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Stop Divorce With Specialized Crisis Help

Your marriage is in the ER right now. That sick feeling in your stomach, the inability to focus, the fear that everything is slipping away—these are the hallmarks of a true relationship crisis. Our critical-care couples counseling isn’t just therapy. It’s the lifeline you need when your relationship flatlines.

“My husband and I are on the verge of divorce…

Marriage crisis help is for those severe relationship problems that threaten your future together. What brings you here?

  • An explosive fight where someone walked out?
  • The devastating discovery of an affair?
  • A shocking betrayal around money, friends, or family?

Whatever critical moment you’re facing, there’s help available.

Intensive marriage counseling tackles these serious issues head-on. Through specialized, concentrated therapy, you’ll learn to prevent escalating conflicts and recover from betrayals.

Do you suffer from repeated relationship crises? These patterns can be broken. Marriage therapy provides tools to address these problems at their roots. You can learn to stop fights before they spiral out of control. And yes, even after an affair, healing is possible.

This dire circumstance you’re facing? Know this: many couples have been in your position and found their way forward. The first step is reaching out for help.

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The severity of the problems don’t predict divorce over time. Things can change.

Even couples in high distress can be happily married over time. That’s according to research.

Do you have any of these relationship breakdowns?

Harsh communication breakdown requiring intensive intervention:

Communication has completely broken down. Conflicts are escalating to a point where it feels impossible to talk constructively. Our intensive relationship counseling creates a controlled environment to restart communication.

Impending separation or divorce:

When couples are on the brink of separation or divorce, they need marriage crisis counseling with a carefully-crafted last-ditch effort to:

  • restore the relationship immediately,
  • explore alternatives with professional guidance, and
  • clarify the best course of action through intensive support measures.

Discovering an affair:

While most people believe that it is impossible to recover from an affair, our specialists disagree. We’ve watched couples seeking intensive support after an affair heal completely.

Every day at Couples Therapy Inc., we provide urgent care for couples who have almost given up.

Our last shot couples therapy is marriage crisis counseling that focuses on helping you make long-lasting changes when every moment counts.

Every day our emergency marriage therapy specialists see real progress with couples who thought it was hopeless. We see couples who were about to divorce start working together. Those in affairs begin to heal the breach. No matter how bad your dire circumstances, there’s still hope.

  • I have already filed for divorce.

    It was very apparent that our therapist did her homework and was prepared for our completely opposite personalities. Her calm, patient demeanor was especially effective in dealing with my husband’s outbursts of anger. She was not deterred and was able to communicate with him.

    We know what triggers to avoid, to avoid conflict. We are making changes in our living arrangements that were a major factor in the breakdown of the marriage.

    Would you recommend your couples therapist and Couples Therapy Inc?

    Absolutely yes.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • I wondered if it would work in the long run.

    You seemed to have systems and tools that we could work with on our own. A fresh perspective and one that my husband, surprisingly, wanted to make an effort to try and learn from.

    With us, my partner was the most hopeful and I had to consciously step back from the FIGURATIVE ‘cliff’ I was about to go over to get away from this relationship.

    I’m now hopeful.
    I would recommend this program as long as there is a spark of hope and desire left in any relationship.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • If you’ve nearly lost hope, seek out Couples Therapy Inc.

    They genuinely care about your relationship and the approach they take delivers. The promise of 6 months of therapy in 3 days…that’s not an exaggeration!

    It exceeded our expectations in every way and restored the hope, connection, and love in our marriage.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • We were hanging by a thread.

    My wife told me 3 or 4 times a week, “It’s over, I don’t love you anymore, I see you like a brother and father of my kids…” We were hanging by a thread. Now she really does want to make this work and get her feelings back towards me. The biggest change for me was a sense of hope.

    To anyone considering it, absolutely do it.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client

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  • I have already filed for divorce.

    Our core issues were:

    • my husband’s outbursts of anger,
    • different beliefs in parenting style and
    • a profound inability to communicate effectively with both feeling that the other wasn’t listening..

    It was very apparent that our therapist did her homework and was prepared for our completely opposite personalities. Her calm, patient demeanor was especially effective in dealing with my husband’s outbursts of anger. She was not deterred and was able to communicate with him.

    We now know what triggers to avoid conflict. We are making changes in our living arrangements that were a major factor in the breakdown of the marriage.

    Would you recommend your couples therapist and Couples Therapy Inc?

    Absolutely yes.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • It was the best thing that we’ve ever done.

    So much progress was made in such a short period of time. We really got to work through some areas that was causing discord and separation. Through the process I’ve seen a big difference in the way we talk to each other and how open we both are with talking. The therapist made the environment easy to be open, heard and feel safe. We feel more confident in our relationship and more hopeful to work it out.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • We needed the intensive sessions because we were in crisis

    The intensive is the only way to do treatment for couples. We had time to deal with issues that went back 20 years and there is no way we could have done this in 1 hour weekly sessions. It would have taken twice as long to address issues and we probably would have gone back to our old habits way before we even dealt with them.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client

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“But I need crisis intervention NOW!”
I hear this from every couple facing relationship crisis.

