Couples Intensives
FEEL HEARD.
FEEL CONNECTED.
FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO EACH OTHER — SOONER
Immersive therapeutic experiences designed to help couples slow reactive cycles, deepen emotional understanding, and reconnect more deeply.
In-Person in Santa Monica • Online Across California
1-Day and 2-Day Intensives Available
Is weekly therapy no longer enough?
YOU’RE TRYING.
BUT SOMEHOW, YOU KEEP MISSING EACH OTHER — AND THE DISCONNECTION IS BECOMING EXHAUSTING.
You don’t want to spend months repeating the same painful conversations.
Weekly therapy can sometimes feel too fragmented when the relationship feels emotionally urgent, deeply stuck, or shaken by betrayal, conflict, disconnection, or unresolved pain. Life continues moving around the relationship — busy schedules, stress, conflict, exhaustion, and long stretches between sessions where painful patterns keep unfolding without enough continuity, momentum, or emotional space to truly shift them.
Just when you finally begin opening up to each other, time runs out.
The deeper conversations — the ones where walls begin coming down, emotions soften, and you finally start feeling seen, understood, and connected again — often take time to unfold. Intensives create more space to stay in those moments longer, so meaningful breakthroughs, repair, and reconnection are not interrupted just as they begin happening.
You’re in the right place.
When the relationship feels emotionally urgent, weekly therapy may no longer feel like enough.
Couples intensives create more uninterrupted space for deeper conversations, emotional breakthroughs, repair, and reconnection to unfold — with greater momentum, continuity, emotional containment, and space for deeper relational work than weekly therapy can often provide.
What is a Couples Intensive?
Couples Intensives create extended space for the two of you to slow recurring conflict down, move beyond surface-level conversations, and better understand the deeper emotional patterns, wounds, disconnection, betrayal trauma, and reactive cycles shaping your relationship.
Available in 1-day and 2-day formats, intensives allow us to stay emotionally engaged in the deeper conversations longer — creating greater continuity, momentum, emotional containment, and opportunity for meaningful breakthroughs, repair, and reconnection than traditional weekly sessions often allow.
With more uninterrupted space to stay emotionally engaged with one another, you are able to remain with the moments where walls begin coming down, emotions soften, and deeper understanding, vulnerability, and emotional connection begin emerging between you — instead of having those moments interrupted just as they begin unfolding.
Depending on what your relationship is needing most right now, your intensive may include attachment-focused relational work, communication and conflict repair, experiential and guided exercises, emotional processing and integration, grounding and regulation practices, structured space for reflection and reconnection, and personalized recommendations to help support continued growth after the intensive.
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Where We Begin
We begin with a complimentary 20-minute consultation to briefly discuss what has been happening in the relationship, the goals you have moving forward, and whether a couples intensive feels like the right fit for where the two of you are right now.
If we decide to move forward together, each partner will complete a more in-depth assessment process to help me better understand your relationship history, recurring patterns, emotional triggers, and the experiences that may still be shaping how the two of you connect and move through conflict today.
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The Intensive Experience
Your intensive is tailored to the unique needs and emotional rhythm of your relationship. Together, we slow recurring conflict down, move beneath the arguments themselves, and create more space for the deeper conversations, emotional breakthroughs, repair, and reconnection that often become interrupted in weekly therapy.
Available in 1-day and 2-day formats, intensives allow us to stay emotionally engaged in the work longer — creating greater continuity, momentum, emotional containment, and opportunity for meaningful breakthroughs to unfold.
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Continuing Forward
After the intensive, many couples leave with a clearer understanding of the patterns keeping them stuck, the emotions underneath recurring conflict, and new ways of reaching for one another with greater openness, understanding, and care.
Follow-up recommendations are thoughtfully tailored and may include ongoing therapy, additional intensive work, or integration sessions to help support continued healing, reconnection, and relational growth moving forward.
My Approach
At the heart of my work is helping couples move beyond the surface of conflict and into the deeper emotional roots of what keeps happening between them. Together, we work to better understand not only the painful patterns and cycles you keep getting pulled into, but also what lives underneath them — the fears, protective strategies, old wounds, unmet needs, and emotional survival patterns that can make it so difficult to stay connected when the relationship feels vulnerable, painful, or emotionally charged.
