The Power of Two Day Relationship Intensives:

Sometimes your relationship needs support right now and waiting weeks or months for momentum to build in conventional hourly increments isn’t the path you want to take. Fortunately, there is another way forward that we can take together. Relationship Intensives offer a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the therapy process to quickly and more effectively create intimacy and revitalize your connection; deepen your understanding of your difficult patterns; deal with an immediate or emerging crisis; integrate a significant loss or change; or come to a resolution or decision about a gridlocked issue.

What Makes a Relationship Intensive So Effective?

  • 12 Hours Over 2 Days
     The equivalent of three months of weekly sessions or six months of biweekly therapy all condensed into a focused, powerful experience.

  • Structured + Focused
     A dynamic blend of therapy and coaching that’s designed for clarity, insight, and action.

  • Immersive and Embodied
     You’ll not only learn new skills, you’ll practice them in real time, making meaningful, embodied shifts in how you relate to one another.

  • Accelerated Momentum
     Experience deep transformation in just two days rather than the slow build of 3-6 months of traditional sessions.

  • No Weekly Distractions
     You won’t get derailed by constant updates or temporary flare-ups. Instead, we go straight to the heart of what matters most.

  • Break the Stop-and-Start Weekly Therapy Cycle
     Traditional therapy can feel like you finally find each other “in session,” but as soon as you leave you return to the same old dynamic and lose each other all over again. Intensives give you the continuity to go deeper and experience sustained connection without the emotional rollercoaster.

  • Repair Long-Standing Wounds
     With extended time and focused attention, we’ll unpack unresolved hurts that continue to resurface and fuel your distressing patterns.

  • Connect Past to Present
     Together, we’ll uncover how your early experiences with trusted others create the undercurrent of your present patterns, and shift them in real time.

Rethinking Traditional Relationship Therapy:

For too long, relationship therapy has been confined to the conventional weekly ~ or biweekly ~ clinical hour. While this format has been the standard for decades, many relationship therapists are now expanding the frame, creating more responsive and human-centered ways to support the couples who come to us. As we challenge the dominant structures of Western medicine, we begin to honor different ways of healing. Ways that make space for the depth, urgency, and complexity of our most sacred relationships. This shift allows us to spend more meaningful time with clients, helping to untangle entrenched patterns, repair betrayals, and co-create moments of trust and intimacy that truly last.

The Limits of Hourly, Incremental Therapy:

  • Too Little Time to Create a Safe Container for Deep Work
    The depth of work required for true transformation needs spaciousness. In a 60-minute session, there often isn’t enough time to settle, connect, and safely dive into the heart of what’s happening.

  • Not Enough Room to Navigate Both Dysregulation and Conflict Repair
    When trauma or nervous system dysregulation shows up, we may spend most of the session tending to emotional regulation without ever getting back to the original rupture or conflict that triggered the reaction. Real integration requires space for both.

  • The Brain Changes Through Experience—Not Just Insight
    Lasting relational change involves creating new neural pathways through repeated, embodied practice. Hourly sessions often don’t provide enough time or continuity to foster this kind of transformation.

  • The Stop-and-Start Cycle Is Emotionally Disruptive
    Weekly or biweekly sessions can feel like just as you're opening up or finding traction ~ time’s up. That abrupt end can leave folks feeling disheartened, or worse, stuck in the same cycle of distress week after week. with therapy functioning as temporary fix but not able to shift things on a deeper level.

  • Epiphany!

    Maybe it’s not your relationship that’s broken ~ or even more importantly, YOU. It’s the system of traditional therapy that needs to be reimagined so that change IS possible. If you have tried to make changes in yourself and your relationship before but felt hopeless, it’s time for the field to acknowledge that it might not be you that’s the issue.

 

How Do Relationship Intensives Work?

Relationship Intensives are two full days of immersive, hands-on therapy held in my Wilmington, DE office. Each day includes 6 hours of focused therapeutic work, typically 9am-4pm, with an hour break for lunch and some mini breaks as needed throughout the day.

Before the Intensive, you’ll complete a comprehensive online assessment, which will provide a summary report of your strengths and challenges, as seen through the lens of the Sound Relationship House (Gottman Method). Additionally, you will each complete two Reflection Guides in preparation for our time together; 1) Life Journey Reflection Guide which goes into your personal context and history, and, 2) Relationship Reflection Guide that goes into your relational experiences together as your connection has developed over time. These pre-intensive steps ensure that you are primed and ready to dive into the work that you set out to do during the intensive.

In designing your unique intensive, I draw from a wide range of exercises, therapeutic practices, and relational modalities, including but not limited to The Gottman Method; Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy; Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy; Interpersonal Neurobiology; and the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy to create a customized experience that aligns with your goals for the journey together. If you are already working with a relationship therapist, we can discuss the possibility of us collaborating together either before or after the intensive.

If you are a current relationship client, we can discuss the option of doing an intensive as an alternative to hourly therapy increments if you want to change things up or deepen your existing therapy process.

What is included in the Fee?

The fee for a two-day Relationship Intensive is $3,900. This includes:

  • A full online relationship assessment and summary report to guide how we design your journey

  • Two full days (12 hours) of in-person therapy

  • A packet of exercises and resources to support your growth during and after the Intensive

  • One hour follow-up session to integrate the experiences and changes more fully from our time together

One Day Relationship Intensives:

Everything the two day intensive offers, but in just one powerful 6 hour journey instead. This is a great option if you want the transformation of an immersive therapy experience, but aren’t sure if you have the capacity for a full two days, and it’s also half the fee: $1950.