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Gottman Couples & Marriage Therapy Intensives
Heal Faster and Go Deeper
It Is Possible to Have Harmony and Connection Again in Your Relationship
Do you want to work on your relationship with your partner but find it nearly impossible to fit weekly or biweekly counseling sessions into your busy life?
Maybe you’re both working full-time — rushing to get the kids to school and activities, caring for an elderly parent, and trying to carve out even a moment to rest and take care of yourself.
You know your relationship needs support, but the idea of squeezing therapy into your already packed schedule feels overwhelming. Or maybe you’ve tried weekly sessions before and found it hard to stay consistent.
Perhaps something painful has happened — like discovering an affair — and you’re struggling to imagine how to move forward. Or maybe you’re simply feeling disconnected, burnt out, and in need of real change now.
Whatever your situation, you know it’s time. You’re not looking to wait any longer — you’re ready to rebuild, reconnect, and find peace again.
Gottman Marathon and Intensive Couples Therapy is the deep, focused experience you’ve been searching for — helping you make lasting progress in days, not months.
Invest in Your Relationship. Invest in Your Legacy.
Gottman Marathon and Intensive Couples Therapy offers a highly focused, transformative experience designed to help couples achieve months of therapeutic progress in just a few days.
These customized relationship intensives take place over one to four days, providing dedicated time to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, deepen emotional connection, and work through longstanding relationship challenges. Many couples describe the experience as a relationship reset—an accelerated, powerful path toward healing and lasting change.
Grounded in the pioneering work of Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Gottman, the Gottman Method is backed by nearly 50 years of scientific research on what helps relationships thrive and what causes them to struggle. The strategies used throughout your intensive are evidence-based, practical, and proven to improve relationship satisfaction and stability.
Your intensive will be led by Kimberlee Daughtry, M.A., LPC-S, RPT, EMDR, CGT, a Certified Gottman Therapist and one of fewer than 500 professionals worldwide to hold this prestigious certification. Kimberlee creates a supportive, structured, and compassionate environment where couples can engage in meaningful conversations, gain valuable insights, and develop healthier patterns of connection.
Every intensive is personalized to meet your relationship's specific needs and goals. With flexible scheduling options and a concentrated therapeutic approach, Gottman Intensives help couples reconnect, restore trust, and build a stronger foundation for a healthy, lasting relationship.
Ready to invest in your relationship? Discover how a Gottman Intensive can help you and your partner create meaningful, lasting change and move forward with renewed hope and connection.
Through targeted Gottman-based questionnaires and assessments, Kimberlee uncovers what’s truly happening in your relationship. No crowds—just you and your partner in a private, comfortable, and safe space. With uninterrupted time and thoughtful breaks, you can focus fully on healing, connection, and growth through your Couples Therapy Intensive in San Antonio.
There’s time to set meaningful goals and work through the patterns and challenges impacting your relationship. By the end of your Couples Therapy Intensive, no stone is left unturned. Every voice is heard, and together we unpack lingering pain and past experiences to create space for healing, understanding, and renewed connection.
There are no quick fixes—but in just a few days, real progress happens. Each partner feels truly heard, understood, and supported, with a clear plan for moving forward together. That’s the power of a Couples Therapy Intensive.
How are Intensives Different?
Traditional marriage counseling or couples therapy sessions typically last 50 to 90 minutes and occur weekly or bi-weekly. These shorter sessions are valuable—but just when you start uncovering deeper issues, time runs out, and you’re left waiting another week to pick up where you left off.
With Gottman Couples Therapy Intensives, you dedicate several focused hours—or even days—to your relationship. This immersive approach allows for deeper emotional work, immediate progress, and uninterrupted connection.
While traditional therapy can be life-changing for many couples, some find that intensive sessions better match their schedules and provide the momentum needed for lasting change.
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Couples Intensive is for...
Couples who want to heal faster.
Couples who struggle with setting aside time for weekly appointments.
Couples who have a chunk of time and want to jumpstart their work.
Couples who have experienced a crisis and need to rapidly shift gears in their relationship.
Couples who are willing and interested in improving the relationship. It takes both partners to be open and willing to change.
