"What I appreciated about Ghita was that she kept things light-hearted. It was daunting just attending couples therapy for me at first." - Tom (Burleigh)
Package Four: Intensive One Day Couples Retreat (Couples in Crisis)
★★★★★ Text Testimonial: Intensive One Day Couples Retreat 2024:
Hi Ghita, Thank you so much for yesterday. We got A LOT out of it, and are really excited to see what the future holds for us now with these tools. You were amazing, and we can't thank you enough for your time. Cass and Mitch (Elanora)
FAST-TRACKED: SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE IN ONE DAY!
Couples counselling crisis retreats are intensive therapy sessions that help couples rebuild and repair their relationships. These retreats can help couples reduce distress, improve communication, and increase relationship satisfaction.
This one-day intensive is the starting point for couples who want or need change urgently and are more local to the Gold Coast. We are talking about couples who are on the brink of breaking up. This is an essential intervention if you’re recovering from an affair or if one of you has announced that you are leaving the relationship because it has become intolerable. This is a far more intelligent way of getting back on track than trying to repair major damage with a one hour or two hour session. It allows for a thorough assessment and understanding of the dynamic you’re locked into.
From there, we can begin the work that must happen to break out of the pain you are in. We will move your relationship skills from the Disaster track to the Master track in the shortest possible time. If your situation is urgent, this is your best option. Talk with Ghita if you have any questions about this retreat option, or you are not sure which retreat to book.
Relationship Renovation
The Intensive One Day Couples' Retreat on the Gold Coast is based on the previous '3 Step Package Gottman Package' condensed into one day. A day many couples find convenient is on a Saturday or a public holiday Monday. Importantly, many couples discover that they’re able to make more progress with an intensive Saturday couples retreat. In fact, being away from their normal context, in an undisturbed environment, couples have the time to resolve deep, difficult relationship patterns. Moreover, couples researcher John Gottman, advises couples to get away 3-4 times a year, by themselves: Aka, no kids and no friends or family.
As couples relax, and with expert coaching, it is easier to learn new ways of relating to each other. And Ghita will help you to create a clearly stated relationship maintenance plan of action to take away.
Why Choose a Package?
There is a Deeper Dive into the key relationship issues the couple experiences. The costs for intensive sessions are equivalent to the benefits of the weekly sessions, but they save you time and allow you to heal your relationship sooner. Acting sooner and promptly rather than leaving relationship issues to continue for a long time will save the high emotional and potentially high financial costs of a broken relationship, heartful marriage, fractured family or separation and divorce.
Furthermore, it’s an investment in your relationship, marriage and family. It’s a mutual gift to each other and your children. What else is more important in life?
Why do a Couples Retreat in One Day?
“Marathon sessions get so much momentum. Couples are so focussed on their relationship that they really move through interventions and process attachment injuries much quicker” – Julie Gottman
The average time couples spend in couples counselling is 3-8 hours. However, it is known that more is achieved in an a full day retreat, than in one hour sessions.
Ideal For Busy Couples
Are you struggling with communication? Do you feel lonely, sad or frustrated in your relationship? A popular way of working through issues, a full day retreat on a weekend is a good opportunity for busy professionals and parents to attend a retreat to enhance their skills and to learn more about what motivates their partners.
Location:
Set with beautiful views of Currumbin estuary, our Currumbin Rooms offer a comfortable lounge setting with relaxing herbal teas or coffee. Parking is available on the street, and there is easy access to the local cafes: The Boatshed, The Tarte Beach House, Throwers Fish and Chips, Apperitivo and The Pines - during the breaks. *This retreat does not include accommodation or meals.
93% Positive Feedback on Couples Counselling
Regardless of how long you have been married, or the nature of your marital problems, a Couples Retreat can offer huge benefits to a couple - provided that both parties are committed to repairing their relationship. Importantly, with gentle coaching and a new skills toolbox for your relationship, you can turn things around, stop fighting, learn to listen and feel deeply connected once more. You Can Be Lovers Again! …Be Best Friends Again …Be Happy Again! And we have many happy stories of couples who have done just that on the testimonials page. Testimonials
Relationship Transformation
Couples Counselling is a process based on decades of research, that has been proven, time and again, to have been a lifesaver for many relationships. But it requires time and focus: Intensive workshops, such as this one, can often turn a relationship around and do so much more than sporadic, couples therapy.
