Jacksonville Counseling Intensives

Deep Healing. Safe Structure. Real Change.

Whether you’re navigating marital life, the chaos of addiction, or the loneliness of disconnection, intensive therapy offers focused time, deeper support, and a compassionate path forward.

Our intensives in Jacksonville provide private, uninterrupted space to process, heal, and rebuild—emotionally, relationally, and spiritually.

At Jacksonville Counseling Services, we believe healing requires both truth and tenderness. Our intensives are intentionally designed to hold both a structured framework and a deeply human, sacred space where your story is safe.

Intensives with Rebecca Maxwell, LMFT

Specializing in EFT, trauma recovery, and attachment-based couples therapy.

Couples Therapy Intensive

Focus: Restoring Connection & Resolving Conflict

Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), this private intensive helps couples identify painful interaction patterns, understand unmet needs, repair emotional injuries, and strengthen connection.

Ideal for couples wanting focused support, dedicated time, and a safe space to finally get to the heart of their struggles.

Hold Me Tight® Workshop (Group Format)

Offered twice a year, this workshop welcomes up to 16 couples seeking both education and connection. Led by Rebecca Maxwell, LMFT, this experience blends teaching, video demonstrations, and guided couple exercises.

Couples Will Learn:

How to identify and disrupt negative patterns
How to heal relational injuries
How to communicate in ways that build closeness
How to strengthen emotional and physical intimacy

A beautiful option for couples wanting a structured and enriching experience in a safe group setting.

Hold Me Tight® Couples Intensive

Based on Dr. Sue Johnson’s transformational model, this private intensive helps couples:

Understand their negative cycles
Express needs safely
Rebuild emotional closeness
Increase trust and responsiveness

Through structured conversations and experiential exercises, couples learn to reconnect in a deeper, more secure way.

EMDR Therapy Intensive

Focus: Targeted Trauma Resolution & Emotional Regulation

This EMDR-intensive format accelerates trauma healing by helping clients process specific memories, triggers, or distressing experiences in a shorter period of time.

Best for:

Trauma
Anxiety
Grief
Betrayal wounds
Persistent emotional triggers

Clients experience relief, clarity, and renewed emotional balance.

Intensives with Tesa Saulmon, LMHC, CSAT

Specializing in infidelity recovery, betrayal trauma, and compulsive sexual behavior treatment.

Full Therapeutic Disclosure Intensive

Focus: Foundational Healing After Relational Betrayal

When betrayal is revealed, the ground beneath you shifts. Healing begins with clarity, safety, and truth spoken with compassion.
This intensive guides couples through a structured and ethically sound therapeutic disclosure process—one that honors the betrayed partner’s need for honesty and the betraying partner’s need for accountability and integrity.

What’s Included:

Guided preparation sessions for each partner
A full clinical disclosure in a safe, facilitated environment
Therapeutic polygraph (optional, coordinated if needed)
Emotional processing immediately following disclosure
Individualized support for both partners
A structured roadmap for next steps in recovery

Who it’s for:
Couples ready to rebuild after infidelity who need truth, clarity, and a foundation that is safe, humane, and trauma-informed.

Couples Stabilization Intensive

Focus: Rebuilding Safety and Connection After Rupture

Before a couple can heal, they must first stabilize. This intensive is designed for couples in crisis or early recovery who are overwhelmed, stuck in conflict, or unable to communicate without escalation.

This Intensive Helps Couples:

Reduce emotional reactivity
Identify and interrupt negative cycles
Increase safety, empathy, and understanding
Build foundational skills for communication
Develop a shared roadmap for continued healing

This is the breathing room many couples need before deeper work begins.

Betrayal Trauma Intensive

Focus: Recovery and Stabilization for Betrayed Partners

Betrayal trauma shatters your sense of safety, identity, and trust—internally and relationally. This intensive is a private, stabilizing space for betrayed spouses who feel overwhelmed, dysregulated, or lost in the aftermath of discovery.

What You’ll Experience:

Evidence-based trauma treatment
Psychoeducation that helps make sense of what you’re feeling
Grounding and regulation techniques for immediate relief
Support in rebuilding self-trust, clarity, and emotional safety
Space to process the pain with compassion, dignity, and validation

If you're feeling confused, triggered, or unsure which way is forward, this intensive will help you find your footing again.

Sex & Porn Addiction Recovery Intensive

Focus: Breaking Compulsive Patterns & Restoring Integrity

This intensive is for individuals struggling with compulsive sexual behavior or pornography addiction who need concentrated help to break cycles, address shame, and build a recovery plan that actually lasts.

What’s Included:

Trauma-informed, attachment-focused addiction treatment
Identification of core wounds and triggers
Healthy coping and emotion regulation skills
Customized recovery plan (including partner-sensitive strategies)
Work on integrity, empathy, and long-term accountability

You’ll leave with clarity, tools, and a path toward becoming the person you want to be.

Why Choose a Jacksonville Intensive?

Deep, uninterrupted healing time
Faster progress compared to weekly sessions
Trauma-informed and spiritually aware support
Private, comfortable environment
Highly specialized therapists
Tailored treatment for your story and your needs

Healing doesn’t have to wait. Intensives provide the space, focus, and guidance you need to create meaningful change.

Ready to Begin?

Whether you’re a couple in crisis, a betrayed spouse fighting to breathe, or an individual ready for recovery, you don’t have to navigate this alone.

Request more information or schedule a consultation to explore which intensive is right for you.

Your healing matters. Your story matters. And hope is still possible.