Couples Intensives

Some things are too important to wait until next week

Do you feel you’re at a crossroads with your partner while trying to navigate a big decision, address a breach of trust or work through a major life transition together?

Do you want to invest in your relationship proactively?

Are you finding weekly therapy appointments too hard to sustain consistently?

Couples intensives are an accelerated and immersive approach to relationship repair. Intensive therapy condenses meaningful work into a focused block of time. It provides the time and space to move beyond surface communication and access the deeper feelings, needs, and hopes that are often buried under recurring arguments.

Rather than spreading the work across months, you dedicate concentrated blocks of time (three hours, six hours, or across two days) to go deeper into the patterns and dynamics that have been keeping you stuck. There's space to finish a conversation and to reach moments of real understanding.

Intensives are a focused container for doing real work that can produce meaningful, lasting change. If you and your partner feel stuck in the same painful patterns, a couples’ intensive may provide the focused time and support needed to begin repairing and reconnecting.

Who Can Benefit From This:

  • Couples at a crossroad – you are deciding whether to stay in the relationship after an affair, a loss, a significant rupture.

  • Couples who feel stuck – you have been having the same argument for years. Weekly therapy has helped but things are still not shifting.

  • Couples seeking a reset – you want to reconnect and communicate better. You want to invest in your relationship

  • Couples navigating transitions – a new baby, retirement, a major life change

  • Busy couples - you want to block off time to focus on targeted issues

Intensive Formats

The Foundation Session

A single three-hour session. This session allows us to get beneath the surface, identify what's really happening between you, and begin the targeted work in a meaningful way. Many couples use this as a powerful standalone experience; others find it opens the door to a deeper engagement.

The Deep Dive

This is a package of three 3-hour sessions, spread across days or weeks. This package creates real momentum; each session builds on the last, giving you time to practice, reflect, and integrate skills before returning to go deeper. Ideal for couples working through a specific challenge, repairing trust, or wanting to shift a long-standing pattern.

The Half-Day

A single six-hour day of dedicated couples work. This format is particularly well suited to couples coming from out of town, those with demanding schedules who want to keep everything in one powerful block, or those who simply prefer immersion over multiple appointments. A full day together creates the conditions for profound, sustained focus.

The Weekend Intensive

Two full days of immersive couples therapy. Structured across consecutive days, the weekend intensive offers unparalleled depth. Day one opens the landscape; day two works with what emerges and consolidates meaningful change. This is for couples who are ready to give their relationship the time and attention it deserves, and want to leave genuinely transformed.

Every intensive is shaped by who you are as a couple. Before we begin you will each complete an assessment that will integrate your history, your attachment patterns, your strengths, and what has brought you here. The intensive is designed to address the goals that you are bringing to therapy.

I draw on three well-researched frameworks in couples therapy: the Gottman Method, attachment theory, and Relational Life Therapy. Together, these approaches help us understand how your relationship works, where the disconnection lives, and how to build something more secure and satisfying for both of you.

My goal is for you to leave with new understanding, new tools, and a genuine sense of hope about what's possible.

FAQs

  • Absolutely. Intensives are for any couple who wants to invest meaningfully in their relationship; not just those in acute distress. Many couples choose an intensive as a proactive reset, or because they want to do deeper work than weekly sessions allow. You don't have to be struggling to deserve this kind of time together.

  • A couples intensive is an extended therapy session; individualized, evidence-based, and led by a registered social worker who knows you. A retreat is typically a group experience with educational content. Intensives offer the depth, privacy, and personalization of one-on-one therapeutic work, in a concentrated format.


  • That's part of the work. Sessions are carefully paced, with breaks built in. Part of my role is to ensure that whatever comes up, we work through it together rather than leaving you in a difficult place. You will not be left with something unfinished.

  • Yes. The Foundation Session a single three-hour intensive is designed for this. Many couples start there and then choose to continue with another package. There is never any pressure to commit to more than you're ready for.

  • Coverage for couples therapy varies by provider and plan. I'm a registered social worker, and many extended health plans offer coverage. I provide a receipt with my college registration for you to submit. I recommend checking directly with your insurer about your specific plan.