Couple’s Reset
You don't need to be in crisis to invest in your relationship.
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 Reset is a single, powerful day designed to bring you back.
In five 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 ,but the space between them, which can become either the most dangerous place or the safest place either person has ever known.
— Adapted from Dr. Stan Tatkin
WHAT IS THE COUPLES RESET?
The Couples Reset is an immersive half-day experience grounded in PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) , one of the most effective, neuroscience-informed methods for building lasting partnership.
Unlike traditional couples therapy, PACT works at the level of your nervous system, helping you and your partner understand why you react the way you do, how to find safety with each other in real time, and what it feels like to be truly secure together.
This isn't a lecture. It isn't homework-heavy. It's an experiential, guided process that creates real shifts, in a single day.
A NOTE FROM YOUR GUIDE
Relationships don't fall apart all at once. They drift quietly, gradually until one day you realize you've been ships passing in the night.
But drift can be reversed. Connection can be rebuilt. And you don't have to spend years in weekly therapy to feel the difference.
That's why I created The Couples Reset , a concentrated, caring space where the two of you can slow down, tune in, and find your way back to each other.
I believe most couples aren't broken. They're just busy. And sometimes, all it takes is one good day.
I'd be honored to spend it with you.
— Leana Sykes M.Ed, LPC, ACS
What a Couples Reset Intensive Looks Like
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.
THE DAY ITSELF
5 Hours of Guided, Experiential Work
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
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 ?
My name is Leana Sykes, and I specialize in helping adults heal the lasting impact of emotionally immature, alienating, or inconsistent parenting, so early family dynamics no longer shape their relationships, self-trust, or future.
I don’t believe therapy should be vague, passive, or open-ended by default.
While insight and emotional expression matter, they are rarely sufficient on their own. What’s often missing is structure: a clear container that helps patterns become visible, workable, and changeable.
I approach therapy as a form of relational architecture.
That means:
guiding my couples towards establishing the philosophy, vision, and rules of engagement for your relationship
creating clear agreements and expectations
slowing interactions down enough to see what’s actually happening
helping people recognize how old wiring shows up in present-day moments
translating insight into behavior that holds up outside the therapy room
This is why I often work in intensives or extended sessions rather than relying solely on weekly therapy. Some work requires continuity, depth, and focus, not constant restarting.