Couples Intensives

Initensicive Relationship Support

FOCUSED RELATIONSHIP WORK

Couples Intensives

At Mountain Pathways Counseling, Couples Intensives are designed for couples who know their relationship matters — and who are ready to slow down, focus, and engage in meaningful work together.

For some couples, weekly therapy is effective and appropriate. For others, progress can feel slow when complex patterns, repeated conflict, or long-standing disconnection continue to resurface. Couples Intensives provide extended, uninterrupted time to understand your relational patterns, practice new ways of engaging, and create real momentum toward change.

These intensives are not about quick fixes.
They are about intentional depth.

A SUPPORTIVE SPACE FOR GROWTH

What Is a Couples Intensive?

A Couples Intensive is a structured block of therapy — 3 or 6 hours — focused entirely on your relationship. Rather than spreading important conversations across many weeks, intensives allow you to stay with the work long enough for clarity, insight, and repair to emerge.

This format is often helpful for couples who:

  • Feel stuck in recurring conflict or emotional distance

  • Want focused time to reset patterns and communication

  • Have busy schedules that make weekly therapy difficult

  • Are motivated to engage deeply and honestly in the process

EVIDENCE-BASED AND TRAUMA-INFORMED

What the Work Looks Like

Couples Intensives at Mountain Pathways Counseling are informed by evidence-based couples therapy approaches and grounded in a trauma-informed understanding of how stress, attachment, and emotional safety shape relationships.

During an intensive, we will:

  • Identify and map your negative interaction cycles

  • Slow down conflict so it can be understood, not escalated

  • Strengthen emotional awareness and responsiveness

  • Practice communication that supports connection rather than defense

  • Build tools you can take back into daily life

The goal is not perfection — but clarity, safety, and forward movement.

INVESTMENT & FORMAT

Investment & Structure

3-Hour Intensive — $600

6-Hour Intensive — $1,200

1st Session

90-Minute Intake with Both Partners

$190

($135 and 50 minutes for the first premarital counseling session)

Discuss your current situation, family history, families of origin, and hopes for counseling. Introduce key concepts such as attachment styles and the “Four Horsemen.

2nd Session

45–50 Minutes with One Partner

$150

One partner shares their thoughts and identifies areas to work on. Strict “no secrets” policy maintained.

3rd Session

45–50 Minutes with the Other Partner

$150

The other partner shares their thoughts and concerns. Strict “no secrets” policy maintained.

Additional Sessions

45–50 Minutes with Both Partners Together

$150

Work together on issues and collaborate on a plan to strengthen the relationship.