Relationship Intensives

When weekly therapy isn’t enough..

In Fort Lauderdale, FL

You care deeply about your relationship, but you feel stuck.

You’re having the same arguments.
Communication breaks down quickly.

Weekly therapy is helpful, but it’s moving too slowly for what you're navigating .

Relationship intensives offer a different path.

Intensives create the space to slow down, go deeper, and actually shift the patterns that keep you stuck.

What Is A Relationship Intensive?

Relationship intensive is a longer, focused therapy experience designed to help you and your loved one make meaningful progress in a shorter amount of time.

Instead of 50-minute sessions spread out over months, we spend several hours together in one dedicated weekend, giving us the time to:

  • Fully understand the pattern that is getting you stuck

  • Interrupt repetitive patterns in real time

  • Practice new ways of relating while you're in the moment

  • Move toward clarity, reconnection, or repair

This isn’t rushed, solution based therapy. It’s intentional, spacious, and deeply focused.

I offer an option of a 3, 6, 9, or 12 hour intensive in a weekend, broken into 3 hour blocks, so you and your loved one can get to the bottom of what’s going on.

Therapy for relationships healing from childhood trauma & complex trauma.
Therapy with Josh Davis, LMHC helps gay men & queer men navigate relationships and heal from complex trauma.

Who Are Intensives For?

Relationship intensives may be a good fit if:

  • Weekly session feel too short to make progress

  • You feel stuck in recurring conflict that doesn’t change

  • Communication quickly turns into defensiveness, shutdown, or disconnection

  • You’re navigating disconnection and conflict (betrayal, trust issues, major life stressors or changes)

  • You want to deepen your connection, not just “manage problems”

  • You’ve tried therapy before but felt like it didn’t go deep enough

  • Weekly sessions feel too short to make progress

  • You prefer a focused, efficient approach instead of ongoing weekly sessions

I work with individuals and couples across relationship structures, including:

  • Monogamous couples

  • LGBTQ+ individuals and partners

  • Non-traditional relationships (polyamory/open relationships)

  • Families with Adult children

What We Focus On

My work is grounded in a trauma-informed approach, using NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), as well as other modalities (Gottman, Emotional Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy)

That means we’re not just talking about problems and solutions to avoid them, we’re understanding the patterns and what’s keeping them in play.

Together, we’ll explore:

  • What’s really driving conflict or disconnection

  • The protective strategies each of you brings into the relationship

  • How past experiences are shaping present reactions

  • The internal binds that keep you feel stuck

  • The patterns that keep you stuck and how to interrupt them

  • How to communicate needs more clearly and safely

  • How to rebuild trust, connection, and emotional intimacy

This work helps you move out of blame and defensiveness and into understanding and connection.

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What Makes Intensives With Me Different?

Relationship intensives can look very different depending on the therapist. Many follow a structured program or pre-set format that is not taking into consideration of what your relationship needs.

What I offer isn’t a one-size-fits-all model or a scripted workshop. It’s a deeply relational, trauma-informed space that stays responsive to you and your partner in real time.

Here’s what tends to set my intensives apart:

We slow down instead of pushing through.
Even in a longer session, the goal isn’t to cover everything quickly, it’s to stay with what actually matters. We follow the moments where things get activated, shut down, or disconnected, because that’s often where the real change happens.

We work with what’s happening between you, not just what’s being said.
I pay close attention to the subtle shifts (tone, body cues, timing, withdrawal, defensiveness, etc) because relationships are shaped just as much in those moments as in words.

We don’t just analyze patterns, we experience them differently in real time.
Instead of only talking about what is happening, we work with the pattern in the room and work with it together, so something new can actually be felt, not just understood.

The work is grounded in attachment and relational trauma awareness.
That means we’re not just focusing on communication skills or conflict tools, we’re exploring how early relational experiences shape how you protect yourself, disconnect, or reach for closeness. We work with the nervous system to create a meaningful, long lasting change.

There’s room for complexity, nuance, and mixed feelings.
Nothing about your relationship has to be simplified or forced into “right vs. wrong.” We make space for the full emotional truth of both people.

You’re met as humans first, not a problem to fix.
The focus is not on labeling who is “causing” the issue, but understanding how both people are caught in a shared pattern and how to move out of it together.

We stay real and honest with each other as we go, even when it’s uncomfortable.
That means we don’t avoid the harder moments or smooth things over just to keep things comfortable. Instead, we stay present with what’s actually happening between you, especially when it feels tender, tense, or hard to say out loud. This kind of honesty helps create a more genuine space for understanding and change to happen.

What To Expect

Each intensive is tailored to your relationship and your goals.

A typical process may include:

Pre-Intensive Planning

  • Brief consultation call with and with your loved one

  • Intake forms and relationship history

  • Clarifying goals for the intensive

  • A recommendation of intensive length based on intake information.

The Intensive Session

  • 3, 6, 9, or 12 hour based on need and complexity (don’t worry, there are breaks)

  • Guided conversations and real-time support

  • Practical tools and relational interventions

Post-Intensive Integration

  • Optional follow-up session(s)

  • Support with integrating what you learned into daily life

Frequently Asked Questions About Relationship Intensives

  • Intensives are located in Fort Lauderdale at 805 E Broward Blvd #301, Fort Lauderdale. See my in-person sessions page for more

  • I typically offer intensives the second weekend of the month, but that might vary based on time of year and life’s circumstances.

    If you are interested and want to know when the next intensive is offered, reach out through the contact page.

  • Breaks are provided between sessions. The intensives are broken into 3 hour blocks. If needed, we can take a 10-15 minute break in between the 3 hour block. For example; for a 9 hour intensive:

    3 hours on Friday evening (5pm-8pm), 3 hours Saturday morning (9-noon), 3 hours Saturday afternoon (1:30pm-4:30pm).

    There are restaurants and hotels around if you need to make accommodations or want to make it a weekend away.

  • Intensives pay-for-service only. The intensives are based on my hourly fee for sessions: 

    3 Hour Intensive- $750

    6 Hour Intensive- $1,500

    9 Hour Intensive- $2,250

    12 Hour Intensive- $3,000

    To book an intensive, you must place a 50% deposit to reserve your weekend intensive. The rest of the intensive cost will be charged a week before the intensive date.

    If you need to cancel or reschedule an intensive, please notify me a week before the scheduled intensive. If sessions are canceled within a week of the intensive scheduled date, the 50% deposit will not be returned to you.

  • Reach out to me through my contact me page and let me know that you are interested in an intensive. From there, we will schedule an consultation call for you and your partner.