Couples Intensives in Salt Lake City, UT
A focused path toward healing, understanding, and rebuilding.
Sometimes a relationship needs more than a weekly hour to move forward. Whether you're recovering from a betrayal, feeling distant from each other, stuck in the same arguments, or preparing for marriage, you don't have to figure it out alone and an intensive workshop can help your relationship heal.
At Lumos Counseling, our couples intensives provide dedicated time to step away from everyday distractions and focus on your relationship. This kind of intensive couples therapy — sometimes called a marriage intensive or couples therapy retreat — condenses the progress of weeks of couples therapy into a focused, private experience. We offer intensives for infidelity and affair recovery, rebuilding intimacy, improving communication, and marriage preparation, each available from a half day to three days. Choose the focus and length that best fit your relationship and where you are right now.
Before the Intensive Begins
Every intensive begins with preparation. Before you sit down together, we meet separately and complete a short consultation so the intensive itself starts on the right foot.
1. 60–90 Minute Couples Consultation
A session together to confirm that intensive work is the right fit and to set the frame for everything that follows. In this consultation we will:
- Clarify what brings you in and establish your goals
- Assess emotional stability and identify any safety concerns
- Confirm that both partners genuinely want to participate
- Set expectations for the days ahead
2. Individual Assessment with Each Partner
Approximately 60 minutes with each of you separately, so each person has space to speak without managing the other's reaction.
- How do you see the relationship right now?
- What feels most painful or stuck?
- What are your biggest fears and hopes for the relationship?
- What part do you see yourself playing, and what are you willing to change?
- What would make this intensive worthwhile for you?
3. Pre-Intensive Questionnaires
You will complete questionnaires ahead of the intensive. These may include the Gottman Relationship Checkup, a relationship satisfaction assessment, an attachment assessment, and an individual goals questionnaire. When it's relevant, such as after infidelity, this also includes a betrayal and trauma symptom screening.
This preparation gives me a clear picture of where each of you stands before you arrive, so the time you spend together is used for the work that matters most.
Intensive Packages
Half-day to three-day options, from $1,250 per couple
Find clarity, rebuild trust, and find your way forward.
View details →Rebuilding Intimacy IntensiveHalf-day to three-day options, from $1,250 per couple
Reconnect emotionally and physically.
View details →Communication Improvement IntensiveHalf-day to three-day options, from $1,250 per couple
Stop the same fights. Start understanding each other.
View details →Marriage Preparation IntensiveHalf-day to three-day options, from $1,250 per couple
Build a strong foundation before you say I do.
View details →Which Intensive Is Right for You?
Each program offers a different level of support. During an initial consultation, we'll discuss your circumstances, your goals, and which format is most appropriate for your relationship.
You don't need to know exactly how to fix your relationship before you begin. You simply need a willingness to explore what happened and what comes next.