Package One: One Day Saturday Couples Retreat - Gold Coast (5.5 hours)
'Truthfully, I was ready to give up. Things were so bad. Since the program, we have nothing to fight about.' - Suzie
Are you struggling with arguments that never seem to get resolved? Are you both talking, but no one is listening? Do you feel lonely, sad or frustrated in your relationship?
If you are serious about getting marriage counselling/ couples therapy, and want an intensive day retreat, then this package is for you. Package One combines the best of the best relationship harmony tools and is specifically for: General Communication Issues (looping arguments), A Lack of Passion. Negotiating Needs. Learning Active Listening. Creating a Marriage Boundaries list and Reframing Your Perspective. *Available Saturdays or by arrangement.
If you are serious about getting marriage counselling/ couples therapy, and want an intensive day retreat, then this package is for you. Package One combines the best of the best relationship harmony tools and is specifically for: General Communication Issues (looping arguments), A Lack of Passion. Negotiating Needs. Learning Active Listening. Creating a Marriage Boundaries list and Reframing Your Perspective. *Available Saturdays or by arrangement.
★★★★★ 5 Star Google Review: One Day Retreat 2026
Our session with Ghita was exactly what we needed. She was calm, direct and incredibly intuitive. She didn’t allow us to stay stuck in blame or avoidance, but also didn’t let us bypass the hard truths.
For the first time in a long while, we both felt heard in the same room. She helped us identify the real issues underneath the conflict and gave us practical direction moving forward. We left feeling hopeful and clearer about what needs to change. Highly recommend for couples who are serious about growth. - Sheree (Coomera)
Complimentary Take Home Couples Workbook
Couples Intensives (Retreats) offer a different container entirely, through multiple sessions held over consecutive days. They allow you to stay with the process long enough for clarity and noticeable change to occur. Often, what might take months of weekly therapy can unfold over just a few focused days.
✅ Fast Tracked Retreat
This retreat packs a lot into one day. 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.
✅ Goal Orientated Outcomes: What You Will Learn in the Couples Retreat...
✔️ How to unpack the issues? A step by step diagnosis
✔️ Individual sessions and stories: What are you bringing into the marriage mix? And how do you see your partner's behaviours? Are there any counter-productive attachment styles?
✔️ What language are you using? What type of conflict resolution have you learned from your parents? (Good, bad, ugly).
✔️ Authenticity training: Learning to be more honest with each other
✔️ How to fight fair and communicate effectively
✔️ How to listen (Active Listening techniques) without jumping to conclusions
✔️ Reduce Distress and Improve Intimacy
✅ Best Value Couples Retreat (This month's special)
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. Our retreats are the best value on the Gold Coast considering the intensive content involved and the workbook that you can take home and use going forwards.
✅ 50 Years of Relationship Research: Gottman Method
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. The methods included in this retreat to create your personalised 'Relationship Toolbox' are selected from the best of the best methods from around the world. From the Gottman method, Rogers, Perel and Family Dispute Mediation, you can be sure these are tried and true methods...
Workshop Methods:
What Kind of Problems Can be Solved in a Currumbin Marriage Retreat?
What Problems Can it Not Help?
While couples retreats are an excellent option for most people, they are NOT suitable if there is an active affair, Abuse and Family Violence, Addictive Behaviours and Substance abuse.
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other Couples Retreat Counsellors?
A relationship counsellor and family mediator for over a decade, Ghita understands that Couples Therapy is very 'personal' and it does make people feel vulnerable and uncomfortable; afterall opening up about your deepest feelings in front of a stranger isn’t the easiest thing to do. But Ghita's counselling style encourages a practical, light-hearted environment. In fact, some exercises are both fun and enlightening.
✔️ Top Rated Couples Counsellor on the Gold Coast
✔️ Ghita is a certified Family Dispute Resolution Mediator (FDRP)
✅ Fast Tracked Retreat
This retreat packs a lot into one day. 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.
- Fantastic progress in a short time: Learn skills fast and well
- Easier to fit into your busy lifestyle
✅ Goal Orientated Outcomes: What You Will Learn in the Couples Retreat...
