Couples Intensive

A Couples Therapy Intensive is a focused, immersive experience designed for partners who want more than surface-level change. This intensive offers dedicated time to slow down, understand what has been happening beneath conflict or distance, and begin healing emotional wounds that have disrupted connection.

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Many couples come feeling stuck—repeating the same arguments, walking on eggshells, or feeling emotionally disconnected despite loving one another. An Intensive creates the space to step out of survival mode and begin repairing what has been strained or broken.

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A Structured Path Toward Emotional Intimacy

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Your Couples Intensive includes pre- and post-intensive assessments that help clarify patterns, measure emotional intimacy, and guide treatment with intention.

Before the Intensive, each partner completes a couples assessment that explores:

• Emotional closeness and intimacy

• Attachment patterns and relational needs

• Conflict cycles and emotional triggers

• Areas of rupture, injury, or disconnection

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This information allows the Intensive to be tailored specifically to your relationship—so time together is used wisely and effectively.

After the Intensive, a follow-up assessment helps:

• Measure shifts in emotional safety and connection

• Identify ongoing growth areas

• Support integration and next steps for continued healing

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Healing Emotional Wounds and Repairing Ruptures

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At the heart of this Intensive is the treatment of relational emotional wounds—the moments where trust was broken, needs were missed, or connection felt lost.

Through guided support, couples are helped to:

• Identify underlying attachment needs driving conflict

• Safely process emotional injuries and unresolved pain

• Repair relational ruptures with clarity and compassion

• Rebuild trust through emotionally corrective experiences

Rather than focusing on blame or “who is right,” the work centers on understanding, responsiveness, and repair.

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Integrated, Attachment-Focused Approaches

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Couples Intensives draw from a combination of evidence-based, attachment-informed modalities, including:

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help partners recognize and shift negative interaction cycles and respond to one another with greater emotional accessibility and engagement

• EMDR-informed interventions (when appropriate) to support the processing of past relational injuries or experiences that continue to impact the present

• Attachment-informed and nervous-system-aware approaches to increase emotional safety, regulation, and felt connection

This integrated approach allows couples to work at both the relational and nervous system level, supporting deeper, longer-lasting change.

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Engaging in Connection-Building Exercises

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Throughout the Intensive, couples are guided through structured connection exercises designed to strengthen emotional intimacy and secure bonding. These experiences help partners practice:

• Attuned listening and emotional presence

• Expressing needs and vulnerabilities safely

• Repairing moments of disconnection in real time

• Creating new patterns of closeness and responsiveness

These exercises are not just tools—they become lived experiences of connection that couples can continue to use beyond the Intensive.

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Who This Intensive Is For

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A Couples Therapy Intensive may be a good fit if you:

• Feel emotionally disconnected or distant

• Are stuck in recurring conflict or shutdown patterns

• Are healing from betrayal, breach of trust, or unresolved pain

• Want focused support without long-term weekly therapy

• Desire deeper emotional intimacy and secure connection

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Moving Forward Together

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A Couples Intensive is not about fixing one partner—it’s about restoring the relationship as a place of safety, understanding, and connection.

With structure, guidance, and intentional space, couples can begin to experience renewed closeness, clarity, and hope for the future—together.