Two-Day Couples Intensive for Betrayal and Relationship Repair
Focused two-day relationship repair with Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, Certified Gottman Therapist.
The Two-Day Couples Intensive is designed for relationships facing a serious rupture: betrayal, substantial trust loss, escalating conflict, divorce consideration, or longstanding patterns that have become difficult to interrupt.
Across approximately 12 clinical hours over two consecutive days, couples work directly with Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, a relationship expert and Certified Gottman Therapist specializing in marriage, betrayal, conflict, trust repair, and couples communication. The extended format allows enough time to understand what has happened, identify the pattern maintaining the problem, work through difficult conversations, and begin meaningful repair without having to stop at the end of a traditional session.
The intensive is held in Alexis's Oviedo, Florida office and is private clinical work for one couple at a time. The purpose is not to promise that every relationship can be repaired in two days. It is to create enough focused time to understand the rupture more accurately, begin changing the pattern, and determine what repair will require next.
Certified Gottman Therapist
Private-pay couples intensives in Oviedo, Florida
Licensed in Florida, Connecticut, and North Carolina
Two-Day Intensive Overview
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Format: Two consecutive clinical days
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Duration: 12 clinical hours, 6 hours per day
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Location: Oviedo, Florida, near Orlando
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Investment: $4,000
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Best for: Infidelity and betrayal repair, trust rupture, serious relationship repair, and entrenched conflict cycles
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Clinical approach: Gottman Method couples therapy with Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, Certified Gottman Therapist
What Happens During the Two-Day Intensive?
Over two consecutive clinical days, the work moves beyond the most recent argument to examine the relationship pattern underneath it.
When a relationship is under serious strain, the visible conflict is often only part of the problem. Questions can trigger defensiveness. Pressure can lead to withdrawal. Attempts to explain can sound like justification. Old injuries begin shaping new conversations, and even sincere efforts to repair can fail because each partner is responding to more than what is being said in the moment.
Alexis uses Gottman Method assessment, clinical observation, and guided conversation to understand how trust, conflict, emotional connection, friendship, intimacy, and unresolved injuries are interacting within the relationship. When betrayal is part of the rupture, the work also addresses accountability, the impact of the betrayal, and what rebuilding trust would actually require.
The extended format allows important conversations to continue long enough to understand the pattern, intervene while it is happening, and begin practicing different responses. Couples leave with a more accurate understanding of what has been maintaining the rupture, specific repair work already underway, and recommendations for what needs to happen next.
When the Relationship Is at a Breaking Point
Some relationship problems need more than another short conversation or another week of trying to manage the same cycle.
After betrayal, serious trust loss, repeated escalation, or years of unresolved resentment, couples often arrive exhausted by the pattern itself. One partner may be pressing for answers, reassurance, or accountability while the other becomes defensive, overwhelmed, ashamed, or increasingly withdrawn. The more urgently one partner reaches for repair, the more the other may pull away, leaving both convinced that nothing they say will change what happens next.
The Two-Day Couples Intensive creates enough time to work with that pattern directly. Alexis helps couples understand the injury, identify what keeps the conflict active, address the conversations that have become difficult to complete, and begin determining what repair would require from each partner. When the relationship is unstable or major decisions are being considered, the goal is not to force reconciliation or produce certainty on a deadline. It is to make the relationship and the choices in front of you easier to understand before deciding what comes next.
The Structure of the Two-Day Couples Intensive
Every couple arrives with a different history, but the Two-Day Couples Intensive follows a deliberate clinical progression. Across two consecutive days, Alexis moves from assessment and understanding into pattern recognition, guided repair, and specific recommendations for what happens after the intensive.
Phase I: Arrival and Alignment
Understanding what brought the relationship to this point.
The work begins with the concerns that brought you in, the events or patterns that feel most urgent, and what each partner needs Alexis to understand about the relationship. Alexis places those concerns alongside the Gottman Relationship Checkup, relationship history, significant injuries, and the ways conflict currently unfolds between you.
