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Couples Intensives in Florida
Focused relationship repair with
Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC,
Certified Gottman Therapist.
When a relationship is at a critical point, weekly therapy can feel too slow. Betrayal, entrenched conflict, emotional distance, or a serious rupture often need more uninterrupted time than a traditional session can provide. A couples intensive creates the space to understand what keeps breaking down, address what has been damaged, and begin meaningful repair with focused clinical guidance.
This is private clinical work for one couple at a time, not a group workshop. Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, is a relationship expert and Certified Gottman Therapist specializing in marriage, betrayal, conflict, trust repair, and couples communication. Her intensives combine Gottman Method assessment with direct, structured work tailored to the relationship in front of her.
Most intensives take place in Alexis’s Oviedo office, with couples traveling from across Florida and beyond. For a limited number of appropriate Two-Day engagements, Alexis can also travel to an approved private location in Florida.
Focused Clinical Work for Persistent Relationship Patterns
Focused repair for couples who need more than another conversation that ends in the same place.
Because connection isn’t lost, it drifts.
Couples rarely reach this point because they simply stopped caring about each other. More often, a pattern has become difficult to interrupt. Criticism leads to defensiveness. A request for reassurance feels like pressure. One partner pursues the conversation while the other withdraws or becomes overwhelmed. Old injuries enter new disagreements, and even reasonable attempts to repair can stop working.
A couples intensive creates enough uninterrupted time to examine those patterns in context rather than addressing only the latest argument. Alexis uses Gottman Method assessment, clinical observation, and guided conversation to identify how conflict, trust, emotional distance, friendship, intimacy, and unresolved injuries are interacting within the relationship.
The work then moves beyond identifying the problem. Couples begin practicing different responses while the pattern is happening, addressing the issues underneath recurring conflict, and developing a clearer understanding of what meaningful repair will require from each partner.
When a Couples Intensive May Make More Sense Than Weekly Therapy
Weekly couples therapy can be highly effective when a relationship benefits from steady work over time. But some situations are difficult to address well within a 50-minute session, particularly when there has been betrayal, serious trust loss, entrenched conflict, or a relationship rupture that requires more time for assessment and repair.
In weekly therapy, an important conversation may begin just as the session is ending. Couples can leave with difficult emotions activated but without enough time to understand the pattern fully, work through the issue, or practice a different response together. For some relationships, that pace is appropriate. For others, the stop-and-start structure makes it harder to stay with the work long enough to reach the underlying problem.
A couples intensive provides a longer, uninterrupted clinical window. Alexis can assess the relationship more fully, follow important conversations beyond the surface conflict, identify the interaction patterns maintaining the problem, and help both partners begin practicing different responses while there is still time to work through what happens next.
Most intensives take place in Alexis’s Oviedo office. When the Two-Day format is clinically appropriate but travel, family responsibilities, or other significant logistical constraints make coming to Oviedo unusually difficult, a limited Private Two-Day Couples Intensive may also be arranged at an approved private location in Florida.
The purpose is not to compress months of therapy into a day or promise a particular outcome. It is to create enough focused time to understand what is happening, begin meaningful repair, and determine what the relationship needs next.
Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC
Certified Gottman Therapist
Couples Intensive Options
Not every relationship needs the same amount of time or the same kind of starting point. Some couples are dealing with a serious rupture that requires substantial assessment and repair. Others need a focused day around a persistent pattern, a careful assessment before deciding what to do next, or premarital work designed to strengthen the relationship before problems become more difficult to change.
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Alexis offers four office-based intensive options in Oviedo, along with limited availability for the Private Two-Day Couples Intensive at approved private locations in Florida.
Two-Day Couples Intensive
Best for: Betrayal, serious trust loss, entrenched conflict, significant relationship rupture, or longstanding patterns that need more time than a single day can provide.
Duration: Approximately 12 clinical hours across two consecutive treatment days
Location: Oviedo, FL
Investment: $3,500
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The Two-Day Couples Intensive allows time for a more comprehensive assessment of the relationship, careful examination of the patterns maintaining the problem, guided repair, and a detailed plan for what needs to happen after the intensive. It is often the most appropriate office-based format when trust has been seriously damaged, the relationship feels unstable, or recurring conflict has become difficult to interrupt.
Private Two-Day Couples Intensive
Best for: Couples for whom the Two-Day format is clinically appropriate but significant travel, scheduling, family, or logistical circumstances make completing two consecutive days in Oviedo unusually difficult.
Duration: Approximately 12 clinical hours across two consecutive treatment days
Location: An approved private residence or other appropriate private location in Florida
Availability: Limited and arranged individually
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The Private Two-Day Couples Intensive is Alexis's established Two-Day Couples Intensive provided at an approved private location in Florida. The clinical purpose and depth of the work remain the same, with additional planning required for travel, location suitability, scheduling, and coordination outside Alexis's Oviedo office.
One-Day Couples Intensive
Best for: Recurring conflict, emotional distance, focused relationship repair, earlier-stage trust concerns, or a specific pattern that would benefit from sustained attention.
