Couples Retreat in Florida

Educational Retreat for Couples

Important Note: I do not have any retreats scheduled for the the first half of 2025.

If you are interested in learning about retreat offerings in 2025 as dates are selected (I’m hoping for fall!), please fill out the form here to leave your contact information and a message about your interest. Be sure to indicate that you are inquiring about a weekend couples retreat. Thank you!

Rejuvenate Your Relationship with a Couples Retreat

Maybe you have been with your parter for a while and you have been feeling disconnected lately. Perhaps you are in a newer relationship and are noticing you could use support building a healthy foundation. Or maybe, you are frustrated with fights that keep happening over and over without finding any clarity.

Hold Me Tight ®, is a group couples retreat in Naples, Florida. The program can help you and your partner to understand each other better and feel closer. The retreat is not therapy, but rather an education and practice-focused program based on cutting edge-relationship science: Emotionally-Focused Therapy.

This workshop is based on the book Hold Me Tight ® by Dr. Sue Johnson. She created this format to help couples:

Understand the reasons they have conflict and the same fights popping up over and over
Transform the patterns that lead to frustration
Engage in conversations to stay connected and keep love alive
Repair broken bonds or injuries from the past
Rekindle the spark and strengthen intimacy
Become more accessible, responsive, and engaged with one another

While the program is based on Emotionally-Focused Therapy concepts, the experience itself is not therapy.

Instead, the workshop offers education and practice of relationship skills in a safe environment. The program allows couples to connect, learn, and investigate their own cycles that keep them stuck in unhelpful patterns with the person they love the most.

Hold Me Tight ®, a couples retreat in Naples, Florida, can help you and your partner to understand each other better and feel closer.

* Hold Me Tight ® is a registered trademark of Dr. Sue Johnson.

Why a Couples Retreat?

Long-term relationships are hard work. While it would be so much easier if we could naturally read our partners’ minds (and have them read ours!) the reality is that we all get disconnected and feel misunderstood at times.

The good news: an entire field of research and science has made sense of adult love and bonding. This knowledge grounds us with information about the human needs in relationships and what goes wrong in moments of conflict. With this understanding, you can create new conversations and strengthen the bond with your partner.

A Hold Me Tight ® couples retreat Florida marries the rejuvenating spirit of a weekend getaway with your partner, to relax and refocus on each other away from the stress and mundane of daily life.

The program will give you tools to communicate after the retreat ends. You’ll have the refreshed energy of the weekend plus the benefits that will sustain way past arriving back home.

What to Expect in a Couples Retreat

Hold Me Tight ® Workshops are held in person in Naples, Florida. The group size varies, but there are typically between 6-10 couples.

The setting is relaxed and comfortable, yet structured and purposeful. You’ll learn:

Why cycles of conflict occur
Tips to interrupt ineffective communication
How to communicate deep needs
Communication styles that lead to less conflict and more connection

Walking away from a couples retreat Florida, you’ll feel refreshed and rejuvenated from getting to spend time with your partner. Even better, you’ll have new information and tools to apply to your relationship over time.

Unlike a typical vacation getaway, the benefits will keep on giving once you get home from the workshop weekend.

Format

The Hold Me Tight ® program includes an engaging blend of content types so you can learn, integrate, and apply the concepts to your life. The material is based on evidence-backed research and presented by a therapist who can help you in your application of the concepts and processing when you get stuck.

We share how the relationship concepts are applicable in your own life and share concrete, practical skills to apply them. Throughout the day, you can expect:

Lecture-style and video-example presentation of content
Group discussions (sharing is not required)
Guided exercises with your partner

This blend of content will allow you to take the theoretical into the practical right away to create lasting change in your relationship.

The workshops consist of a group of couples who are all there to learn a little more about their own dynamics. Personal sharing with the group is not required.

Schedule and Logistics

Typically, the day run from about 9am-5pm with an hour break for lunch and individual breakout sessions throughout. Specific schedules may vary and will be provided to you in the week leading up to the retreat.

Please remember that while I am a therapist, this marriage retreat Florida is not therapy. Rather, the weekend is a chance to learn and engage with your partner in a structured way.

Many couples find after the retreat that they would like further assistance applying the information to their relationship with a couples therapist.

Hold Me Tight® workshops produce proven, positive results that will sustain you beyond the end of your vacation. You’ll walk away from the weekend with new, fresh insights about the way you and your partner communicate, a packet of information to continue digesting and integrating as you move on, and ideally, hope for your continued connection for your life together.

Overall, the program will walk you through key conversations to build understanding and connection between partners. These themes include disrupting negative patterns, creating a safe environment, and caring for your relationship through maintenance over time.

Get ready for a transformative experience.

Get in Touch

Use the form below to share your interest, inquire about availability, and share any questions you have.

Reconnect with your partner on a deep level.

Learn a method you can return to so that you can resolve conflict patterns for good.

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Frequently Asked Questions- Marriage Retreats

Yes, this retreat is designed for couples in a committed relationship. However, you do not need to be married to attend.

In fact, many pre-married couples find this experience to be a beneficial foundation to their relationship.

While we welcome couples in all types of committed relationships, please remember that this retreat is not therapy. A therapist facilitates this material, but as a couple you will not have undivided attention from the therapist to focus on your relationship throughout the day.

Due to the format and structure, we do not recommend this retreat for couples who are highly escalated, are in high conflict, or are unable or unwilling to explore the experience of their partner.

No. Hold Me Tight is based on academic research in the field of systemic therapy. It is not an expressly religious program.

However, the material affirms principles that many religious traditions embrace, including monogamy, fidelity, commitment and closeness.

The cost varies slightly from retreat to retreat dependent on location rates. Please check back soon for our next scheduled couples retreat Florida for more information on up to date rates.

Naples, Florida! While we welcome couples in our local community, Naples is also a gorgeous relaxing place to visit for couples looking for a weekend getaway in Southwest Florida.

Please fill out the form here to express your interest in a retreat. Thank you!

About Me

I’m a no-patience New York City finance-industry project leader turned relationship and mental health therapist.

Registered Marriage and Family Psychotherapist in the state of Florida, I work with clients to transform pain, confusion, and dysfunction into peace, security, and meaning.

Refresh Your Relationship Over a Weekend Getaway

If you struggle with stress or communication issues in your relationship, a Hold Me Tight weekend offers you the chance to getaway and reconnect.

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