Intensive Couples Therapy in Utah
An exclusive, in-home therapeutic experience for couples who need to make progress in days, not months.
You can’t devote months to weekly appointments
A demanding schedule can make traditional weekly therapy difficult to sustain. A private intensive protects focused time for your relationship, allowing you to complete a structured assessment, understand the patterns driving conflict, and practice new skills without losing momentum between sessions.
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Your relationship needs focused, uninterrupted care
You want enough time to slow the cycle down, understand what is happening beneath the conflict, and practice a different way of responding. An intensive creates room for that work while protecting your privacy, comfort, and concentration.
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When you need more than traditional couples counseling can provide…
If your relationship is affected by conflict, distance, or broken trust, intensive couples counseling can transform your luxury vacation into a life-changing experience.
Finally, the Help You’ve Been Looking For
Couples Therapy Intensive can help you accomplish in days what might take months in regular couples counseling.
What is a couples therapy intensive?
A couples therapy intensive is a short-term, highly focused counseling experience that brings assessment, insight, and skill practice into one concentrated block of time. Instead of opening an important issue and stopping when a weekly hour ends, you have time to process and reconnect.
Your intensive combines the research-based Gottman Method with DBT skills and mindfulness practices. With more than 25 years of clinical experience, I tailor the work to your relationship, including concerns involving affairs, trauma, addiction, recurring conflict, and emotional disconnection.
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Relationship Assessment
Before your intensive, you and your partner will complete the renowned Gottman Love Lab assessment. Combined with structured clinical interviews, the results provide a detailed understanding of your relationship's strengths and challenges, allowing us to focus our time where it matters most.
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Focused Therapy Sessions
During the intensive, focused sessions help you understand what happens beneath the conflict. Together, you'll learn and practice Gottman Method tools, emotion-regulation skills, and more mindful ways to respond when conversations become difficult.
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Plan for Lasting Change
You leave with practical tools and a clear plan for continuing the work after the intensive. The plan reflects your relationship's patterns, priorities, and strengths so you can keep practicing new ways to communicate, repair, and reconnect.
Your intensive includes:
The state-of-the-art Gottman Love Lab relationship analysis
A personalized treatment plan
Practical tools for addressing communication, conflict, trust & intimacy
A plan for sustaining progress long after the intensive
All delivered in the privacy of your home, hotel suite, or vacation residence
Intensive Format Options
Choose the right format for your relationship
Your intensive is available in two formats: three four-hour weekday sessions or two six-hour weekend sessions. We will confirm the schedule during your consultation.
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Two 6-hour in-person sessions, delivered on a Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 4:30 pm with a 1.5 hour lunch break. Includes the Gottman Love Lab analysis prior to your arrival.
Day 1 (Morning): Assessment, relationship history, identifying core gridlocks, and establishing safety and goals.
Day 1 (Afternoon): Feedback, conflict management, addressing the “Four Horsemen.”
Day 2 (Morning): Skill-building, processing past regrettable incidents.
Day 2 (Afternoon): Building deep listening and reconnection.
$8,000
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Three 4-hour in-person sessions, delivered on three consecutive weekday afternoons from 2-6 pm. Includes the Gottman Love Lab analysis prior to your arrival.
Day 1 : Assessment, relationship history, identifying core gridlocks, and establishing safety and goals.
Day 2: Feedback, conflict management, addressing the “Four Horsemen,” skill building
Day 3: Processing past regrettable incidents, building deep listening and reconnection
$8,500
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Additional 4-hour intensive session: $2,500
Additional full-day (6 hour) intensive session: $4,000
Imagine Finally Being Able to…
Step out of destructive conflict patterns
Recognize the behaviors that escalate conflict, and practice tools that help you build understanding.
Repair trust and rebuild closeness
Address the injuries, distance, or betrayal that has weakened your connection and begin rebuilding friendship, intimacy, and a stronger sense of partnership.
