Couples Intensives
Rebuild Your Connection: 90-Minute Gottman Couples Intensives
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) trained in the world-renowned Gottman Method, Candance Gilberstadt offers specialized 90-minute couples therapy intensives designed to promote healing and deepen intimacy.
Standard 50-minute sessions often end just as a couple is beginning to unpack their most critical issues. By extending our time to 90 minutes, we bypass the weekly “warm-up” period, allowing us to dive straight into actionable, research-backed strategies that create lasting relationship transformation.
Why Choose a 90-Minute Gottman Intensive?
- Evidence-Based Framework: The Gottman Method is built on 40+ years of research with thousands of couples, focusing on exactly what makes relationships succeed or fail.
- More Time to De-escalate: Extended sessions provide the necessary breathing room to navigate highly sensitive topics safely without feeling rushed or cut off by the clock.
- Accelerated Progress: A 90-minute block allows us to complete assessment tools and interactive relationship exercises in a single setting, gaining momentum that standard sessions cannot match.
What We Will Address Together
Using the Sound Relationship House framework, our intensive sessions will target:
- Breaking Gridlock: Disarming conflicting communication styles, specifically the “Four Horsemen” (Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling).
- Deepening Friendship: Rebuilding your “Love Maps” by enhancing mutual understanding, fondness, and admiration.
- Managing Conflict: Learning how to process past fights, manage solvable problems, and dialogue about perpetual issues.
- Creating Shared Meaning: Aligning your life goals, values, and dreams for a resilient future together.
Is This Right for Us?
These intensives are ideal for couples who feel stuck in repetitive arguments, are recovering from a betrayal, or simply want a proactive, deeply focused jumpstart to strengthen their bond. Whether you are in crisis or looking to transition from maintenance to mastery, this format provides the dedicated space your relationship deserves.
