Couples Counselling Retreat
Revitalise Your Relationship
With Couples Counsellor - Jacqueline Hogan
McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula
Has Your Relationship Turned Cold?
Broken Trust
Has the trust been broken in your relationship? Infidelity, and betrayal is especially hurtful and damaging. Feelings of guilt and shame are common, and finding a pathway toward forgiveness can seem impossible.
Poor Communication
Are arguments spiraling out-of-control in your relationship? Perhaps the cold shoulder or being on a totally different-page is making life difficult? Poor communication is frustrating and isolating. Left unchecked you're destined to drift further apart.
Love Lost
Has the love gone missing in your relationship? Feeling cold, alone or even shunned or blamed in some way is painful and often the first sign of a strained relationship. Negative sentiment and unhealthy behaviors are a recipe for a toxic relationship.
“Let’s turn your relationship around and rekindle new fondness and admiration for each other.”
Repair Your Relationship with a Couples Counselling Retreat
Start a new chapter in your relationship. Create the shift you desire in as little as a weekend.
Avoid the stop-start flow of traditional session-based couples therapy and benefit from ‘full-focus days’ to make a bigger improvement in your relationship sooner.
My Couples Counselling Retreat is perfect for busy couples who can carve out a weekend or a 2-day block of time to work on their relationship together.
Couples retreats are an increasing popular way to deliver marriage therapy. We make great use of our time together, and hit the ground running.
The main benefit is having the luxury of time, and having the runway to ‘keep going’ and achieve the breakthroughs you’ve been searching for.
No more: “I’m sorry – That’s all we have time for”…
There are many benefits of my Couples Counselling Retreat. However, it’s an intensive form of marriage therapy, so It’s not for everyone.
Keep reading to learn more about the benefits and find out if my Couples Counselling Retreat is the right choice for you.
Revitalise Your Relationship
I’ve designed the Couples Counselling Retreat around my popular Save My Marriage Program.
Tailored to your needs based on your gottman assessments, and using proven therapies and frameworks, over 2 full days, working together 1-on-1, we improve your relationship over the following themes…
Improve Communication
Feel heard & Ease the tension. Start softly. Create a shared understanding. Remain calm. Listen. Understand. Reflect. Self soothe. Empathise & more.
Rebuild Trust
Process betrayal and broken trust sensitively. Create hope for the future and a pathway toward forgiveness and re-connection. Start new trust building behaviours and set standards & boundaries to shape a closer, more loving relationship.
Repair Connection
Rebuild fondness & admiration and create new rituals of connection. Discover shared values. Develop shared meaning. Resolve gridlocked issues & more.
Reduce Stress & Manage Emotions
Develop a new sense of self-awareness and learn new strategies to reduce stress, manage tension, and self-soothe.
Return to Harmony
Create a Vision for the Future
Based on your top shared values, visualise a happy and fulfilling future together. Set the intention in motion and create renewed positive sentiment.
Compromise & Win-Wins
Find areas of compromise, work together - like you're on the same team and allow win-win ideas and solutions to enrich your relationship and satisfy each other's needs.
Love & Kindness
Know your partner better. Do more of what works, and create a healthy, happy home - one that welcomes love, warmth and kindness.
Support Each Other
Support each other. Have each other's back when times are tough. Help your partner to help your self. Make better choices and know where to turn during difficult times.
Enjoy the Benefits of Jacqui's Couples Counselling Retreat
- A Couples Counselling Retreat with Jacqui is perfect for busy couples who prefer to dedicate a whole weekend toward repairing their relationship, rather than finding the time between busy and conflicting schedules.
- Working together without distraction builds momentum and provides space for deeper transformation and faster breakthroughs. Perfect for resilient couples who want to move through this period of discomfort sooner.
- Reflect and practice what you learn during the day and share your thoughts and feelings with each other while walking on the beach in the late afternoon sun.
- Spend quality time together doing exactly what you need to get your relationship back on track.
