Intensive Couples Counseling

Short on time? Busy schedule? Relationship in crisis? Need BIG help QUICK?   

Sometimes couples need or want more than an hour a week with a counselor. Between work and kids and activities, finding time for counseling every week is challenging. Intensive sessions and retreats offer up to months of counseling in one to four days.

Couples find doing intensive counseling allows them to stop the deepening hurts in their relationship, increase their ability to manage conflict, increase intimacy and friendship, and improve communication. Intensive sessions get relationships back on track toward building the relationship couples desire.

Intensive Retreats

Assessment JumpStart and JumpStart+

Assessment is essential to success in counseling. When we go to the doctor, we expect the them to take the time to do a thorough assessment, conduct relevant tests, and hear complaints and concerns. Couples counselors benefit couples by doing the same. Gottman Method Couples Counseling requires clinicians to look deeply at strengths and areas of improvement within relationships. Although assessment is very important, some couples don't want it spread out over three weeks.

• First, couples schedule JumpStart on Friday or Saturday.
• Prior to Jumpstart, each person completes online questionnaires.
• Jumpstart day starts includes meeting with the couple together, then each partner individually. After a break, couples receive results from the questionnaire, treatment plan, and counselor recommendations. 

Couples often add a 2-hour marathon session allowing them to leave Jumpstart with deeper understanding of strengths and improvement areas plus tools they can use immediately.

Jumpstart cost: $675

Jumpstart+ (2-hour marathon addition): $955

Weekend Retreats 

Intensive retreat weekends are great options for couples 

• whose relationship is in serious distress
• experiencing infidelity or other significant break in trust
• having years of built up hurts
• unable to commit to weekly counseling due to schedules
• not living in the area, or
• wanting to completely focus on the relationship work without everyday stressors
• wanting pre-marital counseling in a weekend.

Intensive retreats are hard work with great reward. Difficulties may temporarily increase between partners during the retreat. Intensely emotional things may be revealed that cause difficulty with others in your lives. We cannot make any guarantees about outcomes for any type of counseling. Although counseling does not work in the same way for every couple, many couples leave with new understanding and tools to manage their daily life and continue improving their relationship.  

Intensive Retreats are not for every couple or every situation. Following are situations in which Intensive Retreats or couples counseling in general is not advised:

• active and ongoing addiction to drugs or alcohol on the part of one or both partners, from either perspective.
• serious violence or threats of violence
• untreated current major mental illness
• undisclosed affair currently happening which you aren't willing to disclose.
• homicidal or suicidal ideations

Each intensive retreat weekend comes with one 80-minute follow up session, scheduled about 4-6 weeks after their intensive weekend, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, and Gottman Card Decks

Two Day Intensive Retreat (~12 hours) - $1945

Three Day Intensive Retreat (~18 hours) - $2945

Four Day Intensive Retreat (~24 hours) - $3945

**Retreat price does not include the cost of your travel, hotel accommodations, or food**

Committed couples completing intensive retreats report experiencing improvements in their relationship quickly! Contact us today and join the movement toward strong friendship, increased intimacy, and creating the relationship you and your partner desire.