A Marriage Retreat Experience —Personalized for One Couple — in Redlands, California
Find your way back to each other, together.
A private marriage counseling intensive in Redlands, CA, for when the drift feels real.
When love is still here, but connection isn’t
You look at your partner and quietly wonder when feeling close became something you had to work so hard for.
Life has changed you. Becoming parents. Building careers. Navigating loss, responsibility, exhaustion, and seasons you never expected. You’re not the same people you were when you first chose each other. And no one taught you how to meet each other here—in the midst of the growth, the grief, and the ways you’ve both changed along the way.
The drift between you has been subtle and slow. Not one big rupture, but a series of small moments where it felt easier to pull back than to risk another argument. Conversations feel harder. Intimacy fades. One of you pulls back to keep the peace, while the other reaches out and feels shut down. You can feel the love underneath it all, and that’s what makes this so painful. You don’t want to hurt each other, and yet you keep missing each other.
You miss your partner.
You miss who you were together.
You miss the ease, the laughter, the sense of being on the same team.
And between kids, work demands, bills, aging parents, and the pressure to keep everything running, there’s barely space to slow down—let alone figure out how to find your way back to each other.
You want to be together, but not like this.
Something has to change.
You can’t keep cycling through distance, frustration, and nights where you both fall asleep feeling alone. The thought of slowly working through this one hour a week in therapy feels too slow, too spaced out, too fragile for the level of disconnection you’re feeling.
You need support that actually creates movement. Support that lets you talk without breaking down. Support that helps you remember why you chose each other in the first place.
You don’t want to wait until the drift becomes something you can’t undo.
How a couples intensive can help you to reconnect to what matters most.
My name is Emelly. I’m a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps couples move from feeling distant and discouraged to finding a new kind of love that fits who you are today.
Private couples intensives create something rare: an immersive, retreat-like space where you have uninterrupted time to truly be with each other and the work. Free from weekly interruptions and daily demands, you’re supported with personalized guidance and focused attention as your nervous systems settle, conversations deepen, and new relational patterns begin to take shape. With the time and space to stay present rather than rush past what matters, meaningful repair becomes possible and change has a chance to truly land.
Why weekly therapy often isn’t enough
Weekly therapy can be helpful, and for many couples it’s an important starting point. But by the time you sit down, open up, and touch something real, the session’s over. You get swept back into daily life and lose the momentum you felt in the room.
The change is slow. Interrupted. Fragile.
A private couples intensive offers what weekly therapy can’t: continuity.
A intensive gives you uninterrupted time to breathe, to slow down, and to stay with the work long enough for something to shift.
It brings together the depth of therapy and the spaciousness couples often hope for in a marriage retreat weekend in California, only this experience is private and personalized for the two of you.
What an couples intensive weekend looks like:
Before your weekend:
Before you come in, you each complete thoughtful questionnaires that help me understand your histories, patterns, strengths, and longings.
You walk into the weekend already seen and understood. This means we can move quickly into what matters most, instead of spending the first hours catching up on background.
Seeing each other with fresh eyes:
This private space helps you understand the patterns that keep pulling you apart.
You begin seeing each other with fresh eyes. You interrupt habits that have been draining your connection. You experience moments of closeness that remind you why you’re fighting for this. You leave with clarity, a shared vision, and confidence that your relationship can grow in the direction you both want.
After the weekend:
Four to six weeks later, we meet for a ninety-minute follow up session.
This first follow up is included in the cost of your intensive. It gives you space to reflect on what’s shifted, talk through challenges, and strengthen the skills you’ve been practicing.
If you want additional support, monthly or quarterly check ins are available. You won’t walk away wondering how to keep the momentum alive.
What’s Included in a Couples Intensive Weekend
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Each day includes two ninety minute sessions in the morning with a short break, and two ninety minute sessions in the afternoon with another break. You get about six hours of focused work each day.
There’s a long lunch break so you can walk, rest, breathe, or let things settle in your body. Your evenings are free. I’ll offer simple guided activities or gentle invitations to help you stay connected without pressure. These aren’t assignments to complete, just small ways to soften and reconnect.
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You’ll receive a binder that guides you throughout the entire weekend. It’s full of resources, prompts, and reflection pages so you don’t have to take notes or worry about remembering every tool. Couples often describe it as their anchor or roadmap, something they return to again and again.
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The intensive gives you something weekly therapy can’t: space.
You’re not rushing. You’re not stopping just as something important surfaces. You have time to breathe, time to try again, and time to get support in real moments of emotion and repair.
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This isn’t a workshop where you sit and listen. More information isn’t what your relationship needs; reading another relationship book or listening to a podcast can give you ideas, but change happens when you actually get to practice the skills in the moment.
The intensive helps you stop thinking your way through problems and start living your way into connection. You learn tools and use them immediately. You get coaching as emotions rise. You work together as a team so new relational patterns feel embodied rather than memorized. This is how sustainable change takes root.
A private intensive helps you:
The Investment
A couples intensive is an intentional investment in your relationship—one that prioritizes depth, momentum, and meaningful movement forward.
Mini Intensive (4 hours): $1,500
A focused entry point for couples who want to experience extended therapy or work through a specific relational concern.
One-Day Intensive (6–7 hours): $3,000
A contained yet meaningful option that allows for exploration, practice, and repair while honoring emotional limits.
Two-Day Intensive (12–13 hours over two days): $6,000
The most immersive and comprehensive experience, offering time for deeper healing, rest, and integration across two days.
(One- and two-day intensives include preparation questionnaires and a 90-minute follow-up session.)
Find your way forward, together
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation call today by clicking the link below to contact me. This consultation lets us talk about what feels hard, what you’re longing for, and how this intensive can help you reignite the connection you’ve both been missing.