6-Week Couples Therapy Intensive

FINALLY HEAL YOUR HIGH-CONFLICT RELATIONSHIP

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High-conflict couples deserve accelerated relief

Our couples therapy intensive will reduce your conflict and increase trust in just 6 weeks.

When your relationship is in high-crisis, whether it be the threat of divorce, separation, or repetitive explosive arguments, you can’t afford to just go to weekly couples therapy.

Weekly couples therapy can feel like putting out a house fire with a water pistol. By the time you start unpacking the conflict, the session time is up and you’re left waiting an entire week for more help. This means arguments keep raging on, fights keep you up at night, and every day you feel less secure in the relationship.

That’s where our 6-week couples therapy intensive comes in. Imagine if in 6 weeks you were able to substantially change your relationship. What if you had a plan for success, you both know what to do to address conflict before it gets out of control, and you feel understood by your partner? What difference could that make for your daily life?

With weekly individual and couples sessions, as well as assignments between sessions, you’ll have the supportive structure you need to create real change in your relationship.

You’ll be able to kick the destructive habits that create explosive arguments, and finally establish trust.

In our plan below you’ll see exactly how we’ll get you out of your crisis and into a trusting relationship again.

Connor McClenahan

DIRECTOR, HERE COUNSELING

OUR THERAPISTS WHO PROVIDE OUR 6-WEEK COUPLES THERAPY INTENSIVE

Our couples therapy intensive team

ADDY SONNELAND, AMFT

SOMATIC THERAPY FOR TRAUMA AND ANXIETY

I help people move out of survival mode and into wholeness using somatic therapy

Jake Maxwell, MA

COUPLES THERAPY

I help couples build empathy and healthy communication

McKenzie Laird, AMFT

COUPLES THERAPY

I help high conflict couples resolve trauma and build trust

John Allan Whitacre, AMFT

COUPLES THERAPY

I help couples move from endless cycles of pain to deeper connection.

Arianne MacBean, AMFT

SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR TRAUMA AND ANXIETY

I support adults and couples process emotional discomfort so they can live more compassionately.

Dr. Rose So

THERAPY FOR RELATIONSHIP TRAUMA

I help people overcome traumatic relationship patterns

``We tried weekly couples therapy, but it didn't help``

Most private practices offer weekly couples therapy for high-crisis couples because they aren’t set up to offer more intensive options. In traditional weekly therapy, the 45 minutes of weekly help is easily overwhelmed by the force of your current pattern. This leaves couples feeling hopeless, stuck with unhelpful treatment. Often couples in this situation say, “we tried couples therapy, but it didn’t help.”

Our 6-week couples therapy intensive helps you build the skills you need

Over 3 phases of intervention, you’ll meet with both individual and couples therapists in a coordinated treatment structure. Goals will be established in the first session and reviewed in the last session.

Your therapists will coordinate your treatment between sessions to make sure you are accomplishing your goals and building communication skills that will serve you for years to come. Assignments will be given between sessions to help you practice what you’re learning in session.

The 6-Week Plan

For our Couples Therapy Intensive

Goal 1: Identify the Core Pattern

In the first 2 weeks of treatment, you will build a clear understanding of the core pattern that is keeping you in conflict. A lack of a clear understanding of the problem is one of the main reasons most couples cannot change their pattern. Our individual and couples therapists will help you build an honest understanding of your core pattern.

Goal 2: Build New Communication Patterns

A month in, you’ll be practicing healthy patterns of communication in session with your therapist. Imagine getting through a well-worn argument, but this time feeling understood by yourself and your partner. That’s where we want you to be by week 4. Your individual and couples therapists will assign weekly assignments and exercises aimed at fostering trust and communication.

Goal 3: Master New Communication Pattern

By week 6, you’ll be able to practice your healthy communication pattern independently from your therapy sessions. You’ll be able to spot your unhealthy pattern before it escalates, and communicate openly in ways that resolve tension. You will celebrate the change you’ve made and look ahead to the next goals you want to achieve.

