EFT Couples Therapy Intensives in Augusta, GA
An ideal option for couples who want to see significant relationship progress in a shorter amount of time.
EFT Intensives are private, highly tailored therapy experiences grounded in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)—a research-supported, attachment-based model widely regarded as the gold standard in couples therapy. EFT focuses on interrupting negative patterns of conflict and disconnection in your relationship while also strengthening emotional connection, intimacy, and a sense of security in the relationship.
Over the course of two days of structured and focused work together, we will:
Identify the underlying dynamics driving patterns of conflict and disconnection in your marriage
Understand the “raw spots” that trigger reactivity for each of you in the conflict pattern
Shift out of anger, frustration, and conflict into closeness, connection, and understanding with your spouse
Create conditions that allow you and your spouse to respond to one another in a new way that invites closeness, connection, and trust
“The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.”
—Dr. Sue Johnson
Achieve months worth of relationship progress over the course of two days
How does an EFT Couples Intensive Work?
An EFT intensive is a significant investment of time, emotional engagement, and finances. Before making this commitment, we want to make sure that it is the right fit for your relationship. The Couples Therapy Intensive process begins with a complimentary 30-minute video consultation to determine if an Intensive is the best path toward your relationship goals.
After the consultation call, if an EFT Intensive seems like the right fit, we will schedule your Intensive. I offer intensives through my practice on a monthly basis. A deposit is required in order to hold your requested intensive dates. When your deposit is made, you will receive your pre-intensive materials and paperwork. Completion of these materials allows me to tailor the structure of your Intensive to the specific needs and dynamics of your relationship. Couples are asked to complete these materials within one week of receiving them.
Our intensive will span 2 days (10-11 hours of therapy total). During that time, we will get to the “heart of the matter,” identify the patterns of conflict and disconnection where your relationship gets stuck, the emotions and painful triggers that each of you experience in the pattern, and intervene in real time to shape new interactions between you and your spouse that yield closeness, security, and connection. This is a highly focused therapy experience tailored to the unique dynamics of your relationship. Many couples experience several months worth of progress and transformation in their relationship through this format.
At the end of your Intensive, I will create a post-Intensive action plan highlighting the shifts you have made as a couple during the Intensive and ways to continue reaching for and responding to one another in more effective and connected ways. Post-Intensive action plans may also include additional reading materials, interactions to practice at home, or additional follow-up sessions.
EFT Couples Intensive
$2,250 for a 2-Day Intensive
(roughly 10-11 hours of therapy total)
A non-refundable deposit of $1,000 is required to reserve your Intensive dates
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an EFT Intensive?
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) Intensives are designed to accelerate relationship progress and growth, allowing you to make significant relationship change across two days that can often take months with traditional weekly therapy. EFT provides relief from ongoing patterns of conflict, and shapes new interactions that invite closeness, intimacy, and a sense of security with your spouse. It allows couples to process through longstanding hurts and misunderstandings, removing roadblocks to the relationship you both really want.
As the name suggests, a Couples Intensive is…intense. Couples will benefit most when they are both willing to engage in deep, emotional work together and take vulnerable risks in their communication with each other. Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy is an approach that guides couples into increasing levels of vulnerability with one another, which can be especially difficult for couples that have been keeping one another at a distance in some way, shape, or form. As the therapist, I do not take this vulnerability lightly. I support each of you as you step toward one another in vulnerability to bridge the gap and experience connecting with each other in a new way. While the work is intense, I do everything in my power to foster conditions of emotional safety and respect for each of you so that you can feel confident stepping into this deep and intense work together.
What are the benefits of an intensive?
The intensive format allows for depth and continuity that can be difficult to achieve in weekly therapy. Rather than stopping and starting each week, we can stay with the emotional work long enough to create meaningful shifts in your relationship in a shorter amount of time. While not a “quick fix,” many couples experience the progress of several months of therapy within this concentrated format. Intensives can be especially helpful for couples with demanding schedules who want focused, immersive work, but struggle to fit ongoing therapy into their busy schedules. This is a private therapy experience for you and your spouse, not a workshop or group therapy format. Many couples benefit from having two uninterrupted days of focused intervention devoted solely to their relationship. Because of the rapid progress that is made in an intensive, a couple’s overall time spent in therapy is often reduced. This can be more cost-effective for couples in the long run.
What makes a couple a good fit for an EFT Intensive?
Couples who have tried weekly or bi-weekly therapy, but find the traditional 50 minute sessions limiting (feeling they are “just getting to the important part” when the time runs out).
Couples who have demanding schedules and struggle to coordinate time for ongoing weekly therapy
Couples who are ready to see relationship progress fast, and are willing to engage in deep emotional work together
Is there anything we should do to prepare for our Intensive?
Once you schedule your Intensive, I will send you a link to set up your client portal containing all of your pre-intensive paperwork and materials. These materials are essential in order for me to provide you with the most specifically tailored Intensive possible. The more detailed you can be in completing these materials, the better! I ask that couples complete and return the pre-intensive materials within one week of receiving them.
There are some additional reading materials that, while not required, will serve as a wonderful primer for the work you will be doing as a couple. I highly recommend that couples read Hold Me Tight by Dr. Susan Johnson, the developer of Emotionally-Focused Therapy. For Christian couples, I specifically recommend reading Created for Connection (also by Dr. Susan Johnson, with Kenneth Sanderfer, LMFT), which guides couples in EFT principles from a Biblical foundation and worldview.
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