What Kind of Problems Can be Solved in a Marriage Retreat?
What Cannot be Solved in a Couples' Retreat?
Marriage Therapy Methods Included:
The methods included in this retreat to create your personalised 'Marriage Toolkit' are selected from the best of the best methods from around the world. Each retreat is tailored to your particular needs as a couple...
Couples counselling crisis retreats are intensive therapy sessions that help couples rebuild and repair their relationships. These retreats can help couples reduce distress, improve communication, and increase relationship satisfaction.
This one-day intensive is the starting point for couples who want or need change urgently and are more local to the Gold Coast. We are talking about couples who are on the brink of breaking up. This is an essential intervention if you’re recovering from an affair or if one of you has announced that you are leaving the relationship because it has become intolerable. This is a far more intelligent way of getting back on track than trying to repair major damage with a one hour or two hour session. It allows for a thorough assessment and understanding of the dynamic you’re locked into.
From there, we can begin the work that must happen to break out of the pain you are in. We will move your relationship skills from the Disaster track to the Master track in the shortest possible time. If your situation is urgent, this is your best option. Talk with Ghita if you have any questions about this retreat option, or you are not sure which retreat to book.
Relationship Renovation
The Intensive One Day Couples' Retreat on the Gold Coast is based on the previous '3 Step Package Gottman Package' condensed into one day. A day many couples find convenient is on a Saturday or a public holiday Monday. Importantly, many couples discover that they’re able to make more progress with an intensive Saturday couples retreat. In fact, being away from their normal context, in an undisturbed environment, couples have the time to resolve deep, difficult relationship patterns. Moreover, couples researcher John Gottman, advises couples to get away 3-4 times a year, by themselves: Aka, no kids and no friends or family.
As couples relax, and with expert coaching, it is easier to learn new ways of relating to each other. And Ghita will help you to create a clearly stated relationship maintenance plan of action to take away.
Why Choose a Package?
There is a Deeper Dive into the key relationship issues the couple experiences. The costs for intensive sessions are equivalent to the benefits of the weekly sessions, but they save you time and allow you to heal your relationship sooner. Acting sooner and promptly rather than leaving relationship issues to continue for a long time will save the high emotional and potentially high financial costs of a broken relationship, heartful marriage, fractured family or separation and divorce.
Furthermore, it’s an investment in your relationship, marriage and family. It’s a mutual gift to each other and your children. What else is more important in life?
Why do a Couples Retreat in One Day?
“Marathon sessions get so much momentum. Couples are so focussed on their relationship that they really move through interventions and process attachment injuries much quicker” – Julie Gottman
The average time couples spend in couples counselling is 3-8 hours. However, it is known that more is achieved in an a full day retreat, than in one hour sessions.
- Fantastic progress in a short time: Learn skills fast and well
- More time to work on issues for a fast-tracked resolution
- Easier to fit into your busy lifestyle
Ideal For Busy Couples
Are you struggling with communication? Do you feel lonely, sad or frustrated in your relationship? A popular way of working through issues, a full day retreat on a weekend is a good opportunity for busy professionals and parents to attend a retreat to enhance their skills and to learn more about what motivates their partners.
Location:
Set with beautiful views of Currumbin estuary, our Currumbin Rooms offer a comfortable lounge setting with relaxing herbal teas or coffee. Parking is available on the street, and there is easy access to the local cafes: The Boatshed, The Tarte Beach House, Throwers Fish and Chips, Apperitivo and The Pines - during the breaks. *This retreat does not include accommodation or meals.
93% Positive Feedback on Couples Counselling
Regardless of how long you have been married, or the nature of your marital problems, a Couples Retreat can offer huge benefits to a couple - provided that both parties are committed to repairing their relationship. Importantly, with gentle coaching and a new skills toolbox for your relationship, you can turn things around, stop fighting, learn to listen and feel deeply connected once more. You Can Be Lovers Again! …Be Best Friends Again …Be Happy Again! And we have many happy stories of couples who have done just that on the testimonials page. Testimonials
Relationship Transformation
Couples Counselling is a process based on decades of research, that has been proven, time and again, to have been a lifesaver for many relationships. But it requires time and focus: Intensive workshops, such as this one, can often turn a relationship around and do so much more than sporadic, couples therapy.