Weekly Individual Sessions

Each week, both partners will meet individually with their own therapists. They will work to understand their own emotional patterns, work through obstacles, and create clarity in their communication. This will help you grow communication skills that will serve you for years to come.

Weekly Extended Couples Sessions

Each week, the couple will meet with their couples therapist for an extended session to identify and practice healthy communication. The couples therapist will meet with individual therapists to set goals and coordinate treatment so you can achieve success.

Commitment

Your investment in your relationship

$ 4950 one-time payment

6 Weeks of Intensive treatment
Weekly 90 min couples therapy sessions
Weekly 45 minute individual therapy sessions for both partners
Assignments between sessions
Coordinated treatment between therapists
Life-long skills to strengthen your relationship

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Located in DTLA and Pasadena

We’re in the Biltmore Offices located on 520 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 671. Parking can be found in Pershing Square or the LA Public Library.

Our Pasadena Office is located at 595 E Colorado Blvd. Suite 629. Parking can be found on the street.

We have in-person and virtual availability from both offices.

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Is the Couples Therapy Intensive right for us?

Our couples therapy intensive is for couples who are...

Highly motivated to change

The couples therapy intensive is for couples who are ready and motivated to change. They are not only exhausted by the current state of the relationship, they know help is needed.

Giving threats and ultimatums

``If you don't do ______ I will ______``. If one or both partners engage in threats and ultimatums, it's a clear sign that outside help is needed. Threats and ultimatums are a cry for immediate change.

Feeling they're headed for separation or divorce

You know that if you head further down your current path, you feel divorce or separation is likely. Sometimes both partners lack the energy or ability to change the way the relationship works, and separation and divorce seems like the only option. Our couples therapy intensive can provide the structure you need to change.

Icy and Distant

You notice that your partner and you don't talk and avoid situations in which another conflict will emerge. Couples who are icy and distant are often worried that engaging with their partner will make things worse. Sometimes couples use silence as a tactic to passively show the other how desperately they need change. Couples in this situation benefit from our couples therapy intensive.

The benefits of in-person couples therapy

While virtual couples therapy sessions are available, we suggest in-person sessions if possible.

Choosing to attend therapy sessions at our offices in Pasadena and Los Angeles has its unique advantages:

- Security to express: Therapy depends on your ability to feel safe to express and explore. So often our self-consciousness about someone listening can hinder our ability to share openly. In-person therapy provides a consistent secure environment for you and your partner to share with confidence.
- Personal Connection: There’s a unique power to face-to-face interaction. You can feel this with friendships: the real-time non-verbal connection eases the exchange. In studies of interpersonal interactions, even 0.2 second delay (which often happens over video) is experienced by the brain as a “fake” reaction. In-person sessions help you experience the genuine response of your therapist.
- No digital bugs: You don’t want a video or audio problem to interrupt an important insight as a couple. You deserve to not be interrupted by digital IT issues.
- Disengage from other tasks: Our clients report that coming in to the office helps them “clear the slate” from work tasks and get the most out of therapy.
- We also offer virtual therapy sessions: Video sessions can be helpful for many couples who would otherwise not be able to come in person. We have a secure video platform that is simple to use, helping you connect to your therapist wherever you are.

Why the 6-week Couples Therapy Intensive is better

It's better than a retreat and better than traditional couples therapy

If you’re looking for a couples retreat or a couples therapy intensive, our 6-Week Couples Therapy Intensive may be a perfect fit. There’s a few good reasons to choose a 6-week couples intensive. First, weekly couples therapy can leave many couples feeling like they’re putting out a house fire with a garden hose. It’s just not enough support for high-conflict couples. Second, our 6-week couples therapy intensive is better than a single-day retreat. Single day retreats can tend toward emotionalism: they may provide a honeymoon-like respite, but building communication skills that last a lifetime requires practice. You need to learn something new, try it, then review and see what you need to practice again. With out individual and couples sessions over 6 weeks, you’ll have the support you need to make significant, life-long changes to the way you communicate together so you can create relationship health.

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