Couples Intensives
Is a Couples or Marriage Intensive Right for Me?
Do you keep having the same fights repeatedly, struggle to communicate, or fail to find time for intimacy? Or maybe you’ve tried couples counseling before without seeing the results you hoped for?
If so, a marriage intensive may be right for you.
Couples intensives are a more focused version of couples counseling. A 2-day marriage intensive gives the counselor and you the opportunity to dig into issues without having to pause progress for weekly breaks.
In many cases, the stop-and-start pacing of traditional couples counseling sessions makes it difficult to move quickly and get to the root issues in a relationship. You’re just getting to the breakthrough, only to hear the counselor say, “we’re out of time.” So, you leave feeling frustrated. Then, the next week piles on more issues you need to unpack at the next session, blocking any progress you could have made.
A couples counseling intensive gives the counselor and clients longer, uninterrupted time to develop new skills and then solve what’s going on in the relationship.
Most relationships can be saved with the right couples counselor and longer sessions.
HOW COUPLES INTENSIVES WORKS
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Schedule Your First Session
Meet to discuss your goals and form a plan for achieving success.
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Begin your journey towards the happy & healthy marriage you deserve.
A Couples Counseling Intensive/Marriage Retreat is right for you if:
Like regular couples counseling, couples intensives weekends or marriage counseling intensives are for anyone looking to strengthen and better their relationship. The difference with couples counseling intensives is that sessions have fewer starts and stops than traditional couples counseling sessions.
Many incorrectly assume that intensive marriage counseling is meant for severe relationship issues. However, this is not the case. Couples intensives are simply more focused couples counseling sessions. There are many reasons why couples might opt for an intensive couples retreat over traditional therapy. For example, you:
- Are at your wit’s end
- Desire a private personalized experience
- Want change now
- Need fast results
- Want progress and skills to stick
- Have a busy schedule
- Don’t have months of time to devote to therapy
What can a couples intensive help with?
Many couples retreats and intensives are often set up to support you personally. The intensive will focus on your unique issues.
Relationship issues that are often addressed during a couples intensive include:
- Anger/Fighting//Ongoing Arguments
- Loss of love/Drifting apart
- Parenting issues
- Conflicts due to different cultural backgrounds
- Financial issues
- Intimacy and sexual difficulties
- Communication issues
- Recovery from Addiction – pornography, alcohol, drugs, gambling
- Infidelity
- Career conflicts
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What Can Be Accomplished in 2 Days?
A quality couples intensive, run by a professional relationship counselor, can help you rediscover your intimacy, find more compassion for your partner, and increase the happiness you have together.
It can be the catalyst for a deeper level of healing than you ever thought possible!
Though they only run for two days, a professionally run couples intensive covers a lot of ground. You will run through handouts, exercises, and focused sessions designed specifically to help equip you to solve the relationship issues you’re facing.
Some of what is often covered in a 2-day marriage intensive course:
- Explore any betrayals that have caused a break in your trust for each other
- Learn crucial communication skills to transform your interactions
- Break free from the blame and shame cycle keeping you deadlocked
- Clarify each partner’s thoughts, feelings, and desires
- Learn to tolerate the tension of differences
- Look at how you can move forward together if one of you is more committed to the relationship
What couples are saying about their experience after their marriage intensives:
- “This was an investment of time and money that had full value”
- “We learned more with you in 2 days than we did in one year of therapy”
- “The experiential part of the intensive was most helpful”
- “We finally learned a way to talk to each other that resolved an issue we have had for years”
- “We were 5 minutes from signing the divorce papers, and this intensive gave us hope for our future”
- “This was cheaper than divorce, and most importantly, kept my family together”
What therapy framework will be used during my couples intensive?
First started by Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson more than 30 years ago, the Developmental Model helps you learn to see relationship challenges and struggles as a natural part of your psychological growth. Instead of teaching you to view conflict as a sickness that needs to be cured, this method encourages couples to grow, change, and move forward by focusing on their inherent strengths.
