This Isn’t Date Night.
It’s a Relationship Reboot.
Step into immersive couples therapy that maps your patterns, disarms your defenses, and challenges you to rebuild your relationship at its core.
Couples & Marriage Intensive Counseling Retreats
You’re Not Just Arguing. You’re Bleeding Out Slowly.
You’ve had the same fight, in different disguises, over and over again.
You’ve tried to fix it. Talk it out. Maybe even gone to therapy.
But nothing sticks.
One of you shuts down.
The other turns up the heat.
You both walk away – bruised, exhausted, and alone… together.
This isn’t just about fighting.
It’s about the slow erosion of something sacred: your connection.
And the grief that builds when love starts to feel unsafe.
This retreat is for couples on the edge of losing each other:
Arguing often, recovering less
Feeling more like strangers than partners
Caught in cycles of blame, withdrawal, or emotional shutdown
Wondering if there’s anything left to salvage
Here’s the truth:
You can be safe alone.
You’ve both learned how to survive that way.
But what you’re really fighting for —
what brought you here —
is wanting to be safe in connection.
That’s what we help you rebuild.
Why Intensives Work: Fifty Minutes Can’t Fix What’s Years Deep.
You’ve tried the weekly model.
Fifty minutes a week — just enough time to open the wound, not nearly enough to clean it out.
You leave raw, mid-trigger, mid-sentence, armed with a communication tool you don’t have the bandwidth to use.
And that’s not a failure of effort.
It’s a failure of structure.
Because deep relational healing doesn’t happen in fragments.
It needs time.
Containment.
Momentum.
That’s why our intensives give you what traditional therapy can’t:
Room to go beneath the surface, and stay there
Real-time rewiring of stuck patterns and protective cycles
A structured, therapist-led container where safety and truth can finally coexist
You don’t need another couples session.
You need a couples intervention.
One that actually changes your system — not just your symptoms.
What Makes Syrona Different?
In this private, high-impact retreat, we don’t just mediate your fights — we decode the emotional system underneath them.
Together, you’ll learn:
Attachment Style Roots
How each of your childhood blueprints shaped your attachment style, and still drive your reactions today.
Teen Protector Patterns
That you’re not just carrying an “inner child,” but also a protective Teen mindset that hijacks connection when things get hard.
Break Conflict Cycles
Why the same argument keeps looping, and how to interrupt the shutdowns, explosions, and emotional misfires in real time.
Rebuild Trust Safely
How to rebuild trust through therapist-led dialogue, body-based repair work, and practical exercises that create emotional bonding and connection.
Connect As Adults
What it feels like to connect as two grounded Adults — even in moments that used to spin you out.
This isn’t talk therapy with a couples twist.
It’s deep, embodied work that reconnects you from the inside out.
What Most Couples Never Get a Chance to Do – and Now You Can
Imagine this:
It’s the end of your intensive.
You look at each other, not as opponents, not as problems to fix, but as teammates again.
As the person you care most deeply about.
The one you want to protect, not prove wrong.
The one you want to understand — and feel understood by.
You feel something different in your body:
Calm. Open. Reconnected.
And for the first time in a long time… safe.
Safe in your own skin.
Safe in each other’s presence.
Safe in connection.
This is the work most couples never get the chance to do.
Not because they didn’t love each other.
But because they never had the time, the space, or the support to truly heal.
Now… you do.
What Couples Are Saying!
My husband and I whole heartedly endorse Dr. Kelly, her practice, and our therapist Fae!
There are truly not enough stars we could give or words we could use to express how life changing this experience has been for us. My husband and I didn’t think it was possible to get 28 years worth of two peoples lives summarized and worked through with in 3 days, but we did it. With an open mind and hearts, and with Fae’s insight and direction, we were able to fix and save our marriage and our lives.
– K.M.
Fae is genuinely compassionate and dedicated to helping couples succeed.
Our experience with Fae was transformative. From day one, she provided us with practical tools to improve our communication and truly understand each other. Fae created a warm and non-judgmental environment, allowing us to feel safe and open during every session. Fae is genuinely compassionate and dedicated to helping couples succeed. We were blown away with her thoughtful approach and profound insight, providing the spark that helped us to reconnect with each other.
– E.D.
My life and my relationship has changed for the better.
Well worth it! My life and my relationship has changed for the better. Being lost in the dark for so long and having reoccurring situations or problems. Not fully understanding them but knowing that we had problems. Syrona helped bring them to the surface and helped guide us through our life’s more smoothly. We didn’t have the right tools to get our relationship out of this storm but Syrona did just that for us.
– M.S.
