At Bloom, we know that complex mental health challenges often need more time and care than traditional therapy allows. That’s why we offer Therapeutic Intensives—ranging from 3 hours to multiple full days—to provide the dedicated space for deep healing.

Why Choose a Therapy Intensive?

Unlike weekly therapy, which spreads treatment over months or years, intensives offer concentrated therapy in a shorter time, allowing for deep processing and integration without the interruptions of daily life.

✔ Faster progress – Work through issues in days or weeks, rather than months or years
✔ Deeper healing – Extended sessions allow for thorough trauma processing
✔ Customized care – Every intensive is tailored to your specific needs
✔ Beyond talk therapy – These sessions incorporate somatic, emotional, and cognitive healing
✔ Optimized for EMDR & expressive arts therapies – Intensives restore the full effectiveness of these approaches, allowing for longer sessions as originally intended

What’s Included?

Our intensives integrate EMDR and expressive arts therapies, such as Art Therapy and Psychodrama, which are most effective in longer, uninterrupted sessions.

• EMDR was originally designed for 90-minute or longer sessions to ensure full trauma processing

• Psychodrama sessions typically last 90 minutes to multiple hours, supporting emotional exploration and resolution

Due to insurance limitations, traditional therapy often shortens these sessions. Our intensive format ensures you have the time needed for safe, deep healing—without feeling rushed.

Who Can Benefit?

Intensives are ideal for individuals who:

✔ Feel stuck in their current therapy progress
✔ Are ready to address trauma and emotional challenges head-on
✔ Prefer an individualized and immersive healing approach
✔ Want noticeable change in a shorter timeframe
✔ Need support with complex trauma, attachment wounds, or specific traumatic events
✔ Require help with nervous system regulation and emotional processing

How Are Intensives Structured?

To maintain continuity and safety, standard therapy sessions will still be held with your primary therapist and/or intensive therapist alongside scheduled intensives.

✔ Half-day intensives (3-4 hours)
✔ Multi-day intensives (2-3 days)

Investment & Insurance

All intensives are private pay and cannot be submitted to insurance, whether in-network or out-of-network, due to insurance limitations.

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If you're seeking faster, deeper, and more immersive healing, a Therapeutic Intensive may be your next step.

Elevated Outpatient Treatment is a customized, comprehensive outpatient therapy approach for those who need more support than weekly therapy but do not require inpatient or residential care. At Bloom, we understand that healing isn’t one-size-fits-all—some clients benefit from increased sessions, extended time, or a multidisciplinary approach.

This model allows us to create a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs, which may include:

✔ More frequent or extended sessions with your primary Bloom therapist
✔ Specialized treatment methods with additional Bloom team members

Who Benefits from Elevated Outpatient Treatment?

You may benefit from more than one therapy session per week if you:

✔ Are in early recovery from an eating disorder, trauma, or other mental health concern
✔ Are transitioning before or after a higher level of care (HLOC) and need structured step-down support
✔ Are experiencing high distress or crisis and need more immediate interventions
✔ Feel that weekly therapy isn’t enough to address the complexity of your concerns
✔ Want longer or more intensive sessions to deepen your healing
✔ Need added support in use of skills for emotional regulation outside of the therapy hour
✔ Have multiple therapeutic needs, such as individual therapy, family or couples therapy, or skill-building sessions
✔ Are navigating a major life transition, such as divorce, grief, career changes, or significant stress
✔ Are a parent seeking extra support to help your child with their mental health

What Can an Elevated Outpatient Treatment Plan Include?

✔ More frequent Sessions with your primary therapist
✔ Intensive therapeutic sessions using EMDR, Psychodrama, or Art Therapy
✔ Tandem Couples or Family Therapy for a more integrated, supportive approach
✔ Parent Coaching to help support your child’s mental health
✔ Meal Support for those struggling with eating-related challenges
✔ Trauma-Informed Yoga to support mind-body healing
✔ Skill-Building Sessions focused on DBT, mindfulness, coping strategies, and distress tolerance
✔ Phone Coaching support to help with emotional regulation
✔ Sessions with a specialist for EMDR, DBT, Art Therapy, or Psychodrama
✔ Targeted Sessions for eating disorders, trauma recovery, and other specific concerns

How Is This Different from Traditional Therapy?

