OUR SERVICES

Couples Therapy Intensives

Montréal • Québec • Ontario • Online

Emotionally-Focused Relationship Support for Meaningful Change

Sometimes weekly couples therapy is enough. Other times, relationships need a more concentrated space to move through conflict, disconnection, betrayal, communication breakdowns, or long-standing patterns.

At Clinique Altera, we offer personalized couples therapy intensives in Montreal and virtually across Quebec and Ontario.

A couple’s intensive provides extended time to slow down, understand what is happening beneath repeated cycles, and create real momentum toward repair, reconnection, or clarity.

Couples therapy intensives can help with:

LGBTQ+ Couples

Affirming relationship therapy that supports communication, attachment, intimacy, identity, and partnership within LGBTQ+ relationships.
BIPOC and Inter-racial Couples

Culturally responsive couples therapy that honours identity, family systems, communication differences, and the unique pressures interracial and BIPOC couples may face.
Ethical Non-Monogamy

Support for open relationships, polyamory, boundaries, jealousy, communication, trust, and creating agreements that fit your values.
Fertility Struggles and Loss

Compassionate care for couples navigating infertility, IVF, pregnancy loss, differing coping styles, and the strain these experiences can place on connection.
Grief

Therapy for couples facing bereavement, shared loss, anticipatory grief, or the ways grief can impact closeness and communication.
Parenthood

Support through the transition to parenthood, co-parenting stress, identity shifts, unequal labour, and staying connected while raising children.
Intimacy

Help rebuilding emotional and physical closeness, desire, vulnerability, affection, and a stronger sense of connection.
Infidelity

Structured support for couples processing betrayal, rebuilding trust, understanding patterns, and deciding the path forward together.
High Conflict Couples

Guidance for recurring arguments, defensiveness, shutdowns, emotional escalation, and learning healthier ways to repair conflict.
Seperation and Divorce

Support for couples navigating separation, discernment, respectful endings, co-parenting transitions, and healing after relationship change.
Attachment Styles

Couples therapy focused on understanding emotional patterns, unmet needs, fears of closeness or abandonment, and creating a more secure bond together.
Complex Trauma

Support for couples impacted by childhood trauma, relational wounds, nervous system reactivity, trust difficulties, and patterns rooted in past experiences.

OUR APPROACH

Our work is relational, trauma-informed, and evidence-based. We often draw from:

Attachment-based couples therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)-informed work
Nervous system regulation and co-regulation skills
Psychodynamic insight into repeating patterns
Somatic awareness and communication tools
Practical conflict resolution and repair strategies

We help couples understand not only what they fight about, but why the same cycle keeps happening.

Why Choose an Intensive?

Many couples find intensives helpful when:

Weekly therapy feels too slow
There is urgency after a rupture or betrayal
Schedules make weekly sessions difficult
A major decision needs thoughtful support
You want focused momentum in a shorter timeframe
You are travelling in from outside Montreal

Inclusive Relationship Care

We welcome and affirm diverse relationships, identities, and family structures, including:

LGBTQ+ couples
BIPOC couples and intercultural relationships
Ethical non-monogamy / polyamorous relationships
Blended families
Neurodiverse couples
Couples navigating trauma recovery

Available In-Person or Online

Couples intensives are available:

In-person in Montreal
Virtual across Quebec
Virtual across Ontario

Fees

Fees vary based on clinician, session length, and format. Many extended sessions may be partially reimbursable through insurance plans depending on coverage.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS