Let’s face it, life is full of stressors, internal stressors like relationship dynamics and external
pressures that come from life circumstances.
Finding a balance between life responsibilities and creating intimacy in your most important relationship takes work and time. Unresolved conflict builds up with in the relationship and over time erodes the safety and security that the relationship needs to be better equipped to handle life’s stressors.
When life presents too many challenges, there is little time and energy left for meaningful conversations, let alone date nights or marriage counseling sessions.
Couples counseling intensives offer a great amount of support to struggling marriages in a short period of time.
Marriage Made Whole
A two-day couples counseling intensive provides a focused amount of time devoted to working through a program that would take 6-9 months of weekly counseling sessions.
Not to mention the challenge of coordinating weekly appointments around the couple, family obligations, and the therapist's schedule.
The couple gets the therapist's full attention for two full days and weekly follow-ups to practice the skills learned in the intensive, either virtually or in person.
Marriage intensives give couples the chance to take a breath and focus on the underlying issues within their marriage rather than on the clock. The immersive format helps marriage partners delve deeper into their relationships and break free from negative patterns to accelerate healing.
Rapid Progress
The counseling intensive process offers quick relief and visible results to couples who don't have the time to incorporate weekly or bi-weekly counseling into already full schedules. This immersive approach to marriage counseling can lead to:
Safety and security in the relationship.
Faster resolution of conflicts
Deeper understanding
Improved communication
Re-ignited intimacy
Longer sessions allow for more in-depth exploration of complex issues packed within a few days. Couples can gain momentum and make quicker progress than they might with traditional weekly therapy. Many find intensives refreshing for their relationships.
Tailored Experience
Counseling intensives are customized to meet a couple's unique needs, addressing specific issues with targeted interventions. This helps each partner gain a better understanding of why particular problems keep occurring and how to deal with them. Couples learn healthy conflict resolution skills and practical strategies for improving communication. The goal is to foster a deeper emotional connection and a more fulfilling intimate life as the basis for maintaining a healthy, loving relationship.
Discreet and Comfortable Environment
Marriage counseling intensives provide a safe and supportive environment where couples can communicate openly and voice their concerns while working toward healing and growth. Offered in a private or serene location that may include the couple's home (on a virtual follow-up)
sessions are professional and judgment-free. With the opportunity to be vulnerably honest in a comfortable space, couples can expect to learn to have healthy protests within a safe and secure setting and begin the process of becoming healing partners.
The discreet nature of couples counseling intensives is a prime solution for couples who may feel that seeking counseling is an admission of failure. By working through challenges together in a relaxed but focused setting, partners can rebuild trust, intimacy, and emotional connection without time constraints.
Contact Shanon Roberts Counseling
Even the strongest couples can find themselves lost in recurring conflicts, communication breakdowns, and general disconnection. Marriage counseling is a proactive step toward a happier and healthier relationship. If you want to take that step but simply don't have the time you feel it will take, couples counseling intensives can help heal your marriage.
Marriage counseling intensives may be the ideal solution for couples who:
Have tried couples counseling without results
Want the anonymity of seeing a therapist outside the immediate community
Find it difficult to attend weekly sessions based on scheduling conflicts
Face significant challenges such as infidelity or impending divorce/separation
Desire quick relief
To schedule your couples counseling, contact Shanon Roberts Counseling today. We offer over 30 years of experience in faith-based counseling to the Tampa, Florida community.
Marriage made whole INTENSIVE
The Marriage Made Whole intensive is a 2-3 day experience with Dr. Shanon. In an intensive, one couple works with one therapist for several hours, for a duration of 2 to 3 days in a row. The couple can get an equivalent of six months of outpatient counseling at the completion.
Are you experiencing any of these issues in your relationship?
Are you and your spouse currently in crisis?
Do you need quick relief?
Have you tried couples counseling without the results?
Has it been difficult to attend weekly sessions due to your schedule?
Would you like the anonymity of seeing a therapist outside of your community?
Do you find it difficult to work on an already stressful marriage while having to keep up with your stressful life at the same time?
Do you want the option to find the exact expertised professional that is your right fit not available in your community?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you should consider participating in a couples counseling intensive.
Research shows that the intensive model for couples counseling, like inpatient settings, has a higher rate of long-term, sustained improvement for marital couples.
Couples often find this option refreshing. The process enables quick relief and visible results. The couple doesn’t have to worry about incorporating or prioritizing the counseling into their already strained calendar.
The intensive setting allows the focus to be on underlying issues within the marriage while avoiding the distractions of day-to-day demands of life.
frequently asked questions:
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The Marriage Made Whole™ program begins with understanding your marriage’s true value, where your power really comes from, and how to attain the ultimate relationship connection that you have always dreamed of. This program of 10 steps offers you:
1. Creating a safe and secure definition for your unique marriage relationship that is also in line with God’s design.
2. Re-creating the relationship love story.
3. Discovering each individual’s areas of vulnerabilities and sensitivities from previous significant and other romantic relationships that have been brought into the marriage.
4. Understanding the brain’s emotional memory center and how these play into the relationship’s current rigid and, sometimes, negative interaction patterns.
5. Identifying individual attachment patterns and how they interact with your spouse’s.
6. Bringing hope into the healing pathways that the challenges of these attachment patterns bring into the relationship.
7. Mapping the current cycle of communication that brings disconnection in the relationship.
8. Creating a cycle of communication that brings emotional connection, empathy, and understanding.
9. Insertion of the relationship wounds into the new connect cycle of communication resulting in curative experiences.
10. Creating safe and secure emotional bonds that overflow into physical passion opportunities.
For further insights into deepening your connection and overcoming relationship challenges, explore Dr. Shanon Roberts' book. This powerful resource provides more tools and wisdom to help you on your journey.
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Yes! The result of our work together is an approach to shifting the negative interaction cycle that has been present in your marriage relationship and replaced with the relationship where there is a felt sense of safety and security a safe resulting in a close emotional. You become each other’s safe place to fall. You can expect big breakthroughs and ah-ha moments, having the ability to be vulnerably honest in your communication, open your heart again to your original “I do” partner. Here is what others are saying. See which ones you feel drawn to, either because the person has gotten the results you want to get, or perhaps because that person is in a similar situation. You can find those testimonials here.
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The Marriage Made Whole Intensive is the first of two components of the Marriage Momentum Program. After your intensive experience, you will have continued follow-up, support, and accountability.
If you have been prohibited to travel and desire to participate in a two-day intensive, you can now do it virtually with the program online.
If you aren’t ready to do the whole two-day intensive quite yet, you can start with the Marriage Momentum online program. You can add the intensive experience at any time while in the program.
To get started, click the button below to schedule a FREE 30-minute consultation! This consultation will help determine your specific counseling needs, answer any questions, and detail pricing options.
“Little children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really love them, and show it by our actions.”
— 1 John 3:18