The purpose is not to determine whose version of the relationship is correct. It is to identify the problems that need attention, the areas of greatest strain, and what the two days need to address first.
Goal: Establish a shared understanding of the major concerns and priorities for the intensive.
Phase II: The Mirror
Understanding each partner's experience inside the relationship.
At appropriate points, Alexis may meet briefly with each partner individually. These conversations can provide additional context about relationship history, fears, boundaries, protective responses, unresolved injuries, or information that may be difficult to explain while the couple is together.
Individual conversations are not used to create alliances or maintain secrets that interfere with the couples work. They help Alexis understand how each partner experiences the relationship and what each person brings into the pattern between them.
Goal: Develop greater self-awareness, context, and accountability before returning to the relationship together.
Phase III: The Reveal
Identifying the relationship pattern underneath the conflict.
Once the major pieces are understood, Alexis helps the couple examine what happens between them when the relationship comes under pressure.
A request for reassurance may be heard as criticism. Questions may trigger defensiveness. Withdrawal may feel like abandonment. Increased pressure may produce more shutdown, which in turn creates more urgency from the other partner. After betrayal or serious trust loss, those reactions may become even more intense.
Seeing the sequence accurately allows both partners to stop treating only the latest argument and begin addressing the pattern that keeps recreating it.
Goal: Help both partners recognize the interaction pattern and understand how each person's responses affect what happens next.
Phase IV: The Reset
Moving from understanding into guided repair.
Insight matters only if the couple can begin doing something different with it. Alexis works with the conversations that have become difficult to complete and helps both partners slow the interaction down enough to respond differently in real time.
Depending on the relationship, this may involve accountability, betrayal and trust repair, conflict, emotional responsiveness, friendship, intimacy, boundaries, or unresolved injuries that continue to shape present-day interactions.
The objective is not a perfectly controlled conversation. It is for both partners to experience and practice a different way of moving through the moments that usually pull them back into the old pattern.
Goal: Begin changing the interaction while it is happening and establish more effective ways to communicate, respond, and repair.
Phase V: Integration
Turning the work into specific next steps.
Before the intensive ends, Alexis brings together what has been learned about the relationship, the changes already begun, and the work that remains.
Recommendations are based on the couple in front of her. They may include specific changes each partner needs to practice, conversations that still require attention, boundaries or agreements that need to be maintained, follow-up couples therapy when appropriate, or other support that would help protect the progress made during the intensive.
Goal: Leave with a practical understanding of what repair requires and what each partner needs to do next.
How the Two Days Work Together
Day One is primarily about understanding the relationship: what happened, what changed, what each partner is experiencing, and what pattern continues to take over when the relationship is under pressure.
Day Two builds on that understanding by moving further into difficult conversations, guided repair, new responses, and recommendations for what happens after the intensive.
The overnight break is intentional. Couples have time to rest, absorb what surfaced during the first day, and return with greater capacity for the work that follows. The second day is not simply more of the first. It builds on what has already been uncovered and moves the relationship further into active repair.
Why Two Days Can Matter After a Serious Relationship Rupture
In my clinical experience, major ruptures need more than a good conversation.
Major relationship ruptures often involve several problems at once. There may be the original injury, the loss of trust that followed it, repeated questions, defensiveness, escalating conflict, emotional withdrawal, and uncertainty about whether the relationship can recover.
Those layers are difficult to address well if the conversation repeatedly has to stop just as the underlying issue becomes clear. The Two-Day Couples Intensive provides approximately 12 clinical hours across consecutive days so Alexis can assess the relationship, understand the rupture in context, follow important conversations beyond the surface conflict, and begin repair without forcing the couple through material faster than they can process it.
The first day is primarily about understanding what happened, how each partner experienced it, and what pattern has developed around the injury. The second day builds from that understanding into accountability, guided repair, different responses, and specific recommendations for what the relationship needs next.
Two days are not intended to finish every part of the work. They provide enough uninterrupted time to reach the issues that matter, begin changing what happens between the couple, and make better-informed decisions about the repair that remains.
Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC
Certified Gottman Therapist
How to Know If This Is the Right Starting Point
The Two-Day Couples Intensive may be appropriate when the relationship needs more uninterrupted clinical time than weekly therapy can reasonably provide.
This format is often considered when:
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there has been betrayal, substantial trust loss, or another serious relationship rupture;
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one or both partners are seriously questioning whether the relationship can continue;
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conflict escalates quickly or repeatedly ends in defensiveness, withdrawal, or shutdown;
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the same issue continues to return despite repeated attempts to address it;
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weekly therapy has not provided enough time to reach or work through the underlying pattern;
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the relationship carries several interconnected problems that would be difficult to address in a shorter format; and
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both partners are willing to participate in focused couples work across two consecutive clinical days.
The purpose of choosing the Two-Day format is not simply to spend more hours in therapy. It is to create enough continuity to understand the relationship rupture in context, work with the interaction pattern while it is happening, and begin the repair that the relationship actually requires.
Clinical appropriateness is determined before the intensive is scheduled. When another form of care or stabilization needs to come first, Alexis will recommend a different starting point.
Private Clinical Work for One Couple at a Time
The Two-Day Couples Intensive is private clinical work with Alexis Honeycutt for one couple at a time. It is not a group workshop, retreat, or shared treatment experience.
That distinction matters when the relationship is dealing with betrayal, serious trust loss, divorce consideration, or conversations that require careful clinical attention. The work can remain centered on the history, injuries, interaction patterns, and decisions that are specific to your relationship.
The intensive is also private pay and is not billed through insurance. The two-day format is structured around the clinical time reserved for the couple rather than an insurance session model.
Traveling to Oviedo for the Intensive
Couples regularly travel to Oviedo for the Two-Day Couples Intensive when they want concentrated relationship work that is difficult to complete within a weekly therapy schedule.
The intensive is held in person at Oviedo Therapy & Relationships, located at 2572 W State Rd 426 Suite 2000, Oviedo, FL 32765. Couples traveling from outside Central Florida can find hotel and short-term accommodations throughout Oviedo and the surrounding Orlando area.
When possible, out-of-area couples should plan to arrive before the first clinical day and keep the two intensive days relatively free from work, childcare, and other major obligations. The goal is not to create a retreat experience. It is to reduce unnecessary logistical pressure so both partners can remain engaged in the clinical work.
For couples who would benefit from the Two-Day format but face significant travel, scheduling, family, or logistical barriers to coming to Oviedo, Alexis also offers limited availability for the Private Two-Day Couples Intensive at approved private locations in Florida.
What Happens After You Reach Out
The process begins with a consultation to determine whether the Two-Day Couples Intensive is clinically appropriate for what is happening in your relationship.
1. Initial Consultation
Contact Alexis's office and provide a brief overview of the concerns bringing you in. Alexis will consider the nature of the rupture, the current condition of the relationship, any relevant safety or stability concerns, and whether the Two-Day format is an appropriate starting point.
2. Scheduling and Preparation
If the intensive is appropriate, two consecutive clinical days are reserved. Both partners complete intake materials and the Gottman Relationship Checkup before the intensive so Alexis can review important relationship history, current concerns, and assessment findings in advance.
3. The Two-Day Intensive
You meet with Alexis for approximately 12 clinical hours across the two days. The work moves from assessment and understanding into pattern recognition, difficult conversations, guided repair, and specific recommendations for what should happen after the intensive.
Who This Intensive Is Not For
The Two-Day Couples Intensive is not the right starting point when the relationship currently involves:
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ongoing domestic violence, intimidation, coercive control, or another 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 stable participation;
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severe or unstable mental health concerns requiring a different level of care; or
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an immediate risk of harm to self or others.
These concerns do not mean the relationship cannot receive help. They mean another form of care, stabilization, safety planning, individual treatment, medical or psychiatric support, or another intervention may need to come first.
Alexis screens for clinical appropriateness before the intensive is scheduled and may recommend a different starting point when the Two-Day format would not be safe or clinically appropriate.