It was truly life changing for the both of us.
There really are no words to express how grateful my husband and I are with Sandy and Termary!! It was truly life changing for the both of us. When we made the decision to call, we were living separately. We can honestly say calling Syrona was one of the best decisions we made. We were blown away by this experience. It was literally life changing. The understanding, empathy, insightfulness, and professionalism by Sandy and Termary was astonishing. Not only did they save our relationship, it saved us as individuals.
– M.O.
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Getting Started With A Counseling Retreat:
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Why Couples Choose Syrona
“We thought our marriage was irretrievably broken. In one day, we found out why we had grown apart. By the end of our timelines, we understood each other like never before. After five days, we found a path back to each other again. We learned how to really listen to, and validate each other. We not only have our marriage back, but in so many ways it’s better than it was before”.
~53 year old female & 55 year old male
How Couples Counseling Retreats Work
Meet the Team
Dr. Termary Hernández
Dr. Kathleen Kelly
Fae Foster
How Couples Counseling Retreats Work
Free Personal Phone Consultation
Talk to us directly and let us find out more about what you need and how we can help.
Come to the Retreat
We’ll spend 3 days together helping you find health and set yourself up for growth. Some come by themselves, some will bring their families to enjoy Florida while they do the Counseling Retreat.
Continue Receiving Support
Follow up is important. So we’ll encourage you to follow up with your own therapist and/or we can provide check-ins
Self-Awareness is the Key in Couples Conflict Resolution
We Provide Intensive Couples Counseling Services For
Social Anxiety
Compulsions
Not Liking Yourself
Lack of Purpose
Lack of Confidence
Depression; loss of interest, lack of motivation, feelings of hopelessness, emptiness
Grief, Loss, or Bereavement
Self Doubt
Self Improvement and Discovery
Difficult Life Events
Commitment Issues
Panic Attacks
Perfectionism
Feeling too much or too little
Stress overload
Relationship Counseling
Codependency
Life Transitions
Flashbacks/PTSD/Acute Trauma
Lingering effects of childhood trauma as an adult
Abandonment/Rejection Issues
Body Image
Bipolar Disorder
Jealousy
Narcissism
Shame Issues
Trust Issues
Premarital counseling
OCD
Hoarding
Sexuality
Marriage Problems; growing apart, infidelity, divorce
Anger: Too much/Too little
Big Transitions; going to college, getting married, having children, retiring
Problems with Guilt; too little, too much
Parent/Adult Child Issues
Betrayal Trauma
How Do I Know if a Counseling Retreat is Right For Me?
A Counseling Retreat might be for you if:
- You are, or have been, in therapy, but frustrated because you aren’t getting to your CORE issues.
- You normally consider yourself to be a high-functioning individual, but something in your life has you knocked off your emotional feet, you’re scrambling – and you want to deal with it right away.
- You need more time than one hour of therapy a week to delve into painful, emotional material.
- You have the time and financial resources to have three or four consecutive days, one-on-one, with a highly-trained, senior-level psychologist.
- You want intensive, high quality couples therapy to identify and repair whatever painful ruptures that are harming your relationship.
A Counseling Retreat might NOT be for you if:
- You don’t feel ready (or willing) to deeply explore your life experiences and experience the emotional discomfort that might accompany this journey.
- You are unsure about whether you want to fully open up and engage in the therapy process.
- You are in a degree of emotional crisis where you don’t feel safe or stable enough to manage unsupervised time after therapy ends for the day.
- The extended time and financial fees required for a counseling retreat would cause you an undue level of burden and stress.
- If you want couples therapy, but there is active violence, drug, or alcohol use in the relationship.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a Syrona Counseling Retreat cost?
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**
The Syrona 3-Day Intensive
- $500/day – $1500 for 3-day. Lunch included.
- 18 hours of in-depth therapy over 3 days
Only 4 people accepted per Intensive. Call now for your free consult.
The Syrona Individual 2-Day Intensives
- Pricing starts at $2450
- 14 hours of one-on-one, in-depth therapy
What’s included in the price?
Not included: Airfare, hotel or transportation.
What is the follow up after a counseling retreat?
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.
I have never been in therapy before. Can I still attend a counseling retreat?
Is a Syrona Counseling Retreat just another form of talk therapy?
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.
What happens in a Syrona Counseling Retreat?
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.
Since you don’t take insurance, can I bill my insurance out-of-network?
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.
Many successful people struggle overcoming their issues because they feel they should be able to do it alone. That’s why we created a counseling solution to get months of therapy in less than a week. This way you get the help you need, learn the skills to prevail, and get back to living a healthy successful life.