Private 2-Day Marriage Intensive Retreats Based on the “No Blame, No Shame” Method
Our signature Marriage Counseling Intensive is a transformative 2-day experience designed by Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, LCPC—renowned marriage counselor and Imago-trained clinician. This immersive format helps couples break painful cycles, rebuild trust, and reconnect deeply—whether online or in person.
Many couples initially search for a marriage retreat and discover that a private intensive offers even greater clarity, breakthroughs, and lasting results. Check out our online marriage counseling programs for more information.
How the Intensive Program works
We start with a discovery call to understand your situation.
The 2-day intensive typically includes two consecutive days, either on weekends or weekdays, working 1-on-1 with Rabbi Shlomo in Baltimore or with one of our trained clinicians near you.
These sessions (online or in person) help us fully understand what’s been going on in your relationship and guide you through targeted work to restore connection and clarity.
Investment: $6,997
Custom plans available. Call us to explore options that fit your needs and budget.
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Pre and Post Intensive Support
Free access to a private member site that consists of a self-guided core curriculum of 5 Modules leading you through a step-by-step process towards learning how to be married in the best way possible. Each module contains an audio component for on the go listening, slide decks for at a glance summaries, video presentations, transcripts for easy reading, and worksheets for implementation. Includes our best-selling book The 5 Step Action Plan to a Healthy and Happy Marriage and the movie where you can see hands-on how to apply what you learned. Think of our marriage intensives as a private getaway where you and your spouse have the opportunity to work exclusively with us for 6 hours a day. Unlike a marriage workshop where you participate in a group setting with other couples, the retreat will give the privacy you need to deal with some of the most painful and personal issues you are facing in your relationship. Our mission is to save marriages so it is in our best interest that you succeed. You can with our guidance and your commitment.
Marriage Intensives: A Proven Path to Healing and Reconnection
Meet Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, Creator of the “No Blame, No Shame” Intensive
Hi, I’m Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. I used to work with couples in the traditional weekly counseling format—90-minute sessions stretched over months. But I saw firsthand how that pace simply wasn’t enough to help couples in crisis find real clarity and connection.
That’s why I developed a focused and powerful 2-day intensive format—one that consistently helps couples move from pain and disconnection to renewed hope and understanding.
In these private sessions, you’ll experience my calm, clear, and safe No Blame, No Shame communication method. This structured process helps you reduce reactivity, stop walking on eggshells, and finally have the kind of honest, healing conversations you’ve been longing for.
While Imago Relationship Therapy informs my method, it’s a unique approach that’s been refined through years of working with couples—resulting in real breakthroughs that last.
I’d love to guide you and your partner through this life-changing experience. Call (443) 645-0630 to learn more or schedule a private 2-day intensive—available online or in select locations across the U.S. and internationally.
Why Intensive Couples Counseling Retreats?
The fastest & most effective way for you to fix your marriage without having to wait months. Begin seeing positive results faster with an INTENSIVE therapy experience. Our intensive marriage retreats create emotional safety, teaching you to communicate effectively in a calm, clear, no blame, no shame, safe environment. We use Imago relationship therapy and the Imago communication method to help you make sense of your mess and guide you out of it. Think of it as a marriage intervention of sorts. We practice intensive Imago relationship therapy coupled with our “No Shame, No Blame” communication system because it is simply the fastest way to get results and save your marriage. Couples walk away from spending time with us in our private marriage & couples retreats more confident about how to communicate, enjoy intimacy, and live together due to the clear training and process that we show couples how to follow.
Your Marriage Intensive Questions Answered
A: Marriage therapy retreats are 2 days that we (Rabbi Slatkin or one of our Imago therapists) spend working one-on-one with you and your spouse.
A: Our two day intensive retreats are essentially two days of private counseling. Instead of coming weekly to therapy for a while, you don’t need to wait to get to the root of what’s been going on because at the end of the two 6 hour days, you’ll have addressed most of what’s plaguing you in your relationship. We’ll continue the work together with you after the 2 days are complete with 8 weekly counseling sessions built into the price.
A: Each day consists of 6 hours of therapy, with an hour lunch break.
A: We’ve seen even the worst of marriages begin to heal after the 2 days of working together intensely.
A: Just come with an open mind. We provide all the materials for you that we think will be most helpful to you and your spouse.
A: Because our retreats are private, and do not include other couples, we schedule them on 2 consecutive days that are mutually agreed upon.
After submitting your payment, contact us to schedule your dates for the retreat and we will book your free hotel stay.
A: Retreats can be paid over 6 months. Talk with us and we can walk you through the easy process.
A: Although we do not participate in any insurance networks, many of our clients are eligible to file for reimbursement from their insurance company. To find out whether your insurance plan would cover our services, please contact us and we can provide you the information you will need to ask your plan if our services are covered.
A: Religion is not incorporated in sessions unless requested by the couple. We practice Imago Relationship Therapy and our counseling is not faith based. With that said, we do have traditional values in promoting strong marriages and we do believe in working to keep a couple together when possible.
How Our Marriage Intensives Help You Rebuild Trust and Connection
Not all therapists are focused on creating emotional safety between partners. If you’ve ever walked out of a counseling session feeling more frustrated—and your partner swearing they’ll never go back—you know how damaging that can be.
