Intensive Christian Marriage Counseling

If your marriage is under intense stress and pressure, you may feel as if the oneness between you and your spouse has been broken. Perhaps you’ve reached such a low point that you feel as if your relationship is beyond hope. At Seattle Christian Counseling, several Christian marriage counselors in Washington State offer intensive Christian Marriage Counseling. We believe this faith-based process can help you and your spouse restore your marriage. When all seems lost, the professional marriage counselors at Seattle Christian Counseling are here to give you the hope and direction you need.

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What is Intensive Christian Marriage Counseling?

Christian Marriage Counseling Intensives are private, intensive marriage therapy sessions that are longer than a traditional one-hour therapy session. Depending on the practitioner, your intensive marriage counseling may take place over the course of one or two consecutive days.

The Marriage Counseling Intensives include:

A confidential, safe environment to identify hurts and struggles that have been around for a long time.
Focused, intensive counseling sessions with a professional marriage counselor.

Intensive Christian Marriage Counseling is designed for:

Married couples currently experiencing acute difficulty or crisis in their marriage.
Couples in a pre-marriage situation, especially those who have been divorced and are planning to re-marry.
Couples who would like to pursue a deep enrichment experience for their marriage. Perhaps you have been together for a while and have started to drift apart.
Empty nesters who have been child-focused for decades and want to strengthen their marriage bond.

The Marriage Intensives serve as a resource for couples to get away from daily stresses and routines in order to address their concerns and move together toward a life of hope and healing.

During your time with us, you can expect to meet with a professional, licensed marriage therapist who will help you identify the root cause of your conflict, then walk with you on a journey toward resolution.

During your intensive counseling sessions, you will discuss ways to apply biblical principles to your marriage and how to depend on the Holy Spirit for guidance after the intensive is done. By getting to the core of the conflict and developing new, God-honoring habits, participants will likely see change that will be sustained in the long term. With God’s help and by following His lead, your marriage can get back on the right path—and stay there.

Will Christian Marriage Counseling Intensives Really Help?

Attending intensive marriage counseling can be exhausting on many fronts — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Issues may arise that are difficult to address and painful to work through. However, the effort put forth is often worth it.

Working through challenging areas of your marriage and landing on a feasible resolution plan is far better and healthier than burying the hurt and pretending it doesn’t exist.

For those who are teachable, willing to do the work prescribed, and commit to extensive follow-up, the vast majority of our clients have experienced marked and sustained transformation.

A significant benefit of Christian Marriage Counseling Intensives is the concentrated, uninterrupted time granted to couples to dig deep into their concerns and wholly focus on a practical way forward.

Possible benefits include learning how to:

Heal relational hurts, resolve conflicts, and restore trust.
Develop skills for heart-to-heart communication.
Understand your God-given need for relationships.
Identify and address obstacles to relational intimacy.
More clearly define what you need from others.
Release painful emotions such as hurt, anger, and fear.
See the impact of past events on present struggles.
Replace unhealthy thinking and harmful behavior patterns with healthy habits.
Receive comfort for hurts from childhood that limit the capacity to love.
Experience freedom to love God and others more joyfully.

At Seattle Christian Counseling, we desire to see lives changed by God’s grace through the ministry of these counseling intensives.

What Issues Are Addressed During Christian Marriage Counseling Intensives?

Our Christian Marriage Counseling Intensives hone in on specific issues and crises currently being faced by each couple.

Commonly addressed issues include:

Breakdowns in communication
Lack of trust between partners
A sense of aloneness experienced by one or both spouses
Infidelity
Sexual intimacy concerns
Roles and expectations within the relationship
Financial concerns
… and much more.

Intensive Christian Marriage Counseling is not meant to be exhaustive or comprehensive. Rather, our focus is to pinpoint the underlying cause of the existing marital conflict and to offer practical steps toward lasting resolution.

We’re on your team. The best news is that God is, too. With His help, all things are possible—even a regenerated marriage covenant between you and your spouse. We desire to see the oneness between you and your spouse restored with God’s help.

We don’t just want to see your marriage remain intact—we want to see you flourish and thrive, and we’ll do everything we can to help you meet this goal.

What’s the Next Step?

If you can relate to any of the concerns addressed here, we want to help you. Take some time to pray about whether a Christian Marriage Counseling Intensive would be right for you and your spouse.

Christian Marriage Counseling Intensives have made a profound, lasting impact on many marriages. We want to help you and your spouse live a God-honoring union as husband and wife.

To talk with someone or to schedule your marriage counseling intensive, call us today at 206-388-3929 or email care@seattlechristiancounseling.com. We’d be happy to answer any questions you have and provide the information you need to make a decision.

Heather Pearman, MA, LMFT

I offers 4-hour marriage intensives in which you will receive a thorough evaluation of trouble spots in your marriage.

The first hour is a conjoint session with both partners.
The second hour, I will see one individual.
The third hour, I will see the other individual.
The fourth hour, I will see both partners, conjointly. The hour will be spent discussing the findings and planning the path forward. At this time, you will know if you are a candidate for ongoing marriage therapy.

I offer marriage therapy focusing on communication. I have additional training in treating marriages recovering from affairs and traumas. I also have additional training in helping couples navigate through and heal sexual compulsive behaviors and pornography addiction.

Melinda Burns, MA, LMHC

I offer Marriage Intensives on Thursdays from 9am to 1pm and Fridays from 9am to 1pm, in person only.

I work with couples from all backgrounds and spiritual beliefs. My focus will be on behavior and how couples can make positive choices to communicate effectively.

Intensive marriage counseling is designed for couples seeking deeper connection by discovering hard truths, creating honest dialogues, and resolving cycles of conflict. It involves vulnerable work by exposing spoken and unspoken hurts, unresolved arguments, and other stressors in order to rebuild trust and confidence in the marriage. It is designed for couples to step outside of their usual roles, defenses, and routines. Intensive marriage counseling allows the couple to learn what is necessary to move forward to establish renewed clarity, emotional insight, and a path that leads them forward together, even within their individual systems of belief.

Pamela Pope, MA, LMHC

I offer a Relationship Enhancement Program, which is designed to enhance all relationships: pre-marital, marital, separated, or divorced and co-parenting. It uses Cognitive Behavioral, Emotion-Focused, and Solution-Focused therapy techniques, strategies, and skills training.

There are three phases in the Relationship Enhancement Program to bring about success:

Phase 1: Analysis

Couples will dissect and analyze “What Is.” Couples will discover and learn how to better understand their own and their partner’s unmet needs and unresolved conflicts, problems, and issues, including past, present, and future concerns.

Phase 2: Skills Training

Couples will learn and practice skills such as communication, conflict resolution, and how to effectively process emotions and needs.

Phase 3: Maintenance

Continued practice until habit-formed skills set in, including friendship building, increased emotional intimacy, and working in a partnership. This program has proven successful over many years and has a Christian-based perspective regarding a Christ-centered marriage.

David Daroff, MA, LMHC

I offer Marriage Intensives that include four 4-hour sessions over a weekend. There will be breaks, lunch, and dinner on Saturday and breaks and lunch on Sunday. If you are coming from out of town, I would recommend booking accommodation. I will supply pre-intensive homework for you and your partner to complete in order to make the most of our time together.

Dr. Gary Bell, Ed.D, LMFT

I offer three-hour intensive marriage counseling sessions for two consecutive days over a weekend. The format covers commitment, communication, finances, discipline, trust, integrity, and faith.