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.
In-person in Addison / North Dallas · CSAT-trained clinicians · Trauma-informed & attachment-focused · Free consultation
“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.
Individual intensives that pair with couples work
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.
Betrayal Trauma Intensive
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 STEADY Method™
Every LifeWorks intensive follows the STEADY Method™ — 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.
S — Stabilize & Settle: safety and calm first, so the work is bearable.
T — Tell the Truth: paced, contained honesty — never graphic.
E — Ease the Impact: the hurt is fully heard and validated.
A — Address & Own: real accountability, amends, and changed behavior.
D — Draw Close: rebuilding closeness at the hurt partner’s pace.
Y — Yours to Keep: protecting your gains with rhythm and support.
All three intensives follow this same clear arc, tailored to your relationship through the free upfront consultation — and every couple leaves with The STEADY Workbook: Finding Secure Love Again to carry the work home. The STEADY Method is original to LifeWorks, but it stands on the shoulders of the pioneers who mapped this terrain — Bowlby and Ainsworth, Sue Johnson, John & Julie Gottman, Robert Navarra, Patrick Carnes, Michael Barta, Stan Tatkin, Dan Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Steffens & Means, and Brené Brown — whose science we integrated into one attachment-based path.
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.
Why people trust us with this
When the stakes are this high, who you do this work with matters.
Experienced CSAT clinicians
Your weekend is led by Certified Sex Addiction Therapists who do this work every day — not generalists. We understand betrayal, compulsive sexual behavior, and the long road back, and we hold all of it with steadiness and zero judgment.
Trauma-informed, always
Betrayal lives in the nervous system, not just the story. You are treated as a trauma survivor — never “codependent” — and we move at the pace your body can bear, safety first.
Whole-person and holistic
We’re open to more than talk — breath, grounding, somatic and mind-body practices, and your own faith or values are welcome here, whatever helps you steady and heal.
Why the STEADY Method™ works
Our original, attachment-based framework follows how healing actually happens: steady the body, tell the truth safely, let the pain be heard, make it right, rebuild connection, and protect it. Nothing rushed, nothing skipped.
Your investment
An intensive is a real investment — of time, courage, and heart — in the relationship you’re choosing to fight for. In one focused weekend you can reach what often takes months of weekly sessions: honesty, understanding, and a way back to each other.
Because every intensive is built around your relationship — your story, your pace, and whether a 16- or 20-hour format fits — we set the scope and talk through the investment together at your free, no-pressure consultation. Your weekend includes a private space in Addison, all materials, refreshments throughout, and your copy of The STEADY Workbook: Finding Secure Love Again; comfortable lodging and dining are nearby.
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.