting with protective or wounded parts

  • Processing pain, shame, or freeze responses through Brainspotting and somatic techniques

  • Engaging in expressive or symbolic practices (e.g., role-play, movement, ritual, or creative arts) to externalize and transform painful narratives

  • Practicing voice, boundaries, and choice in a supported space

  • Closing with integration tools, reflection, and care planning

Format & Location

  • Length: Can range from 90 minutes · Half-day · Full-day
    Format option and pricing details are listed here

  • Location:
     – Virtual sessions available for clients located in New York or New Jersey
     – In-person intensives offered in Brooklyn, NY (limited availability)

  • For new or returning clients in NY or NJ.
    You don’t need to be in ongoing therapy to do this work.

A Good Faith Estimate is provided for private-pay clients. Sliding scale options may be available.

Why Choose This Work?

Because what happened to you wasn’t your fault—but healing is your birthright.

Because you deserve a place to lay down the armor.
Because living small isn’t your natural state.
Because the body remembers, and it also longs to repair.

Oppression may have tried to shrink you—but there are parts of you that never stopped trying to emerge.

This work is about reclaiming them.

Ready to Begin?

You don’t have to carry it alone.
Schedule a free consultation to explore whether a healing intensive is right for you.