Couple’s Restoration Intensive
Remember how attuned and in sync you used to be?
It’s time to restore that connection.
Maybe life has just gotten loud; work, kids, obligations; and somewhere in the rush, the two of you got a little lost. You still love each other. You just miss each other.
The Couples Restoration Intensive is a single, powerful day designed to bring you back.
In a few focused hours, you'll move out of the patterns keeping you stuck and into a deeper, more secure connection with practical tools you'll actually use long after you leave.
The couple is the unit, not two individuals in the same room. The space between them can become either the most dangerous place or the safest place either person has ever known.
— Adapted from Dr. Stan Tatkin
So how does this work?
A couples intensive isn't therapy in the traditional sense, it's an immersive, guided experience designed to help you do the real work, together, in real time.
Over the course of our intensive, I will walk alongside you, not in front of you. They create the space, hold the container, and guide the process. But the breakthroughs? The reconnection? That's entirely yours.
This matters more than you might realize. Because no therapist can go home with you. No session can follow you into the moments that matter most, a late-night disagreement, a moment of distance, a choice to reach for each other instead of pulling away.
What can go home with you are the skills, the language, and the lived experience of having already repaired something that felt broken. You won't just leave with hope. You'll leave knowing how.
What a Couples Intensive Day Looks Like
Morning — Establishing the Secure Base Before we go anywhere, we slow down. Using the PACT framework, we explore how each of you is wired, your attachment histories, your nervous system responses, your deepest beliefs about love and safety — so that understanding, not blame, becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
Mid-Morning — Into the Dynamic With safety established, we turn toward the patterns and cycles that have been driving you apart, and in PACT, we don't just talk about them, we recreate them gently and deliberately so we can interrupt them in real time. I am beside you through every moment, tracking, guiding, and helping you find a new way through what used to derail you.
Midday — Rest & Integration We pause, eat, and let the morning breathe, because your nervous systems need space to integrate what's been stirred, and some of the most important shifts happen quietly in that space.
Close of Day — Your Blueprint for Secure Functioning We close by turning everything that happened today into a living document for your relationship, a shared vision for who you want to be together, and a clear set of rules of engagement that reflect your highest commitment to each other. You don't leave with hope alone. You leave with a blueprint, built by the two of you, for a relationship rooted in security, trust, and the knowledge that you already know the way back to each other.
What a Couples Restoration Session Looks Like?
Can be customized to meet your needs
Before You Arrive
1-Hour Goal Setting Session
Every reset begins before the day itself.
In a private, one-hour session ahead of your immersive day, you'll sit down together, with guidance to get honest about where you are and intentional about where you want to go. This isn't about airing grievances. It's about aligning.
You'll explore:
What each of you most hopes to feel differently after this experience
Where you feel most disconnected, and what you imagine reconnection could look like
Any patterns or moments you want to bring into the room with care
This session ensures that your five hours together are focused, purposeful, and shaped around your relationship , not a generic script.
When you walk in, you'll already know you're on the same team.
Restoration Day
5 Hours of Guided, Experiential Work
3- hour session w/break
1-hour lunch break
2-hour culmination session
Rooted in PACT's understanding of attachment, neuroscience, and secure functioning, your reset day unfolds gently and deliberately. There's no rigid agenda, the work responds to what's alive in the room between you.
You'll move through:
Coming into safety together Before any deep work can happen, your nervous systems need to settle. We begin by helping both of you arrive , fully, without the noise of the day ,and find a sense of calm presence with each other.
Seeing your patterns with compassion With guided support, you'll begin to recognize the moves each of you makes when things feel hard , the pursue-withdraw dance, the shutdown, the escalation ,not as failures, but as strategies that once made sense. Understanding replaces blame.
Working in real time PACT is an experiential approach, which means we don't just talk about your relationship, we work inside it. You'll practice new ways of reaching for each other, repairing in the moment, and staying present even when it feels uncomfortable.
Building your secure base By the end of the day, you'll have a shared language, a felt experience of what security between you can feel like, and a clear sense of what to protect, and what to let go of.
After You Leave
1-Hour Follow-Up Session
Real change needs room to land.
Two to three weeks after your reset day, you'll return for a dedicated one-hour follow-up session. This is where the work gets integrated, where you bring back what's shifted, what's felt different, and what's still tender.
You'll use this session to:
Reflect on what's changed since the reset and what you've noticed in each other
Revisit any tools or moments from the day that need deepening
Set intentions for how you'll continue to show up as secure functioning partners
This isn't a check-in. It's a completion — a chance to close the loop with care and leave with a clear, confident path forward.
Your Investment
A Few Hours to Change the Direction of Everything.
The Couples Reset — $1,650
Includes Goal-Setting Session, 1-day Extended Session, and Follow-Up Session
Can be customized at $250 per hour
Some things don't need years to shift.
They need the right conditions, the right depth of attunement, and enough uninterrupted time to actually move.
Who Am I ?
Twelve years ago I made a decision to go deep rather than wide, to dedicate my practice entirely to couples, and individuals looking to improve their relationships with loved ones and with themselves. It’s been my goal to understand the science and the soul of what makes relationships break down and what it actually takes to rebuild them. That decision has shaped everything about how I work.
I am trained in PACT — Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy — a model I returned to again and again in my training because it matched what I was seeing in the room. It is rigorous, research-informed, and profoundly human. It honors the biology of how we attach, the way our nervous systems respond to threat and safety, and the fact that real healing happens not just in insight but in experience, in the felt sense of something shifting between two people in real time.
After 12 years and countless hours beside couples doing the hardest work of their lives, I still believe most relationships are worth fighting for. And I consider it a privilege to be in the room when they do.
Leana Sykes M.Ed, LPC, ACS