Our Couples Intensive offers one and two-day immersive therapy experiences designed to accelerate significant relational breakthroughs.
We immediately get to work, guiding you and your partner toward profound transformation, emotional healing, and the restoration of your lasting love and fulfillment.
Couples Intensive is an exquisite opportunity to experience concentrated, life-altering relational work—tackling deep-rooted issues like disconnection, power struggles, and unresolved trauma head-on.
Couples Intensive is perfect for you if:
Our Couples Intensive is an extraordinary opportunity to quickly heal, grow, and reconnect on a deeper level through the powerful method of Relational Life Therapy. Here’s what to expect:
Our skilled therapists work intensively with you and your partner, diving straight into the heart of your relationship struggles. We’ll identify and heal core relational wounds, leading you to experience powerful emotional and relational breakthroughs.
Develop a deeper understanding of your partner, and gain dynamic relational skills to successfully navigate conflict, express your needs effectively, and rebuild your relationship on the foundations of intimacy, trust, and lasting growth.
A Couples Intensive might be the right fit if you and your partner feel stuck in recurring patterns of conflict, disconnection, or frustration, despite your efforts to improve things on your own or through traditional therapy. You may be feeling unheard, misunderstood, or emotionally distant, unsure of how to bridge the growing gap in your relationship. Perhaps past hurts, trust issues, or ongoing miscommunication have left you feeling exhausted and questioning the future of your partnership.
Our two-day intensive provides a powerful opportunity to break free from these cycles by offering a focused, immersive experience tailored to your unique challenges. With the guidance of an experienced therapist, you’ll gain deeper insights into your relationship dynamics, learn practical tools to foster healthier communication and begin the process of rebuilding trust and intimacy.
Couples who complete an intensive often leave feeling more connected, equipped with strategies to sustain their progress, and hopeful about their future together.
Gain the tools, insights, and strategies needed to create lasting change and deepen your connection.
Discover how certain behaviors and coping mechanisms from the past are sabotaging your relationship—and how to transform them for the better.
Develop communication skills that allow you to resolve conflict in ways that bring you closer rather than drive you apart.
Learn actionable relational strategies that you can immediately apply to work as a team, forever shifting how you and your partner communicate, handle conflict, and nurture intimacy.
Our Couples Intensives are run by Desirae Ysasi, LPC-S in San Antonio. Desirae’s specialty areas include high-conflict dynamics, affair and betrayal recovery, marriages on the brink of divorce, and emotional disconnection.
Desirae became a Certified RLT Couples Therapist in 2018, training directly with Terry Real, the founder of RLT. Today, she oversees the institute’s global training program.
During the 2-Day Couples Intensive, Desirae will help you and your partner develop new skills and new perspective that allow you to continue to heal and move forward instead of staying stuck in the past.
Couples Intensive is an unparalleled opportunity to experience how quickly Relational Life Therapy can spark profound transformations in your relationship.
By working closely with one of our skilled and compassionate therapists, you and your partner will address destructive patterns, repair disconnection, and rebuild lasting intimacy.
Unlike traditional therapy, which often takes years, our method delivers deep and immediate breakthroughs, helping you repair and reconnect in a matter of days.
Hear how couples who once felt stuck, disconnected, or on the brink of separation have found renewed connection and partnership through our approach.
“. . .the couples work that you do is so valuable — we are relating now in a wholly new and expansive way. It’s what each of us knew we were missing but could not have found on our own. Thank you so much!”
“Some of the things I love about Terry Real and his work are the practical steps, down-to-earth guidance and his model of having the courage and respect to be honest with couples when one partner is behaving in a way that needs to be addressed first.”
“Thank you for introducing me to the real Mark, and for introducing him to himself. I am happier in our relationship then I have been in many many years. I use the strategies you taught us with Mark as well as with my siblings and friends. They work! If we never found someone willing to be straight and honest we would not be together, that much I know. Your honesty about Mark allowed me to stand down. Now that I am able to stand down I am able to try to be the person I want to be in this relationship.”
“Some of the things I love about Terry Real and his work are the practical steps, down-to-earth guidance and his model of having the courage and respect to be honest with couples when one partner is behaving in a way that needs to be addressed first.”
“The practical and positive approach of RLT has helped my clients see change almost immediately. By weaving past trauma and its impact on relationships and by building new skills together, my clients have expressed new deep and meaningful connections. RLT is not just a training program, it is a community that works in unity to offer ongoing support to therapists as well as clients.”
“I have found that most couples really want a relationship that works for both people and they have no idea how to make that happen. Once they learn that implementing a set of learned skills can achieve their goal, the majority of couples are willing to do things differently. They become empowered to change!”
Yes, couples therapy and marriage counseling are essentially the same. Both focus on improving communication, resolving conflicts, and strengthening the relationship between partners, whether you’re married or not. At RLT, the terms are used interchangeably, and the goal of our sessions is always to help couples build healthier, more fulfilling relationships – regardless of your starting point.
Right now, we offer in-person couples intensives only in San Antonio. However, we offer in-person couples therapy in both Austin and San Antonio and virtual couples therapy sessions anywhere in Texas.
No, due to the condensed format of our couples intensives, they are only offered in-person. This is to ensure that you and your partner get the best possible results from your sessions.
Yes, our talented therapists have obtained a range of certifications in Texas including Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy and Licensed Professional Counseling. All of our therapists are also trained in Relational Life Therapy. Click Here to learn more about our team.
Couples Therapy is conducted in one to two 60-90 minute sessions per week on an ongoing basis to steadily build and maintain longterm growth. Our Couples Intensives are two-day immersive experiences designed to help couple create immediate, high-impact change in their relationship. We’re happy to help you decide which path is right for you – contact us to speak with our placement specialist.
Yes, follow-up or ongoing support is available after the initial intensive to ensure that you and your partner are remaining on the right track. We can help answer any new questions that come up and help you navigate any challenges that arise.
Absolutely. We welcome and support couples from all backgrounds and relationship structures.
¡Sí! Tenemos varios terapeutas bilingües que ofrecen intensivos para parejas en español. Conozca más sobre nuestros terapeutas en todo Texas aquí.
Couples Intensive is relational transformation in its most profound form.
Experience how deep emotional healing, authentic communication, and compassionate conflict resolution can result in lifelong trust, intimacy, and connection in your relationship.
