Therapy Intensives and Individualized Workshops in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County and Bay Area California
Jumpstart your Relationship Confidence
A focused extended therapy experience for individuals designed to create meaningful progress in days, not months.
You don’t want to wait for the changes to start.
Waiting months before seeing a benefit of therapy is too long to wait.
This individualized therapy intensive is designed for adults who want to strengthen how they show up in relationships.
This is not couples therapy; the focus is entirely on your own growth, communication, and relationship confidence.
When the Stakes Feel Too High to Keep Hoping Things Improve on Their Own
When you're struggling in an important relationship, it can feel like every difficult conversation carries enormous weight. The stakes are high when you feel like the consequences of doing the wrong thing can be devastating.
You may find yourself walking on eggshells, avoiding topics that need to be addressed, questioning yourself constantly, or feeling increasingly disconnected from the person you care about.
The longer these patterns continue, the more frustrating and discouraging they can become.
No matter how much you care, you may struggle to express yourself clearly, manage emotional reactions, navigate conflict, or create the kind of connection you want with your partner.
A therapy intensive allows us to focus deeply on what's happening beneath the surface, helping you understand your patterns, strengthen your communication skills, and begin creating change right away.
Who is this Intensive for?
This intensive is designed for individual adults, whether you're in a relationship, dating, recently divorced, or single and wanting to build healthier relationship patterns.
Why an Individual Therapy Intensive Instead of Weekly Therapy?
Sometimes you don't want to spend months slowly unpacking a specific relationship challenge.
You want dedicated time to gain clarity, learn new skills, and create momentum now.
An intensive allows us to accomplish in a day or two what might otherwise take many weeks of traditional therapy, making it ideal if you're feeling stuck, facing an important relationship decision, or motivated to make meaningful changes quickly.
Therapy Intensive Package:
60-Minute Intake → 3 or 6 Hour Intensive → 45-Minute Follow-Up
Step 1: Clarify Your Goals and Relationship Patterns
We begin with a 60-minute intake session to understand your goals, relationship challenges, and the areas where you'd like to grow.
Using my Relationship Values Guide, we'll identify:
The kind of partner you want to be
Patterns that may be getting in the way
Relationship decisions, conflicts, or uncertainties that need greater clarity
Your strengths and growth areas
The skills that would have the biggest impact on your relationships
This session helps us create a clear roadmap for your intensive.
Step 2: Your Personalized Individual Intensive
The core intensive includes either 3 or 6 hours of focused therapy time, one-on-one with Angela Sitka, licensed psychotherapist, completed over one or two days. You can choose to do the intensive in-person or virtually depending on your preference.
Unlike weekly therapy, we have dedicated time to dive deeply into the challenges that matter most to you and begin building new skills right away.
Depending on your goals, we may focus on:
Getting clarity about a relationship or important decision
Managing emotional reactions more effectively
Staying grounded during difficult conversations
Improving communication and conflict resolution skills
Reducing defensiveness, shutdown, or avoidance
Building emotional awareness and confidence
Strengthening trust, connection, and vulnerability
Learning practical tools for staying connected under stress
Every intensive is customized to your unique situation, goals, and relationship dynamics.
Step 3: Follow-Up and Continued Support
After the core intensive, we'll meet for a 45-minute follow-up session on another day of your choosing.
This session helps you:
Reinforce what you've learned
Address challenges that have come up
Refine and strengthen new skills
Continue building momentum in your relationships
Additional resources, exercises, and recommendations may also be provided based on your needs.
The Goal
The purpose of the intensive isn't simply to gain insight.
It's to help you develop practical skills, communicate effectively, navigate challenges with greater confidence, and act in ways that align with your values, regardless of what happens next.
How is a therapy intensive different from weekly therapy?
More Depth, Less Start-and-Stop
Weekly therapy naturally creates pauses between sessions.
In an intensive, we’re able to stay immersed in the work, which helps us go deeper without needing to reorient or rebuild momentum each time.
A Clear Beginning, Middle, and End.
The intensive includes a structured process.
An intake session to clarify goals, concentrated, uninterrupted therapy hours to do the work, and a follow-up session to support integration and real-life application.
Faster Momentum and Less Repetition.
Rather than working in 50-minute increments over months, you’ll have extended, uninterrupted time to go deeper into the patterns, decisions, and skills that matter most right now.
