Give your Relationship a Boost
Relationship Boost: 2-day Couples therapy Intensive
Sometimes couples need more than an hour at a time.
If weekly couples therapy is difficult to fit around your lives, or you feel your relationship would benefit from some focused, concentrated attention, our Relationship Boost offers an alternative.
Rather than spreading therapy across a series of weekly or fortnightly appointments, a couples intensive gives you dedicated time to slow things down, understand what has been happening between you and begin working towards a different way of relating.
Why choose a couples intensive?
Relationships can become caught in patterns that are difficult to change, however much both partners want things to be different. You may find yourselves having the same arguments, struggling to communicate about important issues, or feeling increasingly distant from one another.
In shorter therapy sessions, it can sometimes feel as though you are only just getting somewhere when the session has to end. An intensive gives us more time to explore what lies beneath these patterns and work with them as they happen in the room.
Our approach is informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment science. The aim isn't simply to teach you communication techniques, but to help you better understand yourselves, each other and the cycle that can take over when your relationship feels under threat.
What is involved?
Your Relationship Boost begins with an initial assessment. This gives us an opportunity to understand what has brought you to therapy, what you each hope to gain and whether an intensive is an appropriate approach for your relationship.
If we agree that it is right for you, we will arrange eight hours of couples therapy across two days, with the two days scheduled as close together as possible.
Assessment
We explore your relationship, the difficulties you are experiencing and what you would like to be different. We will also consider whether an intensive is the most suitable and helpful approach for you both.
Day One: Understanding your relationship
We begin to make sense of what happens between you when things go wrong. Together, we explore your relationship history, the experiences each of you brings to the relationship and the patterns or cycles that may be keeping you stuck.
The focus is on helping you see the cycle as the problem, rather than each other.
Day Two: Creating a different connection
We work more deeply with the emotions and needs that can be difficult to express or hear when you are caught in your usual pattern.
With support, you can begin to communicate and respond to each other differently, creating opportunities for greater understanding, emotional connection and repair.
What happens afterwards?
A Relationship Boost can be valuable as a focused piece of therapy in its own right, or it can provide a strong foundation for further couples therapy.
At the end of the intensive, we will reflect together on what has changed, what may still need attention and what we recommend as your next steps.
If you decide that you would like to continue with ongoing couples therapy and we do not have availability at Tempo Psychotherapy, we can help signpost you to another appropriately trained couples therapist.
If the couple’s intensive sounds like it might help you, contact us to find out more.