Couples Workshops

Learn the skills every relationship needs to thrive.

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Whether you’re looking to deepen a strong bond or navigate specific challenges, this workshop offers a supportive and enriching environment to grow together as a couple.

Grounded in the acclaimed Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, this workshop provides practical tools, engaging presentations, and private couples' exercises designed to enhance communication, connection, and understanding in your daily life.

You’ll learn how to have stress-reducing conversations, express concerns in healthy, constructive ways, and offer apologies that truly land. The workshop helps both partners feel heard, appreciated, and emotionally supported—fostering a deeper sense of partnership and security—so you both know you matter.

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Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Offering the 7 Principles weekend workshop with an extensively trained Gottman Method therapist (completed all 3 levels).

This weekend workshop is an immersive experience designed to enhance communication, disarm the “4 Horsemen” and build a relationship based on the “Sound Relationship House”. The workshop is based on the internationally acclaimed research of Dr. John Gottman as presented in the New York times bestselling book, The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work.

Attendees will learn proven tools to help couples:

  1. Foster respect, affection and closeness

  2. Increase intimacy, fondness and admiration

  3. Manage conflict constructively and calmly

  4. Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems

  5. Create shared meaning

  6. Breakthrough and resolve gridlock or issues you don’t see eye to eye on

  7. Strengthen and maintain gains

FAQ

This is a great starting place for couples who want rapid and powerful change.

  • Committed couples who are dating, contemplating marriage, or who are married. This workshop is not appropriate for couples with severe relationship distress, intimate partner violence, active untreated addictions or serious mental health issues. This workshop is educational in nature and is not a substitute for relationship therapy.

    The leader will be available for questions and direct support in the workshop.

  • The leader is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with specialized training in couples work including Gottman Level 3 training. Learn more about your provider here.

  • The workshop combines teaching and demonstrations with one-on one- individual work focusing on your relationship with your partner. Confidentiality is strictly maintained and while I encourage questions and comments- you are not expected to share in the workshop.