What Kind of Problems Can be Solved in a Marriage Retreat?
- One party or both are contemplating a Separation/ Divorce: Long term distress, resentment and lack of attachment. Unpacking the issues.
- Post-Affair Repair: Delving into impact of the affair. Steps to rebuild trust, to forgive and to move forwards.
- Problems with Communication and Understanding Each Other: A framework for true honesty, vulnerability. Reestablishing a framework of communication
- Problems with Emotional and Physical Intimacy: Emotional distancing, attraction suffers, a cycle of disconnection. Tools for intimacy and trust.
- Living Like Flatmates/ Empty Nest Syndrome: Taking each other for granted, neglecting each other's emotional needs for periods. Reestablishing the link.
- Mid-Life Crisis of one partner: Certain milestones in career, retirement, life changes etc. can make a person question everything. Coping skills.
- Pre-Marriage Contracts - Negotiating the deals and addressing issues before the problems even begin.
What Cannot be Solved in a Couples' Retreat?
- Abuse: The core of this work is about establishing a foundation of trust. Every kind of family violence destroys trust and makes it impossible to safely open up to one another.
- Anti-Relationship Behaviours: Active compulsive behaviours involving substances, gambling, or acting single interfere with relationships - especially trust, safety and finances.
- An Active Affair: A huge part of the retreat is the commitment to each other and the relationship. This is not possible with affairs or open relationships.
Marriage Therapy Methods Included:
The methods included in this retreat to create your personalised 'Marriage Toolkit' are selected from the best of the best methods from around the world. Each retreat is tailored to your particular needs as a couple...
- Ghita Andersen: Heart versus Ego Method (Australia) - Negotiating Marital Agreements and Pre-Marital Contracts, The Relationship Triangle Concept, Codewords for Couples, Eye Gazing Exercise, Acting from Heart Not Ego: Benefit of Doubt, Arguing with Your Monkey Chatter. Heart Versus Ego Pre-Marriage Preparation Course
- Gottman Marriage Therapy (John and Julie Gottman, USA) - The Sound Relationship House/ 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse, Turning towards not away, Fair fighting rules: Gottman Method
- Carl Rogers - Active / Reflective Listening (USA) - How to Complain Constructively, How to be Heard/ Listen Actively
- Family Dispute Resolution (Australia, UK & NZ) De-escalating Conflict and Stating Your Needs, Objective Rather Than Subjective (Removing Emotions)
- Experiential Family Therapy (Virginia Satir): The dynamics of families.
- Esther Perel Methods (Belgium) - Infidelity (Why it Happens), The Gender Currencies, Motivations of Men and Women
- 5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman, USA) You and Your Partner's Love Languages: The 5: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, or Physical Touch.
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP (Richard Bandler, John Grinder, USA) - The Language Influence: How to Talk to Your Spouse, How to Reframe.
- And more...
"I have couples who come from Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne to do a Couples Retreat with me on the Gold Coast. This allows them to get away from their usual environment and to fully focus on creating new tools for their marriage." - Ghita
Package Four: Intensive One Day Couples Retreat (Couples in Crisis): Part One
Intensive One Day Couples Retreat (Couples in Crisis): $1200
5.5 hour Workshop Normally Saturdays. (Gottman Method and Andersen Conflict Resolution Methods)
This is the full weekend workshop condensed into one day.
Select Package 4 on the booking portal.
*Intake Forms must be completed as soon as possible
Days: (Any day that is available, however Saturdays are popular because you can book them on the booking portal. Ask Ghita if you would like to arrange a different day so that she can open up a day for you.)
Diagnostic:
Includes Worksheet Folder to Take Home
*Intake Forms must be completed as soon as possible
Terms and Conditions of Package Four:
Please read our terms and conditions before purchasing. By booking this special, you agree to our terms.
5.5 hour Workshop Normally Saturdays. (Gottman Method and Andersen Conflict Resolution Methods)
This is the full weekend workshop condensed into one day.
Select Package 4 on the booking portal.
*Intake Forms must be completed as soon as possible
Days: (Any day that is available, however Saturdays are popular because you can book them on the booking portal. Ask Ghita if you would like to arrange a different day so that she can open up a day for you.)
