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Gottman Couples & Marriage Therapy Intensives
FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO EACH OTHER
When Your Relationship Feels Stuck
Maybe you still love each other, but you keep having the same arguments. Perhaps trust has been broken by betrayal or an affair. Or you may feel more like roommates than partners—or simply know that the connection you once had has faded.
You may be facing:
* Betrayal or loss of trust
* Recurring conflict that never gets resolved
* Emotional or physical disconnection
* A major life decision or transition
* Separation or the possibility of divorce
* A desire to reconnect and strengthen your relationship before things get worse
A Gottman Couples Intensive gives you dedicated time to step away from everyday distractions, understand what is happening between you, and begin working toward repair, connection, and a clearer way forward.
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.
A Gottman Couples Intensive gives you and your partner dedicated time to step away from daily distractions and focus on what matters most—your relationship.
Offered over one to four days, each intensive is personalized around your relationship’s unique challenges and goals. Together, we identify the patterns keeping you stuck, strengthen communication, address areas of hurt or disconnection, and create a clearer path forward.
For many couples, an intensive can feel like a relationship reset—a chance to slow things down, understand what has been happening beneath the conflict, and reconnect with greater clarity and intention.
Your intensive is grounded in the Gottman Method, a research-based approach to couples therapy developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. Through Gottman assessments and focused therapeutic work, we look closely at your relationship’s strengths, vulnerabilities, conflict patterns, friendship, intimacy, trust, and emotional connection.
Your intensive is led by Kimberlee Daughtry, M.A., LPC-S, RPT, EMDR, CGT, Certified Gottman Therapist, in a private, supportive setting designed to allow both partners to feel heard and understood.
With extended, uninterrupted time together, we can go beyond simply talking about the problem. There is space to explore what is underneath recurring patterns, work through meaningful areas of pain, practice new ways of connecting, and develop specific tools you can continue using long after the intensive ends.
There are no quick fixes for relationships. But concentrated time, focused attention, and a clear therapeutic plan can help you make meaningful progress and leave with a deeper understanding of one another—and a clearer direction for what comes next.
Sometimes your relationship doesn’t need more time. It needs focused time.
Step out of the cycle. Make space for a different way forward.
Why Choose a Couples Intensive?
Traditional couples therapy often unfolds over a series of shorter sessions. For many couples, that approach works well. But when you are facing deeper hurt, recurring conflict, betrayal, or significant disconnection, it can be difficult to fully explore what is happening within the limits of a weekly appointment.
A Gottman Couples Intensive creates protected, uninterrupted time to focus on your relationship without having to stop just as important work begins.
With several focused hours—or multiple days together—there is more space to understand the patterns keeping you stuck, work through difficult conversations, practice new ways of connecting, and apply what you are learning in real time.
For couples who feel ready to devote concentrated attention to their relationship, an intensive offers a more immersive and focused way to do the work.T
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A Couples Intensive May Be a Good Fit If...
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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An Intensive May Not Be the Right Fit If...
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…
Understand the patterns keeping you stuck and what is happening beneath recurring conflict or disconnection.
Rebuild trust and emotional connection after hurt, distance, or a significant relationship rupture.
Communicate more effectively and learn practical tools for navigating difficult conversations.
Strengthen your relationship before problems become entrenched through premarital or preventive couples work focused on communication, trust, expectations, and long-term connection.
Reconnect with what brought you together and clarify what you both want for the future of your relationship.
Leave with a clearer path forward, including specific tools, goals, and recommendations for continued growth.
What can I expect from Couples Therapy Intensive?
Your intensive is structured to give you and your partner focused time together while allowing space for breaks, reflection, and emotional regulation throughout the day.
A typical intensive day includes:
Morning session: Approximately 3 hours, with short breaks as needed
Lunch: A 1-hour break to step away, recharge, and reset
Afternoon session: Approximately 2 hours, with breaks as needed
Rather than trying to fit meaningful relationship work into a traditional appointment, an intensive gives us time to slow down, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and work with your relationship in a more focused way.
