The Power of Two-Day Relationship Intensives

Sometimes your relationship needs support now, and waiting weeks or months for momentum to build in traditional sessions doesn’t feel like the right path. Relationship intensives offer another way forward—an opportunity to immerse in the work and create meaningful change more quickly.

Over two days, we focus deeply on strengthening intimacy, understanding and shifting difficult patterns, navigating crisis or transition, integrating loss, or finding clarity around gridlocked issues.

12 Hours Over 2 Days (+ 1 hour follow up)
The equivalent of months of therapy, condensed into a focused and powerful experience.

Structured + Focused
A thoughtful blend of therapy and coaching designed for insight, clarity, and action.

Immersive and Embodied
You won’t just learn new ways of relating—you’ll practice them in real time, creating lasting shifts.

Accelerated Momentum
Move through in two days what might otherwise take months.

Freedom from Weekly Disruptions
Instead of getting pulled into ongoing flare-ups, we stay grounded in what matters most.

Break the Stop-and-Start Cycle
Rather than reconnecting in session and losing each other in between, intensives offer continuity and depth.

Repair Longstanding Wounds
With sustained time and attention, we can work through unresolved hurts that fuel recurring patterns.

Connect Past to Present
We’ll explore how early relational experiences shape your current dynamic—and begin shifting those patterns together, in real time.

Rethinking Traditional Relationship Therapy

For too long, relationship therapy has been confined to the weekly or biweekly clinical hour. While this model has been the standard, many therapists are expanding the frame—creating more responsive, human-centered ways of supporting couples.

As we challenge the limits of traditional Western medical models, we open space for deeper, more flexible approaches to healing—ones that honor the urgency, complexity, and sacredness of our relationships. This shift allows for more meaningful time together to untangle entrenched patterns, repair ruptures, and build lasting trust and intimacy.

Too Little Space for Deep Work
True transformation requires time to settle, connect, and safely move into what matters most—something a 60-minute session often can’t hold.

Regulation vs. Repair
When dysregulation arises, sessions can be spent stabilizing without returning to the original conflict. Real change needs space for both.

Change Requires Experience, Not Just Insight
Lasting shifts happen through embodied practice and new neural pathways—not just talking about change.

The Stop-and-Start Cycle
Just as you begin to open or find momentum, time runs out. This can leave you feeling stuck in the same patterns, with therapy offering temporary relief rather than deeper transformation.

A Different Perspective

Maybe it’s not your relationship—or you—that’s broken.
Maybe it’s the structure of traditional therapy that needs to evolve.

If you’ve tried to create change and felt stuck or discouraged, it may not be a personal failure—it may be a sign that you need a different kind of support.

 

How Do Relationship Intensives Work?

Relationship Intensives are 1-2 Days of immersive, hands-on therapy held in my Wilmington, DE office. Each day includes 6 hours of focused work (typically 9am–4pm), with a lunch break and additional pauses as needed.

Before the Intensive, you’ll complete a comprehensive online assessment based on the Gottman Method’s Sound Relationship House, along with two Reflection Guides: one exploring your individual life history and one focused on your relationship. These steps help you arrive grounded, clear, and ready to dive into the work. Materials are due at least 7 days in advance so I can thoughtfully prepare.

Your Intensive is fully customized. I draw from a range of relational, body-based, and trauma-informed approaches; including Gottman, EFT, PACT, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, and the Developmental Model to align with your goals and support meaningful change. If you’re already working with a therapist, we can explore collaboration before or after the Intensive. And if you’re a current client, Intensives can be a powerful alternative or complement to ongoing sessions when you’re ready to go deeper.

Mini-Intensives 3+ Power Hours

Mini-intensives compress the therapeutic work into a shorter period, offering a powerful and transformative approach to therapy.

  • Experience greater safety and focus in an immersive environment where rapid change and deeper understanding come naturally

  • Perfect for clients wanting more embodied, in person therapy options, but can’t routinely commute to therapy

  • Honors the ebb and flow of life by creating ways to keep your therapy process sustainable

What Does this Investment Include?

Fees: During the Week (example: Mon + Tues) ~ $3,575

During the Weekend (Sat + Sun) ~ $4,225

Half & Half (example: Fri + Sat or Sun + Mon) ~ $3,900

  • 12 month access to the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) for somatic support of your autonomic nervous system through remote listening therapy

  • A comprehensive online relationship assessment with a summary report to guide our work

  • Two Reflection Guides: one focused on your personal history and one on your relationship, helping you arrive grounded and ready for deep work

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

  • A curated folder of exercises and resources to support change and integration during and after the intensive

  • A one-hour follow-up session (in person or virtual) to deepen and solidify the work, and create a pathway for your new future

One-Day Relationship Intensive

During the Week (example: Mon) ~ $1,650

During the Weekend (Sat ) ~ $1,950

A one-day intensive offers the same resources, SSP access, and depth in a more condensed format of 6 hours of immersive, focused therapy.

Ideal if you’re seeking meaningful change but don’t have the capacity or resources for two days.