Couples Therapy Retreats and Intensive Marriage Counseling in California
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.
Relationship problems are common for every couple. How they are handled makes all the difference in a successful relationship.
Traditional weekly couples counseling can be very effective and beneficial in solving these problems. But, progress can be slow and frustrating, especially for those who are unable to attend each week. Many couples feel overwhelmed by the repetitive and escalating nature of the problems. Some married couples have tried weekly therapy without seeing any positive results and are ready to try something different.
You are willing to give your marriage one last shot, but you don’t have the time or patience to do weekly therapy for months before seeing improvement in your relationship.
A Couples Therapy Retreat Can Help You Improve Your Relationship
A couples retreat is designed to give you and your partner useful tools that you can use in your day-to-day life. During an intensive couples retreat you spend extended time together with a Gottman trained therapist to find rapid relief in your relationship. In fact, a weekend couples retreat is the equivalent to 6 months of 50-minute couples therapy sessions.
“Had a better insight by day two than listening to other therapists for years”
Issues to Address During Intensive Couples Therapy Retreats
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

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!
Your relationship therapist will use the answers from this quiz to better understand areas of your relationship that would benefit from therapeutic help during your weekend together.
Couples Intensive Retreat Options:
3-Day Intensive Couples Retreat Package:

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
Give Your Marriage a Second Chance After Attending an Intensive Couples Therapy Retreat
“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:
- 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.
Reach out to start your healing journey today