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Couples Intensives
All couples struggle with complex issues that often require outside help. But results take time and it can be difficult to find time for weekly sessions amidst two busy schedules.
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.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Why a Couples Intensive?
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.
What is a Couples Intensive?
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 instruments, 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.
Goals in Couples Intensives
Couples Intensives are booked as 3-hour sessions and cost $700. Each couples intensive will involve several stages and goals, 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
