Move Beyond Repeating Arguments. Rebuild Emotional Connection.

You may love each other deeply and still feel stuck in the same painful patterns. One partner reaches for connection while the other withdraws. Conversations become arguments, misunderstandings turn into resentment, and attempts to reconnect leave you feeling further apart.

Couples Therapy Intensives offer dedicated time to slow down, understand what's happening beneath the conflict, and begin changing the patterns keeping you disconnected. 

At Lumen Roots Therapy, I integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method interventions, attachment-based therapy, and nervous-system-informed approaches. My work is also neurodivergent-affirming, recognizing that partners may experience emotions, communication, and connection differently.

Session Options & Investment

3-Hour Couples Intensive — $750

A focused therapeutic experience for couples seeking to address a specific concern, recurring conflict, or emotional disconnection.

2-Day Couples Intensive — $1,500

Six hours of focused couples therapy, divided into two three-hour sessions. This extended format allows time to explore deeper relationship dynamics, practice new ways of connecting, and begin repairing longstanding patterns.

Initial Couples Assessment — $250

Individual assessment sessions may also be required at $200 per partner.

What to Expect

Before Your Intensive | Understanding Your Relationship

We begin with an assessment of your relationship history, current challenges, and goals. Individual conversations with each partner help identify attachment experiences, emotional needs, and patterns that may be contributing to disconnection.

Day 1 | Understanding the Patterns That Keep You Stuck

During our first three-hour session, we'll look beneath recurring arguments to identify the emotional cycle driving conflict. We'll explore how each partner's fears, vulnerabilities, and protective responses interact, often leaving both people feeling unheard or misunderstood.

The goal is to begin shifting from seeing each other as the problem to recognizing the pattern that keeps you disconnected.

Day 2 | Creating Repair and Reconnection

Our second three-hour session focuses on changing that cycle. Through guided emotional conversations, attachment-based interventions, and practical relationship exercises, we'll work toward expressing underlying needs, responding with greater understanding, and strengthening emotional connection.

We'll also develop strategies for navigating future disagreements and repairing moments of disconnection.

After Your Intensive | Bringing the Work Into Everyday Life

You'll leave with a clearer understanding of your relationship dynamics, practical tools for communication and repair, and personalized recommendations for continuing your work together.

Is a Couples Intensive Right for You?

Couples Intensives may be helpful if you're experiencing recurring arguments, emotional distance, communication difficulties, attachment injuries, parenting stress, or major relationship transitions.

An initial assessment helps determine whether this format is appropriate for your relationship. Some situations, including ongoing coercion or abuse, may require a different approach.

Ready to Reconnect?

You don't have to wait until your relationship reaches a breaking point to seek support.

Contact Lumen Roots Therapy to explore whether a Couples Therapy Intensive is right for you.

Secure in person or virtual couples intensives available throughout Virginia.