In a crisis, waiting won’t help—intensive counselling offers the timely support your relationship needs.
What is Couple Intensive Counselling?
When your relationship is in crisis, waiting weeks between sessions can feel unbearable. You need focused support—now.
Couple Intensive Counselling is a dedicated, short-term intervention designed for partners who need immediate help. It offers the space and time to work through deep-rooted issues without the usual gaps between sessions.
In just 4 hours, you can cover the equivalent of few months of weekly therapy. While it’s not a quick fix, you’ll leave with essential tools, healthier ways to communicate, and a clearer path forward. Also known as Marathon Couples Therapy, this approach helps couples begin the process of healing together and find clarity about their next steps.
Issues addressed in Couple Intensive Counselling
- Infidelity
- Betrayal
- Lying
- Lack of trust
- Conflict avoidance
- Financial disagreements
- Sexual differences
- Emotional disconnection
- Communication breakdown
Benefits of Couple Intensive Counselling
Immediate clarity
Get to the root of long-standing issues faster, without waiting weeks between sessions.
Focused healing space
Dive deep into emotional wounds in a safe, uninterrupted setting.
Break destructive cycles
Identify and stop harmful patterns before they cause more damage.
Sharpened communication
Learn practical tools to express needs clearly and listen with empathy.
Rebuild emotional safety
Restore trust by addressing unresolved hurts in a supportive environment.
Strengthened connection
Reignite intimacy and rediscover the bond that brought you together.
Couple Intensive Counselling at Incontact
Pre-session assessment
Before your intensive begins, both partners complete detailed questionnaires. This allows your counsellor to understand your relationship history, pinpoint core issues, and screen for factors like ongoing affairs or addiction that may require different support.
Individual consultations
Each partner has a private, 60-minute session with the counsellor. This helps uncover personal perspectives, unspoken concerns, and individual goals for the relationship.
Setting shared goals
The intensive starts with a joint session where the therapist outlines key focus areas based on your assessments. Together, you’ll establish clear goals tailored to your unique challenges and hopes for the relationship.
Deep-dive sessions
Across 4-6 hours, you’ll work through emotional wounds, communication breakdowns, and recurring conflicts. These immersive sessions offer the space to address deep-seated issues without the interruptions of daily life.
Skill-building for real change
You’ll learn and practice new communication techniques, conflict-resolution strategies, and ways to reconnect emotionally—tools designed for lasting change beyond the sessions.
Healing past injuries
Guided conversations help process unresolved pain, rebuild trust, and repair emotional injuries, fostering a sense of safety and understanding between partners.
Creating a practical action plan
Before the intensive concludes, you’ll collaborate on a personalised plan to apply what you’ve learned. This includes specific strategies to help sustain positive changes and strengthen your relationship going forward.
Post-intensive follow-ups
Optional follow-up sessions offer continued support, ensuring that the new skills and insights become part of your everyday relationship dynamic.
FAQ
Not in the traditional sense. The counsellor will equip you with valuable tools, techniques, and guidance to help you build the relationship you desire. However, success depends on your commitment to actively applying what you learn and making consistent efforts. Real change requires both action and mindset shifts—you'll get out what you invest in the process.
Intensive counselling is ideal if you’re facing a relationship crisis, struggling with recurring conflicts, or want faster progress than weekly sessions allow. It’s especially effective for couples who are ready to address deep-rooted issues head-on and commit to change.
For meaningful progress, both partners need to be willing to engage in the process. If one partner is hesitant, a preparatory session can help clarify concerns and set expectations before starting the intensive.
You’ll complete questionnaires before your sessions, which help identify key issues. It’s also helpful to reflect on your personal goals, concerns, and what you hope to achieve through counselling.
While intensives can be transformative, they’re not a replacement for ongoing support if needed. Many couples follow up with occasional sessions to reinforce progress and continue developing healthier patterns.
Couple Intensive Counselling can help you gain clarity about the future of your relationship. It doesn’t guarantee reconciliation but helps both partners understand their needs and whether staying together is the healthiest option.
The sessions are intense, but your counsellor will create a supportive, non-judgmental space to work through difficult emotions at a manageable pace. Breaks are included to help you process and reflect.
Affairs or breaches of trust are addressed with care and discretion. If such issues surface, the counsellor will help guide the conversation sensitively, focusing on healing and rebuilding trust where possible.
Yes, scheduling is flexible and can be tailored to fit around work or personal commitments. You can also discuss splitting the intensive over multiple days if needed.
For couples outside Singapore, the assessment phase can be conducted via video conferencing. While in-person sessions are recommended for the intensive itself, virtual options can be discussed depending on your situation.
