Do you feel off, and not long in sync with your spouse? Are you feeling that your marriage and romantic relationship is not in a good place? And, you want an intensive experience through a private couples marriage therapy retreat and relationship bootcamp? Has there been lack of communication, disconnection, and even infidelity in your marriage that needs repairing? Are you stuck in a cycle of yelling, the silent treatment, defensivness, and nothing you do is working or helping? Do you want professional help dedicated to communicating better and helping your spouse feel loved, valued, special, and significant?
Are you stuck talking in angry ways, that lead you both to feel inferior, rejected, unwanted, lonely, inadequate, and hurt?
Katie Ziskind specializes with couples who need help breaking cycles of negative communication. When you have a history of childhood trauma, loss, and neglect from your parents, these unmet love needs play a role in conflict and fights.
Struggling to feel sexually satisfied, or stuck in a cycle of sexual frustration, avoidance, and a sexless marriage? Wishing you had passionate, erotic pleasurable, and playful sexual experiences together? Well, you and your spouse get a sex positive environment to explore sexual intimacy. You can break the cycle of sexual frustration, sexual rejection, and sexual avoidance.
To add, there may be shame, guilt, and anxiety from growing up in a strict, conservative, and religious home. And, that plays a role in your sexless marriage and sexual rejection cycles. Sex is a form of bonding, closeness, security, playfulness, and erotic desire. But, when fighting and emotionally disconnected, sex is often a weapon.
Save and rebuild your marriage by scheduling your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, MFT, LMFT, RYT500, CSTIP.
Do you and your spouse argue more than you’d like and you wish you could trust each other more?
Are you needing help overcoming infidelity in your marriage? Do you go through a rollercoaster of emotions very often about wanting to stay in your 5, 10, 20, or 30 year relationship? Starting from a few years ago, have you started feeling extreme unhappiness being with your spouse? Do you wish you and your partner could look at each other again with desire, love, and affection? If your sex life is not satisfying, pleasurable, or frequent enough, and you wish you could feel excited, comforted, and loved through sex? Have you been feeling trapped in your marriage and are wanting to experience more closeness and connection? This marriage counseling retreat is for you.
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Katie Ziskind, Marriage and Couples Therapist, Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP), Level 2 Gottman Marriage Therapist offers a couples marriage retreat.
You can your partner will learn skills to improve your emotional bond, form a secure connection, overcome conflict, and help each other feel important, special, and loved.
During your couples marriage retreat, you will learn to verbalize appreciation. Distant couples have stopped holding hands and stopped complimenting each other.
With Katie Ziskind, you can skills to express fondness. You can both learn how to talk about what you would miss about each other if you were not together. Talking about what you desire and find attractive about your spouse are important parts in a healthy marriage.
These skills are never taught growing up. If anything, we endure domestic violence, anger, yelling, and emotional neglect growing up.
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Understand how childhood trauma and unmet love needs deeply impact your marriage fights.
Katie Ziskind, couples therapy specialist, helps you develop, improve, and maintain the emotional security and sexual intimacy in your marriage. From your marriage therapy retreat, you can learn about childhood unmet love needs. Experiences of abuse and neglect in childhood play a role in feeling triggered and angry in your marriage.
When you or your spouse experience emotional neglect, ie, having an alcoholic parent, having a parent who has a gambling addiction, a drug addict, or parents or caregivers who justified physical abuse as punishment, these are traumatic experiences. You felt ignored, sad, unimportant, hurt, insignificant, and felt pain growing up.
In your marriage counseling intensive retreat with Katie Ziskind, both of you will learn about what it means to offer emotional accessibility.
To add, you learn tools for emotional responsiveness as you understand your partner’s unmet love needs. As well, you can verbalize your own unmet love needs, getting to the core of conflicts. Understanding your own unmet love needs helps your partner to be more engaged in offering security. We never learn these skills growing up.
It wasn’t safe to express your emotions growing up due to the chaos, emotional neglect, and physical abuse.
To add, traumatic experiences leave you feeling hurt, upset, ignored, fearful, anxious, and like you didn’t matter in childhood. Your partners and caregivers didn’t meet your core needs for love and security. You may have had a house and shelter, but not emotionally sensitive parents. Your parents justified spanking, hitting you, and physical abuse saying it was punishment. This made you feel both physically abused, emotionally neglected, and psychologically abused. Hitting a child for whatever reason is physical abuse. Your may carry resentment and anger towards your parents as a result.
As a child, you felt alone, fearful, insignificant, and like you couldn’t be your authentic self due to trauma.
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Childhood neglect and abuse put your nervous system into a state of fight, flight, and freeze survival mode from a young age.
Having experiences of physical abuse, explosive parents, or mentally unstable parents leads to trauma. You had to grow up very quickly, pushing your own emotional expression needs aside. Now, in your couples marriage therapy retreat intensive, you get to understand how to express emotions. Katie Ziskind, couples therapist and marriage specialist, guides you both in being emotionally vulnerable.
Opening up to each other emotionally are parts of healing and building a secure bond after childhood abuse and neglect.
In your marriage, current conflicts can you re-triggering these early attachment wounds and unmet love needs.
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Learning about your own and your spouse’s unmet love you can help you form a secure emotional bond in your marriage.
Childhood experiences of emotional neglect, such as growing up with a parent struggling with addiction, or enduring physical abuse disguised as discipline, can cast a long shadow over your romantic bond.
When you feel afraid and unsafe growing up, emotional security seems foreign when it comes to being married. These traumatic experiences leave scars, shaping not only how you view yourself, but also how you navigate your intimate partnership.
In your marriage, unresolved attachment wounds and unmet love needs resurface. Then, these trigger feelings of hurt, fear, and inadequacy, and undermine trust and security. Katie Ziskind helps you communicate these deeper emotions rather than responding in anger. Talking about your past traumas with empathy and understanding supports healing and helps you create a secure emotional bond.
Growing up in an environment marked by addiction or abuse, you and your spouse learned to cope by burying their emotions by pushing them away.
Furthermore, you and your partner may need help being emotionally open and receptive. From shutting down emotionally, you may distance yourselves from each other. Growing up, you may have adopt a facade of self-sufficiency. Learning to connect emotionally means opening up to your partner.
As a result, they may carry a deep-seated belief that their feelings don’t matter, that they are unworthy of love and attention, or that they must always put others’ needs before their own.
These maladaptive coping mechanisms, while necessary for survival in childhood, wreak havoc on your romantic relationship. As well, being in a triggered state leads to painful patterns of emotional withdrawal, conflict avoidance, or high conflict fights.
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Unmet love needs getting triggered and these unresolved attachment wounds are a breeding ground for high intensity conflicts and misunderstandings.
