Intensives are designed to support your preferred schedule and timeline for your treatment goals. They allow the opportunity to progress through your relationship concerns in a more succinct and focused way without the interruption of the traditional 50-minute session.

Instead of meeting once a week or every other week for less than an hour, we’d meet for a several hours over the span of 1-3 days or on a regular schedule i.e. 1x per month. (see fees page for more information).

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An intensive format may decrease overall treatment time because of time not spent on checking in at the beginning of each session and trying to remember what you’ve worked on and what’s gone well/not well in between sessions. You’ll get more time to really delve into what’s going on between you and your partner so you can more immediately work towards changing your patterns of conflict and disconnection.

Before we begin your appointment, you’ll both complete some assessments on your relationship patterns and concerns and I’ll make some recommendations for reading material. We will also collaborate on goals for our session. This will all be completed in a HIPAA compliant Google Doc where we can all access and see our work together.

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During the Intensive, we simultaneously work on decreasing the pain you’re feeling while also increasing your ability to connect with one another. I do this by creating a safe container and supporting you two in engaging directly with each other on difficult topics where stuckness and conflict can happen. I’ll help you both to reflect and expand on what happens for you internally that leads to feelings of disconnection and hurt in the relationship. I’ll then work with you on building skills to better listen, communicate, empathize, and cooperate with one another.

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As we near the end of the Intensive, we’ll identify gaps in your progress and development as a couple, and discuss what the next steps are for you. We’ll reflect on what you processed and learned, what was meaningful to you, and how you let these new insights and shifts permeate into more of your relationship moving forward.

• You want to experience deep therapeutic work that can change your relationship quickly.

• You are planning for a Babymoon where you want to focus on deepening your connection with one another.

• You have done couples therapy before and found it helpful for understanding your partner.

• You want to prepare yourself for a big life event (a wedding, moving, an intentional separation, or opening up your relationship).

• You already go to weekly therapy and want to boost your progress.

• Ultimately, you get more traction in less time.