Couples Therapy Intensives
Sometimes, weekly therapy is not enough. Couples therapy intensives offer a deeper, more focused space to slow down, understand what is happening beneath recurring conflict, and begin making meaningful changes.
My couples therapy intensives in Salt Lake City are designed for partners who want more than surface-level communication tools. This is a space for deep relational work, guided support, and practical steps toward lasting change.
In our work together, we focus on the patterns that keep you stuck, the emotional reactions underneath those patterns, and the communication skills that help create more safety, clarity, and connection. Each intensive is personalized to your relationship and your goals.
- BondWiseTherapy
- Salt Lake City, Utah
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Couples Intensives
What intensives are
Couples intensives are private, customized relationship experiences designed for couples who want focused support without committing to long-term weekly therapy.
Intensives are especially well suited for couples who:
- Have limited availability or scheduling challenges
- Want to make progress quickly
- Are navigating a specific rupture, transition, or high-impact issue
- Want space to go deeper emotionally
Unlike workshops, all of the focus is on you and your relationship. The pace, structure, and depth are tailored entirely to your needs.
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How intensives work
Initial consultation
Format & Availability
Cost
The fee for a couples intensive is $1,000 per couple. This flat fee reflects the full structure of the intensive, including assessment, individual sessions, and extended couples work held together as one coordinated process.
A 50% prepayment is required to reserve the date and time, with the remaining balance due prior to the session. Cancellations made more than 48 hours in advance are eligible for a refund of the prepayment; cancellations within 48 hours are non-refundable due to the time reserved and preparation involved.
Couples intensives are offered on a private-pay basis and are not covered by insurance. Sliding-scale options may be available in limited circumstances.
Cost Breakdown
The couples intensive includes the following components:
- Initial 60-minute intake session and assessment of relationship challenges
Includes review of intake questionnaires and clarification of goals and focus - Two individual 50-minute sessions (one with each partner)
Individual sessions support pacing, clarity, and safety in the joint work - Extended joint couples session (4 hours)
Focused couples work, guided communication, and skills practice
Rather than billing these sessions separately, they are offered together as one coordinated process.
LGBTQ+ Intensives
Queer-Centered Relationship Support
These LGBTQ+ couples intensives in Salt Lake City, Utah are designed for queer, trans, and gender-diverse couples who want focused, affirming relationship support in a space that fully understands the realities shaping their lives. This is not standard couples therapy with more inclusive language — the work itself is built around LGBTQ+ experience, with attention to the specific pressures, patterns, and relational dynamics that can emerge over time.
Many LGBTQ+ couples are navigating connection without reliable social templates, while also carrying the impact of minority stress. Visibility concerns, family rejection or conditional acceptance, and internalized shame can all shape emotional safety, conflict, closeness, and the ability to stay connected under pressure.
WHAT MAKES THIS LGBTQ-AFFIRMATIVE
Not Based on Heteronormative Relationship Models
Your relationship is not being evaluated through straight, cisgender, or traditional norms. We do not assume fixed roles, one linear path, monogamy as the automatic standard, or a single “right” way to build a partnership.
This intensive is designed to work with your relationship as it actually exists.
Minority Stress Is Explicitly Addressed
These intensives make space for the ways minority stress can affect a couple’s emotional system — including hypervigilance, shutdown, escalation, people-pleasing, fear of being “too much,” or fear of causing harm.
You do not need to spend your time educating your therapist or defending why these patterns matter.
Affirming of Queer, Trans, and Non-Traditional Relationships
Your relationship gets to define itself — not conform to external expectations.
These intensives are designed to support:
- queer, trans, and gender-diverse couples
- couples outside traditional relationship scripts
- partners navigating identity, visibility, safety, or family dynamics
Your relationship deserves support that honors who you are, rather than asking you to fit an outside model.
Facilitated by a Queer Therapist
This work is facilitated by a therapist who identifies as a lesbian / queer person. You are not being filtered through a heteronormative framework or subtly pushed toward someone else’s definition of relationship health. That allows the work to move with more precision, more trust, and less self-protection.
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