Triggers in your marriage fights echo the emotional neglect of childhood. As well, it be a partner’s perceived indifference, criticism, or emotional distance, which reignite the pain of past trauma. So, these negative triggers plunge couples into a downward spiral of defensiveness, anger, and withdrawal.
However, the journey toward healing begins with awareness and understanding of unmet love needs. To add, this relationship retreat with Katie Ziskind helps you both notice the ways in which your childhood experiences shape your marriage.
Through open and honest communication, you and your spouse can create a safe space. From that safe space, you can explore your past traumas. Being emotionally vulnerable means sharing your fears, insecurities, and unmet needs with vulnerability and compassion.
Likewise, learn about each other’s unmet childhood love needs and trauma promotes growth and connection within your marriage.
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By validating each other’s experiences and offering support and empathy, you and your spouse can begin to repair the wounds of the past and cultivate a deeper sense of intimacy and trust.
Through targeted interventions and experiential exercises in your marriage and relationship intensive retreat with Katie Ziskind, you both can learn to meet each other’s emotional needs. You learn to talk more deeply and gently in healthy and fulfilling ways, laying the groundwork for a secure and resilient bond.
Central to this process is the concept of forming a secure emotional bond within your marriage – a foundation of trust, empathy, and mutual support that serves as a bulwark against the storms of life.
By acknowledging and addressing your attachment wounds head-on, you both can create a shared narrative of resilience and growth.
Likewise, from building emotional vulnerability, you can begin transforming your childhood pain into a source of strength, intimacy, and connection.
Both of you will have time to understand your couple bubble on this couples marriage retreat. By having a vacation together, you get to prioritize a more meaningful connection. You can stop the cycle of defensivness, criticism, blame, and shame. No longer do you need to get stuck yelling or shutting down.
Katie Ziskind helps you dive deeper under the anger. Your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, MFT, LMFT, RYT500, CSTIP help you understand childhood trauma.
Sometimes, we learn negative communication tactics from emotional abusive parents. Learning to love your spouse more deeply means learn emotional bonding skills. You can learn to verbalize and share core emotions under anger, rather than continuing painful cycles.
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Stop the silent treatment cycles in your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, MFT, LMFT, RYT500, CSTIP.
No longer do you both have to get stuck in the blame game or criticize each other. Instead of feeling hurt, betrayed, and unwanted, your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind gives you new skills. Learning skills and tools supports you both in seeing each other in a positive light. From emotional intimacy and emotional bonding skills, you can rebuild sexual desire. Getting stuck in defensiveness, criticism, yelling, and anger only leave you feeling alone and hurt. And, these harm your sex life and physical intimacy.
Focus on your connection during your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind
With Katie Ziskind, you both get to put 100% of your focus, time, and energy on bettering your marriage. Having the time together for three days improves your communication and marital bond. During your couples marriage retreat, you can learn to use “I feel” statements. Sharing your deeper, more vulnerable emotions is a skill you learn rather than reacting in anger. During your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, you can learn to be more emotionally vulnerable to foster a stronger couple bubble.
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Both of you will have time to fully understand each other’s triggers, childhood trauma wounds, and pain points, so you can better offer reassurance to each other and foster a secure attachment.
Break cycles of sexual avoidance, sexual frustration, and sexual rejection during this marriage counseling retreat. You can have a safe space to gain sex positive education regarding more sexual pleasure. As well, you can learn about the female orgasmic system and the importance of foreplay. You may have insecurities regarding how to lengthen foreplay. Maybe, you need help overcoming sexual performance anxiety, shame, and guilt and building sexual confidence.
During your couples marriage retreat with Katie Ziskind, you both will recognize your own attachment insecurities.
Create new, more positive and secure patterns of interaction. Creating more positive memories together promotes skills of emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement.
What can prevent emotional responsiveness, engagement, and accessibility?
Early childhood upbringing can influence and block your responsiveness and emotional presence. You are your partner may have grown up in childhood trauma. Childhood trauma can include growing up with a parent who was an alcoholic, addict, and emotionally abused you. Dealing with an emotionally unstable and emotionally neglectful parent leads to survival responses. From a young age, you and your spouse may be in fight, flight, and freeze mode.
And, when your nervous system is in survival mode, you can’t be emotionally connected. You get stuck in fight, flight, and freeze. Then, your emotional expression ability gets suppressed. Having an alcoholic or drug addicted parent can lead you to be afraid of being hurt all over again in your marriage. You may sense danger and go into an anxious mode. In a fight, due to childhood trauma, you both might get angry.
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We never learn how to be open, engaged, and emotionally receptive growing up in childhood trauma.
Childhood trauma responses are part of your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind. Couples who are stuck in fight, flight, and freeze survival modes trigger each other. As well, you might get angry, yell, and use the silent treatment. These are unhealthy ways of responding to each other. To add, through you couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you can shift form trauma reactions. You can learn to be emotionally receptive, open, and emotionally expressive.
It can feel so good to have deep, core live needs met.
Your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind is a safe space to work on your partnership and work on creating the marriage of your dreams.
This is essentially a marriage bootcamp and relationship intensive experience where you both will understand relationship patterns that contributed to pain and loss, such as cheating and infidelity. You can work on rebuilding trust through honest communication, empathy, and small gestures of reassurance. Your experience in this couples therapy retreat will improve your marriage, help you build connection, and give you life long skills for bonding.
Our private 3-day 4-night marriage therapy and couples therapy retreat is an boutique, curated vacation therapy for you and your partner to bond, gain emotional closeness, and deepen physical and sexual intimacy.
As well, you will learn new skills to manage conflict, talk about deeper, core emotions, understand attachment styles, improve your sexual intimacy, and enhance your emotional communication. With Katie Ziskind, your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive is a dedicated time to improve your marital bond. You get a safe place to talk about your sex life, and work on bettering both emotional and sexual intimacy.
Reconnect and renew during your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind
Schedule Your Transformative Marriage Counseling Retreat for Couples with Katie Ziskind, who is a passionate Marriage and Couples Therapist, Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP), and Level 2 Gottman Marriage Therapist.
Welcome to an immersive journey of healing, growth, and renewed intimacy. Katie Ziskind, a passionate Marriage and Couples Therapist, Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP), and Level 2 Gottman Marriage Therapist specializes with distant, sexually frustrated, and emotional disconnected couples.
Furthermore, this upcoming marriage counseling retreat is designed to help couples who feel distant, have struggled with infidelity, wrestle with sexual avoidance. When you yearn to cultivate emotional vulnerability through the renowned methods of Gottman and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Katie Ziskind can help you build closeness, connection, and a secure bond.
