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Why Our Secular Couples Retreat Doesn’t Use Religion to Fix Your Marriage

What Makes Our Secular Couples Retreat Work—Without Compromising Your Values

When your relationship is on the rocks, you need more than well-meaning advice or spiritual platitudes. You need a solution rooted in real tools, real training, and real transformation. That’s why our secular couples retreat is built on professional clinical expertise—not religious doctrine.

Why Secular Matters in Marriage Therapy

Many couples who come to us have already sought advice from religious leaders, friends, or their faith community. But those conversations—while often supportive—rarely resolve the deeper issues.

Here’s why:

Religion can guide your values, but it can’t always solve your patterns.
Effective therapy works at the level of behavior, trauma, communication, and emotional safety—things that require more than prayer or principles alone.

What Makes Our Secular Couples Retreat So Effective—Without Using Religion

  • Uses evidence-based therapy models that work regardless of belief.
  • Offers a neutral, respectful space for both partners.
  • Focuses on psychological safety, emotional reconnection, and skill-building.

That’s what makes it a true secular couples retreat—accessible, effective, and inclusive.

Your Therapist Is Not Your Religious Leader

Rabbi Shlomo, who facilitates our non religious marriage counseling retreats, holds deep personal respect for his own religious heritage. But when he’s working with a couple, he shows up not as a former rabbi—but as a highly trained therapist and clinician.

With over two decades of counseling experience, he brings:

  • Advanced training in modalities like Imago Therapy and trauma-informed work
  • A calm, nonjudgmental presence
  • A track record of helping high-conflict couples achieve lasting breakthroughs

What he doesn’t bring?
A sermon. A religious agenda. Or any assumptions about your beliefs.

This is clinical work, not religious counseling—delivered with compassion and results in mind.

What If You Are Spiritual or Religious?

Many of our couples do value faith or spirituality in their lives. And we honor that. We’ve intentionally created a retreat experience that respects your values without using religious teachings as a therapeutic framework.

So whether:

  • One of you is spiritual and the other is not…
  • You’re both religious but want a fresh, objective space…
  • Or you’ve been hurt by faith-based marriage advice in the past…

…you’ll feel welcome here.

This retreat isn’t anti-religious—it’s simply not reliant on religion to help you heal. That’s what makes it effective for interfaith couples, spiritual seekers, secular couples, and anyone who just wants a real, safe place to reconnect.

A Safe Space for Both Partners

A lot of couples struggle to find a space that feels emotionally safe for both people. That’s why our secular approach matters.

At our retreat, we don’t assume:

  • That you share the same beliefs
  • That religious teachings alone will heal your pain
  • That one of you has to change to “make it work”

Instead, we assume:

  • You love each other
  • You’re stuck in negative patterns
  • And you need expert guidance to reconnect and rebuild

This neutrality is often the first thing couples breathe a sigh of relief about. No pressure. No preaching. Just progress.


✨ Ready to Begin Again?

If you’re looking for a secular couples retreat that respects your values, welcomes your complexity, and gives you real tools to repair your relationship—this is it.

Whether you’re on the verge of divorce or simply know you’re capable of more, our two-day intensive retreat can help you:

  • End toxic communication loops
  • Rebuild trust and connection
  • Learn how to hear and be heard

No religion required. Just honesty, safety, and the right support.

Picture of Shlomo & Rivka Slatkin

Shlomo & Rivka Slatkin

Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin is an Imago relationship therapist and certified (master level) Imago workshop presenter with over 20 years of experience hosting couples therapy retreats in-person and online.

Picture of Shlomo & Rivka Slatkin

Shlomo & Rivka Slatkin

Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin is an Imago relationship therapist and certified (master level) Imago workshop presenter with over 20 years of experience hosting couples therapy retreats in-person and online.

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