Your Marriage Is
on the Line.
One Day Can
Change the Direction.
Whether you’re fighting every week, living like roommates,
or reeling from a betrayal,
this intensive is designed for couples who cannot afford to stay stuck.
Schedule a 20-minute fit call to determine if a Marriage Intensive is the right next move.
Confidential. Response within 2 hours.
What is a Marriage Intensive?
A Marriage Intensive is a focused, high-impact intervention designed to interrupt destructive patterns fast.
Instead of spending 50 minutes a week circling the same fight, we step out of the noise and work intensively for one or two full days.
No emotional reset.
No weeks between breakthroughs.
No drifting.
Just structured, strategic work that creates clarity and movement.
Inside the Intensive
A deliberate process that moves you from chaos to clarity.
Before we meet, I gather detailed information from both of you.
We identify the core conflict cycle, major wounds, and decision points.
We don’t waste the first two hours “getting oriented.”
We start with clarity.
01 Pre-Assesessment
We identify the destructive cycle in real time.
I actively coach you through conflict differently.
You practice new responses immediately.
This isn’t passive therapy.
It’s guided change in the moment.
02 Strategic Intervention
We don’t just manage conflict.
We address what’s underneath it:
Attachment injuries.
Unspoken resentment.
Emotional reactivity.
Trust ruptures.
Surface-level change doesn’t last.
This does.
03 Root-Level Work
You leave with:
A defined communication structure
Specific behavior changes
Clear next steps
A follow-up strategy
You won’t walk out hopeful but confused.
You’ll walk out aligned and clear.
04 Clear Action Plan
Weekly Therapy vs. Intensive
50 minutes at a time
Often spent calming down before you can even get into the real issue
Conversations stop right when they get hard
One argument bleeds into the next week
Progress happens slowly over months
Weekly:
One or two full days of focused work
No stopping mid-conflict because “time’s up”
We slow down the fights you keep having and break them apart
I step in when things start to escalate
You practice doing it differently — right there
You leave with a clear plan, not just insights
Intensive:
This Is Built For a Specific Kind of Couple
You've done weekly therapy before and it helped — until you were back in the same fight three weeks later.
One of you is closer to done than the other knows, and the window to change that is closing.
There's been a betrayal — an affair, a hidden addiction, a years-long disconnection — and you don't know yet if you can come back from it.
You're high-performing in every area of your life. This is the one place you feel like you're failing.
You don't need more insight. You need something to actually change.
This intensive is the right move if:
This isn’t the right move if:
There is active domestic violence or untreated addiction in the relationship.
One partner is completely unwilling to engage.
You're looking for someone to tell you who's right.
If you're not sure whether this fits your situation, the consultation call will tell us both.
What People Ask Before They Book
Q: Can one or two days actually make a real difference?
Yes — because of how the time is structured.
Weekly therapy sessions spend the first 20 minutes re-orienting, hit something real around minute 40, and then stop.
The intensive doesn't have that problem. We go deep immediately, stay there, and don't leave until there's real movement.
Most couples report more progress in one intensive than in months of weekly sessions. That's not a sales line — it's the reason I built this model.
Q: What if my spouse is reluctant or doesn't think it will work?
That's more common than you'd think. Reluctance is fine.
What matters is willingness to show up honestly. I've worked with plenty of couples where one person came in skeptical and left with a different view of what was possible.
If your spouse is on the fence, the best first step is for you to request the consultation call. We'll talk through whether this is realistic given where both of you are.
Q: What happens after the intensive is over?
You won't leave without a clear follow-up structure. Depending on what we work through, that might look like a few follow-up sessions, specific behavioral commitments with accountability built in, or a defined plan for what the next 90 days needs to look like.
The intensive creates the shift. The follow-up locks it in.
Q: How is this different from a couples retreat or marriage workshop?
Retreats are group experiences with general content.
This is private, one-on-one work with a licensed clinician who knows your specific dynamic before we walk in the room. There's no audience and no curriculum designed for the average couple.
This is built around you specifically.
Q: What does the investment look like?
The intensive is offered in three formats:
Half-day intensive (3–4 hours) — $1,800
Full-day intensive (6–8 hours) — $4,000
Two-day intensive — $7,500
Most couples choose the full-day. The right format depends on what you're dealing with and how much ground we need to cover — that's part of what the consultation call is for.
To put it in perspective: most couples in crisis have already spent more than this on weekly therapy that didn't move the needle. And all of it costs less than one month of divorce proceedings.
Payment plans are available. If that's a factor, mention it on the call.
What Couples Say After the Intensive
"We came in not knowing if we were going to make it. We left with a plan and, more than that, a reason to believe the plan would work. I didn't think one day could do that."
— Husband, Westlake
"Every other therapist we saw wanted to hear both sides and stay neutral. Mike actually helped us figure out what was broken and how to fix it. That's what we needed."
— Wife, Circle C Ranch
"I can't believe how different this is from past therapy. It's actually practical and actionable. I know what to do now."
— Working Dad, South Austin
Why I Built This Model
I'm a licensed therapist based in Westlake, Austin. I've spent years working with couples in high-conflict and crisis-stage marriages — the ones where weekly therapy isn't moving fast enough, where the stakes are too high to spend six months building toward a breakthrough.
What I've seen over and over is that the couples who make it aren't the ones with the least damage. They're the ones who stop managing the surface and get honest about what's actually broken. That requires a format that gives you enough time and enough structure to go there — and stay there until something shifts.
I built the intensive model because 50-minute sessions weren't enough for the marriages that needed the most help. If you're here, you probably already know that.
My approach is direct. I'm not going to spend your time validating both sides of a fight that's been happening for years. I'm going to help you figure out what's underneath it — and what it would actually take to change it.