Somatic Therapy Intensives for Trauma & Complex PTSD in Marietta, GA
Therapy Intensives
Some healing needs more room than an hour allows.
Weekly therapy has its own rhythm, and for many people it's exactly what the nervous system needs. But sometimes you reach a point where something wants to move and fifty minutes isn't enough for it to get there.
Not because the work has stalled. Because it's ready to go somewhere deeper.
Therapy intensives create the time and space for that to happen. Rather than approaching something difficult and then stopping when the hour ends, an intensive gives your nervous system enough uninterrupted room to actually complete what it starts. The difference isn't just more time. It's what becomes possible when your system doesn't have to stop just as it's beginning to settle.
Does this sound familiar?
You're not stuck. You just need more space.
You've been in therapy and it's helped. But you keep returning to the same material. Each session opens something and then the week closes it back up before it has a chance to settle. You can feel a deeper layer waiting. Your system is ready to move through something. But fifty minutes at a time keeps interrupting the process right when it's getting somewhere.
Or something specific has happened. A rupture. A loss. A season of life that deserves more than a small window of attention each week. You don't want to spend months slowly approaching it. You want to meet it with enough time and support to actually move through it.
An intensive creates that container. Two or more full days built entirely around what your nervous system needs, including a pre-intensive intake, fourteen days of nervous system preparation beforehand, and a ninety-day regulation roadmap to support the integration that follows.
"Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.” - Dr. Peter Levine
The Approach
An intensive gives your nervous system the time and safety to do what weekly sessions can only begin.
Somatic healing happens in cycles of activation and settling. Those cycles don't always fit into fifty minutes. An intensive creates the uninterrupted space for your nervous system to move through something fully, not just approach it and stop when the clock runs out.
What an intensive with Dr. Baker actually looks like:
The structure follows your nervous system, not a schedule. Some parts of the day go slowly and deeply. Others pause to rest and integrate what just happened. The pacing is always determined by what your system can actually hold, not by what we planned to cover.
Dr. Baker brings over a decade of clinical depth to this work alongside her own personal experience navigating nervous system dysregulation. She knows how to hold a longer container without pushing your system past what it can absorb.
The goal isn't to cram more therapy into less time. It's to give your nervous system the uninterrupted space it needs to find a rhythm it couldn't find before.
Areas of focus
Intensives are a good fit…
For current therapy clients:
You've built a foundation in weekly sessions and feel ready to go somewhere that the weekly rhythm hasn't been able to reach. There's a layer waiting. An intensive can shift the trajectory of your ongoing work in ways that months of regular sessions sometimes can't.
For new clients:
You don't have to be in ongoing therapy to benefit from an intensive. If you're carrying something specific and want to begin with depth rather than work slowly toward it, an intensive can be the right place to start. A free consultation will help us figure out together whether this is the right fit for where you are right now.
For clients outside Georgia and Alabama:
Dr. Baker is licensed to practice in Georgia and Alabama. If you're outside those states, an intensive is one of the best ways to work together. You come to Marietta for two or more full days of concentrated work, getting more in that time than months of weekly sessions might provide. Many clients travel specifically for this format.
WHY WORK WITH DR. CB
What an intensive with Dr. CB actually gives you
Work that follows your system, not a schedule. Intensive formats are flexible because no two nervous systems are the same. The structure is built around what you bring, not a preset agenda. Some parts of the day move slowly and deeply, while others pause to let what just happened land.
A clinician who knows how to hold the depth. Extended somatic work requires a different kind of clinical presence. Dr. Baker's own embodied experience of nervous system dysregulation and recovery means she doesn't just understand this work intellectually. She knows it from the inside. She knows how to go deep without losing the thread back to safety.
You won't leave raw. Integration is built into every intensive, not added as an afterthought. Closing, resourcing, and settling are part of the work. Your system will have what it needs to carry what happened into the days that follow.
Clarity about what comes next. Every intensive ends with a clear sense of where your nervous system is and what kind of ongoing support would serve you best, whether that's continued intensives, weekly sessions, or something else entirely.
Questions
Questions people bring when they're
considering an intensive for the first time.
Do I need to be in ongoing weekly therapy to do an intensive?
No. Intensives are available to both current therapy clients and new clients. Some people come having done years of therapy elsewhere and are ready to go deeper. Others come with no therapy background at all but are carrying something specific they want to meet with real time and attention. A free consultation helps us figure out together whether starting with an intensive makes sense for where you are right now.
How long is a typical intensive?
Intensives are a minimum of two full days, and can extend longer depending on what you're carrying and what your system needs. Each day runs approximately six hours, with built-in time to rest, integrate, and settle between the deeper work. The length is always determined by what your nervous system actually needs, not by a standard format.
Will I feel okay at the end of an intensive session?
Yes, and this matters enough to say directly. Closing and settling are built into every intensive, not added on as an afterthought. The goal is never to leave your system raw or wide open. Each day ends with intentional time to help your nervous system land, integrate what happened, and feel safe enough to walk back out into the rest of your life. Most people leave feeling quieter and more settled than they arrived, not destabilized.
Can I do an intensive if I live outside of Georgia?
Yes. Dr. Baker is licensed to practice in Georgia and Alabama. If you live outside those states, an intensive is one of the best ways to work together. You travel to Marietta for two or more concentrated days of work, getting more in that time than months of weekly sessions might provide. Many clients come specifically because the intensive format makes geographic distance irrelevant.
How is an intensive different from just doing multiple sessions in one week?
The difference isn't just the amount of time. It's what that time makes possible. When sessions are spread across a week, your nervous system has to stop just as it's beginning to settle and then restart the following week. An intensive creates an uninterrupted container where your system can move through a full cycle of activation and settling without the week closing things back up. The continuity changes everything about what becomes possible.
What does an intensive cost?
Intensives are $2,000 per six-hour day with a minimum of two days, making the starting investment $4,000. This includes your pre-intensive intake session, a fourteen-day nervous system preparation course beforehand, and a ninety-day customized regulation roadmap to support your integration after. Payment plans are available and can be discussed during your consultation.
Ready to Go Deeper
You don't have to keep circling the same ground one hour at a time.
One conversation is enough to find out whether an intensive is what your nervous system has been waiting for.