Healing is in your nature.
Focused therapy for the things that don’t fit neatly into a 50-minute hour.
Intensive psychotherapy for complex trauma, betrayal, intimacy, and relationship repair; designed for individuals and couples who want the time and space to go deeper.
Individual + Couples Intensives | California + Oregon | Virtual Care
You may have already done a lot of therapy.
Something still feels unresolved.
This work may be a fit if you:
are functioning professionally while privately struggling
are dealing with a major betrayal or relational rupture
don't want to spend months covering ten minutes of meaningful material each week
need concentrated work around something specific
already have a therapist but need specialized trauma processing
understand yourself intellectually but still feel stuck
I offer focused, depth oriented care for individuals and couples seeking support with trauma, betrayal, intimacy, and relationship repair.
Ways to Begin
Trauma Intensives
EMDR, relational trauma, attachment wounds, somatic/parts-informed processing.
Betrayal + Intimacy Intensives
Sexual betrayal, compulsive sexual behavior, intimacy avoidance/sexual anorexia, relational rupture.
Couples Intensives
Carefully assessed focused work around betrayal, attachment injuries, entrenched cycles, intimacy, and relational repair.
Why Intensive Therapy
Sometimes 50 minutes simply isn’t enough space for the work you came to therapy to do.
Weekly therapy can be deeply valuable, but for certain concerns, repeatedly opening something important just as the session is ending can make meaningful work feel fragmented. Intensives create a larger, protected window to slow down, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and stay with the work long enough for deeper processing and integration.
Intensive therapy may offer:
More uninterrupted time to work with a specific concern, memory, pattern, or relational rupture.
Less time spent repeatedly starting and stopping, especially when it takes a while to feel settled enough to access meaningful material.
A highly individualized treatment plan built around your history, nervous system, goals, and current capacity.
Space for preparation and integration, rather than focusing only on the processing itself.
Greater scheduling flexibility for people whose lives make weekly therapy difficult or who want focused adjunctive work alongside an existing therapist.
An intensive does not mean rushing healing or pushing harder. In complex trauma work, having more time can actually allow us to move more carefully. This allows for greater attention to pacing, safety, preparation, and what your system is ready for.
Intensives aren’t right for everyone, and longer sessions do not guarantee faster healing. Part of the process is determining whether this format makes clinical sense for you and what structure would best support the work you want to do.
Interested in exploring whether an intensive might be a good fit?
This Work May Be Especially Helpful If…
You may be a good fit for this kind of work if you:
Have done therapy before and understand your patterns, but still feel like something deeper has not shifted.
Are highly functional in many areas of your life while privately carrying trauma, betrayal, relational pain, or emotional overwhelm.
Feel stuck in the same relationship patterns even when you can clearly see what is happening.
Are navigating the aftermath of betrayal, infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior, intimacy avoidance, or another significant rupture in trust.
Want focused support around a specific trauma, memory, relationship injury, or recurring emotional pattern.
Find that traditional weekly sessions feel too short for the depth of work you want to do.
Already have a therapist you value and are looking for specialized, adjunctive trauma or EMDR work rather than replacing your ongoing care.
Want therapy that is thoughtful, direct, collaborative, and tailored to you rather than a one-size-fits-all treatment plan.
You do not need to be in crisis to benefit from deeper work. Sometimes the right time for an intensive is when you have enough stability, support, and capacity to finally give something important the attention it has needed.
An Integrative, Relational Approach
I don’t believe meaningful therapy comes from fitting every person into the same model.
My work is integrative and individualized, drawing from EMDR, attachment-focused therapy, somatic approaches, parts work, and relational psychotherapy. The goal is not simply to understand why something is happening, but to work with the emotional, relational, and nervous-system patterns that may continue even when you already have significant insight.
I tend to work collaboratively and directly. I’ll offer observations, ask difficult questions when they are useful, and stay curious about your experience rather than assuming I know it better than you do.
For trauma work, this also means respecting pacing. Deeper work is not about pushing through defenses or processing as much as possible. Sometimes the most important work is building enough safety, capacity, and internal support for change to become possible.
Your treatment plan may look different depending on what you are carrying, what has helped or not helped before, and what your system is ready for now.
Meet Alison
I’m Alison Hochman, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in complex and relational trauma, betrayal, intimacy, and relationship repair.
I tend to work best with people who are thoughtful, self-aware, and ready to look honestly at what is happening beneath the surface. Many of the people I work with have already done meaningful therapy, understand their patterns well, and are looking for something more focused, relational, or experiential than insight alone.
My style is warm, direct, collaborative, and deeply curious. I don’t believe a therapist’s certainty should outweigh a client’s own experience. I see therapy as a relationship in which we can slow things down, pay attention to what is happening in real time, and work together with both compassion and accountability.
I care about helping people create change that feels real; not just intellectually understood. That may mean working with trauma held in the nervous system, examining protective patterns that once made sense, strengthening the capacity for intimacy and connection, or making room for difficult truths without rushing toward a predetermined outcome.
Above all, I want the work to feel thoughtful, human, and tailored to the person or relationship in front of me.
Where I Work
I provide psychotherapy to individuals and couples who are physically located in states where I am licensed at the time of service.
I am currently licensed in California and Oregon and offer virtual psychotherapy and intensive services throughout both states.
Because intensive work is designed to be more flexible than a traditional weekly schedule, it can be especially useful for clients who want specialized care but do not live near my physical location.
If you are traveling, temporarily staying in another state, or unsure whether I can legally provide services where you are located, please reach out before scheduling so we can confirm what is appropriate.
California LMFT #154392
Oregon LMFT #T3484
Ready to Explore a Different Way of Doing Therapy?
You do not have to know exactly what kind of treatment you need before reaching out.
If you are looking for focused support around trauma, betrayal, intimacy, or a relationship that feels stuck, we can begin by determining what kind of work makes the most sense for you.
That may include an individual intensive, couples intensive, adjunctive EMDR work alongside your current therapist, or a recommendation for a different level or type of care if an intensive is not the right fit.
The first step is simply to tell me a little about what you are looking for. From there, we can determine whether working together feels clinically appropriate and whether the intensive format is likely to support your goals.
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For therapists and other providers looking to refer a client for focused intensive work, professional referrals are also welcome.
All inquiries are reviewed with care to ensure an aligned and supportive fit.