What Couples Say About Working With Alexis
Talk With Alexis About the Two-Day Couples Intensive
If your relationship is dealing with betrayal, serious trust loss, entrenched conflict, or another rupture that may require more uninterrupted time than weekly therapy can provide, the next step is a consultation.
Share a brief overview of what is happening. Alexis will help determine whether the Two-Day Couples Intensive is clinically appropriate and whether this is the right place to begin.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the investment for the Two-Day Couples Intensive?
The Two-Day Couples Intensive is $4,000. This includes approximately 12 clinical hours with Alexis Honeycutt, LMHC, Certified Gottman Therapist, across two consecutive treatment days in Oviedo, Florida.
Is the Two-Day Couples Intensive held on consecutive days?
Yes. The intensive takes place across two consecutive clinical days.
The continuity matters because the second day builds directly on what was assessed, discussed, and practiced during the first. Couples have the overnight break to rest and absorb the work, then return without having to reconstruct the entire clinical picture weeks later.
Does a Two-Day Couples Intensive replace weekly therapy?
Not necessarily.
For some couples, the intensive provides the concentrated work they need and no ongoing therapy with Alexis is required. For others, follow-up couples therapy or another form of support may be appropriate after the intensive.
Alexis makes recommendations based on what emerges during the two days, what still requires attention, and what kind of continued support would be clinically useful.
Do you accept insurance for the Two-Day Couples Intensive?
No. Alexis Honeycutt, LLC is a private-pay practice, and couples intensives are not billed through insurance.
The Two-Day format is structured around approximately 12 clinical hours reserved for the couple across two consecutive treatment days rather than an insurance-based session model.
How do we prepare before arriving?
Both partners complete intake materials and the Gottman Relationship Checkup before the intensive. Alexis reviews those materials in advance so the work can begin with important relationship history, current concerns, and assessment findings already available.
Couples traveling to Oviedo should also protect the surrounding time as much as reasonably possible. Arriving before the first treatment day and avoiding unnecessary work, childcare, or other major obligations during the intensive can reduce logistical pressure while the clinical work is underway.
What happens after the intensive ends?
Before the intensive concludes, Alexis provides specific recommendations based on what happened during the two days and what the relationship still needs.
Those recommendations may include changes each partner needs to continue practicing, conversations that still require attention, boundaries or agreements that need to be maintained, follow-up couples therapy, individual support, or time to apply what was learned before deciding on another step.
The intensive is the beginning of meaningful repair for many couples, not a promise that every issue will be resolved within two days.
Do you work with couples who live outside Central Florida?
Yes. Couples travel to Oviedo from other parts of Florida and from outside Central Florida specifically for the Two-Day Couples Intensive.
The intensive itself is provided in person at Alexis's Oviedo office. Any follow-up care depends on where each client is physically located at the time of service and whether Alexis is licensed to provide that care there.
For couples who need the Two-Day format but face significant logistical barriers to traveling to Oviedo, limited availability is also offered for the Private Two-Day Couples Intensive at approved private locations in Florida.
How far in advance do we need to schedule?
Because the intensive requires two consecutive treatment days, scheduling is more limited than a standard weekly appointment.
Reach out as early as practical if you need to coordinate travel, childcare, work schedules, or other arrangements. Alexis will first determine whether the Two-Day format is clinically appropriate before dates are finalized.
Is two days enough, or should we look for a 3-day couples intensive?
For many couples, two days provides meaningful time to understand the relationship's difficulties, address significant injuries, and begin repair. The Two-Day Couples Intensive includes approximately 12 clinical hours across two consecutive days.
For some couples, particularly when several serious or longstanding concerns overlap, a Three-Day Couples Intensive may be more appropriate. The additional day provides 18 clinical hours across three consecutive days, allowing more time for assessment, difficult conversations, and guided repair.
Alexis considers each couple's circumstances and clinical needs when recommending the appropriate duration. The goal is not simply more time in therapy, but enough focused time to address what the relationship needs.