Have you forgotten why you and your partner are even together? You dread the emotional and financial cost of separation, yet part of you almost feels relieved by the idea. Then, you avoid thinking about the problems and go on with the everyday life until the cycle repeats again.
You know that your couple needs help and it’s starting to feel urgent to get your relationship on track, otherwise there will be a point of no return.
If you’re in this situation and you still have a glimmer of hope that you and your partner may find your way back to one another, then couples therapy intensives may help you, and help you fast.
Unlike traditional weekly therapy, there won’t be any stops and starts and losing momentum on specific conflicts of the week. Instead, you will take a deep dive into your relationship and experience the potential of months of therapy in 1-2 days.
Couples Intensive Therapy may be for you if:
- A 50-minute session is never enough time for both of you to express yourselves, feel heard, and arrive at concrete changes at the speed that your couple needs.
- The logistics of coordinating weekly couples therapy sessions when you’re both available at the same time feels impossible and ends up feeling more stressful than therapeutic. You end up leaving too much time between sessions and then you can’t seem to feel any momentum or positive changes.
- You just can’t wait months for traditional weekly therapy to get your relationship on course. The tension when you try to interact with one another is unbearable. You need intensive help, and you need it now.
- You have never been in therapy, this intensive format just seems like it would work better for you.
- You are willing and able to pay the fees of several weeks or months of couples therapy over a 1-2 day period.
Intensives are not for every couple. An intensive is not for you if:
- If there is an ongoing affair. Working through and healing from an affair that has definitely ended can be a issue worked on in intensive couples therapy.
- If you and your partner do not have the same goal for therapy: the success of your couple. An intensive is not the place to figure out whether you want if work on the relationship. These questions can be addressed in short term couples therapy.
- If you and your partner are not able to stay civil with one another, even in front a third person in a professional setting like therapy, intensive couples therapy will not be beneficial.
- If there is active domestic violence, an intensive is not an option. Physical safety is necessary for any form of psychotherapy to be beneficial.
I invite you to book a free phone consultation if you’re unsure whether an intensive may be a good fit for your couples.