Is your marriage on the brink of divorce?
Maybe you have wanted counseling for a long time but kept pushing it off. Or perhaps there was a betrayal you have been trying to heal from, but even after all this time the pain still lingers. You may be feeling anxious, or simply sad. Perhaps you’re even feeling hopeless.
Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, you’re beginning to notice the impact of this in every facet of your life:
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If this sounds like you, then you are in the right place.
Marriage Intensives can help.
It may feel impossible now, but you can save your marriage. You can have hope for the future again. You can move forward with healing. And I can help you get there.
Marriage Intensives help you do 5 things:
I’ll help through this process, tailoring each step to your unique needs and circumstances. My approach to marriage counseling comes from a place of compassion: believing that no matter how painful the past has been, all relationships can be healed and repaired.
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In marriage intensives, you'll learn how the relationship got off track and begin the journey toward healing and forgiveness.
What you'll learn in marriage intensive's with me:
My approach to marriage intensive's is based on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), which is the #1 research-validated relationship therapy and the ONLY couple therapy recommended by the American Psychological Association to help improve relationships. In Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) with me, we will do a thorough assessment of your relationship, discover and work through emotional blocks to healing, and begin the process of re-building a sense of emotional safety and security in your marriage.
In EFT marriage intensives, we'll deep dive into:
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You don't have to give up hope on your marriage.
Healing is possible.
FAQ
As a group, we are committed to a non-judgmental experience. We all look through a lens that honors what makes us human. We are relational beings, hard wired to connect. What makes us different is where we want to be especially open, curious and never presume we are experts. We welcome all, including sexual orientation, relationship status, age, race, disability, ethnicity/national origin, gender identity and religious/spiritual affiliation.
What are marriage intensives like?
Intensives can be done online through zoom, or in person in Virginia Beach, Virginia with Dr. Elizabeth Polinsky, with advance notice. On the first day, we have three hours of assessment in the morning. The first hour you are together and we look at your relationship history, the next two hours are individual sessions. In the individual sessions we'll talk about your personal history and also what it’s like to be in the relationship, just from your perspective. Then we break for lunch. After the break, we have a two hour session in which we start to unpack your negative communication pattern, take another break, and then wrap up for the day. The second day, you’ll start with a two hour block in the morning, have one to two hour break for lunch, and then have a two hour block in the afternoon. At the end of the second day, we’ll spend time reviewing what we did and talking about next steps.
What is follow-up care like?
Follow up work is key to making the investment last and to ensure you don’t regress. You may be able to do follow up work with your intensive therapist. This could look like weekly sessions or a series of intensives. If scheduling doesn't work for you to do your follow-up care with your intensive therapist, they can help match you with another therapist for follow up care.
What if I need to reschedule?
Life happens and we know your calendar can be unpredictable. We will hold the dates for your intensive for one week. By that time, we need your paperwork completed in the client portal. Included in the paperwork, we'll need your credit card information for a non-refundable deposit for half the amount of your total intensive cost. You will not be charged any additional service fees for running the credit card. Make sure you have the correct and most current credit card you want us to run in the client portal.
If you have not completed paperwork by one week after booking the intensive, your dates will be released and available to other potential clients. Your card will be run for the non-refundable deposit as soon as we have your credit card information.
If you need to reschedule your intensive, you can do so up to 2 weeks before and the non-refundable deposit will be used toward your rescheduled date. If you cancel after the 2-week window, you'll be charged the entire amount of the intensive cost.
If you have not completed paperwork by one week after booking the intensive, your dates will be released and available to other potential clients. Your card will be run for the non-refundable deposit as soon as we have your credit card information.
If you need to reschedule your intensive, you can do so up to 2 weeks before and the non-refundable deposit will be used toward your rescheduled date. If you cancel after the 2-week window, you'll be charged the entire amount of the intensive cost.
How do I know if marriage intensives will work for me?
Marriage Intensives may be right for you:
Marriage Intensives are not appropriate when:
- If you are in a crisis - but both partners want to try to make it work.
- If you are stuck in a negative interactive pattern and just can't seem to stop fighting.
- If you feel distant, almost like roommates and don't know how to be close again.
- If you just can't make weekly counseling work with demanding schedules and/or the childcare shuffle.
- If you’re a current client wanting to deep dive into healing from a past betrayal.
Marriage Intensives are not appropriate when:
- One or both partners have an active addiction.
- If there is an ongoing affair that hasn't ended yet.
- If you and your partner do not have the same goal for therapy, this isn't a good format for you. In other words, if one partner wants to work on the marriage and the other doesn't - an intensive isn't the place to decide if you want to work on the marriage. When a couple has the same goal, an intensive can be very rewarding.
- If being in the same room for a long time is too triggering (potential trauma reaction) or you haven't been able to be in the same space without being civil in a period of time - this format will not be productive.
- If there is active intimate partner violence, this is not an option.
DO YOU OFFER OTHER TYPES OF INTENSIVES?
We do! We offer 1-Day Premarital Intensives; 2-Day Deployment Preparation and 2-Day Post-Deployment Reconnection Intensives, as well 2 Day Family Intensives for adult children and their parents.
If you are interested in a special type of intensive experience, please schedule a consultation so we can address your unique needs.
If you are interested in a special type of intensive experience, please schedule a consultation so we can address your unique needs.
WHAT ARE YOUR RATES FOR INTENSIVES?
Marriage Intensives are a two-day, weekend long experience online via zoom:
A benefit of marriage intensives is that they are often cost-effective because:
1) they skip the catching up time that is often the start of weekly counseling sessions, and
2) they often allow you to go deeper, faster, and therefore speeding up the process of therapy.
Often times couples end up saving money by doing a marriage intensive.
- $1,000 per weekend with Masters Level Student Interns
- $1,500 per weekend with Masters Level Therapists under Supervision (Residents in Counseling, Residents in Marriage and Family Therapy, and Supervisee’s in Social Work), and Doctoral Level Student Interns
- $2,500 per weekend with Masters Level Independently Licensed Therapists (LPC, LMFT, or LCSW) and Doctoral Level Therapists under Supervision
- $3,000 per weekend with Masters Level Specialty Certified Therapists (LPC, LMFT, or LCSW)
- $3,000 per hour for Doctoral Level Independently Licensed Therapists (LPC, LMFT, or LCSW)
- $3,500 per hour for Doctoral Level Specialty Certified Therapists (LPC, LMFT, or LCSW)
- $4,000 per hour for Dr. Elizabeth Polinsky, LCSW, LMFT, Clinic Founder and Director. Dr. Polinsky has an additional $1,000 travel fee for in-person intensives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
A benefit of marriage intensives is that they are often cost-effective because:
1) they skip the catching up time that is often the start of weekly counseling sessions, and
2) they often allow you to go deeper, faster, and therefore speeding up the process of therapy.
Often times couples end up saving money by doing a marriage intensive.
How do we get started?
Click on the button below to book your initial 20-minute free consultation to chat with a therapist to see if they are a good fit for your needs. It's important to know that our therapists are often booked 1-2 months out. During the consult, if you and your therapist decide to move toward booking, we will find the next available dates that work for everyone's schedule.
As with any psychotherapy, results are not guaranteed.