Couples who want to do the work but do not want to meet every week.
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Couples Intensive is not for...
Couples who are not committed to this process.
Couples who are struggling with active drug and/or alcohol addiction.
Couples who have an ongoing or undisclosed affair.
Couples who have serious violence in the relationship.
Couples who have one partner who is suicidal, self harming or suffers from a serious mental illness.
If one partner has little motivation to work on the marriage in a sincere way or is seriously considering divorce.
If meeting weekly works better for your connection style, sense of trust, security, trust with therapist
If you work better by taking small steps weekly, rather than taking a big dose of therapeutic progress all at once
Couples Therapy Intensive can help you…
Recommit to your relationship — move from feeling unsure or disconnected to finding renewed hope and direction together.
Start premarital therapy on solid ground, building communication and trust skills for a lifetime of satisfaction.
Feel more confident and equipped to continue improving your relationship on your own after your intensive.
Jumpstart your couples therapy journey and decide whether to continue with ongoing sessions weekly or every 4–6 weeks.
Gain a deeper understanding of each other and identify the steps needed to rebuild connection, trust, and intimacy.
What can I expect from Couples Therapy Retreat?
Most Gottman Couples Therapy Intensives are scheduled for six hours per day, divided into two sessions:
Morning session (3 hours) with short breaks each hour
1-hour lunch break
Afternoon session (2 hours) with a short break in between
This immersive structure allows for focused, uninterrupted time together—without the limitations of weekly 50- or 90-minute sessions.
The Gottman Assessment Process typically takes 4–5 traditional sessions to complete. During the retreat, you can complete it all in just one day.
Here’s how that day will go:
Morning:Begin with a comprehensive relationship assessment. You’ll explore your relationship story, challenges, and goals for therapy. Then, Kimberlee meets with each partner individually to gain a full understanding of your dynamic.
Afternoon:After lunch, you’ll come back together as Kimberlee shares her findings—highlighting your relationship strengths, growth areas, and suggested goals. You’ll begin skill-building exercises based on The Seven Principles That Make Marriage Work.
Following the assessment, Kimberlee will create a personalized treatment plan tailored to your goals. From there, you’ll dive into repairing past conflicts, resolving gridlocked issues, and strengthening emotional connection through evidence-based Gottman interventions.
If you’ve already completed the Gottman assessment process, your intensive will focus entirely on deep therapeutic work and applying new skills at your own pace. There’s no rush—just meaningful, focused time to reconnect and grow.
Couples Therapy Intensives are designed to help you and your partner work together again as a team—rebuilding friendship, intimacy, passion, and trust while learning effective tools for managing conflict.
After your retreat, you’ll schedule a 45-minute follow-up session (included in your package) to ensure lasting progress and integration of the tools you’ve learned.
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The number of days you choose is entirely up to what you are needing.
One Day Retreat ( Assessment day w/skill building) can stand alone. It can be a great way to jumpstart the assessment process or serve to go deeper and faster with an already existing treatment plan.
2 days (the assessment plus 1 day) are for those:
Seeking Preventative Care
Have a solid relationship but have some minor differences to work out
Wanting to enhance their connection and friendship.
Have a decent conflict system but need help with making a specific decision (e.g. to buy a house)
Have a decent conflict system and desire to enhance intimacy.
Interested in a premarital preparation.
3 Days ( the assessment plus 2 days) are for those:
Seeking minor repairs in their relatioship
Are trying to get “back on track”
Have struggled some time with friendship and/or conflict
Need help in making a major life decision (i.e., to have children, tome jobe change, to relocate, etc)
Feel more like roommates than partners.
4 days ( the assessment plus 3 days) are for those:
Needing to repair a major betrayal ( i.e., affairs)
Have underlying trauma that sometimes impacts their relationship.
Needs help navigating multiple points of conflict.
Desire to improve intimacy but struggle in their conflict system (have not had sex for months)
Fee more like enemies than partners.
Have separated but wanting to reconcile.
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Once a marathon session is booked, the process starts immediately with a confidential online questionnaire completed by each partner.. The assessment is a tool created by The Gottman Institute. It illuminates the dynamics of the relationship, highlighting the strengths and areas of concern, as well as what the hopes are for counseling.