In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a thriving marriage and relationship can be challenging. As well, childhood influences, pressure from family, and observing emotional abuse growing up don’t help us create healthy relationships.
Furthermore, stress, communication breakdowns, and unresolved conflicts can create distance and disconnection between you and your spouse, leaving both of you feeling alone and unfulfilled. Additionally, issues such as infidelity, anger, and sexual avoidance can deepen existing wounds and further erode trust, closeness, desire, and intimacy.
But, there is hope. Our marriage counseling retreat offers a safe and supportive space where you and your spouse can embark on a transformative journey towards healing and renewed connection.
Here’s what you can expect from this marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind, who is a passionate Marriage and Couples Therapist, Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP), and Level 2 Gottman Marriage Therapist:
Expert Guidance To Better Your Marriage:
As your experienced guide, Katie Ziskind brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in marriage and couples therapy, sex positive couples therapy, and the Gottman Method. With a compassionate and non-judgmental approach, she will help you navigate the complexities of your relationship and provide practical tools and insights to foster healing and growth.
Gottman Method Marriage Retreat with Katie Ziskind:
Grounded in decades of research by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, the Gottman Method is a scientifically-based approach to couples therapy that emphasizes building trust, improving communication, and strengthening emotional connection.
Through interactive exercises and personalized interventions, you’ll learn practical skills to deepen your understanding of each other, manage conflict constructively, and nurture a lasting bond.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) In This Marriage Counseling Retreat:
Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, EFT is a highly effective approach that focuses on restructuring the emotional responses and interactions between partners. By exploring underlying attachment needs and patterns of interaction, you’ll gain insight into the root causes of your relationship challenges and learn how to create a more secure and fulfilling connection.
Healing from Infidelity During This Couples Therapy Retreat:
Infidelity can be a devastating betrayal that shakes the foundation of a relationship. Our retreat provides a supportive environment for couples to address the pain, anger, and mistrust that may arise in the aftermath of infidelity.
To add, through empathic listening, honest communication, and guided exercises, you’ll work towards rebuilding trust, forgiveness, and a stronger partnership.
Overcoming Sexual Avoidance During This Relationship Intensive Retreat:
Maybe, you have a higher sex drive than your partner, and you feel sexually unsatisfied. There may be feelings you struggle with such as sexual rejection, sadness, loneliness, and disconnection right now. You may need support in your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind to overcome sexual performance anxiety.
Sex can be a form of exchanging love, and offer playful, erotic space to give and receive pleasure. Sexual avoidance can stem from a variety of factors, including past trauma, communication barriers, and emotional disconnect.
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A sex positive safe space to improve sexual desire and talk about sex in a comfortable, open way
During your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, you get a safe place to learn more about foreplay, both emotionally and sexually. You might need a safe place to ask sexual questions, learn about sexual anatomy, or overcome sexual shame, insecurity, and guilt that develop from a strict, conservative, and religious upbringing.
Furthermore, foreplay is a key part of building a positive, emotionally connected, sexually passionate, and erotic sex life.
Overall, our couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind offers a safe and shame-free space for you both to explore your sexual intimacy issues. You can develop a deeper understanding of each other’s sexual fantasies, erotic map, sexual desires, and needs.
With guidance and support from Katie Ziskind, you’ll learn how to cultivate a more fulfilling, erotic, and intimate sexual connection.
Cultivating Emotional Vulnerability In This Couples Marriage Therapy Retreat with Katie Ziskind:
True intimacy requires vulnerability—the willingness to open up, be seen, and share your deepest thoughts and feelings with your partner. Through experiential exercises and heartfelt conversations, you’ll learn how to cultivate emotional vulnerability in your relationship, fostering a deeper sense of closeness, trust, and authenticity.
Throughout this couples marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind, you’ll receive personalized support and guidance tailored to your unique needs and goals as a couple. After the retreat, you’ll have access to ongoing resources and support to help you integrate what you’ve learned into your daily lives and sustain your progress in your emotional and sexual bond over time.
Don’t let distance, infidelity, the silent treatment, or sexual avoidance continue to undermine the strength and vitality of your marriage and relationship.
So, take the first step towards a brighter future together by joining us for our upcoming marriage counseling retreat.
Together, we’ll rediscover the love, connection, and joy that brought you together in the first place—and lay the foundation for a lifetime of happiness and fulfillment.
Reserve your spot and embark on this transformative journey with your partner to build connection, sexual intimacy, and emotional bonding.
Rekindle sexual intimacy on your intensive marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind
In the intricate dance of your marriage, sexual and physical intimacy serves as a vital expression of love and connection. A healthy sex life nourishes your bond between you both. Sexual passion and erotic desire fosters a sense of closeness and belonging.
Yet, when you are grappling with issues of low sexual desire or avoidance, you may feel frustration and disappointment.
Taking part in this marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind is an immersive experience.
Katie Ziskind teaches you how to reignite the flames of passion. She specializes in helping you cultivate a deeper, more fulfilling connection.
Likewise, low sexual desire and sexual avoidance can stem from a myriad of factors, both physical and psychological. Stress, fatigue, unresolved conflict, and underlying medical conditions are just a few of the potential culprits that can dampen your libido. Stress and feeling out of balance hinders intimacy within the marriage. Moreover, past traumas, body image issues, and cultural or religious beliefs also play a significant role in shaping your attitudes toward sex and sexuality.
Your marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind offers a safe space and holistic approach to address these complex issues.
Katie Ziskind specializes in providing sexually frustrated couples with a safe and supportive environment.
Reserve your spot and embark on this transformative journey with your partner to build connection, sexual intimacy, and emotional bonding.
You can explore all the underlying factors contributing to your sexual difficulties.
To add, in your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive you get to learn experiential exercises. You gain education on sexual health and sexual communication. Furthermore, you both can gain insight into the emotional root causes of your sexual challenges. As well, you get to learn practical strategies for overcoming them and bonding.
Your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive supports open and honest communication around sexuality. There is often shame guilt, and insecurity that goes with talking about sex. Sexuality is often a topic that often goes along with shame, guilt, and embarrassment.
Your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive gives you a supportive atmosphere. As well, in your private, marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind, you are encouraged to share your thoughts, feelings, and desires. She guides you in verbalizing deeper, core emotions, building security. You can learn to do so with vulnerability and authenticity, rather than anger and tension. Likewise, learning these skills fosters a deeper understanding of each other’s needs and preferences.
Moreover, your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive gives you both new tools and techniques. You both can break free from negative patterns of communication that contribute to your sexual difficulties. Through exercises focused on mindfulness, sensate focus, and intimacy building, you both learn to slow down.