At the heart of our approach is creating a safe, judgment-free space where both of you can truly feel heard. Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin’s intensive marriage counseling process blends years of experience with evidence-based techniques—including tools from Imago Relationship Therapy—to restore trust, reduce reactivity, and build connection.
When couples feel safe enough to share honestly—without fear of blame or criticism—a whole new level of communication becomes possible. That’s what our intensives are designed to achieve, whether online or in person.
Intensive Marriage Counseling & Couples Therapy
There is a MUCH FASTER way to reverse the course of direction that your marriage has taken and it’s not weekly therapy sessions. You need marriage intensives with Imago relationship therapy at our one-one-one marriage retreats for couples.
Why Do We Need Intensive Therapy?
When your marriage has been in distress for months—or even years—a weekly 50-minute therapy session isn’t going to cut it.
Just like a mechanic can’t diagnose a major engine problem by glancing under the hood, a therapist needs time and space to truly understand what’s going on in your relationship and help you fix it. That’s why we offer immersive, focused marriage counseling intensives: to give your relationship the dedicated time and care it deserves.
Our 2-day intensives provide a structured, distraction-free environment that promotes emotional safety and deep connection. Using a no-blame, no-shame communication process—along with proven methods like Imago therapy techniques—you’ll learn to break negative cycles, rebuild trust, and rediscover the connection you once had.
It’s not about rehashing the past. It’s about creating a new future, together.
Start Communication Habits at Home
Consistent communication that doesn’t include any BLAME or SHAME is critical to restoring love, preserving the marriage that you’ve worked so hard to build.
No doubt if you’re here, you are wishing that this is how you could communicate! Then you wouldn’t even need to think about separation or divorce!
When people feel safe around each other they no longer need to act out of survival mode. There is no power struggle. Everything you’ve seen with your spouse up until now has most likely been them behaving the way they do because they feel unsafe.
And the same goes for your behavior.
If your spouse…
- deeply heard your needs
- supported you in every way
- challenged you to be the best you could be
- gave you everything you had hoped and dreamed you could get from the most important relationship of your life
Would you feel happy?
Would you feel calm?
Would life flow easier?
Would you feel at ease?
Chances are… yes!
There’s nothing like a thriving emotionally safe environment at home where you can feel supported and loved.
Success Stories
We have been consistently seeking help for our relationship for 33+ years even when trying to decide if to marry. We were three months into an in-house separation and I was experiencing my worst depression ever. After one round of the first exercise I experienced more safety, empathy, and breakthrough than EVER before.
I didn’t think I could get my husband to come with me to your retreat. But when he saw that your process was built on a unique mechanism of a No-Blame, No Shame style of communicating- especially since I’ve been such a yeller- he agreed. We just got back from our 2 day marriage retreat with you. I’m not even sure where to begin! We are blown away…
After going through your program, I feel like a completely different person. Although we have spent years in therapy, we were still on the verge of divorce. The skills we have learned with your imago therapy have helped us break the vicious cycle of conflict and we are actually able to enjoy each other’s company again.
What if you’re not sure that your marriage can even BE saved?
Why Get Intensive Couples Counseling?
Your marriage can become joyful again without the hassle of months of therapy to determine whether or not you even WANT to stay together. You don’t have time for that! You’re busy!
You can stop the resentment, distrust, and lingering doubts that you have about your partner.
It is possible to know with confidence and certainty that whatever decision you make it’s the right one.
Our 2 Day No Blame, No Shame Marriage Restoration Retreat is For You If You Want To:
- Finally Become Deeply Heard by your spouse through a process that feels truly safe
- Unburden yourself from your Emotional Baggage that you bring to the relationship through breaking free of old relationship patterns
- Transform the way you feel and react to your spouse by shedding those aggravating triggers that your spouse seems to provoke in you
- Comfortably talk safely about any issue in your relationship and remain connected
- Finally feel loved (maybe even for the first time ever!) by discovering your personal love language and living it out to the fullest
- Accelerate positive behavioral changes in your spouse in ways you never thought of before
- Achieve your relationship goals through a done-for-you plan
- Satisfy your needs for physical and emotional connection
- Learn how to ask for what you want and get the love you want instead of being a victim
- Remove negativity, retaliation, reactivity, anger, and blame through our formula for detoxing your marriage
- Heal the crushing effects of infidelity and make amends
- Infuse New Energy and Love into your relationship
- Establish new rituals for re-romanticizing your relationship
- Shift the negative energy in 5 minutes or less
- Recommit to your most important and intimate relationship
- Understand how to move forward and leave your old marriage behind forging a new path together that is sustainable for the long haul
- Improve communication with your husband or wife so that you both feel seen, heard, and understood.
- Become more conscious about your role, knowing that your marriage is the greatest opportunity for your personal growth, within the context of a relationship with the person that loves you the most
Questions About the Program?
As this page ends, imagine a marriage that is built on a healthy and stable foundation.
A marriage that can withstand all of life’s many challenges that are thrown its way.
So that you can both be a refuge to each other, when you come home from busy and stressful days.
Book a Call Today!
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