✔️ How to unpack the issues? A step by step diagnosis
✔️ Individual sessions and stories: What are you bringing into the marriage mix? And how do you see your partner's behaviours? Are there any counter-productive attachment styles?
✔️ What language are you using? What type of conflict resolution have you learned from your parents? (Good, bad, ugly).
✔️ Authenticity training: Learning to be more honest with each other
✔️ How to fight fair and communicate effectively
✔️ How to listen (Active Listening techniques) without jumping to conclusions
✔️ Reduce Distress and Improve Intimacy
✅ Best Value Couples Retreat (This month's special)
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. Our retreats are the best value on the Gold Coast considering the intensive content involved and the workbook that you can take home and use going forwards.
✅ 50 Years of Relationship Research: Gottman Method
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. The methods included in this retreat to create your personalised 'Relationship Toolbox' are selected from the best of the best methods from around the world. From the Gottman method, Rogers, Perel and Family Dispute Mediation, you can be sure these are tried and true methods...
Workshop Methods:
- Gottman Marriage (Love Lab) Concepts - 50 Years of marriage research: The Four Horsemen, Leaning Towards, Love Maps.
- The Couples' Relationship Toolbox: Codewords for Couples, Vent or Fix, Gender Pyramids, The Marriage Jar (1 & 2), Metaphors: Marriage as a Plant, Toddler Talk, Negotiating Marital Agreements and Pre-Marital Contracts, Eye Gazing Exercise, Reframing your Internal Language.
- 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)
- Renegotiating Marriage Contracts: Agreements about roles, responsibilities, household chores, finances, etc.
- And more...
What Kind of Problems Can be Solved in a Currumbin 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 Problems Can it Not Help?
While couples retreats are an excellent option for most people, they are NOT suitable if there is an active affair, Abuse and Family Violence, Addictive Behaviours and Substance abuse.
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other Couples Retreat Counsellors?
A relationship counsellor and family mediator for over a decade, Ghita understands that Couples Therapy is very 'personal' and it does make people feel vulnerable and uncomfortable; afterall opening up about your deepest feelings in front of a stranger isn’t the easiest thing to do. But Ghita's counselling style encourages a practical, light-hearted environment. In fact, some exercises are both fun and enlightening.
✔️ Top Rated Couples Counsellor on the Gold Coast
✔️ Ghita is a certified Family Dispute Resolution Mediator (FDRP)
✅ Success Stories:
★★★★★ Feedback Testimonial Marriage Counselling Intensive 2022
We had been to Couples Counselling before with another counsellor. I was convinced that we were separating and it was too late. This session was very different. Ghita nailed our problem and made us negotiate. After many years of arguing over the same thing, she showed us how to do deals. We should have done a pre-marital agreement long ago. I can see that now. I was of the mindset to leave, but after the two hour couples intensive it turned around for us. Thank you Ghita. - J & A Tovey. (Hope Island, Gold Coast)
★★★★★ Testimonial: 5 Weeks Couples Therapy Package 2023:
'Truthfully, I was ready to give up. Things were so bad. Since the five week program, we have nothing to fight about. The other day my husband used the code word 'Pineapple' to share something about his childhood: I stopped and listened without judgement - and I was fully present. Normally, I would half listen, avoid feelings and get defensive when he got frustrated. That would result in a whole day of ill feelings and sulking on both sides. The conflict would start with such small things. This has really changed how we see each other's triggers and motivations. We have never been so close. We don't take things so personally. We are stronger and we make time for each other.' - Suzie van de Schraaf (Currumbin)
★★★★★ 5 Star Google Review: Marriage Counselling: Gottman Package 2023:
Ghita provided real strategies that can be implemented to prevent conflict and more empathy within our relationships. We were able to be truthful and honest within ourselves from better self reflection and then she gave us the tools to be able to communicate our needs effectively. 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).
If you have any questions for Ghita before committing to a session or a package, please feel free to request a Complimentary Call-Back on 0439 888 070 via text.
For a Saturday, select 'Package One: One Day Couples Retreat Gold Coast' under Couples Counselling on the booking system.