Meet Your Intensive Therapist
Angela Sitka, MA, LMFT, licensed psychotherapist specializing in therapy for men
I’m Angela Sitka, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Sonoma County with a private practice specializing in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).
ACT Therapy helps you build the skills to respond differently when difficult thoughts, emotions, and situations arise, so the changes you make in therapy actually show up in your everyday life.
I provide straightforward feedback, teach concrete skills, and guide the process so you're not left wondering what you're supposed to do in therapy through a modality called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Common Questions about Therapy Intensives
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Intensive packages (intake session + 3-hr intensive session) start at $1800.
I offer a free consultation prior to booking your intensive where I can better assess what intensive package would be a good fit for you, so we know confidently how much time to book.
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Here are some of the reasons my clients choose to do this intensive package:
You're feeling stuck in recurring relationship patterns.
You are preparing to begin (or trying to decide whether to begin) couples counseling, but you want individual time to clarify your thoughts and get clear on your goals.
You want focused help with a specific relationship challenge.
You want to work on how to show up in relationships differently
You're facing an important relationship decision.
You prefer making meaningful progress over a shorter period of time.
You're motivated to actively engage in the work.
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Yes. Therapy intensives can be an excellent option for people who are motivated to do meaningful work, but whose lives simply aren't well suited to a standing weekly appointment.
Some of my clients have demanding careers, travel frequently, have unpredictable schedules, or live too far away to make weekly in-person therapy practical.
Others simply prefer to dedicate focused time to their growth rather than spreading it out over several months.
While an intensive isn't the right fit for everyone, it can be an effective way to make significant progress when weekly therapy isn't realistic.
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No. You do not need to currently be in a relationship to benefit from this intensive.
Many people seek this work while they are single, dating, recently out of a relationship, or in a period of reflection after a breakup or divorce.
In these situations, the intensive can be especially helpful for understanding your relationship patterns, clarifying what you want moving forward, and building more confidence in how you show up in future relationships.
We can also focus on past relationship experiences that still feel confusing or emotionally charged, especially if you notice yourself repeating similar dynamics or getting stuck in overthinking or self-doubt.
The goal of the intensive is not just to improve a current relationship, but to help you develop greater clarity, emotional awareness, and relationship confidence that you can carry into any stage of your life.
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This intensive is not the right fit for everyone.
It may not be appropriate if you are currently in acute crisis or experiencing severe mental health instability. In those cases, more frequent or ongoing support may be a better starting point.
This work is also not designed for individuals looking for someone to make decisions for them or provide direct advice about what they “should” do in a relationship. While we will absolutely work with clarity and decision-making, the focus is on helping you understand your patterns, values, and responses so you can make decisions that feel aligned with your goals.
Finally, an intensive may not be a good fit if you are not currently able or willing to engage actively in the process, meaning being open to trying out new things. The intensive requires reflection, emotional engagement, and a willingness to try new ways of responding.
If you're unsure whether this format is right for you, we can discuss it during an initial consultation.
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Approximately 2–4 weeks after the intensive, we'll meet for a 45-minute follow-up session to review your progress, reinforce what you've learned, and troubleshoot any challenges that have come up as you've begun applying the work in your daily life.
Following our follow-up session, I'll provide personalized resources, exercises, or recommendations to support your continued growth based on your specific goals and needs.
If you're already working with a therapist, I'm happy to collaborate with them (with your written permission) by sharing relevant insights and recommendations to help ensure continuity of care.
If you'd like to continue working with me after the intensive, ongoing weekly therapy may also be an option, depending on my availability.
Angela Sitka is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #97770) in Santa Rosa, California, providing therapy to adults throughout California. As a licensed therapist since 2017, she specializes in helping individuals strengthen their relationships through greater emotional awareness, effective communication, and psychological flexibility.
Her educational background has included specialized training in using ACT Therapy to address perfectionism and people-pleasing tendencies, as well as ACT for Trauma. She writes and collaborates in popular media about various relational topics including setting boundaries, obsessive thinking, emotional intelligence, and relationship attachment styles in publications such as: TIME, HuffPost, SELF, PsychCentral, and Cosmopolitan.
Her work integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-informed therapy, and relational approaches to help clients navigate conflict, reduce emotional reactivity, and build healthier, more secure relationships.
Angela Sitka, LMFT, licensed psychotherapist in Santa Rosa