My approach is deeply relational, attachment-based, and experiential, integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Relational Life Therapy (RLT), the Gottman Method, and trauma-informed approaches to help couples move beyond reactivity and into deeper understanding, repair, emotional safety, and reconnection.
Because couples intensives create more uninterrupted time, continuity, and emotional momentum than weekly therapy often allows, we’re able to stay with the deeper conversations and emotional breakthroughs longer — allowing more meaningful shifts, repair, and reconnection to unfold.
what starts to change
A clearer understanding of what keeps pulling you apart
so the same arguments no longer feel as confusing, repetitive, or impossible to move through together.
More time and space than weekly therapy often allows
to slow conversations down, move beneath the surface of conflict, and stay with important emotional moments long enough for meaningful shifts, repair, and reconnection to begin unfolding.
Deeper healing around emotional and attachment wounds
helping you better understand the fears, protective patterns, unmet needs, and past experiences that continue shaping the way you connect, protect yourselves, and move through conflict together.
Learning more emotionally connected ways of reaching for one another
through greater emotional awareness, compassion, vulnerability, emotional regulation, repair, and more intentional ways of reconnecting
Greater clarity about how to move forward
with a deeper understanding of yourselves and each other, more connected ways of navigating conflict, intimacy, healing, and repair, and greater clarity about how to continue moving forward together.
Choose the format that best fits your relationship.
Intensives are thoughtfully designed around the pace, goals, and emotional needs of each relationship — with different formats offering varying levels of depth, momentum, and support depending on what your relationship may need right now.
Your Options
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One 5-hour immersive session
Designed for couples feeling emotionally stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed by recurring conflict, navigating attachment injuries or trust ruptures, or struggling to move beyond painful relational patterns.
This format creates space to slow the cycle down, deepen emotional understanding, process emotionally charged experiences more fully, and begin shifting the dynamics keeping the relationship stuck.
This intensive may include:
• attachment-focused relational work, attachment injury repair, and conflict repair
• emotionally focused and trauma-informed therapeutic interventions
• experiential and guided therapeutic exercises
• structured space for emotional processing, repair, and integration throughout the day
• personalized relational summary and post-intensive recommendationsIntensives are thoughtfully structured with pacing, breaks, and integration in mind to support emotional processing, relational safety, and deeper therapeutic engagement throughout the experience.
Investment
Virtual Intensive
$1,500In-Person Intensive (Los Angeles)
$1,800 -
Two 5-hour immersive sessions
Designed for couples seeking greater depth, momentum, or support around chronic disconnection, emotional distance, attachment injuries, trust ruptures, recurring conflict, relational transitions, or longstanding relational patterns.
The extended format allows the work to unfold more intentionally and with greater continuity, creating space for deeper emotional processing, attachment injury repair, relational repair, integration, and more sustained shifts in the relationship.
This intensive may include:
• deeper attachment-focused and relational pattern work
• attachment injury repair, communication, and conflict repair
• emotionally focused and trauma-informed relational work
• experiential and guided therapeutic exercises
• structured space for reflection, emotional processing, and continued connection between intensive days
• personalized relational summary and post-intensive recommendationsIntensives are thoughtfully structured with pacing, breaks, and integration in mind to support emotional processing, relational safety, and deeper therapeutic engagement throughout the experience.
Investment
Virtual Intensive
$3,000In-Person Intensive (Los Angeles)
$3,400
Booking, Payment & Scheduling
A complimentary consultation is available prior to booking to help determine whether a Couples Intensive is the right fit for your relationship and goals.
A non-refundable deposit equal to 50% of the total intensive fee is required to reserve your intensive dates.
The remaining balance is due 14 days prior to the scheduled intensive.
Dates are not held until the agreement and deposit are received.
Rescheduling requests are requested at least 14 days prior to the scheduled intensive date.
In the event of illness, emergency, or unforeseen circumstances, every reasonable effort will be made to accommodate rescheduling based on availability.
Looking for a more restorative, destination-style experience?
For couples seeking a slower pace, a destination-style setting, and a more restorative therapeutic experience, Destination Reset Intensives offer an opportunity to step away from everyday demands and engage in deeper relational work with greater space, continuity, and intention.
Imagine finally getting to…
not perfectly repaired overnight — but less alone, less guarded, and more able to reach for one another with openness, softness, and care.
Feeling emotionally safe, connected, and close again
where both of you begin recognizing not only the conflict itself, but the fears, hurts, emotional wounds, protective patterns, and unmet needs underneath it — allowing empathy, emotional understanding, and genuine connection to take the place of blame, defensiveness, and disconnection.
