Exclusive Couples Retreats
"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
Private Couples Retreat
A One-Day Relationship Tune-Up for One Couple at a Time
Reconnect. Realign. Refresh.
Every strong relationship deserves intentional care. The Private Couples Retreat is a full-day, one-on-one experience grounded in the Gottman Method, offering couples the time, space, and guidance to strengthen connection, improve communication, and reinforce emotional and physical intimacy.
This is not group therapy. This is just you, your partner, and a certified relationship expert in a safe, focused environment designed for real growth. Whether you’re in a great place or navigating tension, this retreat gives your relationship the tune-up it deserves.
What to Expect:
- Personalized relationship coaching using Gottman’s evidence-based approach
- Private, distraction-free setting to reconnect as a couple
- Guided exercises to help you talk better, listen deeper, and love more intentionally
- Conflict repair tools and emotional safety strategies you can use for life
- A renewed sense of unity, clarity, and partnership
Pricing:
- $1,500 for 7 hours, 50% due upon scheduling and 50% due on the first day of Intensive (All retreats are non-refundable)
One-Day Retreat Agenda (7 Hours)
Morning: Foundations of a Strong Relationship
- Welcome + personalized goals
- Explore your Love Maps (how well do you know each other?)
- Reignite fondness and admiration
- Identify toxic patterns and replace them with proven antidotes
- Learn the tools to stay connected, even during conflict
Lunch Break
Time for reflection and connection (on-site or nearby)
Afternoon: Repair, Rebuild, and Recommit
- Practice resolving real-life disagreements using Gottman’s tools
- Discover the dreams beneath your conflicts
- Create rituals that bring you closer on a daily basis
- Define your shared meaning and write a Relationship Mission Statement
- Leave with a personalized action plan and tools to keep your relationship strong
What’s Included:
- 1 Full Day (7 hours) of private, guided relationship work
- CoupleStrong Retreat Workbook with exercises and scripts
- Gottman Love Map & Rituals of Connection Card Decks
- Conflict repair templates and take-home communication tools
- Relationship Mission Statement Guide
- Optional post-retreat virtual follow-up session $175 per hour
Who This Is For:
This retreat is for couples who want to invest in their connection. You don’t need to be in crisis—just ready to reconnect, realign, and tune up your relationship. Whether you’ve been together for 2 years or 20, this experience will help you stay close, communicative, and committed to each other’s emotional well-being.
Group Couples Retreat
Learn research-based tools for building and maintaining intimacy from the comfort of a beach or mountain resort.
You can restore your relationship while having a world-class romantic holiday. In an exclusive, small-group couples retreat, you’ll learn new skills for deepening intimacy, managing conflicts, and enhancing your sense of shared meaning. The retreats are presented by Chris Cambas along with our Couplestrong Staff. They include lectures, role-plays, discussions, and exercises with your partner.
The intimate settings enable couples to receive personalized attention from our staff while enhancing and restoring their relationship.
During the retreat, you will learn skills to:
- Enhance intimacy
- Create shared meaning
- Strengthen your friendship
- Deepen your understanding of one another
- Transform perpetual problems into dialogues
Chris and our Couplestrong staff welcome you to join them for a truly transformative experience. You can also combine the retreat with a romantic beach or mountain holiday experience. Our event planner can help you arrange the details of your visit, including lodging, transportation, dining, and options for outstanding recreational opportunities.
The retreats are limited to seven couples. We recommend that you register early.
To learn more about these retreats, please call (813) 960-0001.
Private Marriage Intensives
Is Your Marriage Falling Apart? A Private Marriage Intensive or Couples Retreat May Be The Answer
Has there ever been a time when you felt like you were just getting warmed up when the therapist said, “Session is over or we need to stop now until next week?” Most couples who come to me for marriage intensives have expressed similar frustration. Working on your marriage deserves the privilege of adequate time, space, and focus. In order to get to the real matters of the heart, to truly dig deep and obtain understanding, enough time must be available to explore the relationship, or progress is generally slow.
Many couple’s schedules do not allow for therapy on a weekly basis. With this in mind, we have developed Intensives. There is a large body of research that supports a better therapeutic outcome from Intensive Couples Therapy as opposed to weekly sessions.
The Intensives offer couples the time and space to work on their issues in a deep and understanding way without the time restraints of normal couples counseling.
Our Intensives last 11 hours. There are no other couples present, just you and your spouse. There are a variety of assessments used as well as video playback of interactions in an effort for couples to see their relationship dynamics. Physiology is also measured via pulse oximeters in an effort to avoid “Flooding” or handle it in a productive way if it does occur.
Having 1.5 to 2 days blocked can be an incredibly satisfying experience. It allows enough time for deep relational issues to be addressed and potentially uncover viable solutions.
Marriage counseling is a process of change. The clients and the marriage counselor work together to uncover relational problems, examine existing patterns in the relationship, set goals for the changes the client’s desire, and teach ways to effectively achieve those goals.
Whether your marriage is having difficulty or in need of a tune-up, our marriage intensives and retreats can help give you tools for dealing with the relational issues that seem unbearable, un-resolvable and overwhelming. During the marriage intensive or retreat we teach couples new ways of communicating designed to enhance their relationships. Couples then practice those skills in session and as part of their evening’s homework. We look for relational challenges and teach ways to deal with them. This can help couples take things less personally and begin the process of truly understanding their spouse.
My work is professional and non-denominational. I believe that people have the right to be happy in their relationships and that children greatly benefit from them. I believe the most important goal in couples therapy is to seek understanding and do that with love and respect.
2-DAY COUPLES INTENSIVE
Two-Day Marriage Intensive
The two-day intensive program provides you with a licensed marriage therapist. The couple will receive 11 or 16 hours of private therapy. Since this program is working exclusively with you, we will make every effort to tailor the program to meet your needs.
Program Details:
- One couple
- 11 hours of private marriage/couples therapy
- Marital/Couples Assessments
- Breakfast and lunch, depending on the hours scheduled
- An extensive treatment plan for couples to follow after the intensive
- (1)- 2-hour follow-up appointments
Pricing:
- $2,500 for 11 hours, 50% due upon scheduling and 50% due on the first day of Intensive (Intensives are non-refundable)
Intensive Couples Counseling is recommended for couples experiencing a significant amount of distress in their marriage, as well as those looking to enhance an already good relationship.
A two-day marriage intensive is often used by 1) Couples who are in crisis and have specific issues they want to work through, 2) A follow-up for intensive alumni to work through specific issues as they move forward, 3) Couples who have just discovered trauma in their relationship, such as an affair, allowing them to gain traction and momentum so they can take the first couple of steps toward recovery and reconciliation, 4) Couples who are seeking to enhance an already great relationship.
To book a marriage intensive with Chris please contact our office at 813-960-0001
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