Couples therapy intensives

Feeling stuck in your relationship? You're welcome here.

You're here because you want to save your relationship — and you're finally ready to admit you have no idea how. Despite the endless research. Despite trying everything you could think of. Two focused days can change the ground you're standing on.

Reach out to book a call What is an intensive?

The work

Two consecutive days, just the two of you

The guide

20 years of clinical couples work

The premise

Intense relationships
require intense solutions.

What it is

A deep dive, not another weekly hour.

An intensive is couples therapy designed to meet your relationship exactly where it is — and to reserve the time, focus, and expertise it actually takes to jump-start the healing. No stopping the moment things get real because the hour is up.

"Give me two days. I'll help you go from spinning in circles around and into each other to holding tangible tools you can use — alone and together — that change the landscape of your relationship for good."

Weekly therapy has its place. But for many, an hour every other week can feel like bailing out a boat with a teaspoon — you spend the first twenty minutes catching up and the last five winding down, and the hard conversation never gets the room it needs to finish. An intensive removes the interruptions. We stay with the real thing until there's movement.

Why it works

8–12 weeks

of weekly therapy, done in a single focused stretch. Because we're not restarting the conversation every fourteen days, complex problems get discussed without the distractions of ordinary life — and you leave with more answers than months of one-hour sessions usually give.

Uninterrupted

The hard conversation gets to finish. We don't stop at the moment it matters most.

Focused

Two days about your relationship and nothing else — no rushing back to the day between sessions.

Momentum

Change builds on change in real time, instead of resetting week after week.

Tangible

You leave with tools in hand — not homework to figure out on your own.

What you're working toward

What healthy actually feels like.

Not a perfect relationship — a real one, where you can be honest and still feel close. Here's what couples come here reaching for.

Healthy love

Connection that holds up under stress instead of falling apart the moment things get hard.

Feeling safe & cared for

Knowing your partner has you — and being able to let your guard down enough to feel it.

Bringing out each other's best

A relationship that makes you both more of who you want to be, not less.

Breaking the pattern

Naming the cycle you keep landing in — and finally having a way out of it.

How it works

Before, during, and after.

An intensive isn't just the two days. It starts before you arrive and it doesn't leave you on your own once it ends.

Before · Getting the full picture

A call and a deeper intake.

We start with a call to make sure an intensive is the right fit. Then a thorough intake — separately and together — so day one begins already knowing your story, not gathering it.

During · Two focused days

The deep work, uninterrupted.

Two consecutive days working the real material — the cycle, the ruptures, the things you've never quite been able to say. We stay with it until something shifts, then turn insight into tools you can use.

After · Making it stick

A plan you leave with.

You leave with a clear plan and concrete practices for the weeks that follow — so the change you make in the room becomes the way you actually live together.

Is this you?

An intensive is for couples who…

Intensives aren't for everyone, and that's the point. They're built for a specific moment — when the stakes are high and the usual pace isn't enough.

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Want to save the relationship and are ready to do the real work, not just talk about doing it.

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Keep having the same fight, in the same loop, landing in the same place every time.

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Are at a turning point — after a rupture, a betrayal, or a slow drift into feeling like roommates.

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Have tried weekly therapy or self-help and want something with more depth and momentum.

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Have busy lives and would rather do focused, concentrated work than fit in an hour a week.

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Both want to be here — even if one of you is arriving with more doubt than hope.

Dr. Tracy
Dalgleish

C.Psych. · Clinical Psychologist

Who you'll work with

Twenty years in the room with couples.

Dr. Tracy Dalgleish is a clinical psychologist with twenty years of clinical couples work and a background in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) research. She works with the attachment patterns underneath the fights — the fears and needs that drive the cycle — not just the surface arguments.

She works in the space most advice skips past — not "just communicate more," not "you'll know when it's time to walk away," but the harder, more honest work of understanding what keeps the two of you stuck and building something that actually holds. She's the author of I Didn't Sign Up for This and host of the Dear Dr. Tracy podcast.

Frequently asked

Common questions.

How long is an intensive? +

Two consecutive days of focused couples work. Together, those two days do the work of roughly 8–12 weeks of weekly therapy — without the stop-and-start of an hour at a time.

Is it in person or virtual? +

Both in-person and virtual intensives are available. The options — and the pricing that goes with each — vary, and we'll walk through what makes the most sense for you on your booking call.

What does an intensive cost? +

The full fee, and everything it includes, is reviewed on your booking call so you have the complete picture before committing. To secure your intensive, a 50% deposit is required — and full details, including the cancellation policy, are sent to you in advance.

How is this different from weekly couples therapy? +

Weekly therapy spreads the work across months, and each session spends time re-entering and winding down. An intensive removes those interruptions: the hard conversation gets to finish, change builds on change in real time, and you leave with tools already in hand.

Is it too late for us? +

If you're both willing to show up and do the work, it is almost never too late — even after a betrayal, even when one of you is arriving with more doubt than hope. The booking call is where we honestly assess whether an intensive is the right next step for you.

What happens after the two days? +

You leave with a clear plan and concrete practices for the weeks ahead, so the shifts you make in the room become the way you actually live together. We'll talk through follow-up options on your call.

Get in touch

Reach out to
book a call.

An intensive starts with a conversation. We'll talk through what's going on, whether an intensive is the right fit for you both, and what the two days would look like. No pressure — just an honest first step.

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At a glance

Format

Two consecutive days, one couple

Depth

≈ 8–12 weeks of weekly therapy

Approach

EFT-informed, attachment-focused

First step

A booking call to see if it's a fit