Understanding one another with greater compassion and emotional clarity
with deeper relational awareness, emotional insight, more connected ways of communicating, and more intentional ways of responding to one another that support continued healing, repair, intimacy, and reconnection over time.
Moving forward with greater clarity, hope, and direction
Sometimes relationships need more than sixty minutes a week.
Couples Intensive questions? I’ve got answers.
faqs
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Unlike weekly therapy, couples intensives create extended, uninterrupted space for deeper emotional and relational work to unfold without having to stop and restart every week.
Rather than spending much of the session reconnecting to where things left off, intensives allow us to stay emotionally engaged with the conflict, the emotions underneath it, and the deeper relational patterns driving it while the experience is still emotionally present and accessible.
This accelerated and immersive format often helps couples move through stuck places with greater momentum toward repair, reconnection, emotional safety, and meaningful relational change.
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Couples intensives can be especially helpful for couples who feel stuck in recurring conflict, emotionally disconnected, overwhelmed by unresolved pain, or unable to create meaningful movement in weekly therapy alone. They may also support couples navigating betrayal, trust ruptures, communication breakdowns, major life transitions, or longstanding relational patterns that continue repeating despite genuine effort to repair.
At the same time, not every relationship or situation is best suited for an intensive format. During the complimentary consultation and assessment process, we will explore what has been happening in the relationship, your goals for the work, and whether an intensive feels like the most supportive and appropriate next step for where the two of you are right now.
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Couples intensives may support relationships experiencing recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, communication difficulties, betrayal or affairs, intimacy concerns, unresolved attachment wounds, trust ruptures, or longstanding reactive patterns that feel difficult to shift within weekly therapy alone.
Intensives can also support couples navigating major life transitions, rebuilding emotional safety, strengthening their relationship before marriage or long-term commitment, or seeking a deeper understanding of the emotional patterns shaping how they relate to one another.
With more focused time, continuity, and emotional space, intensives allow couples to move beyond surface-level conversations and engage more deeply in the work of repair, reconnection, clarity, and relational growth.
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No. While many couples seek intensives during periods of disconnection, recurring conflict, betrayal, or relational distress, intensives may also support couples wanting to strengthen their relationship more intentionally before marriage, commitment, parenthood, or major life transitions.
Some couples pursue intensives not because the relationship is falling apart, but because they want deeper understanding, stronger communication, and a more secure foundation moving forward together.
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Before scheduling an intensive, we begin with a complimentary 20-minute consultation to briefly talk about what has been happening in the relationship, the goals you have moving forward, and whether an intensive feels like the right fit for where the two of you are right now.
If we decide to move forward together, each partner will then complete a more in-depth intake and assessment process designed to help me better understand the history of your relationship, the painful patterns you keep getting stuck in, the emotional experiences and early relationships that shaped each of you growing up, and the ways those experiences may still be shaping how you love, connect, protect yourselves, and move through conflict and disconnection today.
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After the intensive, many couples leave with a clearer understanding of the patterns that have kept them stuck, greater emotional awareness, communication shifts, and a stronger sense of how to continue moving forward together with more intention, connection, and hope.
Post-intensive recommendations may include follow-up sessions, ongoing weekly therapy, additional intensive work, or referrals depending on your needs, goals, and the level of support your relationship may continue to need moving forward.
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Yes. Couples Intensives are offered virtually throughout California as well as in person in Santa Monica.
Virtual Intensives are designed to provide the same focused, immersive therapeutic experience while allowing couples to participate from the comfort and familiarity of their own environment.
In-person Intensives offer a more contained, dedicated space for couples who prefer to step away from daily routines and engage in deeper relational work within a calm and confidential setting.
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Most in-person Couples Intensives run approximately from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM each day and include a one-hour lunch break, along with shorter breaks throughout the experience as needed.
Virtual Intensives are similarly structured, with pacing and breaks adjusted to support emotional focus, nervous system regulation, and continuity throughout the process.
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In-person Couples Intensives are currently offered in a private Santa Monica setting designed to support focused, relational work in a calm and confidential environment.
The space is intentionally structured to provide couples with a dedicated environment away from the distractions of everyday life, allowing for deeper therapeutic focus, reflection, and connection throughout the intensive experience.