Transform Your Relationship: Intensive Couples Therapy Retreats in California

Rediscover Love, Trust, and Connection in Just One Weekend

Your marriage is in crisis.

You wonder if it’s “too late” to get help.

Maybe, there’s been an affair or one partner is considering leaving the relationship.

Or, a tragedy or loss occurred in your family or close circle, which has shaken you both to your core.

Now, everything seems uncertain and you’re not sure where to go from here. Perhaps, you’re even considering divorce.

You don’t even have to be married to have these issues in your relationship. Perhaps, you’re in a committed relationship and don’t want to wait years or months for your relationship to change. You and your partner are experiencing significant distress or high conflict. Communication is challenging. It feels like you’re “stuck” and unable to solve the problems you’re having with your partner. Feeling hopeless and discouraged is normal in this situation. Maybe, your partner seems cold and distant. This leaves you feeling lost and alone. There is hope for you and your partner to problem solve together, in a way that will help you both feel great about your future.

Relationship problems are common for every couple. How they are handled makes all the difference in a successful relationship.

While traditional weekly couples counseling can be beneficial, it often comes with challenges:

Slow progress that can lead to frustration
Difficulty maintaining consistent weekly appointments
Feeling overwhelmed by recurring issues
Limited time to dive deep into complex problems

Many couples find themselves stuck in a cycle:

Attend a session
Make small improvements
Fall back into old patterns before the next appointment

You’re ready for a change. You want to:

Give your relationship one last, meaningful chance
See significant improvements quickly
Break free from the “one step forward, two steps back” cycle

If you’re willing to invest in your relationship but can’t wait months for results, our intensive couples retreat offers a powerful alternative. In just one weekend, you can achieve breakthroughs that might take months in traditional therapy.

“We were able to discover not only what our strengths and challenge areas were but also tools to use in our relationship going forward. It was a great investment.” R & S

A Couples Therapy Retreat Can Help You Improve Your Relationship

Imagine achieving months of progress in just one weekend. Our couples therapy retreat offers:

Intensive, focused time with a Gottman-trained expert
Practical tools for immediate use in your daily life
A distraction-free environment to dive deep into your relationship
Rapid relief and renewed connection

In fact, our weekend retreat can deliver results equivalent to 6 months of traditional 50 minutes weekly therapy sessions. Here’s what sets us apart:

Immersive Experience: Dedicate uninterrupted time to your relationship
Expert Guidance: Benefit from concentrated attention from our skilled therapists
Proven Methods: Learn and apply research-based Gottman techniques
Lasting Impact: Gain insights and skills that continue to strengthen your bond long after the retreat

Don’t let another day pass feeling disconnected. Take a transformative step towards the relationship you’ve always wanted – in just one powerful weekend.

“Had a better insight by day two than listening to other therapists for years”

Tackle Your Toughest Relationship Challenges Head-On

In a couples therapy intensive weekend, we’re going to address a number of common concerns for couples! These common concerns for couples to work through in therapy retreats include:

Communication
Infidelity
Sexuality and intimacy issues
Financial pressures
Blended families
Children
Career conflicts
Past hurt and resentment

Our Couples Therapy Retreats Are Private, Gottman Method Intensives for Marriages and Relationships in California

Consider this weekend an extreme relationship makeover! Our therapists use the Gottman Method Couples Counseling to help you build your best relationship during these intensive retreat workshops. The researched-based Gottman Method builds tools to benefit your relationship or marriage for years into the future. During these therapy retreats, couples finally feel heard, seen and understood. We are going to work hard to help you recognize the underlying betrayals and patterns that cause you so much pain.

Who will benefit from a couples getaway?

Couples who want to make change quickly
Partners who don’t live in the Sacramento area or who do live near by and want rapid results
Couples who have opposite schedules
Couples in crisis who need help now
LGTBQ+ partners
Any two people in a romantic relationship who want to make lasting change in their relationship
Couples looking to get premarital counselling

“By the end of the weekend we had a better understanding of how we got to this point and a real plan on how to move forward. Very few could have handled the wide range of problems we needed help understanding.” – Dave

Evaluate Your Relationship with Your Partner Using the Gottman Relationship Check Up

Before your couple’s retreat begins, you and your partner will get a scientific evaluation of your relationship. We will send you an online Gottman relationship check up to complete. This will take about 1.5 hours. This research-based tool helps couples by identifying the strengths and challenges of a relationship. The State of the Union Gottman Relationship Checkup covers questions about:

Friendship
Intimacy
Emotions
Conflict
Values
Trust
Parenting
Housework
Finances
Individual areas of concern
…and more!