Duration: 6 clinical hours in one day
Investment: $1,750
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The One-Day Couples Intensive provides uninterrupted time to understand a recurring problem more fully, examine how both partners participate in the pattern, practice different conversations with Alexis's guidance, and develop specific recommendations for what should happen next. It is intended for couples who need more concentrated work than a traditional weekly session allows but do not require the depth of the Two-Day format.
Half-Day Relationship Assessment
Best for: Couples who need a clearer understanding of the relationship before choosing therapy, a longer intensive, or another next step.
Duration: 3 hours
Investment: $800
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The Half-Day Relationship Assessment is primarily an assessment and decision-making format. It is not a shortened version of the One-Day or Two-Day Intensive. Alexis evaluates relationship strengths, conflict patterns, areas of disconnection, important pressure points, and the concerns bringing the couple in, then provides recommendations about what kind of work may be most appropriate next.
Premarital Couples Intensive
Best for: Engaged or newly married couples who want to understand their relationship more deeply and build a strong foundation for marriage.
Duration: 7 hours total, including 6 clinical hours and a 1-hour lunch break
Investment: $1,600
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The Premarital Couples Intensive examines relationship strengths, communication, conflict patterns, expectations, stress points, intimacy, shared meaning, and other areas that can shape a marriage over time. The purpose is not crisis repair. It is to help couples understand the relationship they are building and address important differences before those patterns become more difficult to change.
​Follow-up support may be available after a One-Day or Two-Day Couples Intensive when clinically appropriate. Alexis will discuss any recommended next steps with you after the intensive based on what emerges during the work.
How Your Intensive Unfolds
A structured clinical process that moves from assessment and pattern recognition into guided repair and specific next steps.
Before the intensive, both partners complete the Gottman Relationship Checkup. Alexis reviews the assessment alongside the concerns that brought you in, looking at areas such as friendship, conflict, trust, intimacy, emotional connection, shared meaning, and the ways each partner experiences the relationship.
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The intensive begins by putting those findings into context. Alexis explores the relationship history, significant injuries or changes, the conflicts that keep returning, and what happens between you when conversations become difficult. The goal is not simply to identify what you argue about, but to understand the interaction underneath it: what each partner is responding to, how the sequence escalates or shuts down, and what has made repair difficult.
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Once the pattern is clearer, the work becomes active. Alexis helps you slow important conversations down, recognize what happens in real time, and practice different ways of responding. Depending on the relationship, this may include work around conflict, accountability, betrayal, trust, friendship, emotional connection, intimacy, or longstanding injuries that continue to shape present-day interactions.
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Before the intensive ends, Alexis brings the work together into specific recommendations for what comes next. That may include changes each partner needs to practice, conversations that still require attention, follow-up therapy or support when appropriate, and a clearer understanding of what meaningful repair will require over time.
Is a Couples Intensive Right for You?
A couples intensive may be appropriate when the relationship needs more uninterrupted time than weekly sessions can provide and both partners are willing to participate seriously in the work needed.
Couples often consider an intensive when the same conflict keeps returning, trust has been damaged, emotional distance has grown, or important conversations repeatedly end in escalation, defensiveness, withdrawal, or silence. Some couples arrive after a specific rupture. Others have spent years trying to solve the same problem without understanding the pattern underneath it.
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An intensive is not about determining which partner is right. Alexis looks at what happens between you, what each partner experiences inside the pattern, what has made repair difficult, and what each person may need to do differently. The longer format allows enough time to examine those dynamics carefully and begin working with them while they are happening.
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When an Intensive May Not Be the Right First Step
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A couples intensive is not appropriate for every relationship or every stage of a crisis. Another form of care, individual support, safety planning, medical or psychiatric treatment, or stabilization may need to come first when there is:
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ongoing domestic violence, coercion, or a significant concern about either partner's safety;
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an active affair that has not been disclosed to the other partner;
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active, untreated substance addiction that would interfere with participation;
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severe or unstable mental health concerns requiring a different level of care; or
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current risk of harm to self or others.
Alexis screens for clinical appropriateness before an intensive is scheduled. If an intensive is not the right starting point, that does not mean the relationship cannot be helped. It means the immediate problem may need a different kind of intervention first.
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If you are unsure which format makes sense, a consultation can help determine whether a Two-Day Couples Intensive, Private Two-Day Couples Intensive, One-Day Couples Intensive, Half-Day Relationship Assessment, Premarital Couples Intensive, or another form of support is the more appropriate next step.
Why Work With Alexis Honeycutt?
Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, is a relationship expert and Certified Gottman Therapist whose practice is centered on marriage, couples, and complex relationship challenges. Her work includes couples therapy, betrayal and trust repair, intensive relationship work, premarital counseling, and relationship education.
