Couples intensives can help you accomplish in one deep-dive experience what may take months in traditional therapy.
You and your partner feel scared and hopeless: your relationship has turned sour, disconnected, missing its spark. Maybe you secretly wonder if you should separate. You don’t know how to fix your marriage.
Are you ready for immediate relief and deep lasting change?
Weekly therapy might not fit your life right now, or it hasn’t gotten you any real results. You might juggle demanding careers, drown in parenting and other caring responsibilities, or live across time zones.
That’s why I’m offering these couples intensives!
Imagine this:
You and you partner stay in a gorgeous cottage by the salt water, with a view of mountains and the sound of eagles and sea gulls in the distance.
You spend two days (or more if you choose) with me (Corina Sahlin, certified Relational Life Therapy coach), guiding you through significant relational breakthroughs.
During this immersive experience, you identify and break painful patterns, understand what’s blocking intimacy and do the necessary healing and skill-building to create lasting, powerful, accelerated change – surrounded by stunning beauty (of nature, not me).
We go deeper than you ever might have gone before, including concentrated, life-altering relational work—tackling deep-rooted issues like disconnection, power struggles, and unresolved trauma head-on.
In our time together, we emphasize truth-telling, repair, and skills-building to move you from dysfunction to collaborative, respectful partnership.
You will learn and practice hands-on, proven, effective tools for communication, connection and repair – skills that are often taught in traditional RLT bootcamps over the course of a weekend. But instead of sitting in a room with fluorescent lights and several other couples, Corina’s couples intensives are centered around YOU and your partner – a single couple with your own specific circumstances, surrounded by beauty, nature, and relaxation.
You will have nourishing breaks to walk on the beach, soak in the hot tub, dine at one of many local eateries, and possibly even go on a kayaking paddle or a private boat ride to one of the secret San Juan Islands.
This extended time together creates the space for deep exploration, transformational insight, and practical change that simply isn’t possible in shorter weekly sessions. The framework of intensives facilitates more lasting and meaningful change because we can work live in the moment with the setbacks and relational dynamics that otherwise occur between weekly coaching sessions.
This weekend intensive is ideal for you if:
- Your relationship is in crisis and you need to stop destructive cycles of conflict
- You desire immediate change and clarity surrounding your relationship’s future
- You are a busy working professional and find it hard to schedule weekly couples therapy
- You are emotionally exhausted and desire a professional discernment process
- You want to experience maximum psychological benefits in a condensed time frame
Research consistently shows that intensive couples therapy leads to deeper, more enduring change compared to weekly sessions.
Immersive work helps couples break patterns faster, stay engaged longer, and create real momentum for change.
Research by Boegner & Zielenbach-Coenen (1984) found that couples who received the same total hours of therapy in a condensed, intensive format showed greater improvement and lower relapse than those who received weekly sessions or no therapy at all.
The cost of an intensive is comparable to six months of weekly sessions—but many couples prefer to accelerate the process and start living the change now. It’s a commitment not just to your relationship—but to your emotional wellbeing, deep healing, true connection, and your future together.
For many of us, unhealed childhood wounds and traumas manifest in our intimate relationships as reactivity, defensiveness, expectations or disconnection. In traditional one-hour long coaching sessions, there is often not enough time to go deep and stay with the vulnerability required for healing. But in couples intensives, we have the time and space to slow things down and really connect and heal underlying traumas in a way that feels safe, containing and transformational.
Trauma-informed intensives allow for powerful experiential work—such as inner child exploration that Relational Life is famous for. When this is done with your partner present, it not only helps one partner heal but supports the other in witnessing that healing in real time. This builds empathy and compassion, reduces reactivity, and strengthens the bond between partners.
And just as important, intensives offer the unique ability to work with what unfolds from the trauma therapy—guiding individuals and couples through the emotional fallout or integration, rather than leaving them to manage it alone between sessions.