Real, lasting change

To save your marriage from divorce, you need expert intervention with concrete steps. Our emergency relationship counseling helps you identify problematic patterns and learn how to relate differently. Once you know what to do, you can make better, calmer, saner decisions even in crisis.

You may be asking yourself:

“Could we work again with the right urgent care specialist?”

The answer is a resounding yes.

If marriage counseling is needed, find a specialist, set aside an entire weekend and devote yourself to making it work.

Consider attending an intensive couples therapy retreat for critical relationship support

Are you wanting shorter, more frequent sessions? Looking to find anyone who can see you today? You may want to reconsider. 

Dramatic blow-ups are usually the result of long-standing issues that need more permanent solutions.

Use this crisis time wisely.  Locate help to feel heard and you’ll learn what to do when things get heated.

Our Couples Crisis Intervention Starts With An Assessment.

Unlike typical urgent marital assistance, you’ll start with a comprehensive “State of the Union” assessment. Our assessment instrument, we call “The BIG BIG Book,” and is completed from the privacy of your own home. This saves you time and provides your specialist with essential background.

It’s a private correspondence between you and your therapist. Speak freely and speak from your heart.

Our assessment isn’t just paperwork—it’s the beginning of your healing.

You’ll gain clarity even when your relationship feels like it’s in critical condition. Your specialist will analyze your responses to identify exactly what’s keeping you trapped, and most importantly, what will set you free.

The BIG BIG Book© is something we cannot rave highly enough about. The time and work on the frontend to fill it out was so worthwhile as it created a sense of safety. It really allowed us to go into the intensive de-burdened from the need to explain what’s happened in the past or how we got to this place and instead focus on the emotional work at hand to move forward. – Recent Client

The Advantage of Intensive Counseling for Couples on the Brink: Why Our Intensive Approach Works

“But I need crisis intervention NOW!” I hear this from every couple facing relationship crisis.

What my years of providing urgent couples counseling have taught me: The couples who take some time to properly prepare have dramatically better outcomes than those who rush into relationship rescue services unprepared.

Your relationship deserves more than band-aid solutions. While you wait for your intensive counseling weekend:

  • You’ll complete our comprehensive assessment (1,864 questions that reveal patterns other intensive counseling misses)
  • You’ll receive our Emergency Crisis Containment Guide with specific strategies to prevent further damage
  • Your trained couples therapist will study your unique situation before you even arrive
  • You’ll begin the emotional regulation work that makes productive intensive couples counseling possible

One husband told me: “I had finally found emergency couples counseling near me. But I was furious about waiting weeks for it. Now I realize those weeks of preparation did more for us than years of regular couples therapy sessions had done.”

Your marriage didn’t reach this crisis overnight. Taking two weeks to prepare properly for crisis marriage counseling isn’t a delay—it’s your greatest advantage.

Get clear feedback about the long-term state of your relationship (not just the crisis):

  • What exactly is wrong with our relationship from a science perspective?
  • Can we recover our intimate bond?
  • Exactly what will it take to do that?

You’ll have a clear treatment plan to consider. Over a weekend, you’ll devote the time to talking it out and figuring out how you can relate better. Then you decide how to move forward.

Ask yourself:

  • Would I try if we knew how to calm down, reconnect, and feel closeness again? What’s it worth to me to preserve my family?
  • Should we try a divorce-busting specialist? Or just go to any available generalist on our insurance panel?
  • Have we read about science-based methods demonstrated to be effective? Do we know about recent advancements in helping troubled marriages?
  • My husband had threatened to leave.

    Past infidelity continued to haunt us. We tried three different “therapists” but none of them understood our issues and tried to minimize them. We didn’t feel that we were heard or understood. When we chose Couples Therapy Inc., we were looking for experts. We didn’t know whether one weekend would make a difference.

    Our therapist did a thorough review of our background information; a skillful analysis with a frank approach. We really felt that he understood us and had the skills and commitment to help. He built rapport and trust early in the process so that we could freely discuss our issues. He reminded us of what we were doing right and coached us through how to improve in the weaker areas.

    It was life-changing and marriage-saving! We got perspective on our issues; we learned how to communicate; we love and appreciate each other.

     This is nothing like the other counseling we tried. I am glad we did not stop searching for help. The costs is far less than a divorce.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • We were in crisis, desperately needing help to understand the unhealthy cycle we were in.

    We have so much hope for our future and a renewed love for one another.

    It is worth the time and resources to pour into your relationship. This is a safe and incredibly helpful method to work on your marriage. I highly recommend CTI

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • This saved our marriage and divorce is off the table.

