Couples Intensives: Focused Support for Your Relationship

What Is a Couples Intensive?

A couples intensive is a focused, accelerated therapy experience designed to help you make deep, lasting progress in a short amount of time. Instead of weeks or months of weekly therapy, you’ll spend one or two full days immersed in meaningful relationship work—with uninterrupted time to connect, heal, and grow.

What We Work On in an Intensive

Each intensive is customized to your relationship, but common areas we explore include:

• Communication breakdowns and recurring conflict

• Emotional disconnection or lack of intimacy

• Trust repair after betrayal or infidelity

• Navigating big life transitions (parenthood, relocation, empty nesting)

• Rebuilding after years of feeling stuck or distant

• Childhood trauma or attachment patterns showing up in the relationship

What’s Included

• Pre-intensive relationship assessment (online)

• Initial consultation call to clarify goals

• Customized workbook or prep packet

• 6 hours of therapy per day (with breaks and integration time)

• Access to me through text & phone during the day/days you have schedule for your intensive

• Somatic tools and nervous system support throughout the day

• Post-intensive summary + recommendations

• Referrals or follow-up support options if needed

1-Day vs. 2-Day: What’s the Difference?

1-Day Intensive
Best for couples looking to:

• Focus on a specific challenge

• Get unstuck and jumpstart progress

• Deepen connection without committing to ongoing weekly therapy

2-Day Intensive
Best for couples who:

• Want more time for unpacking complex patterns

• Are healing from deeper wounds or betrayal

• Need space to process and integrate over two days

Sample Schedule (for 1-Day)

• 9:00–12:00 – Morning therapy block

• 12:00–1:00 – Lunch break

• 1:00–3:00 – Afternoon therapy block

Breaks are built into the process, and we’ll move at a pace that feels emotionally safe and sustainable.

What Makes This Intensive Different

As a couples therapist, I know that it is inevitable that trauma makes its’ way into our relationships. What sets me apart from other intensives is that I actively work to address these issues and help each partner understand the context of the reactions, or lack of reactions, in your cycle. We focus on emotional safety, recognizing and identifying patterns that you aren’t able to see, and there is a deep focus in emotional identification and resilience building. My intensives are:

• Rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for deep emotional connection

• Informed by the Gottman Method for practical tools and structure

• Uses somatic interventions and EMDR for trauma and nervous system support

• Trauma-aware and attachment-focused

• Grounded, honest, and personalized to you

Location & Logistics

• Held in my private therapy office in St. George, Utah

• Virtual intensives available for eligible clients

• Lodging, meals, and travel not included

• I’m happy to offer local recommendations to make your experience restful and restorative