Couples Therapy Intensives in Virginia Beach
Virtual therapy throughout Virginia, Florida and South Carolina.
For couples who want to rebuild trust, connection, and intimacy before the distance grows any wider.
You love each other… that’s what makes this so painful.
Somewhere beneath the tension, defensiveness, and repeated arguments… you know there’s still something here worth fighting for.
But lately every conversation turns into the same cycle. One of you wants to talk it out while the other pulls away. You try to explain yourself but somehow it gets twisted. Small disagreements become huge arguments.
You both leave conversations feeling unheard, rejected, criticized and feeling more alone than ever.
And over time, the distance between you starts showing up everywhere:
In the way you talk to each other… and avoid each other. In the tension sitting underneath daily life. In the loss of emotional and physical intimacy.
You don’t want to keep living like roommates. You want to feel close and connected again. You want to feel like best friends, not enemies.
And you don’t want to spend the next year trying to get there one 55-minute session at a time.
This is where a couples therapy intensive can change everything.
A couples therapy intensive gives us the time and space to go deeper than traditional weekly therapy allows. Instead of spending months slowly unpacking the same patterns while life keeps interrupting the process, we dedicate focused time to understanding what’s actually happening underneath the conflict and begin shifting it in real time.
An intensive involves deep, intentional work designed to help you break out of repetitive conflict cycles, understand the protective patterns underneath the fighting, and rebuild emotional safety and trust.
Many couples come in feeling terrified that things are too far gone. And while I can’t promise outcomes, I can tell you this:
When two people are willing to slow down, get honest, and truly look at the patterns keeping them stuck, meaningful change can happen surprisingly quickly.
Who this is for
Couples intensives are a good fit for couples who:
Feel stuck in constant conflict or recurring arguments
Love each other but feel emotionally disconnected
Are struggling with communication, resentment, or trust
Feel like intimacy has disappeared from the relationship
Have done therapy before but felt like it never went deep enough
Have busy schedules and have a hard time fitting in weekly therapy
Want focused support without dragging the process out for months
Want to go deeper and experience faster results than traditional weekly therapy allows
Why choose a couples therapy intensive instead of weekly therapy
Weekly therapy can absolutely be helpful. But for many couples, especially high-conflict couples, one hour a week often isn’t enough to fully settle into the deeper work before the session ends. You spend half the session catching me up on the week, we begin opening something important… and then time is suddenly over.
Intensives create real momentum.
Instead of repeatedly reopening wounds week after week, we have the space to stay with the process long enough for insight, emotional shifts, and meaningful breakthroughs to happen.
Couples often leave feeling more hopeful, emotionally connected, and aware of their patterns. You’ll have the skills you need to communicate without it escalating, so you are more equipped to move forward together.
What a couples therapy intensive looks like
We’ll focus on identifying the cycle the two of you keep getting pulled into: the one that leaves both people feeling misunderstood, unseen, and emotionally reactive. When we can slow the cycle down and understand what’s happening underneath it, communication starts to shift naturally.
Our work may include:
Identifying destructive relationship patterns
Exploring attachment wounds and emotional triggers
Improving conflict repair skills
Rebuilding emotional connection
Processing past hurts that continue showing up in the relationship
Strengthening vulnerability and emotional responsiveness
Creating healthier ways to communicate during conflict
My approach is direct, compassionate, emotionally attuned, and deeply collaborative. I’m here to help you understand the pattern the two of you are trapped inside, and help you find your way back to each other.
Intensive Structure & Investment
Couples Therapy Intensive
A therapy intensive built to supercharge months of healing into just one day. Includes a full-day couples retreat (5 hours of therapy, with breaks in between). The investment is $2000.
Add a week of messaging support for $1000.
Payment plans available.
About Margaux Flood, LCSW
I’m Margaux Flood, LCSW, and I specialize in helping couples break out of painful cycles of conflict, emotional disconnection, defensiveness, and resentment.
Many of the couples I work with are high functioning on the outside. They’re successful, thoughtful, intelligent people. But inside the relationship, they feel overwhelmed by how reactive, lonely, or disconnected things have become.
My work blends emotional depth with practical tools so couples don’t just understand their patterns intellectually but actually experience each other differently.
It’s going to take self-responsibility, vulnerability, and commitment, but if you’re ready to go there, I’m here to help you make it happen.
With over 11 years experience…
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"Margaux's no-nonsense approach helped us finally tackle our communication issues.”
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"We're happier and more connected than ever!"
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"The tools we’ve gained really transformed our relationship. The hands-on exercises made it easy to improve our daily interactions."
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Couples Therapy Intensive FAQs
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An intensive allows us to go much deeper in a condensed period of time. Rather than working in small weekly increments, we dedicate focused time to understanding and shifting the relationship dynamics keeping you stuck.
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My role is not to decide the future of your relationship for you, but rather to help both of you gain clarity, understand your patterns, improve communication, and determine what’s possible from a more grounded and connected place.
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Both partners do need to be willing to participate honestly and respectfully. It’s okay if one or both of you feel uncertain, hurt, skeptical, or emotionally exhausted. That’s often why couples reach out.
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I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. I can provide a Superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement, but given the nature of an intensive, expect to pay a majority of the cost out of pocket.
