Intensive Couples Counselling

A Vessel for Relationship Change and Repair — in Nanaimo

A committed relationship is a shared container — holding both the patterns that support connection and the ones that quietly strain it. Unresolved hurts, old protective strategies, or past experiences can surface in ways you didn’t intend. When this happens, couples often feel stuck between love and frustration, distance and longing.

Intensive couples counselling offers a focused, intentional retreat — not a quick fix or a superficial patch, but a space to slow down, see these patterns clearly, and work with them directly.

Over a condensed 3-day immersion, this work becomes a kind of crucible — shaped by honest effort, steady attention, and the willingness to meet what is emerging. In this space, old patterns can soften and loosen, allowing a more aligned way of relating to take shape.

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Who This Work Serves

This intensive format is especially suited for couples who:

  • Feel stuck in recurring patterns — wounds, repetition, distance, or disconnection.

  • Are facing crisis or rupture (infidelity, grief, trauma, attachment injury) and need a concentrated space for repair and understanding.

  • Want more than gradual progress — they seek clarity and a meaningful shift in how they relate.

  • Live busy or demanding lives where weekly therapy is difficult to sustain.

  • Wish to re-vision their relationship — not only to repair what is painful, but to clarify what is wanting to take shape.

  • Are open to a depth-oriented approach that works with both practical skills and the inner movements shaping the relationship.

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What the Intensive Provides

  • A full-immersion retreat: typically 15 hours over 3 days, with flexible options (day-long intensives, half-day refreshers, or video formats).

  • A thorough exploration of relational dynamics — the emotional undercurrents, recurring conflicts, and unspoken longings that shape how you meet each other.

  • Guided experiential work — communication, conflict resolution, emotional processing, intimacy restoration, and meaningful reconnection.

  • A depth-oriented therapeutic container — attentive to both the surface interactions and the deeper material that moves beneath them.

  • An orientation for your shared future — a sense of what has been addressed, what has emerged, and what will support ongoing connection and growth.

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What Intensive Work Looks Like

Three-Day Intensive
15 hours over 3 days — a full retreat. Provides the time and space required for deep work.

Day-Long Intensive
5 hours in a single day — ideal for couples needing a concentrated session without a full retreat.

Half-Day Refresher
For couples who have completed a previous intensive when a new issue arises and you want to re-ground and re-align.

Video / Remote Intensive
3 non-consecutive days or shorter formats — allowing integration time between sessions. Ideal for out-of-town or busy couples.

Custom Relationship Package
A tailored container shaped around your needs, your relationship, and your timing.

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Why This Work in Nanaimo

Nanaimo offers more than a location — it offers breathing room. The natural beauty, quiet rhythm, and proximity to sea and forest create a setting where relationships can soften, reset, and shift. Local accommodations and dining near my office make a weekend retreat practical and contained.

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Approach & Orientation

My work blends solid clinical training (post-graduate credentials and expertise drawn from relational therapy, attachment work, and sex therapy) with a depth-oriented perspective informed by archetypal, alchemical, and psychotherapeutic traditions.

This means we don’t only address communication patterns or conflict strategies. We attend to what lives beneath the roles, the wounds, and the accumulated history. Together, we work to support connection, trust, emotional honesty, intimacy, and the sense of being seen and met by one another.

Whether you are facing conflict, loss, distance, trauma, or simply want to deepen your shared life, this work is not only for repair — it is for couples seeking a grounded, meaningful way of relating.

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How to Begin

Contact me directly to discuss whether an intensive format fits your relationship. We’ll explore your history, gather preliminary assessments, consider which format aligns with your needs, and shape a clear path forward.

When you’re ready to explore whether this approach is right for you, we can begin that conversation.