FOR COUPLES • PRIVATE • PERSONALIZED
Private Couples Intensive
Focused time. Personalized guidance. A clearer path forward.
Step away from daily distractions and give your relationship the focused time and support it needs to understand recurring patterns, rebuild connection, and make meaningful decisions about your future together.
2 Days
Dedicated, uninterrupted time
12 or 15 Hours
Across the two days
In Person
Private and personalized
North Ridgeville
Ohio, or I can travel to you
A DEEPER WAY FORWARD
When weekly sessions aren’t enough.
Sometimes real change takes more than 90 minutes a week. A Private Couples Intensive gives you dedicated time, focused support, and personalized guidance to move through challenges and create lasting, positive change.
Whether you’re in crisis, rebuilding after betrayal, or simply want to deepen your connection, this immersive experience helps you step out of old patterns and into a healthier, more fulfilling relationship.
Understand the pattern
Gain clarity on the dynamics that keep you stuck and how they developed.
Practice a new way
Learn new tools and ways of relating, and try them in real time with expert support.
Create a path forward
Leave with greater connection, renewed trust, and a practical plan for your next chapter.
IS THIS RIGHT FOR YOU?
A focused experience built around your relationship
Every intensive is shaped around your goals and what feels ready to be explored. Couples often come when they are facing:
Recurring conflict
The same arguments keep coming back, no matter how hard you try.
Broken trust
You are healing from infidelity or betrayal and want to rebuild.
Emotional distance
You feel more like roommates than partners and miss real closeness.
A crossroads
Intimacy, money, family, or a major transition has you unsure of the way forward.
Couples in stable relationships who want to deepen their connection are warmly welcome too.
WHAT YOUR INTENSIVE INCLUDES
A simple, powerful process
Free consultation
A complimentary conversation to explore whether an intensive is the right fit for you both.
Advance preparation
A pre-intensive consultation to understand your goals and tailor the experience to your relationship.
Two-day intensive
12 or 15 hours of focused work together in a comfortable, private setting, with breaks built in.
Active follow-up
Personalized guidance, tools, and next steps to help you integrate what you learned and sustain lasting change.
INVESTMENT
Your Investment
A personalized, high-impact experience for your relationship.
12 Hours
$3,000
Over two days, in person
15 Hours
$3,600
Over two days, in person
Deposit: A $750 deposit reserves your intensive and is applied toward your fee. It is refundable if you cancel at least two weeks before your start date; otherwise it is forfeited.
Preparation and follow-up sessions are billed separately at $245 per 90-minute session.
Not included: Lodging, meals, and travel.
Traveling to the Cleveland area? Many couples stay at a nearby hotel or bed-and-breakfast in North Ridgeville so they can step away from their routine and stay calm and focused throughout.
PRACTITIONER • EDUCATOR • RELATIONSHIP FACILITATOR
Meet David deBardelaben-Phillips
With decades of experience, I help individuals and couples create more connected, authentic, and fulfilling lives. I guide couples in understanding recurring patterns, communicating with greater empathy, and rebuilding trust and emotional connection. My work integrates evidence-based approaches with mind-body awareness, helping you move from struggle to strength, together.
M.Ed., Adult Learning & Development
Advanced Certified Core Energetics Practitioner
Senior Faculty, Institute of Core Energetics
Certified Imago Relationship Facilitator
Associate Faculty, Imago International Training Institute
QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Private Couples Intensive?
A Private Couples Intensive is a focused, personalized experience that gives you and your partner extended time to explore the patterns affecting your relationship. Instead of a traditional weekly session, you have two days to slow down, understand what is happening beneath recurring conflicts, practice new ways of communicating, and create a clearer path forward.
Who can benefit from a Couples Intensive?
An intensive can help couples experiencing recurring conflict, emotional distance, differences around intimacy or money, broken trust, infidelity, major life transitions, family-of-origin concerns, or uncertainty about the future of their relationship. It can also benefit couples in a stable relationship who want to deepen their connection.
What can we expect during the two days?
Your intensive may include guided conversations, relationship education, structured dialogue, experiential exercises, individual reflection, and opportunities to practice new ways of connecting. The structure is personalized to your relationship rather than following a one-size-fits-all program.
What if one partner is hesitant about attending?
It is normal for one partner to feel more uncertain than the other. Both partners do need to be willing to participate honestly and respectfully. The free consultation gives each of you a chance to ask questions and decide whether the experience feels right for your relationship.
Are lodging, meals, and travel included?
No. Lodging, meals, and travel are not included. Couples traveling to the Cleveland area are encouraged to stay at a nearby hotel or bed-and-breakfast in North Ridgeville, OH, so they can step away from their regular routine and keep a calm, focused environment throughout the experience.
How do we know if it’s right for us?
Schedule a free consultation. We will talk about what brings you here and explore together whether a Private Couples Intensive is the right next step.
Your relationship deserves focused time and thoughtful care.
Take the next step toward a stronger, healthier, and more connected future. Schedule a free consultation to explore whether a Private Couples Intensive is right for you.
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