If you'd like to transform your relationship, intensive couples therapy can give you and your partner the tools to take change of your relationship and change it for the better. Over a 10-day period, you'll work one-on-one with a counselor where you'll learn how to improve your relationship into the one that both you and your partner want. If you feel stuck or dissatisfied with your relationship and you're ready to put in the work to make it better, an intensive couples therapy retreat could be the answer.
What Is Intensive Couples Therapy?
Intensive couples therapy is a personalized program for you and your partner to work on your relationship over a short period of time. Instead of weekly sessions that do little but rehash the minutia of the past week, intensive couples therapy is a multi-day relationship deep-dive into the issues that are harming your relationship.
Shifting your focus from disconnection into connection and empathy, an intensive couples therapy retreat is one of the most impactful actions that you and your partner can take. Aside from learning how to communicate better, you'll also learn the tools you need to take your relationship to the next level, connecting more deeply with one another and rediscovering the things that drew you to one another in the first place.
Our Intensive Couples Therapy Retreat
When you enroll in intensive couples therapy, you'll spend 10 days with your partner and a professional determining what the core issues of your relationship are. This isn't light talk therapy, it's a deep dive into the conflicts, resentments and anger that jeopardizes the quality of your relationship. If it's trauma or another unresolved issue, we'll conduct EMDR sessions, which intends to repair the effects of relational or attachment traumas with the mind and body.
Whatever the issues are that affect your relationship, you'll learn tools and techniques to practice in your normal day-to-day life so that you and your partner can start producing positive changes in your relationship. With many role play sessions and various exercises, you'll gain insights into your partner's point of view, and the empathy that develops will help you balance your wants and desires versus your partner's over the long haul.
That can help avoid having the same fight over and over when you've uncovered the real issue of your partner's concern, which means that both of you can build on and capitalize on the change in behavior and mindset that's needed to move ahead.
While intensive couples therapy can be intense and emotional, you'll be making real progress with your partner -- strides that you haven't been able to make at home. And the good news is that once you and your partner unpack the real issues, you'll have a better understanding of your partner and your relationship, and all those skills and techniques that you learn can be applied to your normal life long after you've left the intensive couples therapy retreat.
What Is EMDR Treatment?
For persons that have experienced trauma, EMDR works to repair the effects of the trauma, such as anxieties, phobias, depression and other relationship issues that have settled as a result. Other types of relational traumas such as substance abuse and physical, sexual and emotional abuse can be the result of deep-seated issues that are the real culprit, even if they're unknown to the sufferer. In fact, they can even alter the brain itself, manipulating how you think or behave. With successful EMDR treatment, the wound caused by the trauma won't disappear overnight, but you'll be able to start the healing process.