Reserve your spot and embark on this transformative journey with your partner to build connection, sexual intimacy, and emotional bonding.
In your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you can tune into each other’s bodies, and rediscover the pleasure and joy of your physical connection.
In addition to addressing the psychological and relational aspects of low sexual desire and avoidance, your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive also provides you with resources and support for addressing any underlying medical or emotional factors. Katie Ziskind gives you both a focused, comprehensive approach to rekindling intimacy and revitalizing your sexual connection.
Katie Ziskind addresses the underlying factors contributing to low sexual desire and avoidance. From there, you both can cultivate a deeper understanding of yourselves and each other. Expressing and understanding your own sexuality paves the way for a more fulfilling, erotic, and satisfying relationship.
Through the healing power of intensive couples therapy, you both can embark on a journey of sexual exploration and discovery. Your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive is a safe space to gain sex positive education. Form there, you can improve intimacy, passion, and connection in your marriage.
Contact us today to reserve your spot and embark on this transformative journey with your partner to build connection, intimacy, and emotional bonding.
Katie Ziskind is very selective about the couples who are appropriate and the best fit.
We do not accept all couples into this marriage therapy relationship intensive retreat.
To add, this couples therapy and marriage therapy retreat is not a good fit if you or your partner are struggling with alcohol or drug addictions, current secrets and lying, current affairs or ongoing infidelity, if either if you are experiencing physical abuse, domestic violence, current episodes of untreated mental instability such as schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucinations, bipolar episodes, or if either of you are having suicidal or homicidal thoughts.
Both of you need to be stable and mentally present in order to bring your best self to better your relationship and marriage.
Your marriage is an extension of yourself, your relationship to your mind, thoughts, and body. If you are numbing out, lying, keeping a secret affair, it is impossible for you and your partner to be united and build a secure, genuine bond.
However, we recommend having fun together without needing to drink alcohol to appreciate spending time with each other. More so, mental clarity, intuitive wisdom, and having a holistic relationship with yourself are key elements in bettering your marriage. To add, this marriage therapy relationship intensive retreat is a process of emotionally connecting. As well, Katie Ziskind doesn’t want you numbing out or feeling pressure to be someone you feel you “should be,” to please your partner.
Instead, this is about creating a marriage that is an authentic, emotionally open, secure, and compassionate extension of both of your best selves.
After the afternoon sessions have concluded, goto local restaurants and enjoy your evening together. We understand you may have an alcoholic drink or two while at a restaurant. But, please keep in mind that the morning learning session begins promptly at 11am.
Instead of being hungover, Katie Ziskind purposefully picked a mid-morning start time to allow you time to be intimate in bed in the morning. To note, this couples therapy retreat is time for you to give love in a physical way, especially in the form of sexual pleasure. Katie Ziskind encourages you both to have morning cuddles, sexual intimacy, as well as a nourishing breakfast before joining the 11am session.
Three Day Marriage Therapy Retreat – Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Our couples therapy relationships intensive retreat schedule includes 3 hours of learning at a time, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11-2pm and 3-6pm each day. There is an hour lunch break daily.
They take place on our secure video platform or Niantic, Connecticut or Melbourne, Florida. Your retreat is upscale and private, and does not include other couples. It is 100% about your and your spouse develop better communication skills, empathy, emotional validation, trust, love, desire, attention, and reassurance. Retreats need to be paid for in full in order to hold and reserve your spot. Retreat purchases are non-refundable.
Katie Ziskind schedules your relationship intense retreat during a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday consecutive days that are mutually agreed upon.
We accept HSA/FSA, credit, and debit cards for payment. After submitting your payment, we schedule your dates for your marriage therapy retreat and we will book your hotel stay (your hotel cost is included in your retreat). You are responsible for flights and travels costs as well as your meals.
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Katie Ziskind Offers Gottman Marriage Therapy To Help Troubled Relationships On The Brink of Divorce
In the intricate dance of love and partnership, you may find yourself entangled in a web of conflict, yelling, disconnection, and misunderstanding. Arguments escalate, tensions rise, and before you know it, you are trapped in a cycle of negativity that threatens the very foundation of your relationship.
To add, Katie Ziskind’s strategic approach of Gottman marriage therapy offers a beacon of hope for distressed couples seeking to mend their fractured connection. You both can work together to rediscover joy, emotional bonding, mutual understanding, and intimacy.
Founded by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, pioneers in the field of relationship research and therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy is grounded in decades of scientific observation and analysis. Their extensive research, spanning over four decades, has uncovered the essential components of successful relationships and identified the destructive patterns that lead to their downfall.
Armed with this wealth of knowledge, Katie Ziskind, a trained Gottman marriage therapists specializing in guiding couples through the treacherous terrain of conflict and past trauma. Katie Ziskind guides the most distressed couples toward a path of healing, emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, and renewal.
At the heart of Gottman couples therapy, you both can understand concept of creating your, “Sound Relationship House.”
This is a metaphorical framework that encapsulates the fundamental elements necessary for a thriving partnership.
From trust and intimacy to conflict management and shared meaning, each floor of this metaphorical house represents a crucial aspect of creating your healthy relationship. Through targeted interventions and evidence-based techniques, Katie Ziskind, Gottman marriage therapist, specializes with couples who need to strengthen these pillars. You learn skills and emotional bonding techniques to rebuild your relationship from the ground up.
One of the most formidable challenges facing distressed couples is the breakdown of communication.
Hurtful words, stone cold silence, and defensive reactions become the norm, which erode trust and closeness.
Negative communication deepens the rift and disconnection between you and your partner.
Gottman marriage therapy is a major pillar Katie Ziskind uses to guide you both on your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive.
Katie Ziskind, Gottman marriage therapist, offers a lifeline by giving you both practical tools to break free from these hurtful, negative, and destructive patterns. On your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you can learn to cultivate a more constructive, emotionally responsive, in sync, loving, and compassionate way of relating to one another.
Central to Gottman’s approach is the concept of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” – criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling – which Drs. John and Julie Gottman identified as the most toxic communication styles in relationships. These behaviors foreshadow divorce, signaling the imminent collapse of marital harmony if left unchecked.
Through targeted interventions, Katie Ziskind, Gottman marriage therapist, helps couples recognize and disarm these destructive patterns. In general, you both learn tools to let go of resentment and anger. You can learn to replace unhealthy patterns with healthier alternatives that foster understanding, empathy, reassurance, and connection.
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On your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, you learn how to verbalize your needs for security, bonding, reassurance, affection, and comfort.
