Couples Intensives

We offer Couples Intensives for those addressing issues like betrayal trauma, communication issues, and difficulties co-parenting shared children. Rebecca Maxwell and Tesa Saulmon offer couples intensives. Rather than weekly couples therapy, we offer two separate processing sessions, each lasting 3 hours. We help you identify your pain cycle, communication breakdowns, and trauma responses within your relationship. We then teach you self-soothing and nervous system regulation skills that you can use outside of therapy spaces.

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This can be helpful for: 

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Betrayal Trauma

Have you experienced trauma or betrayal within your relationship? Are you struggling to recover and repair after a significant hurt with your partner? Tesa Saulmon LMHC CSAT can facilitate Couples Intensives focus on helping you process your trauma, connect with your partner, and find better ways to communicate. Intensives are extended periods of time (3-4 hours of processing with your therapist) to lower your distress faster.

 

Pre-Martial Counseling

Are you engaged to be married and want help discussing the hard parts of all relationships? Couples Intensives help you talk about money, religion, in-law relationships, and conflict resolution. You are given a SYMBIS Pre-Martial Evaluation and your therapist walks you through the Intensive session. Sessions are extended periods of time (3-4 hours each).

 

Parenting

Are you struggling to co-parent with your partner because you see child-rearing differently? Couples Intensives help you get on the same page as your partner, negotiate differences in perspective and create connection in your relationship. Sessions are extended periods of time (3-4 hours each) and include parenting coaching along with couples counseling.

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Is an Intensive right for you?

Psychotherapy Intensives don’t change everything. They provide an opportunity for a time-out to dig deep in an environment without distractions that the standard one-hour weekly time slots fail to provide. This is not a quick fix; it requires dedicated intense focused work with highly motivated individuals and couples who are ready to commit to change, regardless of the discomfort and consequences.

 

Intensives are not for everyone. In order to participate you must be willing, motivated, and available to do the work. A telephone screening with each individual is required in order to determine eligibility to participate. ​

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Can I use my insurance for Intensives?

Insurance does not cover the cost of Intensives. Intensives do not have billing codes through insurance providers, so clients cannot submit claims for reimbursement.

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