Weekend Marriage Counseling

You might be asking, "Why do I need weekend marriage counseling?" Imagine that you injured your shoulder. In one scenario, you are told that with months, maybe years, of physical therapy you could get the use of your shoulder back. In the other scenario, you are told that you could get major results in a couple of days of intensive therapy. Which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer; you’d choose scenario number two.

When it comes to your marriage, the good news is that there is an effective therapy that can give you major results in a couple of days rather than months or years of weekly counseling. It’s called Couples Intensive Counseling (C.I.C.). I’ve been doing Couples Intensive Counseling for well over a decade, and I have consistently found that couples who do C.I.C. get back on track and experience far greater results in that two-day counseling event than do couples that I see in weekly counseling.

Why Is Weekend Marriage Counseling In a Couples Intensive So Powerful?

While C.I.C. is not a “quick fix,” it does provide breakthroughs that don’t happen in week-to-week counseling. In the office, we meet with clients every week, sometimes because of financial constraints every two weeks, over months and even years. Often, just when we start to make some progress, the couple goes back to the stresses of their job, family, finances, daily responsibilities, and they fall back into their negative patterns until the next week’s counseling session where we spend most of our time de-escalating from the previous week. But in Couples Intensive Counseling, we take the couple away from the daily routine for 12 hours of uninterrupted Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) over two days.

In those two days, we are able to de-escalate the couple’s negative cycle and discover the underlying emotions and needs driving it. Couples are able to communicate to one another their deepest, most vulnerable needs in ways that their partner will receive. Forgiveness and reconciliation usually happen, and couples reconnect or at least are firmly on the path to reconnection. A two-day intensive is comparable to three months or more of weekly therapy.

Are You Ready?

If you have tried weekly couples counseling, and would like to move things along more quickly, why not consider doing Couples Intensive Counseling? If this is something you’re interested in, contact me right away to get on my schedule, which fills up pretty quickly. You can call or text 817-808-2606, or email info@soulcarecounselingdfw.com to schedule a free thirty-minute consultation in person or over Zoom to discuss Couples Intensive Counseling.