Intensives
Accelerated Relational Care
Rather than meet weekly for an hour, we offer the option of longer sessions and intensive retreats to address underlying issues rather than settling for managing symptomatic behaviors.
Intensives help people understand the way the brain functions, identify unhealthy patterns and experience the possibility for change and healing in a safe, attuned relationship.
Marriage Intensives
This Relational Care Intensive retreat for married couples is a therapeutic program that offers a structured, focused opportunity for deeper healing. As a couple, you will find growth and freedom from dysfunctional patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving as you experience healthy alternatives within a caring, connected group. Participation in the intensive program requires 8-12 hours of preparatory marital counseling with one of our staff counselors.
For more information, please call 512-492-6200 or email intensive@relationalcare.org
The Details
Dates
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July 16-18, Austin TX (lodging not included)
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September 27-October 1, Camp Hideaway
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November 12-14, Austin TX (lodging not included)
Two Options
Austin Area intensive
Thursday - Saturday, 9AM - 4PM each day
Designed for couples who have a more limited schedule or need to stay close to home. Lunch and snacks are provided.
Retreat Intensive
Sunday 5PM - Thursday 3PM
Includes all meals and accommodations for 4 nights.
The Process
Phone Consultation
You start with a free 15–20 minute call to ask questions and learn which retreat option is best for you.
Clinical Consultation
If you decide to move forward, you will schedule a 90-minute meeting with a staff counselor to talk about your goals, relationship dynamics, and retreat suitability
Pre-Intensive Counseling
Before attending the Intensive, couples complete 8–12 hours of preparatory counseling. This helps you begin applying healthy relational principles and ensures you’re ready for the more intensive work.
Intensive Retreat
During the retreat, you will engage in focused therapeutic work that supports:
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clearer understanding of each other’s needs
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better communication skills
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resolution of painful emotions
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deeper intimacy with God and your partner
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breaking free from unhelpful relational patterns
After the Retreat
Once the Intensive Retreat is complete, CRC's counselors remain available to support you as you continue applying what you have learned to your daily life.
Private Intensives
Individual Intensives
Our Individual Intensives are designed to provide focused, personalized support for healing from trauma. This immersive, one-on-one experience allows you to work deeply with a skilled counselor, addressing past hurts, breaking unhelpful patterns, and building resilience in a concentrated timeframe.
Couples Intensives
Our Couples Intensives are designed to help couples break unhelpful patterns, heal old wounds, and learn to repair and reconnect. Couples will learn tools to strengthen your bond, improve communication, and build lasting intimacy.
If there has been betrayal in the relationship, find out more about our Disclosure Intensives.
Family Intensives
Our Family Intensives provide a customized, therapeutic experience designed to fit your family's particular situation and goals. Your family will gain clarity, insight, and actionable strategies to foster stronger relationships and lasting growth.
Disclosure Intensives
The “Rite of Truth” - How to Rebuild After Betrayal
Uncovering betrayal doesn’t just reveal new information; it unsteadies the entire foundation of a relationship. What once felt steady can quickly feel disorienting, and the need for truth becomes both urgent and essential. Many couples find themselves caught between the desire for clarity and the fear of causing more harm.
The reality is, disclosure can be a pivotal step toward healing, but without the right support, it can also reinforce the very wounds it’s designed to repair.
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Disclosure
Disclosure Intensives grounded in the Restoring Truth Model offer a process designed to be:
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Partner-sensitive
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Trauma-informed
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Structured for clarity, safety, and containment
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Focused on restoring truth in a way that heals, not retraumatizes, the relationship
This approach recognizes that disclosure is not just about information but safety, respect, and repair.
Professionally guided disclosures have been shown to support partners, betrayers, and the relationship when done with care, intentionality, and structure.
What is a Disclosure Intensive?
A Disclosure Intensive is a focused, guided experience that helps couples move through the disclosure process with clarity and support rather than confusion or reactivity.
Together, we will:
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Prepare both partners thoughtfully and thoroughly
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Clarify needs, boundaries, and expectations
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Facilitate a structured disclosure process
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Support immediate stabilization and next steps for recovery
A disclosure intensive is not a passive experience. It requires a clear commitment, free from distractions or avoidance, and a willingness to engage in meaningful and at times uncomfortable work in service of truth and repair.
This is not rushed work, and it is not work you have to navigate alone.
Who is This For?
Disclosure Intensives may be a good fit for couples navigating:
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Affairs or infidelity
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Sexual addiction or compulsive sexual behavior
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Ongoing secrecy or staggered “trickle” disclosure
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Betrayal trauma and relational rupture
Whether you are early in discovery or have been sitting with information for some time, this process creates a pathway forward in hope and healing.
An Investment
Disclosure Intensives with Hannah Kalk, MS, LMFT are offered at her hourly rate with customized scheduling based on your needs and the scope of the process.
An Invitation
If you are carrying the weight of unanswered questions, destroyed trust, or the unknowns of “where do we go from here,” you are not alone.
There is a path to move through disclosure that is grounded in truth, guided with care, and oriented toward healing.
If you’d like to explore whether a Disclosure Intensive is the right next step for you, I would be honored to connect.