For a Saturday, select 'Package One: One Day Couples Retreat Gold Coast' under Couples Counselling on the booking system.
Package One:
One Day (Saturday) Couples Retreat (Currumbin 5.5 hours): $999 - Save $301
*Not designed for separated couples or couples in crisis.
*Limited spots available
Retreat Schedule:
Saturday Line-up: Four therapy sessions over five hours with a lunch break in-between.
Diagnostic:
Includes Workbook Folder to Take Home
*Intake Forms must be completed as soon as possible
Follow Up:
Your workshop will be followed up with an email after a few weeks to see how you are travelling and whether you need further appointments.
One Day (Saturday) Couples Retreat (Currumbin 5.5 hours): $999 - Save $301
- This package involves in-person therapy (This session is for one couple, in private, just the two of you working with Ghita).
- 5.5 hours of intensive RELATIONSHIP TOOLBOX Communication Exercises. (NB: If you need longer, or are separated, please select the Couples in Crisis Retreat 1 or 2 day packages.)
- Please note that this is an intense marriage workshop with exercises. Expect to do some work.
*Not designed for separated couples or couples in crisis.
*Limited spots available
Retreat Schedule:
Saturday Line-up: Four therapy sessions over five hours with a lunch break in-between.
Diagnostic:
- 9am - 10am: Individual Session One (One party has a creek/ beach walk, coffee or tea at a cafe)
- 10am - 11pm: Individual Session Two (One party has a creek/ beach walk, coffee or tea at a cafe)
- 11pm - 12pm: Couples Session: Unpacking the information from the individual sessions. Looking at the needs and vulnerabilities from both sides. Skills Toolbox: Leaning Toward, Code Words/ Vent versus Fix (Andersen), Gender Currencies (Perel), Tone and Language (NLP), Family Genograms, etc.
- 12pm - 12.30pm: Lunch Break
- 12.30pm - 2.30pm: Two Hour Intensive Communication Workshop with the Andersen RELATIONSHIP TOOLBOX: Active Listening, I Statements, Communication Strategies, Love Maps, etc.
Includes Workbook Folder to Take Home
*Intake Forms must be completed as soon as possible
Follow Up:
Your workshop will be followed up with an email after a few weeks to see how you are travelling and whether you need further appointments.
Terms and Conditions of Package One:
Have a chat to Ghita before booking if you have any questions.
Please read our terms and conditions below before purchasing. By booking this special, you agree to our terms.
Have a chat to Ghita before booking if you have any questions.
Please read our terms and conditions below before purchasing. By booking this special, you agree to our terms.
- Online bookings: Clients book the first day and Ghita books the following day (not on the diary)
- 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: By booking this package you agree to our cancellation policy: NO REFUNDS WITH LESS THAN 14 DAYS NOTICE: Client Break-ups, Separations, Illness, Babysitting issues and travel problems are not valid excuses for short notice cancellations. We can offer video sessions, however we cannot fill a full diary day at short notice. Because our retreats require significant preparation and have limited availability, cancellations made by either partner within 14 days of the start date are not eligible for a refund and cannot be rescheduled. We understand that unexpected situations arise; however, within this 14-day window, we have already committed resources and likely turned away other clients.
- If postponed (with 14 days notice), credit is retained and valid for 3 months from purchase date or couples can receive a refund minus credit card fees.
- 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 venue: Accommodation and meals are not included. Teas and coffees however are included.
- Note: This type of retreat/ workshop 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
✅ Queensland Retreat Location: Set with beautiful views of Currumbin estuary and five minutes walk to the beach, our Currumbin location offers a cosy, 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 is therapy only and does not include accommodation or meals.
Locations and Accommodation Nearby: (Walking distance)
The Rocks Resort and Sanctuary Beach Resort
*We recommend that you book into accommodation the day before and do not travel on the same day as most couples find that they are tired afterwards or want to relax.
Locations and Accommodation Nearby: (Walking distance)
The Rocks Resort and Sanctuary Beach Resort
*We recommend that you book into accommodation the day before and do not travel on the same day as most couples find that they are tired afterwards or want to relax.
Currumbin Beach and Creek
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