🌟 A revolutionary form of relationship therapy in a relaxed setting
💞 Do you want to feel that deep connection again and flourish as a couple? Or do you simply want to get more out of your relationship?
💭 Are you increasingly asking yourselves: Is this it now? Perhaps the loving connection has been buried under daily life, you’ve grown apart, or your relationship is under pressure from a major event.
🚀 Try something other than classic relationship therapy in a clinical setting, where the focus quickly shifts to what’s going wrong. Our approach combines professional guidance with a relaxed holiday atmosphere, so you not only work on your relationship but also enjoy time together.
🌿 Our relationship therapy in the South of France is profound, transformative and light, with room for humour and relaxation. This is not a group retreat, but private guidance — an exclusive programme in which you work couple to (therapist) couple. Whether you’re going through a relationship crisis or want to deepen an already strong bond, this approach offers a unique and effective way to grow together.
❓ What is intensive relationship therapy, and is it right for you?
📌 A relationship intensive may be a good fit if:
✅ You’re considering separation but want to give your relationship one last chance.
✅ Both of you want to make changes quickly.
✅ Growing distance or stress has become unbearable.
✅ Your schedules make it hard to plan weekly therapy.
✅ Weekly therapy feels stuck.
✅ You’re trapped in endless arguments, or avoiding the conversations that really matter.
✅ One or both partners need more privacy than a local practice can offer.
✅ Going away together feels like a welcome relief.
✅ You’re facing a difficult challenge and want to work through it together.
🌟 Intensive relationship therapy can help you find the right track again and strengthen your bond.
💑 Spending personalised, private time together in intensive relationship therapy can give your relationship a new impulse and lift it to a new level of emotional connection. Instead of spreading sessions over months, you concentrate them into a single week. During this intensive process, you find new hope, understanding and the sense of togetherness you’ve been longing for.
🏡 💖 Renewing your relationship while on holiday
✈️ With us, you follow a tailor-made programme in which a holiday is combined with (twice-)daily sessions at L’Assaladou. You stay in a soothing, natural environment with plenty of time to cocoon together or head out and explore.
💡 Your programme includes:
✅ Intensive relationship therapy with a structured, in-depth programme.
✅ Daily reflection and connection exercises, to keep working on your relationship between sessions.
✅ Free time for relaxation, so you can apply what you learn straight away in a natural setting.
✅ Personal guidance tailored to your unique dynamic and needs.
💑 Why does this work so well? You receive the same amount of therapy as in three months of weekly sessions, but in a compact, intensive form. This breaks patterns more quickly and produces lasting results that you take home with you.
❤️ Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) — getting to the core of the relationship
🔬 Our approach is based on EFT (Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy) by Sue Johnson, a scientifically grounded method that restores the attachment bond between partners.
💞 From conflict to connection — more than just improving communication, EFT works on the real core: the attachment between you.
🛑 No surface-level symptom management. Instead of just talking about problems, we help you understand and restore the emotional foundations beneath them.
🌱 Sustainable change. Research shows that EFT is the most effective method for lasting relationship improvement.
💡 Why EFT? Many relationship therapies get stuck in surface-level communication exercises or in endless analysis of problems. EFT goes further — it helps you reach a deep emotional level where safety and connection can genuinely be experienced again.
🎯 Additional therapies and methodologies
Alongside EFT, we use:
- 🤲 Attachment Injury Repair Model (AIRM) — for healing attachment wounds.
- 🧩 Internal Family Systems (IFS) — to bring clarity to each partner’s part in the relationship’s difficulties, and to step back from destructive patterns.
- 🏋️ Body-oriented approaches — to quickly access emotions and essential relational needs.
- 🔬 Polyvagal Theory (PVT) — because therapy needs to align with how our nervous system and brain actually work.
- 🚦 Relational Life Therapy (RLT) — a directive approach to quickly break through destructive patterns.
👫 Guidance by Kim Wellens & Katrin De Neve
With many years of experience as therapists and as a couple ourselves, we guide you with expertise, empathy and a healthy dose of humour. We know from first-hand experience how important a strong attachment foundation is, and we’d love to help you rebuild yours.
🌟 Our promise to you:
✅ No endless talk-only sessions, but direct action and deep transformation.
✅ No standard recipes, but an approach tailored to your unique relationship.
✅ No clinical atmosphere, but a warm, natural setting in which real change can take place.
✅ No group retreat, but an exclusive private programme, couple to couple, for maximum attention and personalisation.
🌿 Ready for deep, lasting change?
Get in touch with us to find out whether this format is right for your current situation.
You can reach us via 📧 email, 📩 SMS or 📹 video call. Also accessible by WhatsApp! 📱
🚀 Or book a 📹 introductory meeting and find out how this programme can strengthen your relationship.
- The intake interview is recorded in advance and held online, before your stay.
An entry-level package of 4 sessions can also be done beforehand via Zoom. - In advance, we hold a free online introductory meeting with you via Zoom video call, so any questions or doubts can be addressed and you know what to expect.
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