- Relax, reconnect and have some fun while you explore the Mornington Peninsula region. Leave the stress of work, kids and daily life behind for a while. Focus on you & your relationship
Spacious & Relaxing Seaside Accomodation
Our new location in McCrae has it’s own separate & spacious unit, perfect for couples to stay, relax and unwind.
McCrae is conveniently located on the Mornington Peninsula, just an easy hours drive from Melbourne, Victoria.
You have the whole private and comfortable unit to yourself. Warm and welcoming, it’s the perfect space for couples to relax and reconnect.
Your couples retreat has a Mediterranean flair, and is complimented with alluring bay views from the bedroom, kitchen, and lounge.
The peaceful surrounds are only interrupted by the jovial song of the local kookaburras. Fully functional, and conveniently located, you are so close to all the regions popular attractions. From local coffee-spots to inviting day-spas, beach-walks, to award-winning wineries, the region has it all!
After-all – it’s why we moved here!
Jacqui’s Couples Counselling Retreat on the Mornington Peninsula, is a great choice for eligible couples. Relax, knowing your in safe hands, and doing the right thing for your relationship.
“Your couples retreat has a Mediterranean flair, and is complimented with alluring bay views from the bedroom, kitchen, and lounge.”
Are You Suited to a Couples Counselling Retreat?
For more information, and to discuss your suitability, please get in touch.
In general, Jacqui’s Couples Counselling Retreat will suit you, if you and your partner align to the following points:
- You are both committed to repairing the relationship.
- You are both resilient and have the capacity to endure longer therapy sessions over the course of two days.
- You are both open minded and can manage your emotions and are able to handle feelings of discomfort.
- You are both willing to try new things, consider new ideas and listen to different perspectives respectfully.
- You are both able to make the time available in your schedules and make the retreat a priority – with minimum distraction.
- You both have the best intentions for each other and the relationship.
- You are both willing to participate in therapy and are able to talk about what you are feeling, thinking, needing, etc.
Who Isn't Suited to a Couples Counselling Retreat?
You are unlikely to be suited to Jacqui’s Couples Counselling Retreat if you don’t align with the points above, and/or the following below points ring true for you or your partner.
- You’re currently having an affair.
- You’ve not told your partner you’re having / had an affair.
- You have untold secrets that would likely halt the retreat.
- You want to leave the relationship.
- You are unsure about saving the relationship.
- You feel you’d struggle with long therapy sessions over the course of two days.
- There is current or historic violence / abuse in the relationship (physical, verbal, emotional)
- You are emotionally unstable, irritable, or quick to anger.
- You are closed minded, and/or avoid feelings of discomfort.
- You are unwilling to participate in therapeutic exercises & discussion.
- You are unwilling or find it difficult to open up and talk about sensitive or difficult topics, including those from your past.
- You are unable to commit to making ‘distraction-free’ time available in your schedule. (eg On-call workers, parents, etc.)
- You are easily distracted.
- You have a current addiction – Alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, etc.
- You otherwise have ill feelings toward your partner.
- You / Your partner are feeling threatened / controlled / manipulated in any way.
For more information, or if you have a question, and would like to discuss your suitability, please get in touch.
Contact Jacqui to Get Started
If you feel like the Couples Counselling Retreat is right for you, the first step is to get in touch.
The retreat is based on my proven & popular Save My Marriage Program, and the process of getting started is similar.
After getting in touch with me, If I think I can help you, I’ll invite you to have a 90 minute discovery session with me.
From there you will be in a much better position to consider your next steps. If you’re suited to a retreat – we can get the ball rolling for you right away.
Learn More About Jacqui
Jacqui is a sought after Couples Counsellor with over 22 years counselling experience. Jacqui tailors her therapies and approach to the needs of the clients and their preferred learning styles.
Jacqui draws upon a lifetime of counselling experience and training. Her most significant Couples Counselling related training includes:
- Gottman Therapy – Level 3
- Relational Life Therapy – Terry Real
- Emotionally Focussed Therapy – Esther Perel
Jacqui has gone on to develop several of her own resources and therapeutic frameworks to help couples repair their relationships and lead happier, healthier lives.
Click here to learn more about Jacqui.
