What is Intensive Couples Therapy?
Sometimes, weekly sessions just aren’t enough, or the stop/start nature of the sessions means you don’t feel the momentum of change quickly enough. When a relationship feels stuck, on the edge, or simply in need of deeper attention, Intensive Couples Therapy offers a focused, immersive way to create change.
This isn’t therapy as usual. It’s a full two-day deep dive in a calm, private space designed to help you move forward with clarity, connection and compassion. It was developed in collaboration with the Couples Institute in California and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Couples Intensives are held at The Relationship Specialist’s relaxed and welcoming base in Southampton. This bespoke experience gives you the equivalent of months of therapy in just a few days.
We’ll work closely together to unpack what’s really going on underneath the tension. You’ll learn powerful new tools for communication, conflict, and emotional connection and you’ll leave with practical insight and direction, whatever you decide to do next.
Is Intensive Couples Therapy for you?
Since adopting this approach, I have been convinced that this is the best solution to break the deadlock and help kick-start a stalled relationship. It’s a very profound and empowering experience. Let me show you how.
How do you sign up and what will happen once you do?
Assessment
Before committing to the Intensive Couples Therapy, you will both attend an assessment lasting 90 minutes.
This will ensure that an intensive is right for you, and if not, we can discuss what alternative options are available.
Collection of Background Information
Once we have scheduled your Intensive Couples Therapy, I will provide detailed questionnaires that you will complete prior to the session and will provide insight into what has shaped you to be the people you are today, where you are in your current relationship, and what you want going forward.
Your answers to these questionnaires create a comprehensive personal history of your life before you met, and what it is like for you now that you are together.
Two day face-to-face Intensive Couples Therapy.
This is where the work really starts!
Day 1: We will review the answers provided in your questionnaires and work through some of the tools that we will use during the following day. It is pretty intense (but that is why we call it an intensive!), but we will have plenty of breaks, including an hour for lunch.
Day 2: We will focus on applying everything we have learned in our sessions. You will have meaningful conversations about topics that matter to you in a calm way, where you will feel really heard by your partner.
Follow-Up.
We will meet again four to six weeks after our Intensive Couples Therapy (for 90 minutes), sufficient time to practice after you have left the Intensive, and to allow you to review your progress.
We can also share honestly what more you need from each other (or me) at this point.
You don’t need to have mastered ‘riding the bike’ by the end of the Intensive therapy session.
What Results Can You Expect?
By the end of your Couples Intensive Therapy, you can expect to:
Gain absolute clarity on whether and how you want your relationship to move forward
Reignite intimacy and rebuild emotional safety
Learn a calm, honest way to approach difficult conversations
Shift from shame, blame, and feeling stuck into momentum and possibility
Begin to heal past wounds with compassion and perspective
Build a shared understanding of what your relationship needs to thrive
This is not a one-size-fits-all programme. It is a tailored, emotionally intelligent intervention designed to help you reach the heart of the matter and begin transforming it.
Ready to talk or simply want more information before you decide?
You don’t have to know the outcome. You just have to start the conversation.
Fees
Initial Assessment (compulsory) £220.00 + VAT
This will ensure that an intensive is right for you, and if not, we can discuss what alternative options are available.
Intensive Couples Therapy – Limited-time offer: £4,950 (£3,960 + VAT)
Your investment includes:
• Comprehensive pre-work questionnaires and review
• Two full days of face-to-face Intensive Couples Therapy
• A detailed, branded binder for each of you, containing over 80 resources and exercises
• A 90-minute follow-up session (4–6 weeks later)
For business owners, this may be legitimately allocated as Staff Development. Stronger personal relationships lead to greater resilience, focus, and well-being, which directly impacts how you lead and run your business.
Think of this not simply as a cost, but as an investment in your relationship, your family, and your future.
Many couples describe it as the most valuable gift they have ever given each other.