Couples therapy.
With faster results.
Whether you are in a relationship crisis or just need to jump-start your relationship, Couples Intensives offer a deep dive into couples therapy.
All couples struggle with complex issues that often require outside help. But results take time and finding the time for weekly sessions amidst two busy schedules can be difficult.
Couples Intensives are a unique and powerful format to delve deep into core relationship issues to assess and modify the patterns that keep you stuck.
The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships.
Many couples come to a Couples Intensives feeling isolated from their partner and helpless. Some are dealing with betrayals and accumulated hurts, while others are dealing with negative cycles of arguing or distancing laden with frustration.
At times, making sense of our most intimate relationships can seem an impossible task. Thankfully, you don’t have to do it alone.
Today, empirically validated approaches to couples therapy based on attachment science inform us on secure relationship functioning. Couples Intensives offer a quicker timeframe to undergo assessment, identify destructive patterns, address long standing issues of hurt and betrayal, and begin your journey towards connectedness.
Who
You, Your Partner, and a Therapist
When
Fridays, 9am to 1pm
Where
Coastal Therapy Group
169 Saxony Road, Encinitas, Suite 211
now also available online
Cost
$900
The format.
Couples Intensives will integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) to effectively utilize decades of neurobiological science regarding relationship functioning. With validated assessment, real life application, and a sense of humor, Couples Intensives will help you and your partner move out of distress and into healthy relationship functioning.
The overview.
Couples Intensives will involve several stages, including:
Relationship assessment + clinical interview | The Experiences in Close Relationship Scale (Brennan, Clark & Shaver, 1998)
Identifying cycles of relating that perpetuate disconnection
Gaining insight into the issues of your relationship (i.e., how you and your partner got where you are today)
Making sense of your hurts and betrayals
Discovering new ways to talk about your emotions and needs in the partnership and in life beyond
Seeing your partner through a new lens of understanding and acceptance
Learning to address “triggering” relationship issues in a constructive manner
Fostering new ways to argue, relate, and connect
Healing past hurts, injuries, and betrayals
Establishing your partnership as the safe haven within which each of you feel, secure, understood, cared for, and connected
We live in the shelter of each other.
Couples Intensive Therapists
Lauren Alexa Hill, PsyD
Postdoctoral Fellow
I work with individuals and couples to create a safe space in therapy in which growth is possible. One in which judgment is replaced with understanding, criticism with acceptance.
Relationships have the power to heal and my goal is to work with you to identify and overcome barriers to intimacy with yourselves and others. Contact us today and together let’s begin your healing journey as you experience the transformative power of human connection.
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What are couples intensives?
Whether you are in relationship crisis or just need a tune-up, Couples Intensives offer a deep dive into couples therapy in just one day. Couples Intensives are private sessions with one doctorally trained therapist and one couple, offering a unique and personalized format to delve deep into core relationship issues and assess patterns that keep you stuck in order to move towards healing.
Why wouldn’t I just book normal therapy sessions?
You can! Couples Intensives are simply one way you and your partner can get more work done in a shorter time frame. Weekly sessions are sometimes disruptive to two busy schedules and take weeks or months to offer relief to a distressed partnership, while intensives offer the opportunity to focus on relationship issues without interruption. Partners often report gains in their relationship that would otherwise take weeks or months of weekly sessions to achieve.
Are we done with therapy after one Couples Intensive?
Each couple will have different goals for treatment. Some will book one Couples Intensive and find it is all they need to realign their relationship. At other times, a Couples Intensive is simply the springboard into an additional intensive or weekly sessions of couples therapy. Together with your therapist, you and your partner will discuss your goals and what treatment plan will help you accomplish them.
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an empirically validated therapeutic approach that guides couples in strengthening their interpersonal emotional awareness, learning from their experiences and deepening their connection.
Today, EFT is the most researched and successful model of relationship therapy. 90% of couples who go through EFT experience significant improvements in their relationship while 75% of couples no longer qualify for the criteria of relationship distress. Extensive research on EFT also demonstrates positive effects on individual mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, and, of course, relationship satisfaction. Recognized by the American Psychological Association as an evidence based therapy for couples in distress, EFT is an incredibly powerful approach to moving you and your partner from distress into secure relationship functioning.