Online Couples Therapy Intensives for residents of Texas and Florida
Is a couples therapy intensive right for your relationship?
Have you tried weekly or biweekly couples therapy sessions and feel like you’re not able to make or maintain your progress and growth?
Is your relationship navigating a pressing issue that needs more than 50-90 mins a week to work through?
Are you navigating challenging schedules that make weekly or biweekly couples therapy impossible?
Are you or your partner neurodivergent and do better with deep dives for learning/processing rather than shallow dips week to week?
If you answered YES to any of these questions a Couples Therapy Intensive may be a good fit for you!
What is a Couples Therapy Intensive?
An online couples therapy intensive is a longer form version of therapy where clients meet with their couples therapist for a more in-depth session that is uniquely designed for their needs and goals as a couple. This longer time period allows space to get to the root of issues and work on shifting patterns and dynamics faster. It also creates opportunities for increased focus on integrating new understandings, building new skills, collaborating on relationship agreements, and repairing ruptures or betrayals.
Vivienne Forte, LMFT-S, offers online couples therapy intensives for couples based in Texas and Florida. She has been supporting couples since 2016, and is highly trained in the best of relationship science from PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy), Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, Gottman Couples Therapy, and more.
Intensives are 3 hours, and if it’s your first intensive with us there will be an additional 90-minute intake session scheduled 2-4 weeks before.
These intensives are conducted online via our secure telehealth platform, and each intensive is uniquely designed for each couple’s needs and goals.
What kind of relationship issues do you work on in a Couples Therapy Intensive?
- Neurodiverse/Neurodivergent couples navigating challenges related to differences in communication, stress responses, conflict management, sex/intimacy, etc.
- Betrayal Recovery for couples navigating infidelity and any other kind of relationship betrayal.
- Communication Skills for couples navigating misunderstandings, unmet needs/desires, and unresolved conflicts.
- Secure Relationship Skills for couples navigating challenges around insecurity, trauma, dysregulation, emotional intimacy, and connection.
- Sex Positive Therapy for couples navigating intimacy challenges, desire discrepancy, ethical non-monogamy, etc.
- Pre-Marital Therapy for couples who want to create a strong foundation for a successful marriage. Completing 3 mini intensives qualifies for the “Twogether in Texas” program and saves you $60 off your marriage license fees.
- Discernment Therapy for couples who are unsure if they want to stay committed or end their relationship.
- And More! Each intensive is uniquely designed for each couple based on their needs and goals.
What kind of relational skills can be gained through an intensive?
Learning more about each other’s unique “operating system”, including aspects such as attachment styles, neurobiology, nervous system arousal differences, love languages, triggers, and coping behaviors.
Developing an “owner’s manual” for your relationship, and understanding how you can co-create a safe, secure, loving, and vibrant relationship.
Understanding your relationship’s patterns and each person’s role in it, and how to begin shifting unhealthy dynamics towards secure functioning relational patterns.
Building a communication toolbox and learning how to express needs, wants, boundaries, and desires with greater confidence and clarity.
Learning and practicing how to effectively repair trust and connection after ruptures and recover from betrayals of trust.
Discerning whether you want to stay committed to working on your relationship or are ready to move towards separation and divorce.
What are the steps in the Intensive Process?
Step 1: A FREE 15 minute phone consult to explore if an intensive might be a good fit for your relational needs.
Step 2: A 90-minute intake session to lay the foundation for the work in the intensive. In this intake session, we will gain a deeper understanding of your relationship history and your current relational needs and goals. We will collaborate on what you hope to get out of the intensive experience, and this will help your couples therapist to design an effective intensive experience for your unique needs.
Step 3: Complete relational assessments for further insight, at least one week prior to your scheduled intensive. Based on your intake, your therapist may want you to complete some assessments to get a better understanding of you as an individual and of your relationship. This helps your therapist be more effective in helping you.
Step 4: Print your Intensive Toolkit. Before your intensive, you will receive a personalized digital “toolkit” of resources based on your goals that we will use during your intensive session, and that can support you as a couple afterwards.
Step 5: Attend your 3 Hour Online Intensive. This will have been designed just for you and your partner based on what we discussed in our intake session. You can expect to dive deep into working towards the goals we co-created together.
What is required to participate in an intensive?
Even though these intensives are virtual, due to licensure rules, couples must be physically located in the States of Texas and/or Florida.
Couples must have a computer with a functioning and high-quality webcam/microphone and reliable high-speed internet.
Couples need to be in the same room/physical location together, as this is necessary to get the most out of the experience together. Location must be private, quiet, and well-lit.
Couples must also have access to a printer for the “toolkit” documents and resources that will be used during the intensive (these will be sent ahead of time).
First-time intensive clients must complete a 90-minute intake before their intensive to determine if an intensive is a good fit for their goals and to begin designing goals for the intensive.
What is the Investment?
The investment for an intensive is based on the therapist’s hourly rate ($215) + the additional time and energy required to design and facilitate the intensive experience.
The investment for a first-time intensive for new clients is $1,400, and it includes one 90-minute intake session and one 3-hour mini-intensive. Couples will also receive a personalized “toolkit” for their intensive with resources to support them towards their goals both during and after their intensive session.
After completing a first-time intensive, including an intake session, additional 3-hour intensives can be booked at a rate of $800. This rate also applies to established couples therapy clients, current or past, who do not need an intake and would like to book an intensive.
How do we get started?
Complete the form on the Contact Page or email therapy@headandheart-therapy.com to set up a free 15-minute phone consult to see if a couples therapy intensive is a good fit for your relationship needs at this time.