Marriage Intensive Counseling in Virginia Beach

Intensives are either in person or online though zoom. The day is somewhat flexible, and you’ll take breaks as needed. A typical schedule might look like:

Day 1:

9 – 10: Couple Assessment

10 – 11: Individual Assessment

11 – 12: Individual Assessment

12 – 1:00: Lunch

1 – 3:00: 2 Hour Session

3:00 – 3:15: Break

3:15 – 4:00: 45 Minute Wrap Up

Day 2:

9 – 10:30: 90-Minute Session

10:30 – 10:45: Break

10:45 – 12:15: 90-Minute Session

12:15 – 1:30: Lunch

1:30 – 3:00: 90-Minute Session

3:00 – 3:15: Break

3:15 – 4:00: 45 Minute Wrap Up

Life happens, and we know your calendar can be unpredictable. We will hold the dates for your intensive for one week. By that time, we need your paperwork completed in the client portal. Included in the paperwork, we’ll need your credit card information for a non-refundable deposit for half the amount of your total intensive cost. You will not be charged any additional service fees for running the credit card. Make sure you have the correct and most current credit card you want us to run in the client portal.

If you have not completed paperwork by one week after booking the intensive, your dates will be released and available to other potential clients. Your card will be run for the non-refundable deposit (half of the total intensive cost) as soon as we have your credit card information.

If you need to reschedule your intensive, you can do so up to 2 weeks before and the non-refundable deposit will be used toward your rescheduled date. If you cancel after the 2-week window, you’ll be charged the entire amount of the intensive cost.

Marriage Intensives may be right for you:

• If you are in a crisis – but both partners want to try to make it work.
• If you are stuck in a negative interactive pattern and just can’t seem to stop fighting.
• If you feel distant, almost like roommates and don’t know how to be close again.
• If you just can’t make weekly counseling work with demanding schedules and/or the childcare shuffle.
• If you’re a current client wanting to deep dive into healing from a past betrayal.

Marriage Intensives are not appropriate when:

• One or both partners have an active addiction.
• If there is an ongoing affair that hasn’t ended yet.
• If you and your partner do not have the same goal for therapy, this isn’t a good format for you. In other words, if one partner wants to work on the marriage and the other doesn’t – an intensive isn’t the place to decide if you want to work on the marriage. When a couple has the same goal, an intensive can be very rewarding.
• If being in the same room for a long time is too triggering (potential trauma reaction) or you haven’t been able to be in the same space without being civil in a period of time – this format will not be productive.
• If there is active intimate partner violence, this is not an option.

We offer 1-Day Premarital Intensives; 2-Day Deployment Preparation and 2-Day Post-Deployment Reconnection Intensives, as well 2 Day Family Intensives for adult children and their parents. If you are interested in a special type of intensive experience, please schedule a consultation so we can address your unique needs.

Marriage Intensives are a two-day experience (often on weekends) which can take place in person or via online. A benefit of marriage intensives is that they are often cost-effective because: 1) They skip the catching up time that is often the start of weekly counseling sessions, and 2) They often allow you to go deeper, faster, and therefore speeding up the process of therapy.

• $1,500 per 2-Day Intensive with Student Interns
• $2,100 per 2-Day Intensive with Therapists 
• $2,700 per 2-Day Intensive with Specialty Certified Therapists 
• $5,100 per 2-Day Intensive for Dr. Elizabeth Polinsky

Click on the button below to book your initial 20-minute free consultation. You’ll chat with your selected therapist to see if they are a good fit for your needs. If so, they will book an intake session where they can get to know you and your concerns more in depth.