We all get busy and struggle to make time for the important people in our lives. Your demanding work schedule and the stressful nature of your job can add even more strain to your relationships.
As a result, you may:
Yet, this person and relationship is important to you. You want to strengthen your connection.
Fortunately, making time to focus on your relationship, needs, and wants in therapy can help you overcome challenges and communication issues so you can reconnect. And the process doesn’t have to take weeks
All relationships benefit from attention and time together.
While traditional weekly couples counseling is effective, these ongoing sessions often don’t meet the needs of emergency responder couples and friendships. Meetings spread out over weeks or months in 50 to 60-minute sessions can be challenging, especially if your work schedule constantly changes. Plus, progress can feel slow — or nonexistent.
Our Couples Intensive Therapy takes place over two consecutive days, allowing for a more focused, in-depth approach.
Our intensives are not limited to married couples or romantic relationships. All relationships and friendships where you’re struggling can benefit, such as trying to work through an issue, a breach of trust, or a misunderstanding.
For instance, we’ve worked with close friends and work partners where:
You don’t need extreme conflict or problems to benefit from our Couples Intensive Therapy.
The intensive can help you and your partner:
Additionally, we can assist you with conflict transformation because not all conflict is unhealthy. During sessions, we will guide you through intense conversations and built-up emotions.
You can also explore the ways you give and receive love, identify your communication styles, and learn what exists in the gap between what is said and what is heard. You’ll learn how to read each other’s non-verbal cues so you know when to push each other in a helpful way, when to back off, and how to ask for what you need.
Our licensed therapists provide a safe, confidential, and judgment-free space where you both can explore your relationship challenges, habits, and patterns. We work collaboratively with you so you feel supported and can focus on the issues important to you and share your thoughts and
feelings openly.
We work with you to identify your goals for the intensive and incorporate skills and techniques from various evidence-based methods, including:
The Couples Intensive consists of a total of 15 hours of therapy.
Most intensives are two days. Occasionally, an intensive may be extended to three days if there is additional individual trauma work needed for both individuals to feel safe and comfortable working in this intensive format.
You may also choose a maintenance intensive session if you don’t need a full 2-day intensive. The maintenance intensive session is at least 2 hours and a maximum of 6 hours.
Create the meaningful and fulfilling relationships you desire. Our licensed therapists are here to support and guide you. So you can work through relationship challenges and develop insights, habits, and skills to strengthen your relationship and feel like a team.
Our Couples Intensive Therapy is available for anyone in Maine or traveling
to Maine.
Create the meaningful and fulfilling relationships you desire. Our licensed therapists are here to support and guide you. So you can work through relationship challenges and develop insights, habits, and skills to strengthen your relationship and feel like a team.
Our Couples Intensive Therapy is available for anyone in Maine or traveling
to Maine.
The Couples Intensive Therapy is $4,350 for the two-day experience. It may be more if a third day is added.
Maintenance sessions are $290 per hour.
No. We are an out-of-network provider with insurance companies.
Additionally, insurance companies require an individual diagnosis for you to attend therapy. For our couples work, your relationship is the client, which can’t receive a “billable diagnosis.”
We do not provide a superbill for couples work.
No. Our Couples Intensive Therapy is only available in person.
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