Couples Intensives:
Extended therapy sessions for couples seeking meaningful change in Fort Collins and virtually across Colorado
Couples Intensives:
Psycho Educational/Skills Based
While traditional weekly couples therapy can be highly effective, sometimes 50–60 minute sessions simply aren't enough to address the complexity of a relationship challenge. When couples are feeling stuck, navigating a significant conflict, rebuilding trust, or wanting to accelerate growth, a couples intensive can provide the time and focus needed to make meaningful progress.
Couples intensives offer an extended therapeutic experience that allows partners to move beyond surface-level discussions and engage more deeply in the work. Rather than spreading conversations across weeks or months, intensives create dedicated time to focus on your relationship without the interruptions and limitations that often come with traditional therapy sessions.
At Empowering Hope we offer two different styles of intensives.
First, and generally recommended for couples who are just starting couples therapy is, Psychoeducational and skills-based intensives are more structured and based around learning communication skills, identifying patterns, emotional regulation, and practicing skills in a managed environment.
At this time Rachel, our licensed marriage, family, therapy offers this style of intensive, pulling from her knowledge in Gottman and EFT couples therapy she has created a 4-6+ hour educational process that focuses on 3 main principles.
Emotional Regulation, both individual and as a unit
Forming a communication structure for conflict
Reconnecting emotionally through various attachment focused techniques
Couples intensives are not recommended in situations involving active abuse, coercion, or ongoing safety concerns. Additionally, partners should have a reasonable foundation of individual emotional regulation skills to participate effectively in the process.
Insurance unfortunately does not cover couples intensives, and is done through private pay. Current rates are:
3-Hour Couples Intensive: $400
6-Hour Couples Intensive: $700
If you and your partner are looking for focused support, deeper conversations, and an opportunity to make significant progress in a shorter period of time, a couples intensive may be a valuable option to help move your relationship forward.
Couples Intensives:
Process Focused
If you and your partner have done some couples therapy in the past, or have solid communication and emotional regulation skills a more process based approach could be useful. Giving you not only space with a licensed therapist to help direct and guide you, but time outside of your busy schedule that you can put all of your focus on your relationship for a few hours.
Process-oriented intensive allows for deeper exploration of a specific issue, conflict, life transition, or relational pattern that has been difficult to address in weekly sessions. This is a less structured approach than the psycho education intensives as it is tailored to your specific needs in therapy and guided by what is needed in the moment, whether that is reviewing communication patterns, support in guiding communication, or just providing you the safe space to share with each other.
Currently Rachel our Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist offers this style of intensives. Her goal is to give you the gentle guidance, and perhaps brushing up on communication and emotionless regulation skills, to support you in working through conflict, disconnection, mistrust, or whatever is bringing you to these intensives.
Couples intensives are not recommended in situations involving active abuse, coercion, or ongoing safety concerns. Additionally, partners should have a reasonable foundation of individual emotional regulation skills to participate effectively in the process.
Insurance unfortunately does not cover couples intensives, and is done through private pay. Current rates are:
3-Hour Couples Intensive: $400
6-Hour Couples Intensive: $700
If you and your partner are looking for focused support, deeper conversations, and an opportunity to make significant progress in a shorter period of time, a couples intensive may be a valuable option to help move your relationship forward.