Exclusive Couples Therapy Retreats
Three days. One couple. Dedicated entirely to your relationship.
Private, intensive couples therapy with Clinical Psychologist and Certified Gottman Couples Therapist
Dr Katie Stirling, designed specifically around your relationship.
Dr Katie Stirling, designed specifically around your relationship.
Sometimes an hour just isn't enough.
Some relationship issues are difficult to unravel in a weekly therapy session. Just as you begin to get somewhere, time is up and you return to everyday life.
An Exclusive Couples Therapy Retreat gives you the time to go deeper.
Across three private days, you'll understand what's happening in your relationship, work intensively on the areas that matter most and practise new ways of communicating and connecting.
No other couples. No group program. No one-size-fits-all approach.
What could change in three days?
Communicate Differently
Understand what happens when conflict takes over, why conversations can escalate so quickly, and learn practical ways to shift the patterns that leave you both feeling frustrated and misunderstood.
Understand Each Other
Past hurts, resentment and misunderstandings can change the way you hear and respond to each other. We'll look beneath the surface of your conversations so you can better understand each other's perspective, needs and experience.
Strengthen Your Connection
Conflict isn't the whole story. We'll also focus on the friendship, affection and intimacy that make your relationship feel like a relationship, creating more opportunities to turn towards each other and strengthen your connection.
Your therapist
Your entire retreat is personally led by Dr Katie Stirling.
Katie is a Clinical Psychologist and Certified Gottman Couples Therapist with more than two decades of experience across psychology, relationships and human behaviour. She has worked with hundreds of couples across private practice and intensive retreat settings.
Her approach is warm, practical and active. She'll help you understand what's happening beneath the surface of your relationship, guide difficult conversations and support you to practise different ways of relating while you're together.
You won't spend three days simply talking about your relationship.
You'll spend three days actively working on it.
You'll spend three days actively working on it.
Three days. One couple.Completely personalised.
Comprehensive Assessment
Before we meet, you'll each complete an in-depth relationship assessment so I can understand your relationship from both perspectives and identify where our time together will be most valuable.
Personalised Retreat Planning
I personally review your assessments and design the focus and structure of our three days around your relationship, your challenges and what you want to change.
Three Days of Private Therapy
Across three private days, we'll have the time and continuity to go deeper into the issues that matter most, work through them together and practise new ways of responding and connecting while I'm there to guide you.
Practical Tools & Resources
We'll practise evidence-based relationship strategies together, supported by practical tools and personalised resources you can continue using at home.
Beyond the Retreat
We'll bring everything together into a clear plan for moving forward, with 12 months' access to Relationship Reset to help you continue building on what we've started.
No standard program. No concrete agenda.
Your three days are shaped around your relationship, with a combination of guided conversations, therapeutic exercises, individual reflection and opportunities to practice new ways of relating together. We follow what emerges and spend our time where it will be most valuable for you.
Is an Exclusive Retreat right for us?
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