Why It Matters

Your responses provide a detailed map of your relationship’s landscape, allowing our expert therapists to:

Identify your unique strengths and challenges
Tailor the retreat to address your specific needs
Maximize the impact of your therapy sessions
Focus on the areas that will yield the most significant improvements

By completing this assessment, you’re taking the first step towards a more fulfilling, connected relationship. Let’s uncover the path to your strongest partnership yet.

“I think we’re going to be able to save our marriage.” – Mike

Couples Intensive Retreat Options:

3-Day Intensive Couples Retreat Package:

Located in the Sacramento, CA area – not provided online.

Our most popular intensive couples therapy retreats take place over the course of a three day weekend. For weekend retreats, the therapy program includes 3 hours Friday night and 6 hours on Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday. It might sound like a lot, but this time will be focused on growth and connection. This time is also rooted in evidence and best practices from experts in the field of marriage and family therapy, so you know that the information you are getting is the absolute best.

This package Includes:

Welcome package
15 hours of intensive therapy
Relationship Checkup Assessment
Couple and individual therapy sessions
Take home materials
Option to schedule follow up treatment for an additional cost

Two-Day Intensive Therapy Package

This package includes:

Welcome package
Relationship Checkup Assessment
Couple and individual sessions
9 hours of intensive therapy
Take home materials

Contact us to get more details about the retreat’s schedule and ask any specific questions to determine the best fit for this type of therapeutic relationship intensive.

Retreat to Rediscover Friendship and Love

During these California therapy retreats for couples, our expert therapists want to help you feel as connected and confident as possible in your relationship or marriage. To do this, we will:

Provide you with the concrete tools you can take home to keep the momentum going
Make connections with local therapists to continue the work beyond the retreat
Use a personalized approach to get to the root of the problems in your relationship
Accelerate the pace of your healing, creating profound healing and positive change

Our experience was super positive. We got a lot out of it. Our therapist was really organized and we both loved how action oriented the weekend was. It was tailored to us based on the questionnaire and we got a lot out of it. I loved how we were able to learn some strategies to take home. It’s a different way of doing therapy, including the strategies to take away with us, but it was great. It is an investment of time and money, but it was a good investment. I would recommend other couples take advantage of the weekend intensive. – M

Give Your Marriage a Second Chance After Attending an Intensive Couples Therapy Retreat

After our couples therapy retreats, we want you to feel relieved and hopeful. You will be amazed at how much could be done in a weekend! You’ll experience positive relationship transformation as a couple during this intense time of work and growth. Through it all, you’ll leave with renewed spirits and a sense of optimism about the future! During these therapy retreats marriages are saved, trust is built and commitments are made for moving forward with positive awareness. So, let’s enhance your joy, ease your pain and connect more deeply with your partner. Leave this therapy retreat with renewed love, greater closeness and true intimacy. That is our true hope for you and your partner through this experience!

“Our intensive therapy was really intense and took us places I never thought we would discuss had it not been for this retreat, it was helpful in us understanding where one another was coming from”

Join Us For an Intensive Couples Therapy Retreat in California:

We look forward to talking with you about this opportunity to attend a private therapy retreat using the Gottman framework for intensive marriage counseling and couples therapy. We are confident that these evidence-based retreats will help you and your partner establish a firm foundation for a healthy relationship. To begin an intensive couples therapy retreat in California, please follow these easy steps:

Submit this form to our relationship therapy center for a free 30-minute phone consultation to determine which retreat is a good fit for you and your partner.
Take the Gottman Relationship Check Up Assessment.
Meet with one of our relationship therapists for a couples retreat and find happiness in your relationship.

Other Services offered at The Relationship Therapy Center in California:

In addition to couples counseling retreats, Our Sacramento area counseling clinics located in Roseville and Fair Oaks, CA are pleased to offer a variety of mental health services. Our couples services include: Counseling after infidelity, sex therapy, co-parent counseling, family therapy, divorce counseling, intensive couples retreats, and premarital counseling. Our individual therapy services include, therapy for children, teen therapy, depression treatment, and individual relationship counseling. Our therapists offer online counseling in California to treat a variety of mental health concerns. Please reach out to our Sacramento area therapy office to learn more about the many ways we can help you or your loved ones heal and grow.

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