• Amy Hertle Counseling Couples

Couples Counseling

Intensive Couples Counseling

For couples facing crises, betrayal, or simply feeling disconnected, Intensive Couples Counseling offers a transformative lifeline. Through personalized attention and specialized interventions, your intensive is tailored to your unique needs, ensuring that every step you take is toward lasting change and a deeper connection.

Transform Your Relationship

Intensive relationship counseling equips couples with tools, insights, and guidance to discover, create, and sustain a fulfilling partnership. This immersive approach focuses on:

  • Effective communication

  • Conflict resolution

  • Building intimacy and trust

With extended session time, couples have the opportunity to process past injuries, explore unhealed wounds, and understand how these experiences impact the present relationship, something often difficult to accomplish in traditional weekly therapy.

Gottman-Based Intensives

These intensives are grounded in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy and include the Gottman Relationship Checkup. Developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, this research-based assessment evaluates relationship strengths and challenges, guiding the structure and focus of your personalized intensive.

Intensive Discernment Counseling

If you find yourself uncertain—“Do I want to stay or leave?”—discernment counseling may be the right approach. This is ideal when one partner is ready to work on the relationship while the other is hesitant or considering leaving.

Discernment counseling provides:

  • A structured, supportive environment for honest sharing of thoughts, feelings, and needs

  • Clarification of each partner’s willingness to make changes

  • Guidance toward deciding whether to work on the relationship, maintain the status quo, or separate

Goals of Intensive Discernment:

  • Evaluate the relationship honestly

  • Get unstuck and move forward in decision-making

  • Clarify personal boundaries and willingness to resolve issues

  • Determine the next steps, including entering couples therapy or ending the relationship

Ketamine-Assisted Couples Therapy

Ketamine couples therapy combines low-dose ketamine with traditional talk therapy to help couples resolve long-standing relationship issues with greater empathy and reduced defensiveness. Many couples report:

  • Deeper emotional connection

  • Improved satisfaction in the relationship

  • Enhanced understanding and compassion for one another

The therapeutic process allows each partner to step back from habitual reaction patterns, view relationship dynamics from a fresh perspective, and process past hurts collaboratively. Physical connection, such as holding hands or being close, can reinforce emotional intimacy during sessions.

My Couples Therapy Training

I bring extensive, evidence-informed training to my work with couples, including:

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 & 2 Clinical Training

  • Gottman Trainings: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Couples Addiction and Recovery, and Treating Affairs and Trauma

  • Participation in the Gottman workshop: The Art and Science of Love

  • Somatica-trained Sex and Relationship Coach

  • Training with The School of Consent, including the Wheel of Consent (Dr. Betty Martin) and Like a Pro Part 1 & 2

Through this integrative approach, I offer couples evidence-based strategies combined with somatic and consent-focused practices, ensuring a comprehensive, tailored path toward healing, connection, and lasting relational growth.

Want to see if relationship counseling is a good fit for you all? Let’s talk!