Gain practical tools, and a structured plan for what comes next
Leave with shared priorities, concrete relationship tools, and a plan for maintaining the progress you’ve made.
Why Work with Me
With over 25 years of experience, I provide the expertise and discretion that couples seeking meaningful change require. My advanced training in the Gottman Method offers a proven, research-based path for strengthening relationships, and my specialized work with affairs, trauma, and addiction addresses challenges that demand a higher level of skill than most couples therapists can offer.
I work with a select group of clients—including physicians, attorneys, executives, public figures, and other high-profile individuals—who value privacy, exclusivity, and results. Each intensive is a highly focused, personalized experience that integrates Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness practices, helping partners regulate emotions, rebuild trust, and reconnect with a deeper sense of presence and lasting commitment.
You Want a Great Relationship, Not Just Improvement
In-home intensives bring the experience directly to you, combining exclusivity with the breakthroughs your relationship needs.
Couples Intensives FAQs
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Intensive couples therapy is ideal for partners who want to make meaningful progress quickly. It’s best suited for couples who are:
Experiencing recurring conflicts or disconnection but are motivated to improve their relationship
Looking to rebuild trust after infidelity or other breaches
Wanting a concentrated opportunity to learn and practice new communication and conflict-management skills
Unable to commit to weekly therapy due to demanding schedules or long-distance circumstances
Intensives provide a structured and supportive space to slow down, reconnect, and focus on your relationship without the distractions of daily life.
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An intensive couples counseling format probably is not appropriate if:
There is ongoing domestic violence or coercive control
One or both partners are currently struggling with an active, untreated substance use disorders
Either partner is experiencing an acute psychiatric condition that needs stabilization before couples work can begin
There is an active, undisclosed affair that one partner is unwilling to end
In these cases, individual therapy or other forms of support should come first. If you’re unsure, please don’t hesitate to reach out for a consultation.
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The Gottman Love Lab, now available through the Gottman Connect telehealth platform, is one of the most advanced relationship assessment tools available. Originally developed for research at the Gottman Institute, this powerful system allows couples to benefit from decades of scientific study without traveling to the original Love Lab in Seattle.
As part of your intensive couples counseling experience, you and your partner will complete a comprehensive online questionnaire and participate in a guided, video-based evaluation. Together, these tools provide a detailed, research-backed “X-ray” of your relationship, revealing important patterns in emotional responsiveness, attunement, conflict, and connection.
Your results help identify where your relationship has the greatest opportunities for growth. This allows us to focus our intensive counseling sessions on the areas where they can have the most meaningful impact, creating a highly personalized roadmap for healing, reconnection, and renewed strength as a couple.
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I offer intensive couples therapy as a private, concierge-level experience, designed to meet you where you feel most comfortable, in your own private retreat.
Sessions can take place in your home, hotel, vacation rental, or any other indoor setting that offers reliable, secure Wi-Fi and ensures privacy, comfort, and uninterrupted focus.
While I primarily serve clients within a 40–45 mile radius of Salt Lake City, intensive couples counseling can also be arranged elsewhere in Utah, including resort destinations or rural areas. Travel and lodging costs may apply for locations beyond the standard service area.
If your preferred setting is outside this radius, please reach out to discuss available options and customized arrangements.
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A 12-hour private couples intensive, typically scheduled over three or four days (about four to five and a half hours per day), is $8,000.
A 50% deposit is required to reserve your intensive, with the remaining balance due at the start of your first session.
This fee applies to any appropriate location within a 40-mile radius of Salt Lake City, Utah. Intensives held outside this radius may include additional travel and lodging costs.
This immersive format provides the focused time and space needed for deep, lasting change.
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Cancellations made more than 30 days in advance of your scheduled intensive are subject to a $500 administrative fee.
Because significant time and preparation go into planning each intensive, deposits become non-refundable once the 30-day window begins.
If you need to reschedule, you may do so one time, provided the new date falls within three months of your original reservation.