Katie Ziskind ensures both you and your spouse learn how to respond emotionally to each other, supporting a stronger emotional connection. When you are trapped in the icy grip of the silent treatment, Gottman therapy on your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive offers a roadmap to thaw the frozen channels of communication.
By learning to express your deeper, core needs and emotions in a non-confrontational manner, Katie Ziskind empowers you both to break through the walls of silence. You don’t have to be stuck in blame, criticism, anger, emotional distance, and feeling unappreciated. No longer do you have to feel frustrated, helpless, or unsure of what to do to better your marriage. Overall, you both can learn to engage in gentle, softer, less tense, and more meaningful dialogue once again.
Similarly, defensiveness, the silent treatment, and criticism are transformed from weapons of war into opportunities for growth and understanding.
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Katie Ziskind, Gottman marriage therapist, guides distant couples in expressing their grievances in a constructive manner.
To add, this means focusing on specific unmet love needs rather than attacking each other’s character or insulting each other. On your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you can learn to verbalize to your spouse how much you want to work on your marriage. Likewise, learning to slow down, with Katie Ziskind’s guidance, helps you and your partner help each other feel like you both deeply matter to each other.
By fostering a culture of mutual respect and empathy, couples on their private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive learn to navigate conflicts with grace and compassion. This process lays the groundwork for lasting reconciliation, emotional intimacy, and sexual connection.
Yelling, often the culmination of unresolved tension and frustration, is no longer necessary as couples learn to manage their emotions and communicate assertively yet respectfully. You can learn to share deeper, core emotions, healing past hurts and pain more effectively. To add, through techniques such as active listening and “softened startup,” you and your spouse will develop the skills to express your feelings without resorting to escalation. As well, on your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you get a safe space for open, loving, emotionally expressive, and honest dialogue.
You and your spouse can process and express anger, resentment, betrayal, trauma, and hurt, and work as team towards emotional intimacy, appreciation, and admiration.
Katie Ziskind, Gottman marriage therapist, guide distant couples in nurturing fondness and admiration for one another. You learn specific skills for celebrating each other’s strengths and qualities rather than dwelling on perceived shortcomings. By fostering a culture of positivity and appreciation, you and your spouse can cultivate a deeper sense of connection. To note, this means Katie Ziskind guides you in developing respect, appreciation, and mutual regard.
These emotional bonding skills on your couples therapy retreat strengthen your, “couple bubble,” that signifies the health of your relationship.
On your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you also learn about your attachment trauma, such as having a parent who is an alcohol, drug user, or emotionally abusive. When you have a parent who is an alcoholic, drug addict, gambling addict, or emotionally abusive, these early childhood experiences play a role in current fight dynamics.
Ultimately, Gottman marriage therapy is a pillar of rebuilding your marriage that is not just about resolving conflicts. Overall, it’s about building a foundation of trust, intimacy, and shared meaning that sustains couples through life’s inevitable ups and downs.
You both leave your private, couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with the tools and insights you need to navigate the complexities you marriage. Tools from Gottman marriage therapy provide a beacon of hope for distressed couples seeking to rebuild their connection and rediscover the joy of love that endures.
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Strengthening Your Marital Bond In Your Private Couples Marriage Therapy Retreat Relationship Intensive
In the intricate tapestry of marriage, the threads of emotional connection are what bind you and your spouse together through the ebb and flow of life’s challenges.
On top of childhood trauma and neglect, you both may have experienced marital and relationship trauma. Right when you want closeness and love, your partner shuts you out or starts yelling. When you are navigating the rough waters of unresolved trauma, loss, betrayal, hurt, and attachment wounds, finding a path to healing and intimacy can feel like an insurmountable task.
However, through our private couples marriage therapy retreats, you both can embark on an intensive journey of self-discovery and relational healing. You both get to uncover the roots of your pain and cultivate the skills needed to forge a deeper, more resilient bond.
Healing Attachment Trauma Through Your Couples Therapy Retreat with Katie Ziskind
At the heart of these retreats lies a focus on emotional bonding skills that serve as the cornerstone of a thriving partnership. Through guided exercises and intimate discussions, you both learn to communicate with vulnerability and authenticity. Emotional communication helps you relate on an intimate level, sharing your deepest fears and desires. You learn to be emotionally vulnerable in a safe and supportive environment.
By cultivating empathy, active listening, and emotional attunement, Katie Ziskind helps you and your partner deepen your understanding of each another. Instead of being in a stand off of anger and pain, you can learn to forge a deep, emotionally intimate bond that transcends your surface-level conflicts. You can work as a team to overcome misunderstandings that often plague and weigh down the playfulness in your marriage.
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Did you and your spouse experience emotional abuse at the hands of an alcoholic or drug addict parent?
Childhood trauma leaves pain and unmet love needs that play a role in marriage arguments and distance. Your marriage fights are often rooted in attachment trauma – the lingering wounds left by early childhood experiences of neglect, abuse, or abandonment.
When you grow up with a parent struggling with addiction or emotional instability, it leaves scars. To add, these scars of that past cast a dark shadow over your present-day marriage. Childhood trauma and neglect influences everything from communication patterns to conflict resolution strategies. From a young age, your body has been in survival mode, or fight, flight, and freeze states.
When your parent is an alcoholic, drug addict, liar, cheater, gambling addict, or emotionally abusive, this impacts your childhood development. Maybe, you had a parent who was suicidal, emotionally abusive, or physically abusive.
Growing up in an environment marked by chaos means your parents were unpredictable and emotionally volatile. As well, due to childhood trauma, you learned to adapt and survive by developing coping mechanisms. These coping mechanisms are often fight, flight, and freeze that shape how you communicate in your marriage in adulthood.
To add, these early attachment wounds and traumas manifest in a myriad of ways within your marriage. You may more quickly go into a state of fear, flight, fight, or freeze. This leads to high conflict fighting, or the silent treatment.
For one, you may have struggles with trust, emotional intimacy, and sexual intimacy. Or, you may have fight, flight, and freeze trauma survival patterns of conflict avoidance, anger, yelling, or aggression.
Your private couples marriage therapy retreat is a safe space for you and your spouse to confront these underlying attachment traumas head-on, from compassion and understanding.
Katie Ziskind shines a light on the ways in which your past childhood trauma experiences shape your current arguments.
Through guided exploration and therapeutic interventions, you and your spouse gain insight into the origins of your childhood relational patterns. You both can learn to recognize the ways in which your attachment wounds are playing out in your marriage disconnection.
By unpacking these deep-seated emotional wounds, you both are able to cultivate a greater sense of empathy and compassion for one another. To add, this fosters a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics driving their conflicts.
