INTENSIVE COUPLES THERAPY WEEKENDS IN MINNESOTA
A Private Couples Therapy Retreat using The Gottman Method Therapy.
Offered Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays— In person in Minneapolis, MN, and online throughout Arizona, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
You need help quickly and that’s ok.
You don’t have to figure this out on your own.
You don’t have the time to devote to weekly couples therapy sessions.
You are busy and have an extended time to do the work as a couple. Weekly 50-minute sessions barely scratch the surface, and it would feel good to feel like you are making progress in therapy sooner rather than later.
A marriage intensive session offers dedicated time to dive deeply into your relationship and discuss challenges and struggles that cannot happen within a traditional hour-long session.
Your relationship is in crisis, and you need help now with the time it takes to process.
Feeling on the edge of separation or divorce or the discovery of an affair has brought significant distress in your relationship, and you need help now. You need immediate therapeutic support to de-escalate the crisis in your relationship, intervene quickly, and help your relationship immediately.
A couples intensive weekend can allow time for repair to deescalate a relational crisis, process the unhealed hurts, and understand how potential attachment injuries impact your relationship
You’re seeking more profound, more concentrated healing for your relationship.
Effective interventions for change include therapeutic support by practicing new opportunities for connection, learning to communicate through understanding and empathy, and working through conflict in ways that you can both hear each other in a calming and supportive environment.
Imagine a weekend couples retreat with time in extended sessions to begin rebuilding the relationship you both desire.
You’re in the right place— Evidence Based Gottman Method Couples Therapy results you need now.
Intensive Couples Therapy Weekends in MN can help you accomplish in one weekend what may take 3-4 months in weekly traditional couples counseling.
How effective are intensives?
An intensive couples therapy weekend can get to the root of the issue with the extended time you need to explore your relationship needs.
Evidenced-based couples therapy requires strategies that take more time, and more can get done in one weekend. With intensive couples therapy, there is time to dive deeply into issues, challenges, and struggles in the relationship that cannot happen within a traditional hour-long weekly session.
While weekly sessions are highly effective, some couples don’t have time to wait for weekly hours or biweekly therapy sessions to get the desired change they need in therapy.
An intensive couples therapy weekend is a transformative experience based on your unique relationship needs using the evidence-based Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
Intensive Couples Therapy Weekends at Luminate Therapy
Work with a Certified Gottman Therapist
Jeana has specialized in intensive couples counseling for 5 years and has helped over 100 couples experience improved relationship satisfaction through an intensive weekend.
Intensive Couples Therapy or “Gottman Method Marathon Couples Therapy” often reduces distress in the relationship, resolves a specific problem, and strengthens the relationship with more connection.
The weekend experience at Luminate Therapy has often moved a couple from the brink of divorce to recommitting in new ways.
Jeana Wescott, MA, LMFT, CGT
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Pre-Intensive Assessment
The Gottman Relationship Checkup Assessment is a breakthrough in couple’s therapy and is completed before you attend your intensive. Upon completion, it provides valuable information of the couples strengths and challenges. (Read more about the assessment in the faqs below.)
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Intensive
Couples Session
We start with an introduction and the story of your relationship. You will receive feedback on the Gottman Pre-Intensive Assessment on your strengths and challenges, including therapy recommendations with collaboration on your goals. Then, we will dive into the work together to transform your relationship.
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Post-Intensive Follow-Up
Depending on your needs, therapy can continue after an intensive therapy weekend is complete. Some couples add on other intensive hours or enter follow-up care (maintenance) for relapse prevention.
What you get
Private Couples Therapy with a Certified gottman therapist
Science Backed Gottman Connect Relationship Assessment
Personalized treatment plan For Goal-oriented Therapy
A Relationship ToolKit with resources for home
Comfortable, inviting Therapy space so you can focus on your relationship healing and connection
A collaborative therapy experience for lasting change
Jeana Wescott, MA, LMFT, CGT
Choose the right format for your relationship.
Intensives are offered in a few formats to meet the needs & goals of your relationship. In person intensive couples located at 8085 Wayzata Blvd Suite101A, Golden Valley, MN. Telehealth via Zoom throughout MN, WI, & AZ.
Offered on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays.
2-hour and 4-hour couples intensives are offered on weekdays if you want to jump start your intensive weekend.
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This weekend couples therapy intensive package includes the full Gottman Couples Therapy assessment and couples therapy with 16 hours in one weekend. A couples therapy intensive can help healing and repair, fostering connection, skills-building for communication and conflict, and other therapeutic interventions that are selected to help couples make significant progress through their issues in one weekend.
Included In This Package:
Gottman Connect Online Relationship Assessment with therapist analysis and feedback for the best evidence based outcome for therapy
Targeted goal setting for a structured weekend of therapy and personalized treatment planning specific to your needs as a couple
Access to the Gottman Relationship Builder for at home modules and continued learning. (Valued at $599)
A take home package of tools and supplemental materials
Weekend offering:
Day 1: 4 Hours
Day 2-3: 12 hours of couples therapy with a 1 hour lunch break each day
Offered Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
Sample schedule offered upon inquiry.
Relationship investment: $4900
Luminate Therapy accepts HSA/FSA cards or credit cards (American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa).
Please note because of the time commitment involved, a 50% deposit is required at the time of booking for all intensive packages. The remaining 50% due on the first day of your couples intensive.
