COUPLES INTENSIVES

When talking isn’t helping— and waiting feels risky—there is a focused, contained way to reset your relationship.

A couples Intensive offers dedicated time and expert guidance to help you understand your patterns, restore emotional safety, and reconnect in a meaningful way. Rather than stretching important work over months sometimes years, an intensive allows you to make significant progress in a short intentional period of time.

What to Expect During a Couples Intensive

Schedule Your Free Consultation to explore whether a Couples Intensive is the right next step for you.

Why Couples Choose an Intensive

You’re stuck in repeating patterns that never seem to get resolved

Weekly therapy feels to slow or too fragmented
You’re functioning well on the outside, but disconnected inside
You want clarity, healing, and/or a repair —- now
You are trying to decide if the relationship is salvageable
You want to set a foundation prior to marriage to ensure you remain a team over the years

Is an Intensive right for us?

Couples who want to get quick repairs when a conflict arises
Couples who want to be their true self and stay connected during challenging times.
Couples who want to stop having the same argument over and over again without resolution.
Couples looking to grow and deepen their intimacy.

Partners navigating major life transitions or challenges.
Those who want to establish or enhance their safe & secure foundation for a long-term relationship.
Couples seeking faster results than traditional weekly therapy.
Couples that have a challenge with meeting weekly and or coordinating schedules.
Partners preparing for marriage who want to solidify skills to navigate any challenges that may arise with a secure foundation for life.

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Why Choose a Couples Intensive with Liz?

Faster Results:

Achieve in one weekend what might take 4–6 months in weekly therapy. The work is structured, paced, and emotionally contained. Breaks are built in. The goal is internal safety, not emotional overwhelm or shut down. If overwhelm occurs during the intensive, you will learn skills necessary to reset your nervous system in order to stay present during conflicts.

Deep Focus:

Custom-tailored, uninterrupted dedicated time to your relationship without distractions. I work at the pace of your nervous systems while actively tracking the emotional safety of both partners simultaneously. The work unfolds in a way that feels steady, intentional, and deeply respectful of both partners.

Proven Techniques:

Learn and apply research-backed methods. I am trained in 5 evidenced based couples therapy models with 30 years experience. In addition, I have been happily married for 32 years. This combination of professional training and lived experience allows me to integrate research with real-world understanding of what helps relationships endure

Intensive Format

Start with a no-obligation call to discuss your needs and determine if an intensive is right for you.
Meet in person or online to set goals and create a roadmap for the weekend.
STANDARD FORMAT:
Friday: 3 hours to set the stage and focus on foundational work.
Saturday: 6 hours of deep, transformative work, with breaks for reflection and practice.
Sunday: 3 hours to solidify breakthroughs and create a personalized tool kit to take home with you.
SABBATH SENSITIVE INTENSIVES:
To better serve couples with faith -based scheduling needs, Sabbath -Sensitive Couples Intensive are available upon request.
These schedules are thoughtfully designed to honor your values while still providing the depth and containment essential to this work.
Couples can contact Liz at anytime with any questions about the skills they learned and or their ACTION PLAN they left the intensive with.
In addition, Mini Intensives (3-5 hours) are available to couples who have completed a full intensive for $300 per hour.
Couples Often Report:
- Feeling understood in ways they haven’t before
- Reduced reactivity
- Clear insight into their patterns (and how to interrupt them)
- A renewed sense of safety, closeness, and direction
- All couples leave with a concrete plan for moving forward

What Couples are saying about their Intensive with Liz

- P & I

Our couples weekend intensive with Liz was truly eye opening and very helpful. The weekend helped us better understand how we experience things differently. Most helpful was our action plan and how to structure our state of the union meetings. We walked away with specific tools that we simply couldn’t have achieved in regular 90-minute sessions.
We appreciated Liz’s gentle, present, and flexible approach—she really gets us. It felt like a safe space to explore hard topics, with enough time to go deeper into areas that are often rushed in traditional therapy. The intensive gave us the opportunity to connect meaningfully, and we now have clearer goals and insights for our relationship.
We highly recommend this to any couple—especially those ready to invest in lasting change.
- G & M

After completing a weekend intensive with Liz, we left with a clear action plan, a good sense of direction and renewed optimism. I truly appreciated the space to discuss thorny complex challenging issues, from navigating repairs to learning how to create collaborative agreements. Liz had an incredible way of giving us an understanding of our marriage & revealing insights we would not have found on our own.
- P & P

I was a little hesitant at first, but I’m so glad we decided to attend. The Couples Intensive exceeded my expectations—it was enlightening, practical, and worthwhile. I learned valuable skills and gained new insight about myself and our relationship. My advice to other couples? Just do it!