The Most Effective Way To Jumpstart Your Relationship
If you are reading this, you are probably struggling in your marriage or intimate relationship and feeling discouraged, frustrated, and/or have reached an impasse. You are not alone. Most couples will experience difficulties with each other that seem unsolvable in the course of their life together.
Couples often seek weekly hour-long counseling to address their issues but it often takes a long time for couples to experience the changes they are seeking. A more advantageous, quicker, and successful approach is for them to immerse themselves in a 2-day intensive session. This is why after consideration, I chose to offer a 2-day couple intensive session to clients.
Why do a Couples Intensive program vs. weekly 60 minutes sessions?
Because it is the fastest and most effective way to get the results you want.
It takes time, determination, motivation, and patience for struggling couples to experience the full benefits of marriage counseling. These qualities could be very challenging to maintain, week after week while couples are still confused and in limbo.
Another advantage of doing a 2-day intensive retreat is that the couple has uninterrupted time to be able to focus on each other without distractions and in a new setting. This is a real asset as it allows for the couple to change gears and move forward reducing the chances of falling back to the previous damaging pattern of behaviors.
What To Expect
- You will have restored hope
- You will find clarity about the true nature of your difficulties
- You will learn how the answers you have been looking for have always resided in the relationship
- You will be guided through a process that will enable you to dissolve your toughest conflict
- You will learn how to be your partner’s best friend and healer
- You will learn the difference between coping in isolation and living in connection
Common AREAS ADDRESSED IN COUPLES THERAPY
Endless Fighting
Endless Fighting
Endless Fighting
If you are in a relationship with communication issues and endless arguments, the cost to your health and mental health as well as the ones of your loved ones can be extensive. With the tools and the guidance received, you will be able to delve deeply into the source of conflicts and release harmful stress.
Trust Violations
Endless Fighting
Endless Fighting
Healing from betrayal can be long and strenuous. It is when the couple deeply understands why the behavior was painful, takes responsibility for their part in it, and communicates this understanding in new ways that healing takes place. The full intensity of emotional regret felt by both partners for the hurt inflicted combined with the revelation of deeper emotional truth leads to growth and healing on both sides.
Absence of Joy
Endless Fighting
Absence of Joy
If your relationship lacks joy and connection, you will receive the guidance and the tools to uncover the underlying cause of the staleness and reconnect with what brought you together, bringing back the energy and enthusiasm you have been missing.
Imago Therapy
The Roadmap
The Roadmap
The Roadmap
The roadmap is based on the couples’ deepest aspirations for their relationship. The dream vision of their future together is the destination. Once both partners have a clear vision of the love they want, they will be guided on how to realize it steps by step by learning the tools and practicing the skills of communication. There is a common assumption among couples that their problems need to be solved for them to get along and have the love they want. However, experience has shown us that when a solution has been found to solve one specific problem, another problem emerges in another part of the relationship. Looking at relationships as problems to be solved reinforces patterns of interaction that draw couples further down the rabbit hole. A better premise is to view love relationships as “an adventure to be embraced”. From this perspective, you will discover layers of depth and meaning that will enable you to profoundly connect with each other.
The Tools
The Roadmap
The Roadmap
Almost every couple finding themselves in a relational impasse will tell you how much they have to try to communicate and how their efforts have failed. A common example of a relational impasse; is the following cycle:
“The more one partner gets angry and the more the other withdraws and the more one withdraws and the more the other gets angry”.
After the couples have understood how their mutual behaviors have led them toward more of a relational impasse, they learn the tools called the “Imago dialogue” to help strengthen their communication, empathize with their partner's viewpoint, and better navigate conflict.