Couples Intensives
Available virtually across California and in-person in Los Angeles and select destination locations throughout California.
FEEL HEARD.
FEEL CONNECTED.
FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO EACH OTHER — FAST.
1-Day and 2-Day Intensives Available
Is weekly therapy no longer enough?
You’re trying. But somehow, you keep missing each other — and it’s 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. Life keeps interrupting the work — busy schedules, stress, conflict, exhaustion, and long stretches between sessions where painful patterns continue unfolding without enough momentum, continuity, or emotional containment 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 care than weekly therapy can often hold.
What is a Couples intensive?
A couples intensive is an accelerated and immersive therapy experience designed to help you move beyond surface-level conversations and get to the heart and roots of your relationship struggles — the deeper emotional patterns, wounds, disconnection, and reactive cycles driving the conflict beneath the surface.
Available in 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day formats, intensives create focused time and momentum to stay with the deeper conversations longer — allowing meaningful breakthroughs, repair, and reconnection to unfold faster and more deeply than fragmented weekly sessions often allow.
With more uninterrupted space to remain emotionally engaged in the process, you are able to stay with the moments where walls begin coming down, emotions soften, and deeper understanding, vulnerability, and connection begin emerging between you — instead of having those moments interrupted just as they begin unfolding.
Depending on your needs, 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 moments for reflection and reconnection, and personalized relational recommendations to help you continue building on the progress and momentum created during the intensive.
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Consultation & Assessment
We begin with a complimentary 15-minute consultation to talk briefly about what’s 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, protect yourselves, 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 get 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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Integration & Follow-Up
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 individualized 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 you move beyond the surface of the conflict and into the deeper emotional roots of what keeps happening between you. Together, we work to understand not only the painful patterns and cycles you keep getting pulled into, but also what drives them underneath — the fears, protective strategies, old wounds, unmet needs, and emotional survival patterns that can make it so hard 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 parts-work 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 are able to stay with the deeper conversations and emotional breakthroughs longer — allowing meaningful shifts, healing, and reconnection to unfold in a more accelerated and immersive way.
what starts to change
A clearer understanding of what keeps pulling you apart
so the same arguments stop feeling so confusing, repetitive, or impossible to resolve.
More time and space than weekly therapy often allows
to slow conversations down, move beneath the surface of the 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 relate, react, disconnect, and reach for one another.
Learning more connected and relational ways of responding to one another
through greater emotional awareness, compassion, vulnerability, emotional regulation, repair, and more intentional reconnection.
Greater clarity and direction for 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.
Your Options
Choose the format that best fits your relationship.
Intensives are tailored to the unique needs, pace, and goals of each couple — with different formats designed to support the level of depth, momentum, and care your relationship may need right now.
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Designed for couples feeling emotionally stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed by recurring conflict, or struggling to move beyond painful relational patterns.
This format creates space to slow the cycle down, deepen emotional understanding, and begin shifting the dynamics keeping the relationship stuck.
This intensive may include:
• attachment-focused relational work
• communication and conflict repair
• experiential and guided therapeutic exercises
• space for emotional processing, repair, and integration throughout the day
• personalized relational summary and post-intensive recommendationsInvestment
Virtual Intensive
$2,100In-Person Intensive (Los Angeles)
$2,400Retreat-style, destination, or travel-based intensives outside of the Los Angeles area may involve additional travel and accommodation-related costs discussed during consultation.
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Two 5-hour immersive sessions
Designed for couples needing greater depth, continuity, or support around longstanding relational injuries, chronic disconnection, betrayal, or deeply entrenched relational patterns.
The extended format allows the work to unfold more intentionally and with greater continuity, creating space for deeper emotional processing, relational repair, integration, and more sustained shifts in the relationship.
This intensive may include:
• deeper attachment and relational pattern work
• communication and conflict repair work
• emotionally focused and trauma-informed relational work
• experiential and guided therapeutic exercises
• time for reflection, emotional processing, and continued connection between intensive days
• personalized relational summary and post-intensive recommendationsInvestment
Virtual Intensive
$3,600In-Person Intensive (Los Angeles)
$3,900Retreat-style, destination, or travel-based intensives outside of the Los Angeles area may involve additional travel and accommodation-related costs discussed during consultation.
Imagine finally getting to…
Feeling emotionally safe, connected, and emotionally close again
not perfectly repaired overnight — but less alone, less guarded, and more able to reach for one another with openness, softness, and care..
where both of you begin to recognize not just the conflict itself, but the fears, hurts, emotional wounds, protective patterns, and unmet needs underneath it — allowing more empathy, emotional understanding, and genuine connection to take the place of blame, defensiveness, or disconnection.
Understanding and relating to one another in a deeper, more compassionate way
with more relational awareness, emotional insight, communication shifts, 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 engaged with the conflict, the emotions underneath it, and the deeper patterns driving it while the emotional experience is still alive and accessible.
This accelerated and immersive format often helps couples move through stuck places more quickly — creating greater momentum toward repair, reconnection, emotional safety, and meaningful relational change.
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Couples intensives can be helpful for couples who feel stuck in recurring conflict, emotionally disconnected, overwhelmed by unresolved pain, or unable to make meaningful progress in weekly therapy alone. They may also be supportive for couples navigating betrayal, trust injuries, 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 help with recurring conflict, communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, betrayal or infidelity recovery, unresolved resentment, attachment wounds, intimacy struggles, trust ruptures, pursue-withdraw cycles, and long-standing patterns that continue repeating despite insight, effort, or previous therapy.
Many couples seek intensives when they feel exhausted by the same arguments, emotionally alone in the relationship, uncertain how to reconnect, or worried that things are continuing to deteriorate beneath the surface.
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Yes. Many couples seek intensives during periods of heightened distress — especially after betrayal, emotional rupture, chronic conflict, or prolonged disconnection. In these moments, weekly therapy can sometimes feel too slow or too fragmented for the amount of pain, urgency, and emotional overwhelm the relationship is carrying.
Intensives create more space to slow reactive cycles down, process the deeper emotions underneath the conflict, rebuild emotional safety, and begin creating new ways of reaching for one another with greater honesty, vulnerability, accountability, compassion, and care.
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Before scheduling an intensive, we begin with a complimentary 15-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 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 the relationship today.
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Couples intensives are primarily offered virtually for couples located throughout California, allowing you to engage in the work from the comfort, privacy, and familiarity of your own space.
For couples seeking an in-person experience, intensives may also be arranged in Los Angeles or at a mutually agreed upon location depending on availability, scheduling, and the needs of the intensive. Some couples choose to incorporate a more intentional retreat-like environment or weekend getaway experience to create additional space, focus, emotional containment, and uninterrupted time dedicated to the relationship.
While some couples initially consider using their home as the setting for an in-person intensive, I often encourage choosing a more neutral and intentional space whenever possible. Creating distance from daily distractions, routines, interruptions, and existing relationship dynamics within the home can help both partners remain more emotionally present, open, focused, and engaged in the work.
Additional travel or location-related fees may apply for off-site intensives or travel outside of the Los Angeles area.
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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 stage of healing and repair your relationship is in.