Couples Intensive
- Expecting & New Parent Intensive
- Long-Term Couples Intensive
- Premarital Intensive
Why an Intensive
A focused package of therapy work instead of a year of Tuesdays.
We will target the issues that need the most attention and drill down on the most important things your relationship needs. It's a commitment to yourself and to your future.
Expecting & New Parents Intensive
Everyone’s asking about the nursery. Nobody’s asking about the two of you.
- You’ve read about sleep schedules and nothing about what happens between the two of you at 3am.
- You are both exhausted, both doing a lot, and both quietly certain you’re doing more.
- One of you had a birth that didn’t go the way it was meant to, and it has never been properly talked about.
- You love this baby, you miss the two of you, and you feel guilty about the second part.
Why the format suits you: A newborn and a weekly appointment are close to incompatible, which is why most couples in your position get no help at all. Arranging childcare once, for an evening and a day, is a schedule you can actually keep — and what gets set down in the first year tends to harden into how the next decade runs.
Long-Term Couples Intensive
You’re not fighting. That’s sort of the problem.
- You talk every day. Almost all of it is admin.
- You’ve both stopped bringing certain things up — not because they were resolved, but because it wasn’t worth it.
- Physical closeness has quietly faded and neither of you has mentioned it in a long time.
- One of you has thought, in a low moment, is this it? — and then got on with the day.
- You don’t want to leave. You want it to feel like something again.
Why the format suits you: A slow drift generates no emergency, so couples in your position plan to do something about it for years and never do. Booked dates are a decision you make once — and with no newborn and no crisis, you can go further in this format than almost anyone.
Premarital Intensive
You’re not in trouble. That’s exactly why this works.
- Everyone tells you how solid you are. There’s one thing you keep circling and neither of you can say why.
- Wedding planning has been the first real test, and it has gone worse than you expected.
- Your families do things very differently, and “we’ll figure it out” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
- One of you goes quiet when things get tense. The other cannot let it go. You’ve noticed.
- You’ve had the money conversation three times and it ends the same way each time.
Why the format suits you: You’re not repairing anything, so all of it goes into building. Your patterns are visible but not yet entrenched — right now they are habits, and a habit is much easier to change than the architecture it becomes fifteen years and a mortgage later. Structured premarital work has also been studied for decades, and couples who do it tend to do better than couples who don’t.
The schedule — about 12 hours
Roughly three weeks of preparation, then an evening and a full day in person.
Written assessment
A detailed one each, completed on your own, about three weeks out
Individual sessions
90 minutes each, before the two of you are ever in a room together
Evening
Where your patterns came from, and the cycle you make together
Next morning
Each of you does your own work, with the other one watching
That afternoon
The two of you as a team, and the plan you leave with
Plus a workbook including a summary of everything you've learned and reminders for the future.
Where it happens
Three options, and no wrong answer. We settle this on the call, once you know which one you actually want.
Make a retreat of it
You book somewhere for the two of you — a VRBO, a cabin, a hotel — and I come to you there for the sessions. You get the whole day and a half away from your house, your kitchen, and whoever usually needs something from you. Within about sixty minutes of Nashville; further out, I add a travel fee.
I come to you
If your own home is the right place to do this, that works too, as long as you can protect the time and the space. Same radius — within about sixty minutes of Nashville, and beyond that I add a travel fee.
Use my space
A quiet office space near Mt. Juliet, set up for the intensive. Nothing to arrange, nothing to book, nobody at the door. If you would rather not think about logistics at all, choose this one.
When this isn't the right thing
An intensive isn't the right next step if there is violence in the relationship, if either of you is afraid of the other, or if one of you couldn't be honest in a joint session without paying for it afterwards. It isn't right if there's an untreated addiction, if either of you is in acute crisis, or if one of you has privately decided to leave and is here to soften the landing.
None of that means nothing can be done — it means something else needs to happen first. Part of what you're paying for is the judgement to say so. If the assessment shows this isn't right, I'll tell you what I recommend instead and refund you according to the schedule in our agreement.
Common questions
Is it covered by insurance?
No. The intensive is private pay only, and I don’t provide a superbill for it. If using insurance matters to you, weekly couples sessions are the better route and we can talk about that on the call.
What does it cost?
$2,200. That covers the written assessment, a 90-minute individual session for each of you, all three blocks, and the workbook.
Where does it happen?
Three options: somewhere you book for yourselves and I come to you, your own home, or a quiet office space I provide near Mt. Juliet. The first two need to be within about sixty minutes of Nashville, or I add a travel fee. I’m licensed in Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida.
What happens next
- A free consultation call. I’ll tell you honestly whether this is the right next step.
- If it’s a fit, you book your dates, we settle where it happens, and I send the assessment.
- Your individual sessions, one each.
- The evening, then the full day.
$2,200everything above, start to finish
Held in person, within about sixty minutes of Nashville — or in my space near Mt. Juliet. I'm licensed in Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida. $2,200· private pay only — no insurance and no superbill for the intensive.