Individual & Marriage Intensive Counseling Retreats

Syrona’s intensive therapy retreats range from between two and four days.  You can choose how many days you want to attend, and typically we discuss this during the consult call.

**Payment Plans Available**

Individuals & Couples Retreat Rates

• 2-Day – $1800
• 3-Day – $2600
• 4-Day – $3200

Half-Day Sessions

• 3 Hours – $375 (morning or afternoon)

Rates for Dr. Kelly (Limited Availability)

• Individual – $1500/day
• Couples – $1600/day

We offer follow-up tele-health sessions after your counseling retreat, but due to inter-state licensing laws and time constraints, we can not take clients on as regular, weekly clients.

This is why we recommend that you have a primary therapist if you will benefit from on-going therapeutic work after your retreat. Some of our retreat clients return for half-or full-day “tune-up” sessions if wanted or needed.

If you do have a primary therapist, we provide professional consults before and after your counseling retreat, to create a seamless transition – in and out of the retreat – for both you and your therapist.

Yes. While most of our clients either have had, or are in therapy. We love working with clients who are new to the whole therapy experience. A counseling retreat is an immersive therapy experience. It works best for those who are able and willing to be reflective and curious about their feelings, thoughts, and memories. For many of our clients who haven’t had therapy before, they tell us they love getting started this way, and they do great – they don’t know therapy any other way!

No. Most people attend a counseling retreat so they can move beyond talk therapy. Most of our clients need help to shift the automatic and dysregulated aspects of their emotional functioning into a more functional and regulated state. So while all counseling retreats include a mixture of education and some talk therapy, the experimental work is focused on both “top-down and body-up” techniques and approaches.

When you arrive, you will be greeted by your therapist and shown around the office. Your favorite drinks and snacks will be there waiting for you. You will settle in, and the day begins by getting your wish list identified: we explore what you most would like to accomplish over the course of your intensive retreat.

We then proceed to the day-long process of getting to know you – what is your emotional blueprint? We thoroughly go over your timeline – the first two decades in particular, but often going over each decade of your life.

At the end of the day, we write up a summary of your unique personality functioning – the vulnerabilities you were exposed to in childhood and the specific coping and defensive strategies you learned to use for managing your emotional life.

The second and third days are the “working days”. As highly trained trauma therapists, we customize our extensive therapeutic toolkit of techniques and experiential interventions to what YOU need, based on what we learned doing your timeline. We use a combination of top-down and bottoms up approaches, meaning that we work with your whole experience of being you. That is, how do you think, feel, and react, and why?

Most people come to intensives because of issues in their relationships, either with significant others or themselves, and often both! So during your intensive, we help you access powerful and profound levels of self awareness and compassion.

The third day continues the work but often focuses on practicing and applying what has been learned. We spend time helping our clients understand how an emotionally intelligent and mature adult thinks, feels, and responds. We practice using engaging exercises that have you engaging with yourself and others from your adult mindset.

This sets you up to walk away at the end of your intensive not just knowing what your adult mindset is, but having the felt sense of recognizing when it is fully operational (and when it is not). And knowing this is profoundly powerful.

You are welcome to submit the invoice for reimbursement but in our experience, very few insurance companies will reimburse more than one hour of psychotherapy a day. Some of our clients have had success receiving partial reimbursement by working with a case manager, but in general, we tell our clients that the Syrona Counseling Retreats are not a covered service at this time.