Couples Intensives in Arlington, Texas
More time. More room to work on your relationship.
Some conversations need more than a traditional therapy session.
Relateborhood offers private Couples Intensives, sometimes referred to as Marathon Couples Therapy, for couples who want dedicated time to focus on their relationship without having to stop and wait until the following week.
Intensives can be scheduled for one or two days, depending on the couple, what brings you in, and the work you hope to accomplish.
Time Set Aside for Your Relationship
Weekly couples therapy works well for many couples. There are also times when having several hours together creates room for a different kind of work.
A Couples Intensive gives us time to stay with important conversations, understand the patterns between you, practice new ways of communicating, and continue working without automatically stopping because the session has ended.
The goal is not to rush therapy or promise that everything can be resolved in a day or two. It is to create focused time and space for your relationship.
Could a Couples Intensive Be a Good Fit for Us?
Couples choose an intensive for many different reasons. You might consider this format if you:
- Feel stuck in recurring patterns or disagreements
- Have difficulty feeling heard or understood by each other
- Want to strengthen communication and emotional connection
- Are trying to rebuild trust
- Are working through an affair, betrayal, or other relationship injury
- Are navigating substance use, addiction, recovery, or changes following treatment
- Want to better understand how past experiences or family patterns affect your relationship today
- Want faith or spirituality to have a place in your relationship work
- Are navigating parenting, blended-family concerns, adult children, boundaries, or other family transitions
- Have already participated in couples therapy and want more concentrated time
- Find weekly scheduling difficult
- Want to intentionally invest one or two days in your relationship
Before scheduling, we’ll talk about what brings you in and whether an intensive is a good fit for your relationship.
What Does a Couples Intensive Look Like?
There is no identical agenda for every couple.
A Couples Intensive is a full day of couples therapy with breaks throughout the day, including a one-hour lunch break. The pace and structure can shift depending on the couple and the work we are doing.
Your intensive takes place in a large, comfortable, private office at Relateborhood. We provide an assortment of drinks and snacks, along with the materials we use during our work together.
During breaks, our clinic also has comfortable indoor and outdoor areas where you can sit and rest, play ping pong or retro video games, or enjoy some fresh air on one of our balconies. Covered, shaded parking is available in our underground garage.
Some couples choose one intensive day. Others choose two days, giving us additional time to understand the relationship, work through important concerns, practice new skills, and build on the work from the previous day.
We’ll talk beforehand about the format that makes the most sense for you.
What Can We Work On?
Your Couples Intensive is shaped around your relationship, including the experiences outside the relationship that may be affecting the two of you.
Our work might include:
- Communication, conflict, and recurring relationship patterns
- Emotional connection, friendship, and intimacy
- Affairs, betrayal, trust, and relationship injuries
- Substance use, recovery, and the impact of addiction on the relationship
- Reconnecting as a couple during or after a transition from treatment or recovery
- Past experiences, trauma, and family-of-origin patterns that continue to show up in the relationship
- Parenting, blended families, adult children, boundaries, and family-system concerns
- Spirituality, faith, and Christian beliefs when couples want these to be part of the work
- Compromise, gridlock, and difficult life decisions
- Understanding each other’s inner worlds
- Shared meaning, values, and relationship goals
- Practical relationship skills you can continue using after the intensive
Couples do not need to fit neatly into one category. Relationship concerns often overlap, and the additional time of an intensive allows us to understand how different parts of your story may be connected rather than treating each concern in isolation.
Couples Intensives are grounded in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, with exercises and interventions selected around the needs of your relationship. Dr. Gutierrez’s broader clinical training and systemic perspective help inform and deepen the work.
GOTTMAN-BASED COUPLES WORK
Dr. Casey Gutierrez has completed Level 3 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and incorporates Gottman-based tools and interventions into his couples work.
This work can go well beyond learning how to communicate differently. Depending on the couple and their needs, our work may explore friendship and connection, conflict, trust, relationship injuries, shared meaning, family experiences, recovery, and the values or beliefs that shape the relationship.
The intensive format gives us more room to understand what happens between you, introduce Gottman tools and interventions that fit your relationship, practice them together, process what comes up, and continue building on the work while we are together.
One Day, Two Days, or Continuing Afterward
A Couples Intensive does not have to stand alone.
Some couples choose one focused day. Others choose two intensive days, allowing us to continue building on the work after stepping away and returning the following day.
Many couples also choose to continue with regularly scheduled couples therapy afterward. This can give us time to reinforce what was learned during the intensive, continue unfinished work, and support changes as they begin to become part of everyday life.
For some couples, an intensive is the beginning of couples therapy. For others, it becomes part of work that is already underway.
There is no single path that every couple has to follow.
Investment
Couples Intensives are billed at our standard couples therapy rate of $345 per 75 minutes of therapy.
A typical full intensive day includes six 75-minute therapy blocks.
$2,070 per intensive day
For couples choosing two full intensive days:
$4,140 for two intensive days
Breaks, including a one-hour lunch break, are built into the day and are not billed as therapy time.
Drinks, snacks, and therapy materials used during the intensive are provided.
Relateborhood is a private-pay practice.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
If you have other questions, please reach out. We’re happy to help you figure out whether a Couples Intensive might be a good fit.
Give Your Relationship the Time
You don’t have to know whether you need one day, two days, weekly therapy afterward, or exactly what the work should look like before reaching out.
We’ll start with a consultation, learn more about your relationship and what you’re hoping for, and decide together whether a Couples Intensive is the right next step.
Couples Intensives: $2,070 per day
One or two days available