Monthly Extended Psychotherapy
Two hours of therapy, once a month.
For those who want to go deeper, but don't necessarily need to meet every week.
Therapy doesn't always have to happen every week to be meaningful. Sometimes, having more time together and more space between sessions is a better fit for the kind of work you want to do.
Monthly Extended Psychotherapy offers two hours of dedicated time to explore what's happening in your life, better understand yourself, and work through experiences or patterns that you want to give more attention to. Rather than trying to fit everything into a traditional 50-minute appointment, we have more time to follow a thread, sit with something, make connections, and see where the process takes us.
Between sessions, you have time to reflect on what came up, notice things in your everyday life, and gradually put new insights into practice.
This is an option for people who want to continue doing meaningful therapeutic work without the commitment or frequency of weekly or biweekly sessions.
What kind of work can we do?
There isn't one particular issue or goal that these sessions are designed for. The focus is shaped around what you want to explore and what feels important to you.
You might be interested in:
Understanding yourself more deeply, including your patterns, beliefs, and ways of relating to others.
Exploring identity, self-trust, boundaries, and the ways you've learned to navigate the world.
Making sense of past experiences, including childhood experiences, relationships, and adversity that continue to affect you.
Gradually working through unresolved trauma or difficult experiences that you want to give attention to, without feeling pressured to tackle everything at once.
Exploring questions about meaning, purpose, creativity, or how you want to live your life.
Making changes in how you relate to yourself and others, or finding new ways of responding to familiar situations.
Some people may come with a particular area they want to work on. Others may prefer to see what emerges as we spend time together. Both are welcome.
Who is this a good fit for?
Monthly Extended Psychotherapy may be a good fit if you're generally managing your day-to-day life and have enough stability and support between appointments, but still want a place to do deeper therapeutic work.
You might not need the structure or frequency of weekly therapy, but you also aren't looking for a one-time conversation or a quick fix. You want to keep exploring, learning, and working through things over time.
This approach may be particularly helpful if you:
Are functioning reasonably well in your daily life, but recognize there are things you haven't had the time or space to work through.
Want to focus on personal growth and self-understanding, rather than primarily managing an immediate crisis or acute symptoms.
Have past experiences or patterns you'd like to gradually work through, at a pace that feels manageable.
Prefer longer conversations and more time to explore something before wrapping up a session.
Appreciate having time between appointments to reflect, experiment, and integrate what you're learning.
Have other sources of support and feel comfortable navigating the time between sessions.
A note about the pace of care:
Monthly sessions aren't the right level of support for everyone. If you're currently experiencing significant distress, feeling destabilized by past experiences, or needing more frequent support to manage daily life, weekly or biweekly therapy may be a better starting point. We can talk about what makes sense for your circumstances and whether this format is appropriate.
Why private pay?
Therapy that is tailored exclusively to you and your needs.
This offering is intentionally available only as a private-pay service. That means you pay for sessions directly, rather than using health insurance to cover any portion of the cost.
I don't bill insurance for these appointments, and I don't provide paperwork for clients to submit to their insurance companies for reimbursement. This applies even if your insurance plan normally offers some coverage for therapy outside its network.
Keeping this service entirely separate from insurance allows me to make decisions about the length, focus, and structure of our work based on what makes sense for you and your therapeutic process, rather than insurance coverage or reimbursement requirements.
You'll know the cost of each appointment in advance, without having to navigate insurance approvals, session limits, or reimbursement decisions.
How is this different from therapy intensives?
Both offerings provide more time than a traditional therapy appointment, but they're designed for different purposes.
Monthly Extended Psychotherapy is designed for ongoing work over time. Meeting regularly, even once a month, allows us to build a deeper therapeutic relationship and understanding of you and your experiences. Our work can evolve and build on what we've explored together, while giving you time between sessions to reflect and integrate.
Therapy intensives offer a more concentrated period of therapeutic exploration, with dedicated time to focus on particular experiences or areas of concern. While meaningful therapeutic work can happen in an intensive, the experience is generally more focused on the particular areas you'd like to explore within a defined period, rather than developing an ongoing therapeutic relationship over an extended period of time.
If you're interested in setting aside dedicated time to work through something more intensively, you can learn more about Therapy Intensives here.
Session Details
Frequency: Once a month
Duration: 120 minutes
Format: In person in Brooklyn or virtually (for clients located in NY or NJ)
Fee: $450 per session
Payment: Private pay only. Insurance is not billed, and I do not provide documentation for insurance reimbursement.
26 Court Street, Suite 409, Brooklyn, NY 11242
Interested in exploring this option?
If you're drawn to a less frequent, longer-session approach to therapy, I'd be happy to talk with you about what you're looking for and whether this format would be a good fit. Reach out to schedule an initial consultation.