Concierge Support Services
The Gaia Center’s concierge support services are designed to bridge the gap between the therapy room and real life. While therapy is a powerful space for insight, healing, and skill-building, many of the hardest moments of growth happen out in the world—at the table, in a waiting room, in a fitting room, or on the way to an appointment you’ve been dreading for weeks (…and sometimes putting off for years.)
Our concierge services can be a highly valuable supplement to your therapy at The Gaia Center, or a complementary service if you’re already working with another therapist and need hands-on, in-the-moment support. These services are especially helpful when you’re navigating situations that bring up intense anxiety, shame, avoidance, sensory overwhelm, or emotional distress—and when you don’t have a trusted loved one nearby (or with the emotional bandwidth) to support you through it.
Think of concierge support as compassionate accompaniment: someone steady, non-judgmental, and trauma-informed walking alongside you as you practice new skills, face fears, and build confidence in real-world settings.
Receiving concierge support for something does not mean you’ll need that level of support forever. If part of your goal is building toward doing these things more independently, we’re honored to support that growth within therapy—at a pace that respects your nervous system and lived experience. At the same time, we question the hyper-individualistic belief that we should be able to do all hard things alone, or that everyone will always have someone in their life with the availability, capacity, or safety to offer this kind of support—because needing help is not a personal failing, it’s a human reality.
Examples of Concierge Support Services
Eating Disorder Recovery–Focused Support
Supported Meals (in-office or at a restaurant)
A clinician or trained support person accompanies you during a meal to help reduce anxiety, challenge eating disorder rules, and provide grounding and encouragement in real time. Eating is often where recovery feels hardest. Supported meals can help translate therapeutic insights into embodied practice, reduce avoidance, and build trust with food in a way that feels safer and less overwhelming.
Trying Fear Foods with Support
Whether at home, in session, or out in the community, support is provided while introducing or re-introducing foods that feel particularly scary. Fear foods can hold deep emotional and physiological charge. Having support present can reduce panic, interrupt ED thought spirals, and help your nervous system learn that you can survive—and even soften—through the experience.
Clothes Shopping Support
Accompaniment to clothing stores, with support navigating body image distress, sensory overwhelm, size anxiety, or fitting room panic. Clothes shopping can be deeply triggering in ED recovery. Support can help shift the focus toward comfort, agency, and self-respect, rather than shame or self-criticism.
Emotional & Relationally Charged Situations
Veterinary Appointments (especially difficult or end-of-life visits)
Accompaniment to emotionally intense vet appointments, including serious diagnoses or euthanasia support. These moments carry profound grief and stress. Support can help you stay grounded, process emotions, and avoid having to navigate heartbreak alone.
Special Events in Early Sobriety
Support attending weddings, work events, holidays, or parties where alcohol or other substances are present. Early sobriety often means navigating social spaces without familiar coping tools. Having support can reduce relapse risk, ease anxiety, and help you stay aligned with your values.
Court, Administrative, or High-Stress Appointments
Support attending court dates, school meetings, immigration appointments, or other bureaucratic situations that feel overwhelming. These environments can activate fear, powerlessness, or shutdown. Support can help with grounding, organization, and emotional steadiness.
Medical, Health, & Body-Related Support
Accompaniment to Medical Appointments (shots, blood draws, tests)
Support attending medical visits that provoke fear, fainting responses, trauma memories, or avoidance. Medical settings can be activating for many people. Having a calm, grounding presence can help regulate anxiety, advocate for your needs, and make necessary care more accessible.
Dentist Appointments for Dental Anxiety
Support attending dental visits for those with severe dental anxiety, sensory sensitivities, or past medical trauma. Dental care is commonly avoided due to fear and shame. Support can help you stay present, communicate boundaries, and follow through on care you may have been postponing for years.
Other Situations Where Concierge Support Can Help
Returning to a Place After Trauma
Support revisiting locations tied to grief, trauma, or loss (e.g., a workplace, neighborhood, or public space). Gentle, supported exposure can help reclaim parts of life that trauma has narrowed or taken away.
Practicing Anxiety-Provoking Tasks
Accompaniment while practicing tasks like driving again, using public transportation, or attending a first social gathering after isolation. Many goals stall not because of lack of insight, but because the body feels unsafe. Support helps the nervous system learn through experience.
A Note on Care & Boundaries
Concierge services are not a replacement for therapy, but a powerful extension of it. They are offered with clear boundaries, clinical intention, and a trauma-informed lens, always centered on supporting your autonomy—not creating dependence.
If you’ve ever thought, “I know what I’m supposed to do… I just can’t do it alone,” concierge support may be a meaningful next step.
Pricing:
Clinician travel is included in the listed price if the desired location is within a five mile drive of The Gaia Center office at time of travel; if the location is further than five miles, travel time is prorated at the hourly rate listed. The client is responsible for their own transportation to and from the location.
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3-tiered pricing below indicates fees for licensed clinicians / pre-licensed licensed clinicians / graduate intern clinicians.
Virtual or In-Office Snack or Meal (25-30 min - separate from a regular therapy session)
$100 / $70 / $35
Client to provide own food
Meal Outings
Meal at Quick-Service Restaurant (50-60 min)
$200 / $150 / $95
Client to purchase own food unless previously discussed to add on to service fee
Meal at Sit-Down Restaurant (90 min)
$300 / $255 / $150
Client to purchase own food unless previously discussed to add on to service fee
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See above section for examples of concierge support outings. If you’re not sure if the thing you’re looking for support with would be possible, please reach out to us.
Hourly Rate: $220 / $140 / $85
(3-tiered pricing above indicates fees for licensed clinicians / pre-licensed or temp-licensed clinicians / graduate intern clinicians.)
