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Couples Intensives

Deep, focused work for the seasons that can't wait a week at a time


Weekly therapy is a slow burn. Fifty minutes, then back to your lives, then a whole week of distance before you pick the thread back up. For plenty of couples, that rhythm works fine.

For others — especially the ones standing in the middle of something big — it's like trying to put out a fire with a teaspoon.

An intensive is a different container entirely. We clear a half-day or a full one, close the door, and do the work that would otherwise take three or four months of weekly sessions to reach. No starting over every week. No watching the clock just as you finally get to the real thing. Just sustained, focused, deeply held time to face what's in front of you — and to start building what comes after it.

This is decolonial, somatic, body-aware work. Nothing about your desire, your structure, your wiring, or your love gets pathologized here. We're not here to fix you. We're here to help you tell the truth to each other and survive it — and then to build something on the other side that's actually yours.


The Intensives


Every intensive includes a pre-intensive planning session in the days beforehand (so we don't walk in cold), the intensive itself with real breaks built in, and a written post-intensive roadmap — a personalized integration plan you both leave with, not a vibe you try to remember on the drive home.

Offered in person across NC, SC, VA, and FL, or by secure telehealth.

Types of intensives

The Clearing — 3 hours · $900

One knot. Worked all the way through. The Clearing is for couples with a single, specific thing that keeps tripping the whole relationship — a recurring fight that never resolves, a decision you can't get aligned on, a wound you keep circling but never landing on. Three hours is enough to stop pretending it's smaller than it is, get underneath it, and walk out with a real shift instead of another stalemate.

Best for: one focused issue · a stuck conversation that's been stuck for months · 

Includes: pre-intensive planning session · 3 hours in-room · written roadmap.


The Reckoning — 4 hours · $1,200

For the truth that's been sitting in the room too long. Some things take more than three hours because you have to feel them before you can fix them. The Reckoning gives you the room to put the hard thing fully on the table — the resentment, the betrayal of trust, the version of this you've each been carrying alone — and stay with it long enough to actually be heard. Then we start the turn toward repair.

Best for: early affair-rupture work · a major breach of trust · a long-avoided conversation you both know is overdue.

Includes: pre-intensive planning session · 4 hours in-room · written roadmap · one 50-minute integration follow-up.


The Reweaving — 5 hours · $1,500

Taking it apart so you can put it back together on purpose. The Reweaving is for couples who don't just need to address one rupture — they need to rebuild the fabric of how they connect. Trust, intimacy, the erotic thread, the way you fight and the way you find your way back. Five hours lets us move through the harder territory and into the rebuilding without rushing the part that matters most: what you're choosing to weave next.

Best for: sexual reclamation and reigniting desire · affair repair past the first reckoning · couples opening or restructuring their relationship · mixed-neurotype partners learning each other's language.

Includes: pre-intensive planning session · 5 hours in-room (with break) · written roadmap · two 50-minute integration follow-ups.


The Homecoming — 6 hours · $1,800

A full day to come all the way home to each other. The deepest work we offer. The Homecoming is a full-day immersion for couples in a true crossroads — the kind of moment that decides what the next chapter is. We have the whole day, so nothing gets left half-finished and nobody walks out mid-rupture. We go deep, we break for lunch, we go deeper, and we don't close until you've got something solid to stand on.

Best for: affair recovery and full trust rebuild · profound sexual and erotic reclamation · major life-transition realignment · couples deciding whether — and how — to continue.

Includes: pre-intensive planning session · 6 hours in-room (with break + lunch) · written roadmap · two 50-minute integration follow-ups · a 30-day check-in.

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What We Go Deep On:

Intensives are built for the work that needs room. A few of the places couples come to do it:

Affair & betrayal repair.

The discovery, the aftermath, the question of whether trust can be rebuilt and what that would actually require. We don't rush you to forgiveness and we don't pretend nothing happened. We do the slow, honest work of facing the rupture and deciding — together — what's possible on the other side.

Sexual reclamation.

Mismatched desire. The erotic connection that's gone quiet. Shame inherited from purity culture, from religion, from a world that taught you your body was a problem to manage. The orgasm gap. The version of your sex life you've each been too afraid to ask for out loud. We name it, we de-shame it, and we help you find your way back to wanting each other on purpose.

Opening up & restructuring.

Moving toward ethical non-monogamy, or renegotiating a structure that isn't working. Agreements, jealousy, the difference between what you think you should want and what you actually want. ENM-competent, judgment-free, grounded in the real logistics of doing it well.

Kink, power & exploration.

For couples wanting to bring this into their relationship intentionally — negotiation, consent, the erotic and the emotional held together. Therapeutic BDSM-informed and fully affirming.

Decolonizing the relationship.

Untangling the inherited scripts — about love, gender, monogamy, who's supposed to lead and who's supposed to sacrifice — that you never actually agreed to. Building a relationship that belongs to the two of you, not to the systems that raised you.

Major ruptures & transitions.

Money, family, identity, relocation, a breach that wasn't an affair but cut just as deep. The crossroads moments where weekly therapy can't move fast enough.

If what you're carrying isn't on this list, that doesn't mean it doesn't belong here. Reach out and

How It Works

Intensives are built for the work that needs room. A few of the places couples come to do it:

Private pay only.

I don't take insurance — which means no diagnosis on your record to get a session approved, no insurance company deciding what your relationship is allowed to need, and full privacy over the work you do here.

Superbills available.

I can provide a superbill (filed under couples therapy, 90847) if you'd like to submit it. Be aware that multi-hour intensives generally aren't reimbursable the way standard sessions sometimes are — there's no CPT code built for this kind of compressed work. Treat any reimbursement as a maybe, never a plan.

A 50% deposit holds your day.

Intensives mean blocking out a half-day or full day reserved entirely for you, so booking requires a non-refundable 50% deposit, with the balance due before we begin.

Breaks are part of the container.

You're not buying minutes in a chair — you're buying the whole held space. Breaks (and lunch, on the full day) are built into the time, not deducted from it.

Ready?

Untangling the inherited scripts — about love, gender, monogamy, who's supposed to lead and who's supposed to sacrifice — that you never actually agreed to. Building a relationship that belongs to the two of you, not to the systems that raised you.

If you've read this far, some part of you already knows weekly sessions aren't going to get you ther

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