Couples and Marriage Intensive Therapy

Focused and specialized therapy for couples looking to make big change in a short period of time! Call us today to start turning the tides in your relationship. You’ll be surprised at how quickly big changes can happen!

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Couples and Marriage Intensive Therapy.png — Your relationship used to be your safe place to land in a cruel world

Your partner was your friend. Your confidante. Your lover. Your support. Your biggest cheerleader. The person you most wanted to laugh with, play with, adventure with. But over time, the softness has hardened. With every eye roll, argument, criticism, defensiveness, withdrawal, insistence on being right or controlling, every moment of retaliation drives a deeper wedge between you.
Frankly, didn’t you think you’d be … happier?
But the thing that frightens you the most is your resignation. Now, you’re living an acceptable level of misery. You’re both growing more and more desperate.. You’re not in crisis – yet. But you’re not that far from it, either.
This is your wakeup call! Schedule your healing intensive today.

What will couples intensive therapy do for your relationship?

You’ll find your path back to your partner, and to connect more deeply.

You’ll see your partner and remember why you fell in love with them.

We’ll create a space for you to be properly seen and held in your partner’s arms and heart, and do the same for your partner.

You’ll both learn how to better love and be loved - the way you always hoped it would be.

Hi, we’re Shamon and Yolanda, Co-Founders of Harper Therapy
Between us, we have three Master’s Degrees. Because education and specialized training are essential for effectively helping couples, we have also trained in person with the experts in the field of relationship — including John and Julie Gottman, Terry Real, Brené Brown, Kristen Neff, and Chris Germer. We have more than a decade of experience in helping couples with their relationships.
But, more importantly… we have nearly 30 years of lived experience in being in relationship together.
We’ll be totally honest here.
Not every moment of our marriage is blissful. But we’re committed to not only being together for the long haul, but being together and actually enjoying it. We’ve learned what it takes to have the hard conversations with one another and to remember what it’s like to dream and play together. Through our couples intensives, we’re committed to helping you do the same. Schedule your consultation to see if our specialized Couples Intensive is right for you.
Like all relationships, we’ve had our ups and downs and know that marriage and relationships are a lot of work. But, we practice what we preach. And, we know first-hand what tools to teach you to help you reconnect and deepen your relationship, how to help you heal past hurts, how to fall madly in love with one another again. Because we’ve DONE the work. Now, we’ve put all of that into this Intensive. There is a way to be happier in your relationship. We can help you find it.

Your Relationship Rekindling Includes:

Phone Consultation.png — Phone Consultation

Pre-Intensive 30 minute phone consultation to get clear about what each of your goals are so that we can make sure that a Couples Intensive is a good fit for you and your partner. We’ll answer any questions you might have about the intensive so that we can get straight to the work when you arrive.

Morning of Day One

We come by our “losing strategies” that damage our relationships through past experience. They’re part of our origin story. We learn them in our childhood and carry them forward. They’ve likely impacted many of your previous relationships and they’re definitely impacting your current one. Until you take a look at them and get to the root of things, they’ll continue to wreak mayhem (just think what would happen if Superman didn’t understand the impact of kryptonite on his super powers!). Once we’ve identified these patterns, they begin to lose the death grip that they’ve had on your relationship so that we can begin to give you practical tools and coach both of you toward new patterns of connection, better communication, greater intimacy (emotionally, spiritually, and — yes, sexually!) This is the primary focus of your two day intensive.

Lunch

On your own and away from the office, developing the skill of taking breaks. Nourish your body and soul while stepping away from the heavy lifting and seriousness that come with being in a relationship by remembering the laughter and light-heartedness which drew you to one another when you first started dating.

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Here’s what we know after a decade of studying brain science and relationships and coaching couples - as well as 30 years of being in relationship with one another and each of us doing our own work.
If you ONLY focus on what your partner is/isn’t doing, without taking a look at your own origin story and the role it plays, the likelihood is that you’ll keep revisiting these old relationship damaging patterns. We’ll take a look at each of your origin stories - and don’t worry - this isn’t about assigning blame, picking sides, or even disparaging your family of origin. This is about giving you a powerful tool of understanding and finally breaking free from the ongoing pain of disconnection in your relationship.
Would it be easier (and much more comfortable) to skip this part? Sure, but you wouldn’t get nearly the impact from this intensive time, and we care too much about helping you and your partner make change to leave this piece out. (We’re also thinking of how this work that you do together will translate to benefiting your kids, your friends, and your community. We know, because we’ve seen this impact for ourselves, too!).

Therapeutic Activity.png — Time to Play

Additional couples-focused activity to supplement the therapy (tailored to your relationship). Play is essential to connection in relationships, but unfortunately goes out the window when our busy lives take over. You and your partner will choose an activity specifically designed to help you enjoy one another in a playful environment - from a Thai couple’s massage, to couple’s yoga, to a cooking class or axe throwing - it’s a perfect way to unwind together after a day of hard work.

Day 2

Day Two includes many of the components of Day One - morning session, lunch on your own, and afternoon sessions. We will be practicing and strengthening those new skills, adding any additional ones that may be needed, and adding some additional experiential components specifically designed to deepen intimacy - helping each of you to see and be seen in your relationship.

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One 2-hour session or Two 1-Hour Sessions to deepen the relationship progress even more. Part of learning new skills is to practice them, make mistakes, and try again, so you’ll get follow up support that will help you fine tune your new tools, help you to be accountable to yourself and your partner, and allow the new way of interacting to “stick” for the long haul.
We’ll tailor the follow-up support to fit your needs, whether that be a couples session or individual sessions. If you’ve travelled from out of town for the intensive, we can make arrangements for a follow up video session, if needed. Or, you can plan another trip to Tampa and hang out at our beautiful beaches! NOTE: The follow up support session(s) must be completed within 30 days of your intensive date, so please keep that in mind when scheduling.

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WHY SCHEDULE TODAY?

You and your partner have tried to figure out this relationship thing on your own, but are spinning your wheels and rehashing the same old arguments. It’s time for your relationship to not feel like so much work.

Your happily ever after. . . Your happily ever after of feeling connected, enjoying each other, being able to communicate (even about the hard stuff) seems unattainable. Maybe there is no “happily ever after”? Or, maybe you just haven’t been introduced to the right tools…

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

Want to make big changes in your relationship in a brief period of time.

Are busy professionals who have a hard time scheduling weekly couples therapy appointments.

Have tried other couples therapy unsuccessfully — this is a very different framework!

Are ready to commit to your relationship in a new way so you can leave changed?

THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF

Have unaddressed psychiatric disorders that would impact your ability to give your attention to your relationship during the intensive.

Have self-medication issues (drugs/alcohol use that would impair your ability to give your attention to your relationship during the intensive).

Domestic violence and/or an active sexual affair for one or both partners

You are unwilling to open your mind and heart to take a different look at yourself, your partner, and your relationship.

Your Investment

With an investment of $3,000, you receive 10+ hours with a couple who specializes in coaching couples with more than a decade of experience - and thirty years of lived, relationship experience. This is complemented by a Relaxation Activity of your choice, and robust follow up support.

Two days of your life. Away from your daily schedule. Away from the grind. Towards something new and hopeful.

The ability to curate deep-healing and lasting change can take months of therapy. But through an investment of just two days with us, you will be able to release the old way of doing things, and the painful patterns, to a new way, with more love, connection, and joy. What would your life look like if you were able to walk away from this time, toward a fresh new start. Don’t you owe it to yourselves and your relationship?

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