Couples Intensives · EFT & Gottman
For couples living in the aftermath of betrayal, an affair, or problematic or compulsive sexual behavior. You have been surviving in the same house, bracing for every conversation, unsure if you can find your way back.
What if two focused days could move you further than a year of weekly, stop-and-start sessions?
Concentrated couples work, without the weekly interruption.
Sound familiar?
Fifty minutes a week was never built for a relationship in crisis. Maybe one of these is where you are.
The session ends right as you finally reach the real thing, and then you wait another week to pick it back up. You keep wishing there were simply more time.
You have meant to start weekly therapy for months, but coordinating two schedules, work, and life keeps winning. The waitlists don't help.
Everything feels urgent. Since the discovery, you cannot keep living in this limbo, and you don't have years to wait for things to slowly shift.
You are both clear that you want to save this. You just need a faster, deeper way in than an hour at a time.
Why an intensive
Interrupt the conflict and disconnection cycle you have been stuck in for years, in days rather than months.
Give betrayal and broken trust the concentrated, skilled attention they actually require to heal.
Move out of bracing and resentment and back toward safety, empathy, and real connection.
Fit deep work into one or two focused days, with far less disruption to work and family than months of weekly appointments.
What's included
Every intensive is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method, adapted for the specific work of betrayal recovery.
You each complete a relationship assessment and short prep work, so our time together starts where it matters instead of at the beginning.
We open together to name what brought you here and set the focus for the work ahead.
I meet one on one with each of you to understand your history, your experience, and what you each need.
Two to three hour blocks of focused couples work, long enough to move through what a weekly hour never can.
Deep work is tiring. We pace it with genuine breaks so you can stay present and grounded.
We close with a clear plan: next steps, follow up, and referrals to weekly support if you want it.
How it works
You complete assessments and prep before we meet. This lets me understand your patterns and tailor the intensive to your relationship in advance.
We map the cycle you get caught in and work through it experientially. For betrayal, that means structured attention to the impact, honest empathy, and the real steps that begin to rebuild trust.
We reflect on what shifted and build a plan to protect it: weekly or biweekly therapy, a follow-up intensive, or other support that fits where you are.
Investment
An intensive is a premium format. It asks more of me in energy, preparation, and schedule, and it gives you a concentrated experience that weekly sessions cannot.
A non-refundable deposit of half your total reserves your dates. Braving Wellness is an out-of-network provider. A superbill can be provided for the therapy hours in your intensive, which you may submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. Additional or follow-up intensives are available if you want ongoing support.
An honest note
If you are unsure whether this is your moment for an intensive, reach out anyway. We can talk it through in a consultation, and if it is not the right fit, I will help you find what is.
Questions
Instead of meeting for fifty minutes a week, we meet for several hours over one or two days. You skip the waitlist and the weekly restart, and you get to work through your concerns to a real stopping point rather than pausing every hour and waiting a week to continue.
Weekly sessions spend a lot of energy just getting back up to speed: checking in, remembering last week, handling the fight of the week, then ending before anything resolves. An intensive removes that overhead. Because it shortens the overall course of work, it can also be more cost effective than months of weekly sessions, and it is far easier to fit around work and childcare.
This is the work I specialize in. As a CSAT trained in EFT and the Gottman Method, I hold both sides: the pain of the betrayed partner and the path forward for the relationship. An intensive gives betrayal the concentrated, skilled time it needs, as long as you are both willing to be in the work together.
Both are available. In-person intensives are held in the Phoenix area. Online intensives are available for couples located anywhere in Arizona. Because of licensing law, we can work together as long as you are both physically in Arizona during our sessions.
You are welcome to travel to Arizona for an in-person intensive. Many couples like getting away specifically to focus on their relationship with no distractions. You only need to be physically in Arizona for the time we are working together.
Email me and we will set up a free consultation for both of you, so we can meet, see how we connect, and decide together whether an intensive fits your relationship right now. If it does, we schedule your dates, take your deposit, and I send prep materials to complete before we meet.
No responsible therapist can guarantee outcomes, and I will not. What an intensive gives you is extended, uninterrupted time to work through hard things and rebuild trust, without the stop-and-start of weekly sessions. The work is intense by design. It is normal to feel tired, and even to feel more friction at first, before things settle. I will keep the pace manageable and make sure you both feel supported throughout.
Who you will be working with
I am Angie Hatch, a licensed professional counselor who specializes in the exact place you are standing: a relationship shaken by betrayal or compulsive behavior, and two people trying to decide what happens next.
An intensive puts us in the room together for long enough to actually move something. My job is to keep it honest, keep it safe, and help you find your way back to each other, or to clarity about what is right for you.
If you are both ready to stop bracing and start rebuilding, let's talk about whether an intensive is your next step.
Request a free consultation