Marriage Tune-Up Intensive
Spend 1-3 days giving your relationship a thorough checkup in couples therapy.
Couples therapy for the relationships that want to shift from good enough to great.
Are you and your partner are doing fairly well as a couple, but you know things could be a little better? Do you enjoy learning self-improvement tools? Have you thought about couples therapy, but you are just not sure if you have the time or energy to commit to going regularly? Does it stress you out to think of occupying the kids every week for an hour while you get honest and real with each other in the next room?
Learn in days what you might cover in standard couples therapy over several months.
Imagine a day or two or three, set aside just for the two of you. No rushing home to make it to your virtual session. No work texts buzzing on your phone. No kids interrupting your therapy for a snack with pets and washing machines going off in the background, constantly diverting your attention. No needing to leave the session as soon as your emotions fully hit you, digging for tissues to erase evidence of your feelings to the wider world.
Imagine your relationship being the sole focus of your time, energy, and money for these couple of days. Imagine that all the little things you have just accepted as not worth the conflict could improve. Imagine going from good to great. All this is possible when you set aside time, energy, money, curiosity, and vulnerability to work on your relationship with your partner!
What is an intensive? How is this different from regular therapy?
An intensive is a supercharged therapy session that takes place for multiple hours over at least one day, if not multiple days; in comparison, during standard therapy, you meet for one hourlong session every week or so.
My couples therapy intensives last one, two, or three days for the entire day: this is like having your own dedicated therapist for 1-3 days who is solely focused on your relationship. The Marriage Tune-Up Intensive is designed to be comprehensive in addressing your needs, and if you wish to continue standard therapy after your couples intensive, I can either refer you to a great couples therapist or discuss my availability.
Learn tools for the most common couple problems.
This couples therapy intensive is designed to give your relationship a thorough checkup and bring you back to feeling connected and like a winning team, held either in Colorado or virtually.
In your 1-3 day Marriage Tune-Up Intensive, we will examine how you and your partner are doing in the most common problem areas for couples:
communication
conflict resolution
money
household management
sex
emotional connection
We will assess how you are doing in these areas, and I will provide you with the most common and effective exercises and interventions that couples therapists use in their practice. The best part? You can personalize your intensive to the areas in which you and your partner most want to focus. Not only will you leave your intensive with tools and skills you can continue using at home, you and your partner will gain insight and new ways of relating that can shift your relationship in big, positive ways.
Investment
1 day (approximately 6 therapy hours): $2,200
2 days (approximately 12 therapy hours): $4,000
3 days (approximately 18 therapy hours): $6,000
Location
My office is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the beautiful and historic Old Colorado City neighborhood with close proximity to Garden of the Gods Resort, the Broadmoor, Cheyenne Mountain Resort, and downtown Colorado Springs. In addition to offering this intensive in Colorado Springs, I am available to travel to other locations within Colorado for an additional travel fee and as my availability allows. This means you may schedule an in-person intensive with me even if you are not a resident of Colorado but will be here on vacation or other travel!
If you do reside in Colorado and are located within state lines at the time of your scheduled intensive, you also have the option of holding your intensive virtually.
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We will begin by reviewing the information from your paperwork packet and consultation calls and then finalizing goals for your intensive. I will also review the basic foundational ideas that guide couples therapy to orient you to our work together.
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You will learn foundational skills used to communicate effectively and fight fairly by renowned experts Drs. John & Julie Gottman.
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Continue learning tools based on the research of the Gottmans and other relationship and communication experts.
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Learn Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play System to fairly divvy up household tasks and lessen resentment.
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Continue learning Fair Play alongside other strategies for effective management of your home as a partnership.
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Begin learning concepts from Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy to learn the science of emotions and increase emotional engagement.
Sample 2-day Intensive Schedule
Day 1
Day 2
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Start off day 2 by diving into financial therapy education and exercises that explore the impact of your financial histories on your relationship.
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Continue learning how to effectively understand and manage finances as a couple.
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Learn transformative information about sexual intimacy taken from the work of expert sex educator Dr. Emily Nagoski.
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Keep learning how to grow sexual intimacy in your relationship.
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Continue diving into what helps couples feel safe and secure with each other and strengthen your bond.
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We will wrap up by reviewing the tools and knowledge covered and discussing the most helpful interventions and ideas learned. I will share recommendations for keeping up the good work after your intensive has ended, and you will receive a packet of all tools covered and more to take home with you.
This sample schedule is just that - a sample. You and your partner can customize your intensive to your needs; this means you can add or subtract time spent on various topics, and you can even substitute other topics in for the ones listed! For example, you may want to spend time covering topics like boundaries, trust, consensual non-monogamy, parenting, military transitions, etc. not listed above.
