Intensive Therapy is technically well written and I was interested enough in the story to finish it, although it was hard to stay with it, as there was so much extraneous information that kept the story from moving forward at a decent pace. There were too many characters and too much detail about them, especially at the end. The medical information was too didactic and repetitious.
But the real problem is that although we were privy to the patient's secrets and were told she and her therapist liked each other, Deitz didn't really drill down on their feelings and why they felt that way; there was very little inner dialogue. Then, at the end of therapy in Chapter 28, the therapist suddenly and perhaps inappropriately discloses his feelings for the patient. Separation from a therapist can be agonizing, and a demand for personal information fraught with ethical dilemmas, but it seemed like the patient was less distressed than the therapist, and neither seemed to struggle much with the parting. This action-only approach to storytelling distances the reader from the protagonists, and we don't really care about them.
However, with a little editing, this could be a five-star story.
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