Conscious Love Couple’s Intensives

Conscious Love Couple’s Intensives offer couples the opportunity to go deeper than is often possible in a traditional therapy session. With three hours of focused therapeutic time, we can slow down, identify the patterns keeping you stuck, and begin practicing new ways of relating, all in one day.

Conscious Love Couple’s Intensives are offered in person at my Sebastopol office on Mondays or Fridays, with limited Saturday availability.

Your intensive begins before we meet. Each partner completes my Conscious Love Discovery Journal, which introduces you to some of the principles and practices of Conscious Love while helping you identify your individual strengths, vulnerabilities, relationship patterns, and goals for therapy. Your responses also give me valuable insight before we begin, allowing us to make the most of our time together.

The structure of the intensive is as follows:

Pre-Intensive

The first step is to contact me to schedule a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation. We’ll discuss the concerns bringing you to couples therapy and determine whether a Couple’s Intensive feels like a good fit for all of us.

Once you schedule the intensive, I will email you the Conscious Love Discovery Journal Intake Form for each of you to complete and email back to me, ideally at least 2 days prior to your couples intensive.

The Intensive

The intensive will vary from couple to couple based on each couple’s needs, but generally the format will be as follows:

First 90 minutes:

First 10-15 minutes – Introductions and guided meditation with breathwork

Remaining 75 minutes – Conscious Love Couples Therapy

20-minute break: Time to use the restroom, take a short walk, or visit Retrograde Coffee across the street before returning for the second half.

Second 75 minutes:

If we haven’t already done so during the first half of the intensive, I’ll introduce you to Nurturing Talk, a powerful nonviolent communication practice and one of the foundational tools of the Conscious Love Method. You’ll have an opportunity to use Nurturing Talk to work through an actual issue in your relationship with my guidance and support, while I weave in additional couple’s therapy interventions as needed.

Final 15 minutes:
We’ll discuss next steps and whether another Couple’s Intensive or a 75-minute Zoom or in-person follow-up session would best support you. I’ll give you a short writing assignment, introduce another Conscious Love tool, and leave you with a practical protocol you can use at home.

Investment: $750 (Saturday rates are higher)