When tensions arise when intimately life, we can help.
Sexual discontent is a widespread and painful problem in relationships. Research shows that couples who regularly discuss sex have better sexual lives. Our goal is to enhance your intimate connection in a calm, respectful atmosphere. Most couples feel relieved and hopeful after this intensive couples sexuality retreat.
Make faster progress with complete focus on each other
Many couples feel overwhelmed and stuck in repetitive, long-standing problems. Take a weekend to resolve entrenched dynamics and reconnect. Rediscover why you fell in love in the first place. Foster an affectionate, tender, and loving home.
We design intensive sexuality retreats for couples with solid fighting skills who feel mutual fondness and admiration. If your therapist believes this is lacking, the retreat will focus on teaching effective interventions to manage issues like affairs, chronic fighting, or coldness. Only then will they focus on sex.
What issues do you address? We tackle a wide range of sexual problems, including desire discrepancy, arousal difficulties, trouble achieving orgasm or reaching it too quickly, intimacy anxiety, and phobic reactions. Our specialists also work with sexual addiction and compulsivity.
We provide in-person couples therapy in 33 locations across the USA, including Puerto Rico. Online retreats are available in 45 US states, Alaska, and international locations such as Canada, Great Britain, Northern Mariana Islands, and Singapore.
The answers are as varied as the individuals showing up. We never want to treat a physical problem as a psychological one, so we ask all to see a medical specialist. However, most people only want sex that is worth having.
Can we learn to initiate sex more effectively?
Initiating and refusing sex gently and skillfully is something all couples need. Seduction requires knowing your partner well. Too many initiate sex so timidly that their partners miss it. Others pick times when they can “hit and run” the sexual invitation to avoid rejection.
How do we increase sexual energy?
While some couples report having no “time” for sex, often it’s not prioritized. Hidden phobias, trauma or resentments can block desire and emotional intimacy. If an individual is willing, they can grow beyond these limitations.
Are we close friends but not lovers anymore?
Sometimes, becoming parents neutralizes sexual energy. Creating mutual arousal, not any particular sexual act, allows a couple to become genuinely intimate again. Learn how to transition back to an adult sexual relationship.
Does sexual passion fade in time?
It can, but it doesn’t have to. Why do some couples maintain a fun, intimate connection throughout their marriage while others don’t? What do they know that you don’t?
We learned more open communication about sex and intimacy.
Understanding the role that trauma has played in my life and in my relationships has helped my husband to understand me. Using my husband’s words, this weekend helped us more than 3 years of couples therapy did! We were amazed at what was accomplished in such a short time.
Recent client reports
This retreat gave us a way of framing what we’ve been through together that is connecting instead of separating.
It also reinvigorated our sex life. We are having so much fun, and we feel like we’re allowed to step away from all of the tension and just enjoy one another again! Healing, connection, and hope. It was an exhausting, draining, life-giving weekend.
Recent client reports
What were the core issues you wanted to improve? Sexuality and connectedness.
What were the core issues you wanted to improve?
“Sexuality and connectedness”
What was it like to participate in an intensive from your side of the couch?
“Like working with a Jedi master.”
Recent client reports
We were stuck – a sexless marriage with growing resentment.
Past therapy never focused on the lack of intimacy as one of the potential missing links (why things might be stuck, to begin with). These sessions did. The therapist also kept the TO DO LIST basic and straightforward – it’s work, but reasonable work and if you keep at it you will get there.
Recent client reports
We had been to five different therapists before trying CTI. No one could “crack the code.”
We did a lot of research, desperate for someone who might have answers. We wanted a therapist who dealt specifically with sex. In the first 20 minutes of our first session she had “cracked the code” of our problem. I was in so much shock yet so grateful. We are more physical than ever.
We learned more open communication about sex and intimacy.
Understanding the role that trauma has played in my life and in my relationships has helped my husband to understand me. Using my husband’s words, this weekend helped us more than 3 years of couples therapy did! We were amazed at what was accomplished in such a short time.
Recent client reports
This retreat gave us a way of framing what we’ve been through together that is connecting instead of separating.
It also reinvigorated our sex life. We are having so much fun, and we feel like we’re allowed to step away from all of the tension and just enjoy one another again! Healing, connection, and hope. It was an exhausting, draining, life-giving weekend.
Recent client reports
What were the core issues you wanted to improve? Sexuality and connectedness.
What was it like to participate in an intensive with them from your side of the couch? Like working with a Jedi master.
Recent client reports
We were stuck – a sexless marriage with growing resentment.
Past therapy never focused on the lack of intimacy as one of the potential missing links (why things might be stuck, to begin with). These sessions did. The therapist also kept the TO DO LIST basic and straightforward – it’s work, but reasonable work and if you keep at it you will get there.
Recent client reports
We had been to five different therapists before trying CTI. No one could “crack the code.”
We did a lot of research, desperate for someone who might have answers. We wanted a therapist who dealt specifically with sex. In the first 20 minutes of our first session she had “cracked the code” of our problem. I was in so much shock yet so grateful. We are more physical than ever.
At Couples Therapy Inc., our therapists are specially trained to address sexual issues commonly seen in couples therapy.
Half of our team hold doctoral degrees, and one-third are certified in the prestigious Gottman Method, with fewer than 500 practitioners worldwide. As couples therapy specialists, we deeply understand the heartache caused by sexual problems and are dedicated to helping you overcome them.
I feel passionate about couples therapy and sex therapy and hold a deep respect for those who invest in making their relationship better. I have an active interactional style that is no-nonsense but sweetened with humor and empathetic engagement. I care deeply about my couples.
Certified Gottman Therapist, Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy Advanced, Sex Therapist, The Couples Institute – The Developmental Model, AANE Certified Neurodiverse Couples Therapists, Certified in Discernment Counseling, Dan Wile Collaborative Couple Therapy Training
I truly enjoy being a therapist. My couples share their most intimate thoughts and feelings with me. I witness their journey from being distressed and anxious, to finding inner peace and a better connection with each other. That is a deeply rewarding experience.
Certified Gottman Therapist, Certified Imago Therapist, Board-certified Sex Therapist by AASECT, Divorce Mediation Certificate, Art and Science of Love, Certified Discernment Counselor
I think the couple is the expert on their relationship, so I rely on them to tell me their “story.” Many have become disillusioned and isolated from one another. Addressing these issues head-on is often comforting and reassuring to them.
Advanced Training in the Gottman Method, Advanced Training in Emotional Focused Therapy, Board-certified Sex Therapist (AASECT), Listed in the Discernment directory as a provider
I love working with couples who face some of the most challenging of life’s obstacles. As a persistently optimistic therapist using evidence-based practices, I believe partners can learn to really “see” each other and reconnect in meaningful ways.
Certified Addiction Specialist, Board Certified Sex Therapist (AASECT), Hypnotherapy, Imago Training level 1, Advanced Gottman Method Training, ACT training level 2, Sexual Recovery Therapist, CBT Training (Beck Institute), EMDR training (EMDRIA approved), Clinical Anxiety Specialist certification, DBT training, Listed in the Discernment directory as a provider
I see myself as a co-pilot on a couple’s journey. I want couples to become experts on themselves. My job is to connect dots, identify blind spots, and teach the requisite insight and skills to help partners define and shape the relationship they want to have.
Advanced Training in the Gottman Method, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), Training in the Developmental Model, Family and Divorce Mediation, Listed in the Discernment directory as a provider