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Becoming a Certified Gottman Therapist requires advanced training, clinical consultation, and demonstration of competence in applying the Gottman Method with couples. Alexis combines that framework with her own clinical judgment rather than treating assessment results or relationship exercises as a formula. The work is shaped by what is actually happening in the relationship, including the history beneath the conflict, the patterns occurring between partners, and what meaningful repair would require from each person.
Her professional background includes:​
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Certified Gottman Therapist
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Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida
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Licensed Professional Counselor in Connecticut
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Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina
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National Certified Counselor
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Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator
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Serves seasonally, as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Central Florida's College of Community Innovation and Education, facilitating postgraduate Supervision in Counselor Education & School Psychology
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Gottman-trained Educator for The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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PREPARE/ENRICH trained facilitator
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Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Central Florida
What couples are saying
Not Sure What Your Relationship Needs Yet?
You may know that something needs to change without knowing whether the right next step is weekly couples therapy, a relationship assessment, or a more concentrated couples intensive.
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The Relationship Blueprint is a free resource designed to help you look more carefully at the patterns shaping your relationship, the concerns that keep returning, and the areas that may need more attention. It can help you organize what you are experiencing before deciding what kind of professional support makes sense.
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If you are already considering a couples intensive with Alexis, you can also schedule a consultation to discuss what has been happening and which format may be appropriate.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do we know which couples intensive is right for us?
The right format depends on what is happening in the relationship and how much time the work is likely to require.
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The Two-Day Couples Intensive is generally the strongest office-based option for serious relationship rupture, betrayal, substantial trust loss, entrenched conflict, or longstanding patterns that need more time for assessment and repair. When the Two-Day format is clinically appropriate but significant logistical circumstances make two consecutive days in Oviedo unusually difficult, the Private Two-Day Couples Intensive may be considered.
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The One-Day Couples Intensive is designed for more focused relationship work that still benefits from sustained attention. The Half-Day Relationship Assessment is primarily for couples who need a careful assessment and recommendations before deciding what kind of support to pursue. The Premarital Couples Intensive is designed for engaged or newly married couples who want to understand and strengthen the relationship they are building.
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If you are uncertain, Alexis can help determine the most appropriate starting point during a consultation.
Can a couples intensive help after infidelity or betrayal?
Yes. Affair recovery and other serious betrayals often affect trust, emotional safety, communication, intimacy, and even a partner's confidence in what they believed about the relationship.
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An intensive provides more uninterrupted time to understand what happened, assess the condition of the relationship, address accountability and the injury caused by the betrayal, and begin determining what rebuilding trust would actually require.
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For significant betrayal, substantial trust loss, or a relationship that feels unstable after an affair, the Two-Day Couples Intensive is often the more appropriate intensive format. The affair must be disclosed, and an ongoing undisclosed affair is not appropriate for couples-intensive work.
Are couples intensives different from weekly therapy?
Yes. The difference is primarily the structure and amount of uninterrupted clinical time.
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Weekly couples therapy allows partners to work steadily over time and practice changes between sessions. That format can be highly effective and may be preferable for many couples.
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A couples intensive creates a longer clinical window for assessment, difficult conversations, pattern recognition, and guided repair without having to stop after a traditional session length. For some relationships, particularly when the problem is complex or the couple repeatedly reaches the same impasse, that concentrated format may be more appropriate.
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One format is not automatically better than the other. The question is which structure is better suited to the relationship and the work that needs to be done.
Are these Gottman couples intensives?
Alexis Honeycutt is a Certified Gottman Therapist, and her couples intensives incorporate Gottman Method assessment, relationship research, and clinical interventions where appropriate.
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These are private clinical services provided by Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, for one couple at a time. They are not group workshops, Gottman Institute events, or substitutes for The Art and Science of Love® workshop.
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Alexis uses the Gottman Method as a clinical framework rather than a script. Assessment findings and Gottman concepts are interpreted in the context of the couple's history, current concerns, interaction patterns, and treatment needs.
Do you accept insurance or provide superbills for couples intensives?
No. Couples intensives are private-pay services. Alexis does not accept insurance or provide superbills for intensive programs.
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The intensive format is structured around the amount of clinical time reserved for the couple rather than an insurance reimbursement model.
How do we prepare before a couples intensive?
Both partners complete the Gottman Relationship Checkup before the intensive. Alexis reviews those results alongside the concerns that brought you in so she can begin with a more developed understanding of the relationship.
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You do not need to arrive with every issue organized or know exactly what needs to change. Come prepared to participate honestly, consider your own role in the relationship pattern, and engage in difficult conversations with Alexis's guidance.
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If there has been a major disclosure, betrayal, recent separation discussion, or another significant event, make sure Alexis is aware of it during the consultation and screening process so she can determine whether the intensive remains the appropriate starting point.
Talk With Alexis About a Couples Intensive
If your relationship needs more time and attention than a traditional weekly session can provide, a consultation is the place to determine whether a couples intensive is appropriate and which format best matches the work in front of you.
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Alexis will help you consider what is happening in the relationship, the level of support it may require, and whether an intensive is the right next step.
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