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This weekend couples therapy intensivepackage includes the full Gottman Couples Therapy assessment and couples therapy of 12 hours in one weekend. A couples therapy intensive can help healing and repair, fostering connection, skills-building for communication and conflict, and other therapeutic interventions that are selected to help couples make significant progress through their issues in one weekend.
Included In This Package:
Gottman Connect Online Relationship Assessment with therapist analysis and feedback for the best evidence based outcome for therapy
Couples goal setting for therapy and personalized treatment planning specific to your needs as a couple
Access to the Gottman Relationship Builder for at home modules and continued learning. (Valued at $599)
A take home package of tools and supplemental materials
Weekend offering:
Day 1 and 2: 6 hours of couples therapy with a 1 hour lunch break each day
Offered Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Sample schedule offered upon inquiry.
Relationship investment: $3900
Luminate Therapy accepts HSA/FSA cards or credit cards (American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa).
Please note because of the time commitment involved, a 50% deposit is required at the time of booking your intensive packages. The remaining 50% due on the first day of your couples intensive.
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This one-day couples intensive is for couples who have completed the full Gottman assessment process and are ready for a full day dedicated to couples therapy. This can be utilized as an add on to other couples therapy services provided.
6 hours of couples therapy and 1 hour lunch break
Science backed couples therapy interventions and relationship skill-building combined into one weekend
A take home package of tools and supplemental materials
Offered Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, some Thursdays availability based on schedule
Relationship investment: $1900Luminate Therapy accepts HSA/FSA cards or credit cards (American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa).
Please note because of the time commitment involved, a 50% deposit is required at the time of booking your intensive packages. The remaining 50% due on the first day of your couples intensive.
Imagine a MArriage Intensive…
Resolve deep hurts and relieve distress
Couples therapy intensives can help you spend time in therapy working through the emotional injuries in your relationship. Imagine not waiting for weeks to get relief from your relational distress by getting the time you need to move through challenging issues and get the relief.
Experience accelerated change and connection
Experience working through the issues you bring into a therapy intensive and begin to feel the change in your relationship and feel closer as a couple. Often, couples come out of an intensive feeling closer, connected, and stronger together.
Overcome the obstacles in one weekend
Most couples leave the marriage intensive therapy weekend feeling less intensity in their relationship and accomplishing their goals for therapy. For some relationships, a weekend is a kick-start to the work ahead. For others, 2-3 days of intensive work is just what they need, and they move into the maintenance phase of Gottman therapy.
Find the relational healing you’ve been seeking.
faqs
Couples therapy intensive questions? I’ve got answers.
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Active alcohol or drug addiction of either one or both partners, from either partner’s perspective. Including failure to comply with an addiction recovery plan.
If there is serious domestic violence in your relationship, threats by one or both partners that violence might occur, or fear of violence from one or both partners.
Untreated major mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar, recurrent psychotic symptoms, etc).
If there is a current, ongoing affair and the partner is not willing to end it.
If there is an undisclosed current affair that you are not willing to disclose.
Either partner is currently experiencing suicidal or homicidal thoughts, or has history of serious harm to themselves or someone else.
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The Gottman Relationship Checkup is a comprehensive relationship assessment will pinpoint the areas in which you can achieve the greatest growth so you can move forward to a place of strength, reconnection, and hope.
It consists of 337 questions about friendship, intimacy, how well you know your partner, how you manage emotions and conflict, how you share your values and goals, and what gives meaning to your lives. There are additional questions about parenting, housework, finances, trust, and individual areas of concern. The questionnaire is completely confidential, fully HIPAA compliant, and your therapist will be the only person to see your responses.
Upon completion, it automatically provides valuable clinical information by pinpointing specific strengths and challenges inyour relationship, while also suggesting actionable, research-based recommendations for therapy.
You can feel confident in your results. Drs. John and Julie Gottman created this research-based assessment in collaboration with The Gottman Institute to help couples build a personalized treatment in therapy.
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Frequent conflict and arguments
Poor communication
Emotionally distanced couples on the verge of separation
Specific problems such as affairs, betrayals, infidelity, money, and parenting
Couples wanting to jump start relationship therapy
Relationship is in crisis or feeling significant distress
Couples who have trouble with scheduling weekly sessions
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I am licensed to practice with clients anywhere in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arizona. Ethical and licensure state statutes require clients to be located in the state where the therapist is licensed.
If you do not have a licensed therapist who practices the Gottman Method in your state and desire to have an intensive session with me, you can do so by traveling to my office location in Minneapolis or joining via Telehealth/Zoom.
My office is approximately 15 minutes from the MSP airport and there are several hotels, Airbnb, and restaurants within minutes of my office.
Feel free to contact me to discuss your options and a Minneapolis local guide to hotels, restaurants, etc.
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Intensive couples therapy are private pay only. I do not bill insurance for relationship therapy. Insurance requires a diagnostic assessment of a mental health diagnosis of one identified patient of the couple. Couples or relationship therapy is meant to change the cycle of the couple with two people in order to improve the relationship rather than label one partner as the problem through a diagnosis.
A superbill will not be given for intensive sessions due to the CPT coding system designed for insurance billing. Unfortunately there are no longer extended session codes for therapy after 2023.
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Use the contact form to get started and set up a free 15 minute consultation phone call.
On The Luminate Relationship Blog: “The Effectiveness of Intensive Couples Counseling.”
“Marathon sessions get so much momentum, couples are so focused on their relationship that they really move through interventions and process attachment injuries much quicker."
— Dr Julie Gottman, Co-Founder of the Gottman Institute