Do you want to work on your relationship with your partner? Do you struggle to fit weekly or fortnightly sessions into your calendar?
Life can feel relentless when you are both juggling demanding jobs. Managing family responsibilities, supporting ageing relatives, and trying to preserve some energy for yourselves add additional burden. Finding space for your relationship can slip further down the list, even when you know it matters deeply.
You may recognise that extra support would help, yet fitting regular sessions into an already crowded calendar feels unrealistic. Perhaps work demands, childcare responsibilities, or sheer exhaustion disrupted your previous attempts at weekly therapy.
In some cases, a significant rupture may have shaken the foundation of your partnership. You may feel uncertain how to restore trust or move forward together. In others, there may be no single crisis. Conflict may be a regular occurrence and communication a distant memory. It can be exhausting and leave you emotionally distant from each other.
What connects these experiences is a shared awareness that waiting is no longer an option. You want movement, relief, and a clearer path back to connection and calm.
Intensive couples counselling offers a structured, immersive approach designed to create real progress over a short period. This approach allows change to happen in days instead of stretching progress over many months.
Invest in your relationship
Intensive Couples Counselling is an immersive approach created for couples who want meaningful change without waiting months to feel relief. Instead of spreading progress out over weekly sessions, this format allows you to do deep relationship work in a concentrated and intentional way. This often achieves breakthroughs in just days.
Intensives are offered across one or two days, giving you dedicated time to focus fully on your relationship. This allows couples to reconnect emotionally and improve communication. It can be the begining of repairing trust and hurt in a way that shorter sessions often struggle. Many couples experience this as a chance to pause, reset, and move forward with renewed clarity and hope.
Gottman Method
This approach draws directly from the renowned Gottman Method, developed through decades of research into what helps relationships thrive and what causes them to struggle. Throughout your intensive, I use practical, evidence-based strategies that support meaningful, lasting change—rather than quick or surface-level fixes.
From the very beginning, I tailor the experience to you. Each intensive takes shape around your unique challenges, goals, and relationship history, with flexible scheduling to suit your life. Through in-depth assessments and guided conversations, I uncover the deeper patterns influencing your connection. This ensures nothing important is missed.
Sessions take place in a private, calm, and supportive setting – just you and your partner. With uninterrupted time, regular breaks, and a thoughtfully paced structure, you’re able to engage fully in the process without distraction. Together, you’ll explore unresolved pain, understand long-standing dynamics, and set meaningful goals for the future.
While there are no instant solutions, couples often leave feeling lighter, more connected, and better equipped to move forward together. Both partners are heard, validated, and supported, with a clear path for continued growth. That is the impact of a Couples Therapy Intensive. A focused, compassionate, and deeply transformative experience.
Why An Intensive?
Standard couples or marriage counselling is structured as 50-minute appointments spaced a week or two apart. While this format can be helpful, many couples notice that sessions end just as meaningful conversations begin. This leaves important emotions and insights on hold until the next appointment.
Couples Intensive Counselling offer a different experience. Instead of brief check-ins, you set aside extended time to focus fully on your relationship. This concentrated format supports deeper emotional exploration, faster breakthroughs, and sustained connection without constant interruptions.
Ongoing therapy works beautifully for many couples. Intensives, however, can be beneficial for those seeking quicker movement or a structure that fits more easily around busy lives.
How Intensives Work
Couples Counselling Intensives are typically arranged as full, structured days that allow couples to fully immerse in the therapeutic process. Intensives involve approximately five hours of therapy per day, thoughtfully paced to support focus, reflection, and emotional safety.
A typical day includes a three-hour morning block with brief pauses built in. This is followed by a one-hour lunch break to rest and reset. The afternoon sessions then continue the work with two-hours of therapy with a short break inbetween. This extended format offers continuous, meaningful work without feeling rushed or cut short.
One major advantage of the intensive format is efficiency. The Gottman assessment process, which usually unfolds over four standard therapy appointments, can be completed in a single day. This allows you to move quickly from assessment into healing and skill-building.
Your assessment day begins with a detailed exploration of your relationship. You’ll reflect on your shared history, current struggles, and hopes for therapy. I also meet with each partner individually to gain deeper insight into your experiences, perspectives, and relational patterns.
Later in the day, you’ll reunite to review the assessment results together. I walk you through your relationship’s strengths, areas needing attention, and recommended goals. I then guide you into practical exercises drawn from Gottman research. This includes principles from The Seven Principles That Make Marriage Work.
Once the assessment is complete, I design a treatment plan tailored specifically to your relationship. From there, your intensive focuses on repairing unresolved conflict and working through stuck issues. It also helps strengthen emotional closeness using proven, evidence-based Gottman interventions.
Couples Counselling Intensives help partners reconnect as teammates rather than opponents. They actively rebuild friendship, trust, intimacy, and passion while teaching practical, effective skills for navigating conflict together.
Two Day Couples Intensive
Day One
Six hours from 10:00am–4:00pm and includes natural breaks and an hour break for lunch..
Relationship Story Exploration
I will guide you through a detailed conversation about your relationship journey. Together, you’ll reflect on how you met, your early connection, key life stages, major transitions (such as parenthood or relocation), and both the highs and challenges you’ve experienced along the way.
One-to-One Sessions
Each partner will meet individually with me in a privately. These conversations provide space to share personal experiences, perspectives, and concerns that may be influencing the relationship. It’s also a space to share individual hopes, expectations, and commitment moving forward.
Feedback & Direction Setting
After the individual meetings, you’ll come back together for a collaborative feedback session. I integrate insights from your all sessions and completed assessments to offer a clear picture of your relationship dynamics. Using the Sound Relationship House framework, I will highlight existing strengths alongside areas that would benefit from growth and support.
Practical Skill Development
A core part of the retreat is learning tools you can continue using beyond the session. Based on your assessment results, I focus on developing one to three key relationship skills tailored to your specific needs. These will help you strengthen communication, deepen connection, and create positive change at home.
Day Two
Schedule:
Approximately six hours (10:00am–4:00pm), with natural breaks and an hour for lunch built in.
Day Two focuses on actively working toward your agreed treatment goals. A second day allows space to go deeper by addressing underlying patterns, unresolved issues, and strengthening progress already made.
This extended format is well suited for couples who:
- Want to address smaller but meaningful areas of repair within their relationship
- Feel off course and are looking for guidance to reconnect and realign
- Have experienced ongoing challenges with emotional closeness, communication, or conflict
- Are navigating an important shared decision, such as family planning, career changes, or relocation
- Notice their relationship has shifted into coexisting rather than truly partnering
A one-day intensive creates a firm foundation from which to start and continue couples counselling. A two-day intensive offers the time, continuity, and depth needed to rebuild connection. It can help clarify direction and help you move forward together with greater understanding and confidence.
Pricing
One Day Intensive Couples Counselling: £550
Two Day Intensive Couples Counselling: £1020
Payment Terms
- 50% of payment is due at the time of booking to hold your spot. This is non refundable.
- The remaining amount is due 2 weeks prior to the intensive.
- You are allowed to reschedule once. The new date must be within 60 days of the original date.
Begin your therapy journey
I work with couples in Warrington, Cheshire. I can offer intensives during the week or over the weekend to suit busy lives. If you’re ready to feel more connected again with your partner, more supported and more emotionally steady, I’m here to help.