Through targeted interventions and experiential exercises, you both learn to break free from the cycle of reactivity and defensiveness.
As well, your private couples marriage therapy retreat helps you have dedicated time to forage a path toward greater intimacy and deeper connection.
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Explore your early childhood experiences and in this marriage bootcamp retreat
Moreover, this couples therapy retreat provide a space for you and your partner to explore their individual experiences of attachment trauma. Understanding childhood trauma helps you and your partner offer each other validation and support. You gain skills to navigate the complex terrain of healing, secure bonding, and self-discovery.
By addressing these wounds within the context of your romantic relationship, you can create a shared narrative of resilience and growth. This transforms your trauma and pain into a source of strength, emotional intimacy, and connection.
Couples gain insight into the origins of your relational patterns and learn to recognize the ways in which your childhood trauma wounds are playing out in your marriage.
By unpacking these deep-seated emotional wounds, distant, fighting couples are able to cultivate a greater sense of empathy and compassion for one another. Empathy and emotional bonding skills foster a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics driving your conflicts.
Moreover, this couples therapy retreat provides a space for each of you to explore your individual experiences of attachment trauma, offering validation and support as they navigate the complex terrain of healing and self-discovery.
By addressing these wounds within the context of your relationship, you both are able to create a shared narrative of resilience and growth.
You can reconnect on a deep, emotional level, transforming your pain into a source of strength, reassurance, love, intimacy, and connection.
In conclusion, this private couples marriage therapy retreat offers a transformative opportunity for you both to strengthen your bond and heal from the wounds of childhood trauma.
Through a combination of emotional bonding skills and targeted interventions, partners learn to navigate the complexities of their relationship with compassion and empathy, forging a path toward greater intimacy and connection.
By confronting your past trauma memories helps you both create a foundation of trust and mutual support. Understanding each other’s unmet childhood love needs empowers you both to reassure each other more effectively. From understanding each other’s childhood unmet love needs, you can team up and weather life’s storms together, hand in hand.
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Information on out-of-network reimbursement
At our couples therapy retreat, we understand the importance of making therapy accessible as possible. While Katie Ziskind does not participate in any insurance networks directly, you may have insurance coverage that includes out-of-network benefits for mental health services.
Many insurance companies offer out-of-network coverage for marriage therapy services, including couples therapy. This means that if you have out-of-network benefits as part of your insurance plan, you may be eligible to file for reimbursement from your insurance company after paying the cost and attending our retreat.
We are committed to supporting you and your partner in navigating the out-of-networking insurance reimbursement process. We provide you with a superbill that includes all the necessary information required by your insurance company, such as the dates of service, type of therapy provided, and our credentials as licensed therapists.
While the specific reimbursement rates and policies vary depending on your insurance plan, we encourage you to reach out to your insurance provider directly to inquire about your out-of-network benefits for couples therapy.
To note, reimbursement for therapy services is ultimately determined by your insurance company and is subject to your plan’s coverage and policies. We recommend contacting your insurance provider for detailed information about your out-of-network benefits and reimbursement options.
At your couples therapy retreat, Katie Ziskind specializes and is dedicated to helping you and your partner cultivate deeper emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement within your relationship.
These three aspects are key elements in building emotional intimacy and a strong martial foundation.
These three pillars are essential for fostering a strong and resilient connection that can withstand the challenges and complexities of life. Emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement within your relationship are necessary for a healthy sex life.
Click below to schedule your couples therapy bootcamp and intensive marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind to improve your sex life.
How can a sex positive space on your private couples counseling retreat help you improve your sex life?
Learn about male and female sexual anatomy
Talk about sexual satisfaction and pleasuring the clitoris
Open the discussion regarding self-pleasure and masturbation
Understand the emotional intimacy aspects of building libido
Create chemistry, sexual attraction, and erotic desire
Reduce performance anxiety and relax in the moment together
Talk about erectile dysfunction and premature ejactulation
Diversify your sex life and go beyond penis-in-vagina penetrative sex
Talk about the effects of pornography use and addiction openly
Learn to find the female G-spot
Understand how to lengthen foreplay to 45-90 minutes for female sexual satisfaction
Gain skills to build sexual desire
Increase massaging, gentle touch, caressing, foot rubs, naked showers and baths, ect
Understand squirting and the female ejaculation
Katie Ziskind gives you a safe space to explore orgasming, pleasure, sexual satisfaction, and get comfortable talking about sex.
In order to have a healthy sex life,accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement are absolutely key. To note, these are emotional intimacy elements that are required to have a satisfying, pleasurable, erotic, and playful sex life.
Why are emotional intimacy elements of accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement so important building and maintaining a healthy, satisfying, and erotic sex life?
Emotional intimacy serves as the foundation upon which your healthy, satisfying, playful, fun, and erotic sex life is built.
At its core, emotional intimacy encompasses three key elements: accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement. To note, these elements are essential for creating a deep connection between you and your spouse. Emotional intimacy fosters trust, closeness, and vulnerability. As well, emotional bonding and security enhances the overall quality of your physical chemistry and sexual relationship. During your private, couples therapy retreat, Katie Ziskind helps you explore each of these elements in more detail and how they contribute to your fulfilling sex life.
Accessibility refers to the ability and willingness of you both to be emotionally available to each other.
In the context of sexual intimacy, it means creating an environment where both of you feel comfortable expressing your desires, fears, and vulnerabilities without fear of judgment or rejection. When you both feel emotionally accessible to each other, you are more likely to communicate openly about your sexual needs and preferences. Talking about sex openly lead to greater mutual understanding and satisfaction.
Responsiveness involves being attuned to your partner’s emotional cues and them being attuned to yours.
As well, it means responding to them in a sensitive and supportive manner. In the context of sexual intimacy, responsiveness means actively listening to your partner’s needs and desires, and making an effort to meet them with empathy and compassion. Your partner can learn to be sensitive to your emotional needs and respond gently. To add, this may involve being attentive to nonverbal signals. For instance, noticing body language and tone of voice means adjusting your behavior accordingly.
When both of you feel heard, understood, and validated, you are both more likely to feel safe and secure in your sexual relationship. When you feel close sexually and like you matter, this leads to greater intimacy and connection.
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Engagement refers to the active participation and investment of both of you in your romantic relationship.
In the context of sexual intimacy, it means being present and engaged during sexual encounters. It means being in the moment and letting go of anxiety or anything on your mind. As well, engagement means actively seeking ways to enhance pleasure, fun, enjoyment, and satisfaction for both of you. To note, this may involve exploring new techniques.