Traditional therapy typically involves one-hour weekly sessions, but for some, this may not be enough. Life’s distractions can slow healing, and deeper trauma work often requires more time and support. Our Elevated Outpatient Treatment Model bridges the gap between traditional therapy and more intensive care, ensuring you receive the structure, support, and specialized treatment needed for meaningful progress.

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If increased therapeutic support could benefit you, we’re here to help design a treatment plan that works for you.

Tandem therapy differs from standard family and couples therapy by involving two therapists working together, rather than a single therapist facilitating the session. In addition to joint sessions, each person (or subgroup) also meets individually with their designated therapist, allowing for deeper personal work alongside relational therapy.

Key Differences Between Standard and Tandem Therapy

✔ Therapist Support

• Standard Therapy: One therapist guides the session, balancing the needs of all participants

• Tandem Therapy: Two therapists co-facilitate, offering multiple perspectives and support

✔ Session Structure

• Standard Therapy: All participants meet together with one therapist

• Tandem Therapy: Clients engage in both joint sessions with both therapists and individual sessions with their designated therapist

✔ Conflict Resolution

• Standard Therapy: The therapist mediates conflicts alone

• Tandem Therapy: One therapist can focus on emotional regulation while the other facilitates dialogue, improving conflict resolution

✔ Depth of Individualized Support

• Standard Therapy: The therapist balances group dynamics while offering limited one-on-one time

• Tandem Therapy: Individual sessions allow for personal processing alongside relational work

Benefits of Tandem Therapy

✔ Personalized support while maintaining a focus on the relationship or family system
✔ Ensures all voices are heard, reducing power imbalances and improving communication
✔ More effective conflict resolution by dividing therapist roles for better facilitation
✔ Supports both personal growth and relational healing through a structured and comprehensive approach

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Tandem therapy is particularly beneficial for complex couples and family dynamics or situations requiring deeper emotional work. This approach ensures a more balanced, structured, and effective therapeutic experience.

Parent Coaching or Parent Support sessions and family therapy are both valuable tools in the therapeutic process, particularly when working with clients across various treatment modalities, including those with DBT, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health concerns.

The choice between these approaches depends on the specific goals and dynamics within the family system or between the parent and child.

Key Differences Between Parent Coaching and Family Therapy:

✔ Focus and Scope:

• Parent Coaching: Focuses specifically on parenting techniques, providing individual support for parents, and offering practical guidance for managing the child’s behavior and emotional needs. The coaching therapist collaborates with the child’s individual therapist to ensure consistent care and support for the family.

• Family Therapy: Involves the entire family system, focusing on improving family communication, resolving conflicts, and addressing family dynamics that may affect the client’s mental health or recovery. Family therapy sessions aim to strengthen relationships and create a supportive family environment for the individual’s healing.

✔ Goals:

• Parent Coaching: Aims to equip parents with the tools and knowledge they need to help their child manage emotional struggles, behavioral challenges, and mental health symptoms. The goal is to empower parents to reinforce therapeutic progress at home and create a supportive environment for the child.

• Family Therapy: Seeks to improve relationship dynamics, encourage healthy communication, and address family-level issues that might be contributing to or affected by the client’s struggles. The goal is to foster a more cohesive family unit that supports the individual’s recovery.

✔ Sessions:

• Parent Coaching: Involves individual sessions between parents and the coaching therapist to develop tailored strategies and provide support. The coaching therapist consults and collaborates with the child’s individual therapist to ensure consistency in treatment and maximize support for the family.

• Family Therapy: Involves the whole family, facilitating group discussions and working together to resolve conflicts and support the individual’s recovery. These sessions provide a structured space for open dialogue and mutual understanding among family members.

When to Choose Parent Coaching vs. Family Therapy:

✔ Parent Coaching: This approach is particularly beneficial when the parent’s role needs to be empowered and focused on supporting the child’s individual needs. It’s ideal when the focus is on parenting strategies, understanding treatment methods, managing the child’s emotional struggles and behavioral challenges, and fostering a nurturing home environment. Parent coaching also ensures that parents are equipped with the tools to reinforce therapeutic progress at home, in collaboration with the child’s individual therapist.

✔ Family Therapy: This approach is better when family dynamics themselves are impacting the client’s mental health or recovery. Family therapy works well for addressing interpersonal conflicts, improving communication, and ensuring that all family members are aligned in supporting the client’s treatment. It provides a structured space for the whole family to engage in open dialogue and work together to support the individual’s healing and growth.

