A weekend to find your way back to each other.
Some seasons in a relationship need more than a weekly hour. A LifeWorks couples intensive gives you a private, focused weekend to do the deep work — with a CSAT-trained, trauma-informed clinician guiding every step. Whether you’ve simply been missing each other or you’re recovering from a real breach of trust, there’s a path here designed for exactly where you are.
“Three intensives, one proven approach. A brief, free consultation helps us match you to the right one — and answer every question first.”
— The intensive team at LifeWorks Recovery
Three Intensives, One Proven Approach
Every couple arrives with a different story, so we offer three intensives that share the same clinical foundation but focus on different needs. A brief, free assessment helps us match you to the right one.
Restore Intensive
For couples who love each other but keep missing each other. You argue in the same loops, feel disconnected, or trust has quietly eroded through everyday friction. We help you break the cycle and reconnect — no betrayal required.
Rebuilding Trust Intensive
For couples recovering from a specific affair. We create a safe, structured space to process what happened, rebuild transparency, grieve honestly, and decide your future together — with care and without judgment.
Safe Harbor Intensive
For partners healing from betrayal trauma tied to compulsive sexual behavior or problematic pornography. We prioritize safety, honesty after deception, and trauma-informed disclosure — and it can pair with our individual Sex Addiction Intensive.
For the individual doing the work. Our one-on-one Sex Addiction Intensive helps the partner with compulsive sexual behavior understand and change it — built on attachment science, nervous-system regulation, and proven recovery structure. It often runs before or alongside a couple’s Safe Harbor Intensive.
For the betrayed partner’s own healing. Our one-on-one Betrayal Trauma Intensive is a private weekend built entirely around you — reclaiming your reality, steadying your nervous system, and rebuilding a sense of safety on your own terms. It pairs naturally with a couple’s Safe Harbor Intensive.
Our Approach: the ANCHOR Model™
Every LifeWorks intensive follows the ANCHOR Model™ — our own attachment-based, trauma-informed path to healing after betrayal, compulsive behavior, or eroded trust. Because a threatened nervous system can’t be honest, empathic, or close until it first feels safe, we steady you, tell the truth carefully, let the impact be heard, make things right, rebuild connection, and protect what you’ve regained.
How an Intensive Works
A simple, low-pressure path from first contact to a weekend built entirely around your relationship.
Free Consultation
Before your weekend, we meet to understand your relationship and your goals. This short assessment sets your program — including whether a 16- or 20-hour format fits — and recommends the right intensive.
Your Weekend
In one private, focused weekend (Friday evening through Sunday), you do concentrated work that can take months of weekly sessions to reach. Snacks and fluids provided throughout; lodging and dining are nearby.
Aftercare & Maintenance
You leave with a clear, practical plan — the rituals, conversations, and repair tools that keep the progress going at home — plus recommendations for continued support.
Investment
Every intensive begins with a brief, free consultation that sets your exact scope, so pricing is shown as a starting estimate.
Includes your private space in Addison, materials, refreshments throughout, and The ANCHOR Workbook. Lodging and dining are nearby (not included). The individual Sex Addiction Intensive is priced per individual on the same basis.
Not Sure Which One Fits?
How do I know which intensive is right for us?
You don’t have to decide alone. The brief, free upfront consultation is designed to guide that choice — we’ll listen, ask thoughtful questions, and recommend the best fit.
Is an intensive instead of, or in addition to, regular counseling?
It can be either. Some couples use an intensive to jump-start progress and then continue with weekly counseling; others use it to move through a specific challenge.
Do we need to be “in crisis” to come?
No. Intensives serve couples at many points — from persistent disconnection to acute betrayal. If you’re wondering whether it’s “enough” of a reason, it probably is; let’s talk.
Is everything confidential?
Yes. Your weekend is private and one-on-one with your clinician, in a comfortable, discreet space in Addison.
Take the First Step, Privately
A confidential consultation is the simplest way to find out if an intensive is right for you. There’s no pressure — just a warm, honest conversation about where you are and what could help.