As well, it can include trying different sexual activities, and prioritizing each other’s pleasure and well-being. When both of you are fully engaged in your sexual experiences, you are more likely to feel connected and fulfilled emotionally and sexually. Being present sexually helps you have more satisfying, playful, engaged, and fun sexual experiences. As a result of more emotional presence and sexual engagement, you can build and maintain your erotic sex life.
Your couples therapy bootcamp and intensive marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind teaches you emotional intimacy and empathy skills for a better sex life
In summary, emotional intimacy is absolutely key in building and maintaining a healthy, satisfying, and erotic sex life.
By fostering accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement, both of you create a deep and meaningful connection that enhances your sexual relationship and strengthens their bond.
When both of you feel emotionally connected and supported, you are more likely to experience greater satisfaction, pleasure, and fulfillment in their sexual encounters. More sexual pleasure and increased sexual desire leads to a more fulfilling and rewarding relationship overall. There is a positive feedback loop between sexual intimacy that happens regularly and emotional intimacy.
Your couples therapy bootcamp and intensive marriage therapy retreat with Katie Ziskind gives you support emotionally and sexually.
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Develop Emotional Accessibility For A Healthy Sex Life:
Many couples struggle with expressing their emotions openly and honestly, leading to misunderstandings, conflicts, and a sense of disconnection. At our couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, we create a safe and supportive environment. This type of environment is one that you can take back home with you. You learn ways to create a more secure, sustainable, loving, and emotionally in tune bond.
Creating this safe environment in your martial bond helps you and your partner can explore your emotions freely.
Katie Ziskind, couples therapist and sexual intimacy specialist, guides you both to share deeper, vulnerable emotions without fear of judgment or rejection.
Right now, you might be sharing your emotions in harsh, angry ways, that cause each other to feel rejected. You both may be feeling shameful, guilty, sad, unwanted, lonely, inadequate, and hurt.
Through guided exercises, experiential activities, and compassionate communication techniques, you’ll learn how to identify and express your feelings. And, Katie Ziskind guides you on exactly how to share your emotions with clarity and authenticity. This couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive helps you learn specific skills to build security.
From emotional security, you can learn to make each other feel loved, valued, important, and special again.
By becoming more emotionally accessible to each other, you’ll deepen your understanding and empathy, laying the foundation for a more intimate and fulfilling relationship.
Learn How To Improve Your Emotional Responsiveness:
Responsiveness is the ability to recognize and respond sensitively to your partner’s emotional needs. This means noticing and being aware of bids for connection, and cues for support.
In many relationships, couples may struggle to attune to each other’s needs. Right now, you may not know exactly how to provide the support and validation that your partner craves. And, you may want emotional validation from your partner, that they don’t yet have the skills to provide.
Our marriage counseling retreat offers practical tools and strategies to enhance responsiveness and deepen emotional connection.
In general, you’ll learn how to listen actively and validate your partner’s experiences. This intensive relationship bootcamp retreat gives you strategic tools for empathy and emotional intimacy.
You learn to create and maintain a culture of emotional responsiveness in your relationship. As well, you’ll create an environment of safety, trust, and mutual respect that strengthens your bond and enriches your connection.
Fine Tune The Emotional Engagement In Your Marriage For A Deeper Bond:
Engagement refers to the active participation and investment of both partners in nurturing the relationship and prioritizing each other’s well-being. In today’s busy world, it’s easy for couples to become disconnected and drift apart. You may be prioritizing your career, parenting, and other areas of your life over your marriage. Your marriage needs just as much attention and focus to be successful as the other areas of your life. When you are feeling disconnected in your marriage, this means you both need skills and tools to better your connection. Lacking communication and emotional tools leads to feelings of loneliness, hurt, betrayal, and isolation.
How can doing a private, relationship retreat help with issues like pornography induced erectile dysfunction?
Plus, pornography-induced erectile dysfunction is a relatively recent phenomenon that has garnered increasing attention in the field of sexual health. On your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you get a safe place to talk about sex and sexual challenges. To add, these issues can lead to insecurity, challenges, and emotionally intense fights at home. Pornography-induced erectile dysfunction refers to the inability to achieve or maintain an erection during sexual activity. An excessive consumption of pornography leads to a lack of emotional responsiveness and lack of sexual responsiveness.
Frequent and prolonged exposure to pornography can have detrimental effects on sexual arousal and performance. Your partner may feel unwanted, question their attractiveness, and even become sexually anxious. When you struggle with pornography-induced erectile dysfunction, you may have sexual performance anxiety issues. You may avoid sexual experiences with your partner due to pornography-induced erectile dysfunction issues.
One of the primary ways in which pornography may contribute to erectile dysfunction is through the phenomenon known as “sexual conditioning.”
When you repeatedly engage in sexual activity while watching pornographic material, your brain becomes conditioned to respond primarily to porn. Your mind and body get used to the highly stimulating and unrealistic images and scenarios presented in pornography. As a result, you may struggle to become sexually aroused with your real life partner. And, you may struggle to maintain arousal during real-life sexual encounters with your partner, which leads to difficulties achieving or sustaining an erection.
How can pornography-induced erectile dysfunction damage your marriage and sex life?
Moreover, pornography often portrays sex in a highly idealized and exaggerated manner, with an emphasis on unrealistic body standards, performance expectations, and sexual techniques. You may think you have to have a hard penis to be a good lover. Instead, sex positive education can help you realize you can be a good lover without needing a hard penis. Pornography can create a distorted view of sexuality and intimacy. As well, pornography-induced erectile dysfunction lead you to feel insecure or inadequate in comparison to the images you see in porn. As a result, you may experience anxiety, self-doubt, or shame during sexual encounters. These feelings of shame, guilt, and sexual anxiety can further exacerbate erectile dysfunction.
Your private couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive can give you a safe place to talk openly about pornography-induced erectile dysfunction.
You can learn to have realistic, pleasurable, and satisfying sexual experiences without using pornography from working with Katie Ziskind.
Additionally, excessive pornography consumption can lead to desensitization to sexual stimuli. Essentially, you become habituated to the constant novelty and variety of pornographic content. To add, this can diminish your ability to become aroused by real-life sexual stimuli.
Your pornography addiction makes it difficult to achieve or maintain an erection during sexual activity with your partner.
It’s important to note that while pornography may contribute to erectile dysfunction in some, it is not the sole cause. Psychological factors such as performance anxiety, relationship issues, conflict, stress, and depression can also play a significant role in the development of erectile dysfunction.
Your private couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive helps treat the root causes of pornography-induced erectile dysfunction. You can learn about and identify negative thought patterns and beliefs related to sexuality and intimacy. Sensate focus exercises are a part of your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive. Katie Ziskind teaches you mindfulness techniques and communication skills training. To add, these help improve sexual functioning and enhance intimacy with your partner.