    We’ve set boundaries for our relationship together that we agree to respect, and learned communication skills to help foster more respectful conversations. This was a great experience all around. It’s worth the investment and you won’t regret it. This is by far the most respectful company I have encountered. Every staff member we spoke with was so pleasant and helpful. Communication was swift and clear. Our therapist was a God send for us. We can’t send enough praise about her. You will feel at ease. The process is very thorough and if all therapists are like ours, you’ll be in great hands.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client
  • We chose Couples Therapy Inc for the strong success rate for stopping divorce.

    I think without it, we would have gone through with an unnecessary, costly, divorce and thrown away a lifetime of future togetherness with our family. We will not be divorcing; we have begun to heal and have started to restore the Loyalty phase of our relationship that had broken in the first place.

    Thank goodness my husband didn’t give up on me and finally agreed to this retreat. We both feel forever grateful that we just decorated the Christmas tree together with our family rather than apart, in different homes. We realized that our relationship is not only repairable, but that we were so lucky to have found someone we are so compatible with way back when…and we both WANT to stay together – it makes us happy. I’m excited for what the future holds. Thank you.

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  • My husband had threatened to leave.

    Past infidelity continued to haunt us. We tried three different “therapists” but none of them understood our issues and tried to minimize them. We didn’t feel that we were heard or understood. When we chose Couples Therapy Inc., we were looking for experts. We didn’t know whether one weekend would make a difference.

    Our therapist did a thorough review of our background information; a skillful analysis with a frank approach. We really felt that he understood us and had the skills and commitment to help. He built rapport and trust early in the process so that we could freely discuss our issues. He reminded us of what we were doing right and coached us through how to improve in the weaker areas.

    It was life-changing and marriage-saving! We got perspective on our issues; we learned how to communicate; we love and appreciate each other.

     This is nothing like the other counseling we tried. I am glad we did not stop searching for help. The costs is far less than a divorce.

    Recent Intensive Couples Therapy Client

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We know how to save a marriage on the brink of divorce

Few therapists choose to work with severely troubled couples in extreme couples therapy. Why do we specialize in couples on the brink of divorce?

When you fell in love, you looked forward to having a happy marriage, a healthy marriage. You never considered you’d end up in a failing marriage or wanting immediate help.

And many of you have sought out marriage counselors before coming to our intensives. You might have faithfully attended weekly therapy sessions. You expected to get real help. Instead of healing, however, you found that the drip, drip, drip of weekly sessions wasn’t enough.

That format didn’t provide the support system you needed to heal and repair your broken bonds. And chances are, you didn’t work with an evidence-based couples specialist.

A dying marriage is like a person close to death. There is a lot of soul-searching.

“But I’ve already moved out…

That means you should be fast-tracking it to get help.

“Moving out” does not have to mean it’s over unless that’s what you want it to mean.

You can pay the moving costs again. Real marital happiness is priceless.

If you’ve already separated, you now realize that this doesn’t suddenly fix everything. Living apart presents its own unique challenges.

Take a weekend and get the guidance you need to know how to proceed.

Dare to hope. Muster the courage to ask your spouse to try…again. You can stop divorce.

You once meant everything to each other. Could you fall in love again?

You know a lot is riding on your capacity to work things out. Your children. Your financial well-being. Even your mental health.

“”But this heartbreak is so unbearable…can relationship counseling truly offer relief?…”

Cold, numb and distant. Or fights filled with anger and animosity. It feels hopeless and futile to expect things to change.

And science of couples needing urgent help tells us why:

 It’s called “Negative Sentiment Override.” Learn more about why it feels so hopeless.

Don’t second-guess yourself only after it is already too late.
Be confident in your decision-making.

We can’t turn every marriage around. That’s obvious. However, we can tell you what it will take to make major changes in your ailing marriage that brought on the need for marital rescue.

And if you do decide to divorce, you’ll have a deeper appreciation for your role in the breakdown. It prevents you from making the same mistake in the next relationship.

If you have to leave, leave as collaborators, not adversaries.

Learn what a big difference a science-based approach can make. Effectiveness rates demonstrated to be 70-90% effective. 

Emergency Marriage Crisis Containment Guide

While you prepare for your intensive couples counseling weekend, you shouldn’t be left wondering what to do in your crisis. That’s why we’ve created our Emergency Marriage Crisis Containment Guide—a practical resource to help you:

  • Prevent further relationship damage during this crisis situation
  • Manage overwhelming emotions common in marriage crises
  • Establish short-term limits that guard your wellbeing while leaving room for healing
  • Communicate effectively when everything feels impossible

This essential guide will help you to survive while waiting for our unique counseling without making impulsive decisions you’ll later regret. You’ll receive it immediately after scheduling your intensive couples therapy weekend.

Remember: What you do while waiting for “prevent divorce” counseling matters tremendously. Let us help you make this time count.

Can intensive emergency marriage counseling help you, too?