Diagnostic:
- 9 am - 10 am: Individual Session One (One party has a creek/ beach walk, coffee or tea at a cafe)
- 10 am - 11am: Individual Session Two (One party has a creek/ beach walk, coffee or tea at a cafe)
- 11 am - 12pm: Couples Session: Unpacking the information from the individual sessions. Looking at the needs and vulnerabilities from both sides.
- 12pm - 12.30pm: Lunch Break
- 12.30pm - 2.30pm: Two Hour Intensive: Active Listening, The Family Therapy Model, Code Words, Communication Strategies and New Skills Toolbox
Includes Worksheet Folder to Take Home
*Intake Forms must be completed as soon as possible
Terms and Conditions of Package Four:
Please read our terms and conditions before purchasing. By booking this special, you agree to our terms.
- Have a chat to Ghita before booking.
- Full deposit is required upon booking this package (Full payment is required to confirm your date).
- Ghita does not accept couples with a history of family violence - including chronic verbal abuse, violence, intimidation, sexual abuse or financial control
- CANCELLATIONS: We cannot fill a full day of the diary at short notice. By booking this package you agree to our cancellation policy: NO REFUNDS WITH LESS THAN 7 DAYS NOTICE: Client Break-ups, Separations, Illness, Babysitting issues are not valid excuses for short notice cancellations. We can offer video sessions.
- If postponed (with 7 days notice) and credit retained the package is valid for 3 months from purchase date.
- There is no guarantee that your Health Fund will rebate couples counselling. We do not have affiliations with any particular health fund as there are so many. Please check with your provider
- If for any reason you cannot attend in person, you will be offered an online video session
- Please note that this retreat workshop is based in a private home by the beach and subject to neighbourhood noises. Parking may be limited on holidays.
- Note: Private home: Accommodation and meals are not included. Teas and coffees however are included.
- Note: This type of retreat can be used more than once to tackle different issues.
- Agreeing to our terms when booking and then later saying that you did not read them is no excuse
After just 5 hours our communication skills are in a place we didn’t know were possible. 10 out of 10 recommend!' - Jason Eichenburger
Success Stories:
Text Testimonial: Couples One Day Retreat (Saturday) 2024:
Hi Ghita, Thank you so much for yesterday. We got ALOT out of it, and are really excited to see what the future holds for us now with these tools. You were amazing, and we can't thank you enough for your time. Cass and Mitch (Elanora)
★★★★★ 5 Star Google Review: Marriage Counselling Program
We both learnt how to actively listen to one another and remember the other person's needs are different. Ghita was absolutely warm and welcoming, would definitely recommend her intensive program, it has saved our marriage. - Nicole Eggleton (Coomera).
Couples Counselling Testimonial via Text 2018: "Since seeing you last week things have been great and it looks like we are back on track. We have reconnected amazingly over the weekend. Thank you." Ryan and Kimberly, (Elanora).
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other Couples Counsellors?
Ghita Andersen (B.Soc.Sci: Psych & Coun; Grad Cert FDR) is a professionally trained Counsellor and an Federally Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Mediator. Passionate about helping people and regarded as one of the most effective Couples Counsellors on the Gold Coast, (Currumbin location only) Ghita has helped hundreds of couples in the decade she has been working on the coast. Ghita helps Australian couples working interstate and overseas via telehealth sessions. Please read Ghita's Reviews and Testimonials page..
If you’ve got any questions for Ghita before committing to a session or a package, please feel free to request a Free 10 Minute Call-Back via text or phone today on 0439 888 070. And it is okay for you both to have a chat with Ghita before booking, so you know what to expect.
Ghita Andersen (B.Soc.Sci: Psych & Coun; Grad Cert FDR) is a professionally trained Counsellor and an Federally Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Mediator. Passionate about helping people and regarded as one of the most effective Couples Counsellors on the Gold Coast, (Currumbin location only) Ghita has helped hundreds of couples in the decade she has been working on the coast. Ghita helps Australian couples working interstate and overseas via telehealth sessions. Please read Ghita's Reviews and Testimonials page..
If you’ve got any questions for Ghita before committing to a session or a package, please feel free to request a Free 10 Minute Call-Back via text or phone today on 0439 888 070. And it is okay for you both to have a chat with Ghita before booking, so you know what to expect.
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