REBECCA HENDRIX
COUPLES RETREAT INTENSIVES IN MAINE
Some relationships don’t need more time. They need uninterrupted depth.
For deep connection, your relationship needs more than squeezed-in conversations between busy days. Your relationship deserves the same focused investment you bring to other areas of your life.
The couples who are called to immersive work are not always in crisis —they are ambitious about their most valuable asset: their partnership. They choose to take the time to go deeper and move the needle further — which can also augment any work they are doing in weekly 50-minute sessions at home.
These 3–5 day private intensives are designed to accelerate the work of therapy by creating a focused, uninterrupted environment. Instead of weekly sessions that can feel slow or fragmented, this immersive experience allows us to go deep—quickly and effectively.
THE COUPLES WORK
Using Imago Relationship Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — two of the most rigorously researched frameworks for couples — we work to:
Identify the specific negative cycle driving conflict or disconnection — and interrupt it
Understand what’s actually being asked for beneath the conflict
Rebuild the safety and responsiveness that intimacy requires
Develop tools for repair before the next rupture happens
Leave with a clear map forward — insights+skills you can use
THE SETTING
The intensive takes place in your own private cottage, providing a contained, distraction-free setting that supports both deep therapeutic work and meaningful downtime.
Your waterfront cottage is surrounded by nature, evergreen trees and quiet beauty. Between sessions, you’ll have space to breathe, reflect, and reconnect—whether that’s walking along the rocky shoreline, hiking scenic trails, kayaking on the ocean, or sharing incredible local food.
This is more than therapy—it’s a reset for your relationship - a chance to slow down, soften defenses, and reconnect.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This intensive is designed for couples who are:
High functioning and self-aware, but stuck in the same patterns
Too busy for weekly sessions, or not getting enough traction
At a crossroads — or deeply committed and wanting to go further
Ready to invest focused time and resources into their relationship
This is not crisis intervention. It’s depth work for people who want to get their relationship back on track or to create a new relationship that serves them for the individuals they have become after giving deeply of themselves — sometimes to children, jobs, parents and other life transitions.
Optional Add-On: Ketamine-Assisted Couples Psychotherapy (KAP)
For couples who are open to an innovative new modality that can offer additional insights and deeper emotional access, ketamine-assisted sessions can be integrated into the intensive when clinically appropriate. Used within a structured therapeutic frame, KAP can reduce the defensiveness that keeps couples from truly hearing each other — and increase vulnerability — something that talk therapy alone doesn’t always reach. In addition, ketamine increases brain neuroplasticity — and helps clients to see old problems in new ways.
I have five years of experience offering KAP and am trained by MAPS in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy (to be offered when legalized). KAP can be explored during our initial consultation and offered when clinically appropriate.