In conclusion, pornography-induced erectile dysfunction is a complex issue that has significant implications for sexual health and well-being.
Additionally, it is clear that excessive consumption of pornography can have detrimental effects on sexual arousal and performance.
Katie Ziskind addresses the underlying psychological and behavioral factors contributing to pornography-induced erectile dysfunction. In your private couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, you both can work towards restoring healthy sexual functioning, communicate about sexual needs, and enhancing your overall marriage.
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Our couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind provides you and your partner with the opportunity to re-engage with each other on a deeper level.
Through emotional intimacy skills and emotional bonding tools, you can rediscover the joy, safety, and excitement of being together.
You get to take part in interactive exercises. These skills give you new, shared experiences. During your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind, you’ll reignite your passion. Reigniting passion involves learning emotional vulnerability and emotional bonding skills. From emotional safety, you can work together to create new memories. You both learn tools to reaffirm your commitment to each other.
By prioritizing engagement in your marriage and relationship, you’ll cultivate a sense of connection. A more meaningful connection gives you both a sense of vitality. Overall, both of you can redefine your shared purpose that sustains your love and marriage for years to come.
Your couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind supports you in valuing each other emotionally and improving your sex life.
At our couples therapy retreat, help you develop emotional accessibility. As well, you develop responsiveness and engagement, which are the cornerstones of a thriving and fulfilling relationship.
Whether you’re looking to strengthen your bond, overcome challenges, or reignite the spark of romance, our retreat offers you and your partner the tools, support, and guidance you need to build a strong and resilient connection that lasts a lifetime.
Join us on this transformative journey and discover the joy of deeper emotional intimacy and connection with your partner.
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Upon arriving at the Three Day Marriage Therapy Relationship Intensive with Katie Ziskind two months ago, our relationship was at a pivotal moment. I felt sad, unsure, and distant from my spouse, but we both wanted to work on our partnership. We were grappling with the aftermath of infidelity, wondering if we should go through with a separation. As well, we were not having sex, and we uncertain about the future of our marriage. We felt a mix of apprehension and hope. Leaving the retreat, however, we departed with a newfound sense of optimism, closeness, curiosity, connection, and possibility.
We learned how to improve communication, build trust, feel closer, and more about essential elements we had been missing.
In the couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive, we understood that rebuilding trust would be a gradual process. We now feel an openness together and determination.
Now, weeks later, we are witnessing real, positive transformations within our relationship. We find ourselves drawn to each other. It has been fun spending time together and we are being silly and playful with each other. We have been feeling more confident exploring more sexual intimacy and pleasure. It has been great touching each other more, trying new things, and laughing.
We feel easy and safe. It has been so nice stopping the old, reactive patterns, criticism, anger, and defensiveness. These once seemed impossible to get away from. We are happy to be using the tools we gaining from our time at the retreat. It was exactly what we needed.
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What is the benefit of doing a marriage intensive retreat, that totals 18 hours over three days verses weekly couples counseling for one hour?
Participating in a private marriage intensive retreat involves a concentrated block of therapy sessions totaling 18 hours over three days. Your private marriage intensive retreat offers several distinct advantages compared to traditional weekly couples counseling sessions, only lasting one hour each. While both approaches have their benefits, the intensive nature of a marriage therapy retreat can lead to deeper insights. You both can gain faster progress, and see clearer transformations in a shorter amount of time. There are many key benefits of opting for a marriage intensive retreat and then doing weekly couples therapy sessions.
Your private marriage intensive retreat with Katie Ziskind is an immersive experience
Unlike weekly marriage counseling sessions, which may provide only brief glimpses into relational dynamics, your private marriage intensive retreat offers an immersive experience.
You get longer sessions and consecutive days of therapy. As well, you and your spouse have the opportunity to delve deeply into your issues. You both can explore more complex emotions, and make significant breakthroughs. In three days, you can do 18 hours of couples therapy to save your marriage.
Dedicate time to improve and prioritize your marriage and health of your relationship
During your private marriage intensive retreat, you both have the undivided attention of each other.
As well, you have Katie Ziskind’s attention and presence for extended periods of time. Time and dedication between each other and with Katie Ziskind allows for more focused, intensive work on your relationship. Without the distractions and interruptions of daily life, you both can fully engage in the therapeutic process.
As a result, you can make meaningful progress toward your emotional and sexual goals.
Accelerated healing in your private couples marriage therapy retreat relationship intensive with Katie Ziskind
To add, the concentrated nature of a marriage intensive retreat accelerates your marital healing process. You can more fully address longstanding issues and overcome obstacles more quickly than with weekly counseling sessions. By dedicating a significant amount of time and energy to marriage therapy over a short period, you make rapid strides. You can work toward resolving conflicts, improving communication, and strengthening your bond.
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Gain insights about yourself and your marriage
With extended couples counseling sessions and uninterrupted time for reflection, in attending your private marriage intensive retreat, you gain deeper insights into yourself and your relationship. You can understand your generational, childhood, and current marital dynamics.
Through intensive exploration and processing, you and your spouse can uncover underlying patterns. You can process and reflect on beliefs, and emotions that may have been previously overlooked or ignored.
Level up your connection
As well, spending three consecutive days focused solely on your romantic relationship helps you level up your bond. Giving time to grow your connection allows you both to reconnect on a deeper level and strengthen your emotional bond.
Away from the distractions and stressors of daily life, you both can rediscover the joy of spending quality time together. You can rekindle the passion, eroticism, playfulness, fun, and intimacy in your romantic relationship.
Gain skills you never learn anywhere else in life
Your private marriage intensive retreat with Katie Ziskind includes experiential exercises. For instance, these can include long hugs, holding hangs, role-playing, and skill-building activities. These are all designed to enhance your communication, security, conflict resolution, and intimacy.
In your private marriage intensive retreat with Katie Ziskind, you have the opportunity to practice new skills in real-time. Katie Ziskind gives you immediate feedback. Also, this immediate feedback from Katie Ziskind helps you integrate these techniques into your daily lives more effectively.
Research has shown that intensive couples therapy retreats lead to significant and lasting improvements in relationship satisfaction and marital stability.
By addressing issues comprehensively and intensively, couples are better equipped to sustain positive changes over the long term.
Overall, while weekly couples counseling can be valuable for ongoing support and maintenance, a marriage intensive retreat offers a unique opportunity for couples to dive deep into their relationship.
You get a safe place to confront challenges head-on. As a team, with new skills, you both emerge stronger, more connected, and better equipped to navigate the complexities of married life.