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Both parent coaching and family therapy play an essential role in enhancing treatment outcomes. Whether the focus is on empowering parents, improving family dynamics, or addressing specific mental health concerns, both approaches provide significant benefits for clients dealing with DBT, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other challenges. By offering tailored support at both the individual and family levels, these approaches can strengthen the overall treatment process and create a more supportive environment for healing.

Yes! At Bloom, we believe in a collaborative approach to care and often work with other providers to ensure comprehensive support for our clients. We coordinate with therapists, dietitians, holistic practitioners, coaches, treatment centers, and medical providers to strengthen the therapeutic process and provide well-rounded care.

In addition to collaborating with existing providers, we also refer clients to other professionals as needed to ensure they receive the most appropriate and effective support. If additional services would benefit your treatment, we will work with you to connect you with trusted providers who align with your needs.

If you are already working with other healthcare professionals or would like additional support, we are happy to collaborate with your team to align treatment approaches and best support your healing journey. Let us know if you would like us to coordinate care with any of your existing providers or explore additional resources.

To allow us to collaborate with your other providers, we require that a Release of Information form be completed. This ensures we can share relevant treatment details and coordinate care effectively.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES TO ALL PAGES OF OUR WEBSITE, INCLUDING ANY FORMS, TOOLS, OR SERVICES ACCESSED VIA SUBPAGES.

By using our website, you acknowledge and consent to the collection and use of personal information you provide when contacting us through our contact forms, email, or other communication methods. We collect only the information you voluntarily submit, such as your name, email address, and any additional details you provide in your inquiry. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiries, schedule appointments, and provide therapy-related services. We do not share your personal information with third parties except as required by law. We implement reasonable measures to protect your information, we retain your information only as long as necessary for these purpose. As commercial third-parties, this website’s tools and forms are not HIPAA-complaint, therefore if you wish to avoid use of these third-party systems, you can instead contact us via email or phone. If you wish to access, correct, or delete your information, or if you have concerns about how your data is handled, please contact us at contact@bloomMHhealing.com. For more detailed information, please review our full Privacy Policy below.

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THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW HEALTH INFORMATION MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

I. BLOOM MENTAL HEALTH HEALING'S PLEDGE REGARDING HEALTH INFORMATION:

We understand that health information about you and your health care is personal. We are committed to protecting health information about you. We create a record of the care and services you receive from Bloom Mental Health Healing. We need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements. This notice applies to all of the records of your care generated by this mental health care practice. This notice will tell you about the ways in which we may use and disclose health information about you. We also describe your rights to the health information we keep about you, and describe certain obligations we have regarding the use and disclosure of your health information. We are required by law to:

• Make sure that protected health information (“PHI”) that identifies you is kept private.

• Give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to health information.

• Follow the terms of the notice that is currently in effect.

• We can change the terms of this Notice, and such changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new Notice will be available upon request, in our office, and on our website.

II. HOW BLOOM MENTAL HEALTH HEALING MAY USE AND DISCLOSE HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU:

The following categories describe different ways that we use and disclose health information. For each category of uses or disclosures we will explain what we mean and try to give some examples. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed. However, all of the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the categories.

1. For Treatment Payment, or Health Care Operations: Federal privacy rules (regulations) allow health care providers who have direct treatment relationship with the patient/client to use or disclose the patient/client’s personal health information without the patient’s written authorization, to carry out the health care provider’s own treatment, payment, or health care operations. We may also disclose your protected health information for the treatment activities of any health care provider. This too can be done without your written authorization. For example, if a clinician were to consult with another licensed health care provider about your condition, we would be permitted to use and disclose your person health information, which is otherwise confidential, in order to assist the clinician in diagnosis and treatment of your mental health condition.

2. Disclosures for treatment purposes are not limited to the minimum necessary standard. Because therapists and other health care providers need access to the full record and/or full and complete information in order to provide quality care. The word “treatment” includes, among other things, the coordination and management of health care providers with a third party, consultations between health care providers, and referrals of a patient for health care from one health care provider to another.

3. Lawsuits and Disputes: If you are involved in a lawsuit, we may disclose health information in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose health information about you/your child in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.

III. CERTAIN USES AND DISCLOSURES REQUIRE YOUR AUTHORIZATION:

1. Psychotherapy Notes. we do keep “psychotherapy notes” as that term is defined in 45 CFR § 164.501, and any use or disclosure of such notes requires your Authorization unless the use or disclosure is:

   1. For our use in treating you.

   2. For our use in training or supervising mental health practitioners to help them improve their skills in group, joint, family, or individual counseling or therapy.

