Couples Counseling
in Austin, Texas
Couples Therapy Intensives in Austin, Texas
Join Angela for a transformative three-day private intensive in Emotionally Focused Therapy. This experience is designed to jump-start reconnection and deepen your emotional bonds. Whether you're navigating challenges or simply seeking to strengthen your relationship, our expert guidance will provide the tools and insights needed for lasting change. Take the first step towards a more connection today!
Discovery Call
Are you curious about whether a couples intensive is right for you? Join Angela for a free 20-minute discovery call, where you can share your experiences and explore how this program can help. Take this opportunity to see if we're a good fit for your journey together.
3 Hour Couples Intensive
Join us for a transformative three-hour couple intensive, designed to deepen your connection and enhance emotional intimacy. This attachment-based and emotionally focused therapy can be experienced in person or virtually, providing you with the flexibility to choose what works best for you. Together, we will explore your unique relationship dynamics, fostering understanding and healing. Take the first step towards a more partnership today.
Private Weekend Intensive
Discover a transformative experience with our Private Weekend Intensive, designed exclusively for couples who feel stuck, escalated, or are facing important relational decisions. Over several days, you will engage in deep, meaningful sessions that foster open communication healing.
What is a Couples Therapy Intensive?
Welcome to our Couples Intensives where therapy meets transformation. Unlike typical retreats or workshops, our intensives focus on deep, impactful therapy sessions that allow you and your therapist to fully engage in the process. This immersive approach helps you unlock and release negative patterns that have been holding you back, enabling you to solve problems and move forward together. Experience the difference of dedicated time and attention to truly enhance your relationship.
Who Are Couples Intensives Best For?
EFT-based intensives provide a unique approach compared to Gottman intensives by focusing on the underlying issues that keep you feeling stuck. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all set of tools, these sessions delve into your specific relational cycles and emotional reactivities. You'll gain insight into how adaptive survival skills, once useful for maintaining closeness, may now hinder current attachment relationship. This understanding empowers you to foster healthier connections moving forward.
Intensives are best for couples that have had some EFT individual or couples counseling prior. Couples that are open to viewing themselves and their reactivities in a mindful manner and those that are willing to trust a therapist guide them toward deeper understanding of themselves and other can make great use of focused intensive sessions.
EFT-Based Intensives vs. Retreats
Discover the unique experience of a private intensive with Angela, distinct from traditional retreats or group workshops. Held at her office in NW Austin or a private therapy space, this personalized setting allows for focused, one-on-one guidance. Please note that food and lodging are not included, and there will be a one-hour break for lunch each day during each full day. Join us for a transformative journey tailored just for you.
What Makes My Intensives Different
My intensives are distinguished by the effective blend of Emotionally Focused Therapy and sexual health, tackling both emotional and overall well-being in your relationship. With more than ten years of experience specific to adult-attachment and sexual relationships, I specialize in pinpointing the underlying issues that may be holding you back and offering clear, evidence-based strategies for meaningful change.
Every intervention, insight, and relationship modification is drawn from foundational models of cognitive and behavioral change theories that have been researched and studied extensively. These include: Psychodynamic Therapy with a focus on Objects Relations, Schema Therapy and Internal Family Systems, Emotion Focused and Emotionally Focused Therapy, Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Somatic Therapy and Mindfulness.
Your time, energy, and money is valuable. That is why I don't waste your time with small talk, cookie-cutter tools, or social media suggestions. You get real expert help with Angela.
My goal: That at the end of our time together you say, "That was absolutely worth every penny and minute spent!"
Pricing, Length, and What to Expect
Three-Day Couples Private Intensive in Austin, Texas
Total Price: $3000
Total Hours: 17 hours of direct one on one individualized counseling
Includes the Following:
Day 1: (4 hours total) First in person meeting. A Friday evening is preferable and we will meet for four hours total. This first session is structured in the following way:
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Hour 1: Couples intake- Assessment and Intake Couples. Identification of working goals you are bringing.
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Hour 2 & 3: Individual assessments. Foundational information gathering on your family of origin and any historical, medical, or personal life aspects that are important in our work together.
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Hour 4: We come back together for Couples work. This last hour will be spent going over some important aspects of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy that you will work on that evening and be prepared for the following day.
Day 2: Five Hours of Intensive Couples Counseling divided onto two parts with an Hour lunch break.
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My intensives have been broken down in this way to best optimize energy levels and integration of material. You can expect on Day 2 that you will understand your negative relational cycle as well as the attachment reactivities that are preventing you from moving forward.
Day 3: Five Hours of Intensive Couples Counseling divided onto two parts with an Hour lunch break.
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You can expect on Day 3 to dive deep into the problems that you are wanting to address and dedicate focused time to overcoming communication challenges when addressing these and other relationship problems.
Lastly, you will have two follow up 90 minute sessions 1-2 weeks post intensive (virtual or in person).
Three Hour Couple Intensive
Total Price: $600
Half ($300) due to reserve spot
Half ($300) due at time of session
This three hour intensive is intended to give you a mini-therapy experience with Angela. This is ideal for couples that are not sure about investing fully into a 3-Day intensive but would like to explore the structure, format, and style.
You can expect to leave this 3-hour intensive with a clear idea of your attachment-reactivities that are keeping you stuck and explore next steps to repair and healing.
Bonus: If a longer intensive is determined to be applicable and if the couple would like to continue the Intensive for the extended time, a $400 discount will be applied to the 3 day couples intensive.
Group Couples Therapy Intensives
See Below for more information about Hold Me Tight workshops.
How to Know if an Intensive is Right for You
"We're about to divorce- can therapy help fast?"
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A Couples Intensive is right for you if your relationship is on the verge of ending and you want to invest your upmost efforts to saving it.
"My partner won't come to weekly therapy."
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Intensives allow for a speed boost to therapy and a finite allotted time. If you're looking for therapy that fits busy lives or your partner is not sure about the longevity investment, a couples intensive is right for you.
"Is there a faster way to do couples therapy?"
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Intensives are designed to speed up therapy because of the focused attention. Not having breaks in between sessions allows you and your therapist to cut out unnecessary "reviewing" of what happened before or "prepping" for what to do next session.
"We have a delicate issue like having a baby, opening our relationship, changing jobs, sexual discoveries or differences, or the finding of a betrayal. Ongoing weekly sessions seem like they won't get us to where we need to be in the short amount of time we need to figure it out."
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Intensives can help you get to work! Most issues can be targeted with substantial progress made in an intensive.
Who are Intensives NOT Right For?
Intensives are not right for:
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Relationships that are abusive (emotional, physical, sexual, etc.) or that have a history of abuse. Any threat of harm is contraindicative to couples intensives.
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Couples that are currently activated by dysregulated trauma responses and easily enter panic, rage, or substance abuse behavior.
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Couples that weaponize emotions and disclosures against one another.
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Current drug, alcohol, or substance addictions that interfere with daily functioning and/or relationship health.
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Clients that are in crisis above and beyond what one therapist can provide in support.
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Couples that are divorcing and are looking for a therapist assessment and testimony toward themselves or their partners behavior to be used in a court of law.
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Talk to Angela about questions pertaining to the appropriateness of therapy for your unique situation.