The Developmental Model is an internationally recognized method for couples therapy that has benefited tens of thousands of couples globally. Thousands of couples counselors have attended training programs in The Development Model at its home in Menlo Park, California. You can find practitioners of The Developmental Model listed in Psychology Today and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) as skilled therapists for adult relationships.
Couples go through normal developmental stages and patterns just like individuals. One person or their partner frequently gets stuck in a particular developmental stage, causing them to become focused on each other’s flaws. Couples counselors trained in The Developmental Model know how to get you unstuck from a developmental stage and refocus on your shared strengths as a couple. The work you do with a trained therapist in this method will help you develop the skills to move you toward self-improvement and greater relationship satisfaction.
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What therapy framework will be used during my couples intensive?
First started by Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson more than 30 years ago, the Developmental Model helps you learn to see relationship challenges and struggles as a natural part of your psychological growth. Instead of teaching you to view conflict as a sickness that needs to be cured, this method encourages couples to grow, change, and move forward by focusing on their inherent strengths.
The Developmental Model is an internationally recognized method for couples therapy that has benefited tens of thousands of couples globally. Thousands of couples counselors have attended training programs in The Development Model at its home in Menlo Park, California. You can find practitioners of The Developmental Model listed in Psychology Today and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) as skilled therapists for adult relationships.
Couples go through normal developmental stages and patterns just like individuals. One person or their partner frequently gets stuck in a particular developmental stage, causing them to become focused on each other’s flaws. Couples counselors trained in The Developmental Model know how to get you unstuck from a developmental stage and refocus on your shared strengths as a couple. The work you do with a trained therapist in this method will help you develop the skills to move you toward self-improvement and greater relationship satisfaction.
Take a look at the Developmental Model stages here below:
Symobiosis
Differentiation
Exploration
Re-Connection
Synergy
Symobiosis
Differentiation
Exploration
Re-Connection
Synergy
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About Grow My Relationship
We have curated a selection of exceptionally skilled practitioners to offer couples in crisis a discreet and easily accessible means of seeking assistance from a Developmental Model practitioner. Navigating through relationship difficulties can be overwhelming, often making it challenging to access the support that you truly need. At Grow My Relationship, we strive to simplify this process for you. Guidance and assistance from professionally trained practitioners and relationship coaches are merely a single click away.
Our practitioners are trained and experienced professionals. Each practitioner listed in our directory is required to possess specific credentials or training (licenses, educational degrees, training, practice, specific experience working with couples for 3 or more years), adhere to any Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct for their profession, and must undergo comprehensive training and mentoring prior to participating on our platform.
Our mission is centered around delivering the most exceptional marriage counseling, couples therapy, or relationship coaching available today. We are driven by our passion to identify, address, and provide proven solutions for relationship challenges, enabling couples to enhance intimacy and cultivate the loving connection they rightfully deserve.
It’s important to note that seeking help is not limited to conventional couples alone. As long as you’re facing relationship questions or challenges, our practitioners are dedicated to assisting you in your journey.
Our Couples Intensives Can Help With:
- Inadequate communication
- Intimacy or sexual issues
- Anger management or verbal abuse
- Betrayal
- Feeling defeated or unhappy
- Physical or emotional affair
- Fear or mistrust
- Hopelessness or desperation
- Trauma
- Role of power/Controling behavior
- Falling out of love
- Problems from childhood
- Empty nest syndrome
- Parenting conflicts
- Jealousy
- Drug or alcohol addiction
- Finance/Savings
- Decision making
- Compatibility conflicts
- Psychological growth/Personality characteristics
- Motivation/Priorities/Responsibility
- Commitment
- Gender orientation
- Extended family conflicts
- Medical complications/Disease/Injury
Frequently Asked Questions
When considering marriage counseling, the best type of practitioner varies depending on the preferences, needs, and circumstances of the individual and/or couple. Ultimately, the best practitioner for marriage counseling is someone who aligns with the couple’s goals, values, and communication style, and who possesses the necessary expertise and training to address the specific needs of the couple effectively. It’s important for couples to research and interview potential practitioners to find the right fit for their relationship journey. GrowMyRelationship.com connects you with marriage practitioners who are trained in the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy and have experience in working with couples.