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10-4 pm; Short breaks and lunch as needed.
Oral History Assessment: Kimberlee will talk with couples about their relationship history. She will talk about how you met, your dating experience, marriage, transitions (like becoming parents or moving), and your relationship ups and downs.
Individual Interviews: Kimberlee will meet with each person individually. During this time, She will learn about each partner’s perspective, any personal issues that may be playing a role in the marriage, as well as hopes, expectations and commitment to the relationship.
Feedback Session and Treatment planning: During the feedback session, Kimberlee will review your assessment findings, including information you gave during Oral History Interview and individual interviews and online assessment. Using Gottman Method’s Sound House Relationship, She will discuss areas of strength in your relationship as well as areas of growth.
Skill Building: Couples intensive is dedicated to skill-building. Using the findings of your assessment, She will work on 1-3 skills that help any areas of need in your relationship, so you can continue to use those skills at home.
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6 hrs each full day; (10-4pm) Short breaks and short lunch as needed.
A 2 day marathon would include Day 1 agenda. Day 2 would work on the treatment goals for therapy, unpacking the deeper work.
2 days are for those:
1.Seeking Preventative Care
2.Have a solid relationship but have some minor differences to work out
3.Wanting to enhance their connection and friendship.
4.Have a decent conflict system but need help with making a specific decision (e.g. to buy a house)
5.Have a decent conflict system and desire to enhance intimacy.
6.Interested in a premarital preparation.
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6hrs each full day: (10-4pm); Short breaks and lunch as needed
A 3 Day Marathon would include Day 1 agenda, Day 2 working on treatment goals, Day 3, continuing to work on treatment goals, unpacking the deeper work.
3 Days are for those:
1.Seeking minor repairs in their relatioship
2. Are trying to get “back on track”
3. Have struggled some time with friendship and/or conflict
4. Need help in making a major life decision (i.e., to have children, tome jobe change, to relocate, etc)
5.Feel more like roommates than partners.
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6 hrs each full day; (10-4pm) Short breaks and short lunch as needed.
A 4 day retreat would include Day 1 agenda. Day 2-4 we would work on the treatment goals for therapy, unpacking the deeper work.
4 days are for those:
1.Needing to repair a major betrayal ( i.e., affairs)
2.Have underlying trauma that sometimes impacts their relationship.
3.Needs help navigating multiple points of conflict.
4.Desire to improve intimacy but struggle in their conflict system (have not had sex for months)
5.Fee more like enemies than partners.
6.Have separated but wanting to reconcile.
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1 Day Couples Therapy Retreat Package is $1300
2 Day Couples Therapy Retreat Package is $2600.
3 Day Couples Therapy Retreat Package is $3900.
4 Day Couples Therapy Retreat Package is $5200.
Payment:
50% of payment is due at the time of booking to hold your spot. This is non refundable.
The remaining amount is due 2 weeks prior to the intensive. This is non refundable. You are allowed to reschedule one time. The new date must be within 30 days of the original date.
There is a 4% courtesy fee for using Credit Card. There is no charge for Zelle.
Additional fees for tools:
1.The Gottman Online Assessment is a separate charge of $75. This Pre Intensive is required prior to the Intensive.
2. The Relationship Builder is a one time fee of $200. You’ll be learning lots of new skills in your Marathon/Intensive Couples Therapy Retreat—and practice makes perfect! The Gottman Relationship Builder is a collection of exercises and videos designed to improve your relationship and greatly minimize the chance of relapse.
The Relationship Builder includes:
Thirteen modules that cover all aspects of the Gottman Method—including friendship, intimacy, managing conflict, sharing goals, and more;
Ninety short videos from Doctors John and Julie Gottman modeling the best way to use your brand new skills; and
Thirty-five fun and easy exercises you can try with your partner.
The Gottman Relationship Builder add-on is something you’ll be able to access indefinitely, over and over again. Pick and choose what you work on and when!
Invest in your relationship. Invest in your legacy.
WE’RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU IN EMBRACING THAT.
Kimberlee Daughtry Lopez, CGT, has earned this level of distinction from The Gottman Institute.