COUPLES INTENSIVES

in SAN DIEGO

When talking isn’t working, achieve in three days what might take 4–6 months in weekly therapy. Rather than stretching important work over months, sometimes years, an intensive allows you to make significant progress in a short, intentional period of time.

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

Why Couples Choose an Intensive

  • Your life demands don’t allow for weekly appointments

  • You’re stuck in repeating patterns that don’t 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

  • Many couples choose an Intensive before a crisis, because their relationship is a priority

Couples Often Leave Feeling:

  • More understood and emotionally connected

  • Less reactive and more grounded

  • Clear about next steps and direction

  • Renewed hope and confidence in their relationship

Is a Couples Intensive right for us?

  • Couples who are motivated to change & looking to grow and deepen their intimacy.

  • Couples who want to be their true self and stay connected during challenging times.

  • Couples who need to break through a stubborn negative cycle with meaningful change, not surface level tools.

  • Those who want to establish or enhance their safe & secure foundation for a long-term relationship.

  • Couples who are busy professionals seeking an accelerated immersive therapeutic experience.

  • 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 three or four days 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 conflict.

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 thrive.

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.

  • Flexible Scheduling Designed Around Your Relationship

    Couples Intensives provide focused, uninterrupted time to address the issues that matter most. Extended, structured sessions with thoughtfully scheduled breaks create the space for deeper work, reflection, and integration—all within a calm, private setting that supports emotional safety and lasting change.

    Choose the format that best fits your schedule and learning style.

    Standard Weekend Intensive

    Friday – 3 hours
    Begin by establishing safety, clarifying goals, and identifying the patterns that keep you feeling stuck.

    Saturday – 6 hours
    Engage in deep, transformative work with built-in breaks for rest, reflection, and skill practice.

    Sunday – 3 hours
    Consolidate insights, strengthen new relationship skills, and leave with a personalized action plan and practical tools to continue your progress at home.

    Additional Scheduling Options

    For couples with varying schedules or those who prefer additional time between sessions for reflection and integration, intensives can also be arranged as:

    • Two 6-hour days

    • Three 4-hour days

    • Four 3-hour days

    Every intensive is thoughtfully customized to meet your relationship's unique needs while maintaining the depth, structure, and continuity that make this format so effective.

  • 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 sustained progress.

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!

Next Step is a Thoughtful Conversation.

There is no need to let another day pass feeling disconnected, the best way to determine whether a Couples Intensive is right for you is a brief consultation to consider the Investment in your relationship.

Schedule Your Free Consultation