Why Choose Couples Intensives?

✓ You find coordinating schedules to attend couples therapy regularly challenging.

✓ You feel stuck in a tense cycle of conflict with your partner.

✓ The relationship feels strained by life transitions or big events.

✓ You feel like roommates & are unsure how to rebuild intimacy.

✓ There has been a betrayal of trust in your relationship.

✓ You are contemplating separation or divorce and want to explore the possibility of a way forward together.

Recognize Negative Patterns

Bring awareness to the negative cycle and how each partner contributes.

Identify Emotional Raw Spots

Identify conversations that spark conflict and the emotions and needs that shape your interactions.

Break the Cycle 

Understand the emotions and behaviors that shape the cycle and start to interrupt and shift to reshape the cycle.

Heal and Rebuild Trust 

Deepen trust, intimacy, and connection while bringing back playfulness and joy.

Stay Open, Responsive, and Engaged

Integrate meaningful conversations and EFT techniques into everyday life.

Common Areas That Are Covered in Couples Intensives

Intensive Schedule  

Joint Morning Session 9:00 – 10:30

Individual Sessions 10:30 – 11:15 & 11:15  – 12:30

LUNCH BREAK 12:30 – 14:00

Afternoon Joint Session 14:00 – 15:30

BREAK 15:30 – 16:00

Closing Joint Session // 16:00 – 17:00

We follow a basic morning and afternoon schedule, but can adapt to meet the specific needs of each couple. An intensive offers flexibility to meet for longer periods, without being limited to a standard 50-minute session. Each day will include 6 hours of therapy with 2 hours of breaks.

After participating, you will leave with:

  • An awareness of your negative cycle and how to de-escalate conflict.

  • A clearer understanding of the root causes of conflict and the tools to communicate with each other more effectively.

  • A refame of how you approach the issues in your relationship, viewing yourself and your partner in a new way.

  • An ability to get underneath conflict and better understand your and your partner’s emotions, fears, and relationship hopes.

Intensive FAQs

    • If an active addiction or substance misuse issue is affecting one or both partners.

    • If there is an active breach of trust in the relationship, such as an ongoing affair, or something that is outside of the relationship agreements for non-monogamous couples.

    • If being together in the same room is too triggering, or you haven’t been able to be in the same space without being civil, this format will not be productive.

    • If you both have different goals for therapy. For example, if one partner wants to work on the relationship, and the other partner wants to end it. However, if you are undecided together and willing to explore moving forward or ending the relationship, that is a common goal and will work for this format. 

    • If there is active intimate partner violence. 

    • They are offered in a two-day, six-hour format.

    • They can be scheduled between Thursday and Sunday.

  • There are two consecutive 8-hour days with several breaks. Each day has the following schedule:

    • Joint Morning Session 9:00 – 10:30

    • Individual Sessions 10:30 – 11:15 & 11:15  – 12:30

    • LUNCH BREAK 12:30 – 14:00

    • Afternoon Joint Session 14:00 – 15:30

    • BREAK 15:30 – 16:00

    • Closing Joint Session // 16:00 – 17:00

  • While there is no preparation needed, it is encouraged that couples read Hold Me Tight by Susan Johnson before attending.

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