Intensive Couples Counseling
For couples teetering on the brink, whether facing crises, navigating betrayal, or simply feeling adrift; intensives are a lifeline. Through personalized attention and specialized interventions your intensive is tailored to suit your unique needs, ensuring that every step taken is one towards lasting change.
Intensive Relationship Counseling can guide you with tools, insights and healing to discover and create a lasting and fulfilling partnership.
Elevate your relationship with your personally curated intensive experience. This transformative experience, focused on effective communication, conflict resolution, and building intimacy offer a unique opportunity for couples to deepen their connection.
Intensives are Gottman Couple’s Therapy based and include the “Gottman Relationship Checkup.” Created by Drs John and Julie Gottman, this research-based questionnaire will take a deeper look into your relationship and provide insight into your strengths and challenges while providing guidance for your personal intensive. You will have time to talk in detail about the struggles and challenges of the relationship that is difficult to accomplish in traditional, weekly couples therapy. There is time to process past injuries that have never healed, and time to understand how these injuries have impacted the relationship.
Intensive Discernment
Uncertainty – Do you want to stay or do you want to go?
Are you willing to make changes? Are you one foot out the door? Have too many things happened to bring that foot back in?
Discernment counseling, as compared with relationship counseling, may be beneficial when you find yourself in this situation.
More often than not, one partner will be farther along the process. One may be seriously wanting to work on the relationship while the other is considering leaving or not interested in making any change at all. The discernment process creates a supportive environment that allows for honest sharing of feelings, thoughts and needs to find the best path forward.
Unlike marriage or relationship counseling, which has the goal of strengthening the relationship, discernment counseling is an assessment process that is designed to help you decide whether you and your partner want to work on your relationship, maintain the status quo or decide to part ways.
Intensive discernment counseling can accelerate the finding your direction and avoid the length of time in indecision.
Discernment Goals
- To evaluate the relationship
- To get unstuck and move forward in the decision-making process
- For each person to clarify what you are willing or unwilling to do to resolve your relationship issues
- To work together to decide if you want to put effort into changing the relationship
The conclusion at the end of the process will be either stay with the status quo, bring the relationship to an end or enter relationship therapy.
Ketamine Assisted Couples Counseling
Ketamine couples therapy combines low doses of ketamine with traditional talk therapy to resolve long standing relationship issues with greater empathy and reduced defensiveness. Many couples report improved satisfaction and deeper emotional connection after undergoing this psychedelic-assisted protocol.
The compound’s effects allow each person to step back from usual reactional patterns and observe their relationship dynamics with fresh eyes. Some people experience increased feelings of love and understanding.
Conversations often focus on past hurts and unmet needs, exploring and resolving relationship issues collaboratively. Physically, partners might hold hands or stay close, reinforcing their emotional connection.
My extensive training around work with couples includes:
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 and 2 Clinical training
- Other Gottman Trainings: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – Couples Addiction and Recovery, and Treating Affairs and Trauma
- I have personally participated in the Gottman workshop The Art and Science of Love
- Somatica-trained Sex and Relationship Coach
- I have trained with The School of Consent learning the Wheel of Consent as developed by Dr. Betty Martin. I am a graduate of Like a Pro Part 1 Foundational and Part 2 Working with Individuals.
Want to see if relationship counseling is a good fit for you all? Let’s talk!