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Trauma-Informed Couples Intensive Therapy for Partners Ready to Do Deep Work Together

Relationships are often where our deepest wounds and longings surface. When trauma, chronic stress, parenting demands, or betrayal strain a relationship, weekly 50-minute sessions can sometimes feel too slow, too fragmented, or too surface-level.

Couples intensives offer a different container, one where you step out of “life as usual” and devote focused time to understanding what’s really happening between you: in your nervous systems, in your histories, and in the patterns that keep pulling you apart.

This is trauma-informed couples intensive therapy for partners who are ready to slow down and do meaningful work together.

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When a Couples Intensive Makes Sense

A couples intensive may be a good fit if you find yourselves stuck in cycles of disconnection, shutdown, or conflict — even when you both care deeply and want things to change.

Many couples I work with are navigating one or more of the following:

  • Repeating arguments or emotional distance that feel impossible to move through

  • One or both partners carrying a history of trauma (developmental, attachment, relational, or shock trauma) that shows up in the relationship

  • Parenting stress, exhaustion, invisible labour, or mental load that has eroded closeness

  • A relational injury or betrayal (including affairs or emotional betrayal), where there is still willingness to repair

  • A sense that understanding the problem hasn’t been enough to actually shift what happens between you

These intensives are not about fixing one partner or deciding who is to blame. They are designed for couples who are willing to look inward, take responsibility for their own nervous system responses, and work with what lives underneath conflict — the fear, protection, and longing for safety and connection.

What a Couples Intensive Looks Like

A Focused, Structured Process Held Over Two Days

Each couples intensive includes 7 hours of therapy spread over 2 days, typically during school hours. The work is carefully structured to support depth, safety, and integration — not overwhelm.

  • Step 1: Creating the Container

    We begin by clarifying your goals, what brought you here, and what feels most urgent right now. We look at your relationship history and the patterns that currently feel most stuck.

    This creates a shared understanding of the focus for our time together, along with clear intention, consent, and structure for the work ahead.

  • Step 2: Mapping Nervous System Patterns

    I meet with each of you individually to understand your trauma history, significant life experiences, and how your nervous system responds under stress.

    We then come back together to name the relational patterns that get activated between you, often bringing relief and clarity to why things feel the way they do.

  • Step 3: Deep Trauma Work Using DBR

    A core part of the intensive is Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), a gentle, neuroscience-informed trauma therapy that works with the brain and body to process the root of distress.

    Each partner has individual DBR time, held relationally, with the other present as a regulated witness. Grounding, choice, and debriefing are built in so the work feels supported and contained.

  • Step 4: Relational Practice and Repair

    With more support in each person’s nervous system, we come back together for guided, experiential couples work.

    This is where you practice speaking and listening from a more grounded place and experiment with new ways of responding to one another in real time.

  • Step 5: Integration and Next Steps

    We close the intensive by reflecting on what shifted and what feels different for each of you.

    Together, we consider what kind of support, if any, would feel most helpful as you integrate this work moving forward.

Investment

7-hour couples intensive (over 2 days): $1,500 CAD

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This includes:

  • Joint and individual assessment

  • Structured couples intensive therapy

  • My behind-the-scenes integration and planning between days

Couples intensives are priced to reflect the depth, focus, and specialized nature of trauma-informed couples work, including the integration of DBR and experiential relational therapy.

Follow-up sessions (another 7 hour intensive the following week or 2 hour follow-up appointments over several weeks), if desired, are discussed together and billed at the couples intensive rate.

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Ready to Create Real Change in Your Relationship?

If you’re ready to see meaningful change in your relationship, not just manage conflict or talk things through, a couples intensive may be the next step.

This work is best suited for partners who are open to trauma-informed, body-based therapy, who are willing to do their own inner work, and who want support understanding the deeper patterns that shape how they relate to one another. It’s for couples who are ready to slow down, engage honestly, and work with what’s happening beneath the surface.

If this resonates, I invite you to book a consultation so we can talk about what you’re navigating and whether a couples intensive feels like the right fit for you at this time.

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