Two-Day Couples Therapy Intensives in Los Angeles, CA

A couples intensive may be a good fit if you feel stuck in recurring patterns, keep having versions of the same argument, feel increasingly disconnected, or simply want to make meaningful progress without spending months moving through the work one weekly session at a time.

You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit. Some couples come in for pre-marital counseling, because their relationship is hurting, or because they love each other and want to address longstanding patterns before they become bigger problems. Every couple is different.

Every intensive begins with a free consultation so we can talk about what’s happening in your relationship and determine together whether this format makes sense for you.

Every relationship is different, but intensives can be particularly helpful for recurring conflict, communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, resentment, intimacy concerns, trust ruptures, attachment pattern mismatches, parenting disagreements, major life transitions, and patterns where one partner pursues while the other withdraws or shuts down.

We’ll identify your specific goals during the assessment process and build the intensive around what your relationship actually needs.

Yes, in many cases. The extended format gives us time to slow down the rupture, understand what happened and what it has meant for each of you, work with the emotions underneath it, and begin rebuilding safety and trust.

An intensive cannot erase a betrayal in a weekend, but it can create a strong foundation for understanding what happened, determining what repair requires, and beginning that process together.

For couples navigating infidelity or a significant breach of trust, I require both partners to be in weekly individual therapy for at least three months before beginning couples work with me. Betrayal can bring up an enormous amount for both partners, and having established individual support ensures that each person has dedicated space to process what arises outside of our work together. It also allows our couples work to remain focused on the relationship, repair, and what happens between you.

You do not need to be completely certain about the future of your relationship to participate in an intensive. However, I do not provide discernment counseling, and the intensive will not be focused on helping you decide whether to stay together or separate.

Instead, we’ll focus on slowing things down and making sense of what has been happening between you: the patterns you’ve become stuck in, the hurts and experiences that have accumulated over time, what each of you has been trying to communicate or protect, and how you arrived at this point in your relationship.

The goal is not to make a decision by the end of the weekend. It’s to untangle what’s happened so that you can see your relationship, yourselves, and the path ahead with greater clarity.

Not necessarily better, just different.

Weekly therapy can be incredibly valuable, particularly when a couple benefits from making changes gradually and practicing between sessions. Intensives are designed for couples who want or need more continuity, depth, and momentum.

Instead of opening something difficult, working with it for part of a session, and returning to it a week later, we have enough time to follow patterns all the way through, regulate when things become activated, practice new ways of responding, and continue the work while everything is still present.

Sometimes.

Some couples use an intensive as a standalone reset and leave with enough understanding and tools to continue the work on their own. Others use it to jumpstart ongoing couples therapy, break through a particularly stuck period, or accomplish focused work alongside an existing therapeutic relationship.

Part of our process will include talking about what kind of support, if any, would be helpful afterward.