Intensive Couple's Therapy
For you and your partner.
If your relationship is in need of deep repair with more momentum than traditional sessions can provide, then a couples intensive may be right for you.
A couples intensive is a private extended therapy program that offers up to six hours of therapy in a single day (or twelve hours over two days). These private intensives are designed for couples who are stuck in unhealthy patterns and who seek a transformative experience that goes beyond what shorter, periodic sessions can typically achieve. With few distractions, focused time and support; problems can potentially be resolved in a day rather than in weeks or months. In a couples intensive, we go beyond merely “talking about your problems,” to actually solving them.
I am a certified couple’s therapist and AASECT certified sex therapist with over 30 years of experience leading workshops, trainings and working with the mind-body connection. In the couples intensive, to achieve the best outcomes, I use the RLT (Relational Life Therapy) framework, combined with my unique way of guiding you through experiential exercises and helping you integrate practical relational skills that support lasting change.
Rates
- Consultation: $50 (fee can be credited toward intensive if booked within 90 days)
- Full Day (6 Hour) Intensive: $1500
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there".
- Rumi
How to Get Started with a Couples Intensive With Julie
Step 1
Complete the brief application (which will help determine whether an intensive is appropriate for you). You can find that here.
Step 2
I will review your application and if you appear to be good candidates for an intensive, I’ll email you a link to schedule a 20 minute virtual consultation over zoom. During the consultation, you can ask me any questions you may have about the intensive.
Step 3
Schedule a private one-day or two-day intensive with me.
Focused Areas for Couples Intensive
Break Destructive Relationship Patterns
- Move beyond the same painful cycles of fighting that keeps you feeling stuck and hopeless
- Learn to overcome typical dysfunctional couples behaviors, such as using the silent treatment, sacrificing your needs or becoming resentful toward your partner.
Strengthen Emotional Connection
- Create a relationship where both of you feel understood, valued and loved.
- Discover fresh aspects to your partner, strengthen your bond, and relearn how to laugh together.
Repair a Relationship Rupture
- By way of a structured therapeutic process, repair damage to your relationship.
- Heal from infidelity, repair broken trust, or restore love and connection after serious relationship injuries.
Improve Communication and Conflict Resolution
- Replace impulsive reactions and damaging ways you do conflict with greater awareness, healthier choices, and productive conversations.
- Discover ways to build empathy and mutual understanding between the two of you.
Navigate Major Life Transitions
- Strengthen your relationship so that you can be on the same team while you face the challenges of life together.
- Typical challenges include parenting or living in blended families, negotiating career changes, financial challenges, loss and grief, care for elderly parents, or other major life events.
Create Lasting Change & Reconnect as Partners
- Build new ways of relating that extend beyond the therapy room, so your progress becomes part of your everyday relationship.
- Rediscover closeness, affection and desire.
- After periods of distance, stress, and emotional distance between the two of you, learn how to revitalize your love and restore flirting, laughter and a vibrant connection with each other.