Couples Intensives in Duxbury & Across Massachusetts
Months of progress in a single day.
A private half- or full-day session for couples who can't wait weeks between hours — and who want to finish the conversation they keep starting.
Book a Free ConsultFree 20 minutes, no pressure, no obligation to book.
Three fall intensive dates remaining.
Weekly therapy has a structural problem: by the time you've re‑entered the hard conversation, the hour is over. You leave activated, drive home in silence, and wait seven days to try again. An intensive removes that ceiling — one immersive day, long enough to actually reach the bottom of it.
You may have seen this work called a couples retreat, a marriage retreat, a marriage intensive, or weekend couples therapy — they all describe the same idea: concentrated couples therapy in one or two consecutive days rather than a 60-minute hour spread across months. I offer intensives in person at my Duxbury office on Boston's South Shore, and online to couples throughout Massachusetts.
How an intensive works
Free Consult
Twenty minutes on the phone. You tell me what's happening; I tell you honestly whether an intensive fits.
Private Intakes
Each of you meets with me separately beforehand, so we arrive on the day already oriented — no warm-up needed.
The Intensive
Mapping the cycle you're caught in, tracing each side to where it was learned, then rebuilding the conversation itself.
Written Plan
A summary of what we found and what to practice at home, so the day keeps working after you leave.
Choose your format
Six Hours
Comprehensive work for a major crossroads, years of accumulated distance, or a recurring pattern that has survived everything else you've tried. Breaks built in.
Three Hours
A focused reset on one pressing thing — a single recurring fight, a decision in front of you, or reconnecting after a stretch of distance.
What to expect at the Duxbury office
Intensives are held in my private office at 20 Tremont St in Duxbury — a quiet room with natural light, comfortable seating, and no waiting area to sit in. Full-day intensives run roughly 9am to 4pm with a real lunch break and shorter pauses as needed.
Nothing about the day is a performance. You don't need to prepare, rehearse, or arrive on good terms. Most couples come in wary and tired. That's a workable starting place.
An intensive fits when —
It isn't a fit when —
I'll tell you on the consult if I don't think it's right, and point you somewhere better.
Couples intensive FAQs
Is one day really enough?
It isn't a cure, and I won't pretend otherwise. What a day does is get you past the part weekly therapy keeps restarting — you reach the actual pattern, and you leave with it named and a plan for it. Many couples then continue with weekly or biweekly sessions to practice. Others don't need to.
What if we just fight the entire time?
Then we've found the thing we're working on, and we have hours rather than minutes to do something with it. My job is to slow the moment down so your nervous systems settle, and to keep the room safe enough that the real conversation can happen. You won't be left alone in it.
My partner is reluctant. Should we still come?
Reluctant is fine. Unwilling isn't. If your partner is skeptical but present, that's most couples who walk in and the work still lands. If they haven't agreed to be there at all, a consult is the right first step — sometimes just for you.
Is it in person or online?
Full-day intensives are in person in Duxbury — being in the room matters for work this deep. Half-day intensives can be held online for couples elsewhere in Massachusetts.
Start with a conversation, not a commitment
The consult is twenty minutes, free, and there's no pitch. We'll talk about what's happening and whether an intensive is the right shape for it — and if it isn't, I'll say so.
Book a Free ConsultThree fall intensive dates remaining.