Your Assessment & Roadmap
If you have not already completed the Gottman assessment process, we begin by developing a comprehensive understanding of your relationship.
We’ll explore your relationship history, current challenges, strengths, and goals. Kimberlee will also meet individually with each partner to better understand your experiences and perspectives.
Once the assessment is complete, you’ll come back together to review the key findings and identify the areas that deserve our greatest attention. From there, Kimberlee develops a personalized roadmap for your intensive based on your relationship’s specific needs.
Then We Begin the Work
Depending on your goals, your intensive may focus on:
repairing trust after hurt or betrayal
understanding and changing recurring conflict patterns
working through gridlocked issues
rebuilding friendship and emotional connection
strengthening intimacy
learning healthier ways to communicate and manage conflict
creating rituals and habits that support your relationship long after the intensive
If you have already completed a Gottman assessment, we can move more quickly into the areas you have identified for focused therapeutic work.
Throughout the process, the pace is intentional. There is time to pause, reflect, practice new skills, and make sure both partners have space to be heard.
The goal is not to solve everything in a day. It is to help you understand your relationship more clearly, begin changing the patterns that are no longer working, and leave with practical tools and a clearer path forward together.
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Every relationship is different. Your intensive can be scheduled for one to four days depending on your goals, the complexity of the concerns you want to address, and how much focused time would be most helpful.
During your consultation and assessment process, Kimberlee can help you determine the level of support that best fits your relationship.
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Assessment & Foundation
A focused starting point for understanding your relationship and creating a clear roadmap forward.
Your day includes a comprehensive Gottman assessment process, exploration of your relationship history and goals, individual meetings with each partner, feedback and treatment planning, and initial skill-building based on what we discover.
This option may be a good fit for couples who:
want a comprehensive relationship assessment and roadmap
are looking for preventive or relationship-strengthening care
want help with a specific area of concern
have already completed an assessment and want a focused day of therapeutic work
Investment: $1,300
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Strengthen & Prevent
Day One establishes a clear understanding of your relationship and priorities. Day Two gives us additional time to begin working more deeply on the areas identified during your assessment.
This option may be a good fit for couples who:
want to strengthen an already solid relationship
are preparing for marriage
want preventive relationship care before problems become entrenched
want to deepen friendship, connection, communication, or intimacy
need support navigating a specific decision or transition together
Investment: $2,600
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Reconnect & Repair
Three days provide more time to move beyond assessment and skill-building into recurring patterns that have become difficult to change on your own.
This option may be a good fit for couples who:
feel disconnected or more like roommates than partners
have been struggling with recurring conflict
want to rebuild friendship and emotional connection
feel stuck in long-standing patterns
are trying to get their relationship back on track
need help navigating a significant life decision or transition
Investment: $3,900
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Deeper Repair & Rebuilding
Four days provide the greatest amount of protected therapeutic time and may be appropriate when a relationship is carrying significant hurt or several areas need attention.
This option may be a good fit for couples who:
are working to repair trust after betrayal or infidelity
are navigating several significant areas of conflict
feel deeply disconnected or adversarial
are struggling with both conflict and intimacy
have separated and are exploring reconciliation
have individual experiences or past wounds that are affecting the relationship
Investment: $5,200
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Your work begins before you arrive.
Once your intensive is scheduled, each partner will complete a confidential Gottman relationship assessment. This helps identify your relationship's strengths, areas of concern, and the issues that deserve our greatest attention.
Completing this information ahead of time allows us to use your intensive time more intentionally and create a personalized roadmap for your work together.
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A 50% deposit is required to reserve your intensive dates. The remaining balance is due one week before your intensive.
Because these dates are reserved exclusively for you and your partner, payments are nonrefundable. One reschedule is permitted, with the new intensive scheduled within 30 days of the original date.
Additional Gottman assessment or relationship-building resources may be recommended as part of your intensive and are priced separately.
Invest in your relationship. Invest in your legacy.
WE’RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU IN EMBRACING THAT.
Kimberlee Daughtry, CGT, has earned this level of distinction from The Gottman Institute.