   3. For our use in defending ourselves in legal proceedings instituted by you.

   4. For use by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to investigate our compliance with HIPAA.

   5. Required by law and the use or disclosure is limited to the requirements of such law.

   6. Required by law for certain health oversight activities pertaining to the originator of the psychotherapy notes.

   7. Required by a coroner who is performing duties authorized by law.

   8. Required to help avert a serious threat to the health and safety of others.

2. Marketing Purposes. As psychotherapists, we will not use or disclose your PHI for marketing purposes.

3. Sale of PHI. As psychotherapists, we will not sell your PHI in the regular course of our business.

IV. CERTAIN USES AND DISCLOSURES DO NOT REQUIRE YOUR AUTHORIZATION. 

Subject to certain limitations in the law, we can use and disclose your PHI without your Authorization for the following reasons:

1. When disclosure is required by state or federal law, and the use or disclosure complies with and is limited to the relevant requirements of such law.

2. For public health activities, including reporting suspected child, elder, or dependent adult abuse, or preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety.

3. For health oversight activities, including audits and investigations.

4. For judicial and administrative proceedings, including responding to a court or administrative order, although our preference is to obtain an Authorization from you before doing so.

5. For law enforcement purposes, including reporting crimes occurring on our premises.

6. To coroners or medical examiners, when such individuals are performing duties authorized by law.

7. For research purposes, including studying and comparing the mental health of patients who received one form of therapy versus those who received another form of therapy for the same condition.

8. Specialized government functions, including, ensuring the proper execution of military missions; protecting the President of the United States; conducting intelligence or counterintelligence operations; or, helping to ensure the safety of those working within or housed in correctional institutions.

9. For workers' compensation purposes. Although our preference is to obtain an Authorization from you, we may provide your PHI in order to comply with workers' compensation laws.

10. Appointment reminders and health related benefits or services. We may use and disclose your PHI to contact you to remind you that you have an appointment with us. We may also use and disclose your PHI to tell you about treatment alternatives, or other health care services or benefits that we offer.

V. CERTAIN USES AND DISCLOSURES REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBJECT.

1. Disclosures to family, friends, or others. We may provide your PHI to a family member, friend, or other person that you indicate is involved in your care, your emergency contact, or for the payment for your health care, unless you object in whole or in part. The opportunity to consent may be obtained retroactively in emergency situations.

VI. YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PHI:

1. The Right to Request Limits on Uses and Disclosures of Your PHI. You have the right to ask us not to use or disclose certain PHI for treatment, payment, or health care operations purposes. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say “no” if we believe it would affect your health care.

2. The Right to Request Restrictions for Out-of-Pocket Expenses Paid for In Full. You have the right to request restrictions on disclosures of your PHI to health plans for payment or health care operations purposes if the PHI pertains solely to a health care item or a health care service that you have paid for out-of-pocket in full.

3. The Right to Choose How We Send PHI to You. You have the right to ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, home or office phone) or to send mail to a different address, and we will agree to all reasonable requests.

4. The Right to See and Get Copies of Your PHI. Other than “psychotherapy notes,” you have the right to get an electronic or paper copy of your medical record and other information that we have about you. We will provide you with a copy of your record, or a summary of it, if you agree to receive a summary, within 30 days of receiving your written request, and we may charge a reasonable, cost based fee for doing so.

5. The Right to Get a List of the Disclosures We Have Made. You have the right to request a list of instances in which we have disclosed your PHI for purposes other than treatment, payment, or health care operations, or for which you provided us with an Authorization. We will respond to your request for an accounting of disclosures within 60 days of receiving your request. The list we will give you will include disclosures made in the last six years unless you request a shorter time. We will provide the list to you at no charge, but if you make more than one request in the same year, we will charge you a reasonable cost based fee for each additional request.

6. The Right to Correct or Update Your PHI. If you believe that there is a mistake in your PHI, or that a piece of important information is missing from your PHI, you have the right to request that we correct the existing information or add the missing information. We may say “no” to your request, but we will tell you why in writing within 60 days of receiving your request.

7. The Right to Get a Paper or Electronic Copy of this Notice. You have the right to get a paper copy of this Notice, and you have the right to get a copy of this notice by e-mail. And, even if you have agreed to receive this Notice via e-mail, you also have the right to request a paper copy of it.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), you have certain rights regarding the use and disclosure of your protected health information.