A deeper way to rebuild your relationship.
A Four-Month Couples Intensive Designed to Restore Trust, Connection, and Intimacy.
When communication breaks down, distance grows, or intimacy fades, many couples feel stuck repeating the same painful patterns.
Our Couples Intensive offers a structured, in-depth therapeutic process that helps partners understand themselves, each other, and their relationship at a deeper level—so real change can happen.
Location: Oakville
Format: Four-Month Intensive | 33 Hours of Therapy
Led by: Experienced Psychoanalytic & Couples Psychotherapists
When Your Relationship Feels Harder Than It Should.
Many couples come to therapy saying:
“We talk, but nothing changes.”
“We love each other, but feel disconnected.”
“We’re stuck in the same arguments.”
“The intimacy just isn’t there anymore.”
Traditional weekly couples therapy can help—but for some relationships, it doesn’t go far enough or deep enough to create lasting change. Our Couples Intensive is designed for couples who want more than symptom relief—they want to understand why their relationship struggles and how to transform it from the inside out.
Program Overview
A Thoughtful, Structured Approach to Couples Therapy.
This program is grounded in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and thoughtfully integrates other evidence-based approaches. Rather than offering quick fixes or communication scripts alone, we focus on the emotional, relational, and unconscious patterns that shape how partners relate to themselves and each other.
Change happens in stages—and this program honours that process.
The Couples Intensive
4 Months | 33 Total Hours
This program unfolds in four carefully sequenced phases, allowing for deep individual insight and meaningful relational change.
❋ Intake & Assessment
Building a Clear Understanding of Your Relationship
3 Intake Sessions
We begin by developing a comprehensive understanding of:
Each partner’s personal history
Relationship patterns and recurring conflicts
Emotional needs, attachment dynamics, and goals for therapy
This foundation allows us to tailor the work specifically to your relationship.
❋ Individual Work: The Relationship with The Self
Strengthening the Individual to Support the Relationship
12 Individual Sessions (6 per partner)
Before meaningful relational change can occur, each partner needs space to:
Understand their emotional patterns and triggers
Explore attachment histories and defenses
Develop greater self-awareness and emotional capacity
This individual work helps reduce reactivity and creates the conditions for deeper, safer couples work.
❋ Couples Work-Friendship & Emotional Bond
Rebuilding Trust, Safety, and Emotional Connection
Part of 18 Couples Sessions
In this phase, we focus on restoring the relational foundation:
Trust and emotional safety
Empathy and receptivity
Understanding each other’s inner worlds
Rekindling friendship, playfulness, and shared enjoyment
This is where many couples begin to feel hope again.
❋ Romance & Intimacy
Renewing Desire, Affection, and Sexual Connection
Part of 18 Couples Sessions
As emotional safety strengthens, we turn toward:
Romantic connection
Emotional and physical intimacy
Desire, sexuality, and vulnerability
Navigating blocks to closeness without shame or pressure
This work is approached with sensitivity, respect, and clinical depth.
Our Approach
Why Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy?
At The Mind People, we believe lasting change happens when couples:
* Understand the emotional meaning behind conflict
* Recognize unconscious patterns shaping the relationship
* Develop the capacity to reflect rather than react
* Experience new emotional moments within the therapeutic relationship
Our clinicians draw from psychoanalytic therapy while integrating complementary modalities when helpful—always guided by what the couple needs.
Next Steps
Begin with a Consultation
If you’re considering the Couples Intensive, the first step is a consultation to explore:
• Whether this program is the right fit
• Your goals and concerns as a couple
• Any questions about the structure or commitment