What are Marriage Intensives?
Basically, they are months of marriage counseling in 1, 2, or 3 days with just one couple and a highly trained counselor.
Our G2R Marriage Intensives are customized to the specific needs of each couple.
What's Included?
- One 50 minute individual session for husband prior to the intensive
- One 50 minute individual session for wife prior to the intensive
- One Full Day, 7 hours with counselor + 1 hour working lunch
- Customized Sessions and bound manual with Dr. John VanderKaay
- Lunch
- 2 follow-up appointments, generally 2 weeks apart
- Investment: $2,600
- One 50 minute individual session for husband prior to the intensive
- One 50 minute individual session for wife prior to the intensive
- Two Full Days, 7 hours with counselor + 1 hour working lunch per day
- Customized Sessions and bound manual with Dr. John VanderKaay
- Lunch each day
- Hotel for one night between days of the intensive
- 3 follow-up appointments, generally 2 weeks apart
- Investment: $4,800
- One 50 minute individual session for husband prior to the intensive
- One 50 minute individual session for wife prior to the intensive
- Three Full Days, 7 hours with counselor + 1 hour working lunch per day
- Customized Sessionsand bound manual with Dr. John VanderKaay
- Lunch each day
- Hotel for two nights between days of intensive
- 4 follow-up appointments, generally 2 weeks apart
- Investment: $6,200
...It Doesn't Have to End in Divorce..
According to Lawyers.com, the average cost (including attorneys, accountants, and court costs) of a contested divorce is $15,500 (though the cost can be significantly higher for couples with children) and takes an average of 15 months! Either way, there is no ‘winner’ in a divorce. Divorce is the death of a relationship. If children are involved, they are unquestionably the biggest losers.
Traditional couples counseling and relationship workshops have a limited success rate with relationships that are significantly damaged.
The Center for Mighty Marriages & Families has experienced a greater rate of success working with couples who have lost hope and are making their “last effort” to reconcile and restore their relationship. Many couples who have experienced affairs, financial distrust and other deep wounds have been able to have success with our Marriage Intensive.
Before calling attorneys, spending 20% or more of the family assets in legal fees, leaving children and moving out of the home, consider investing in a marriage intensive.
Would You Consider a Non-Traditional Approach to Healing?
Frequently couples who have not been able to resolve their issues with traditional counseling models have found hope in one of our Grace2Rebuild (G2R) Marriage Intensives.
Would you want to have open heart surgery one hour at a time over the course of weeks or months? (Of course not!) Then why take that approach when it comes to the surgery needed to save your marriage?
Our customized and innovative Grace2Rebuild (G2R) Marriage Intensive consists of either one, two or three full days with just you, your spouse and our specially trained counselor. There are no other couples in the room.
Each day is devoted to helping each partner get to the core of the issues, working through the issues thoroughly and moving forward in a way neither thought might ever be possible.
The cost of an intensive is much less than its approximately twenty+ “traditional” session equivalency and much less than the emotional, social and financial costs of a divorce.
Because you can’t change habits in two or three days, the couples who have the greatest and longest lasting changes are those who follow up an intensive with 6-8 weekly sessions to solidify the gains.
Here are some of what previous Intensives Clients have said about their intensive experience.
“90% of clients rated their Intensive 5 out of 5. 3% rated their Intensive 4 out of 5. 7% left ratings blank.”
“Transformative Experience”
“Dr. VanderKaay exceeded my expectations of what I expected from a Marriage Intensive. My experience here these past two days has changed my life forever. God is using him in a mighty way to further His work for the Kingdom.”
— KH—
“The experience was excellent, and we have high trust in Dr. VanderKaay now and in the future. I thank God for him and for the breakthrough we had today.”
— SH—
“Healing & Forgiveness”
“Letters of Repentance and Forgiveness – these were very difficult but most rewarding. Time well invested to save our marriage. Working on core issues and dealing with hurts is what caused a real breakthrough for us.”
— CW—
“What I liked the most was having guidance on confronting challenges in our relationship. Guidance on confronting broken trust and hurt.”
— JH—
“The information and tools provided to be successful moving forward and the exercises between us were heartfelt and effective.”
— MH—
“Faith-Based Approach”
“The Bible is the foundation, but Dr. VanderKaay provided the best practical application to help us and show how to rebuild our marriage.”
— AH—
“Biblical, with a well-trained counselor in ministry.”
— CA—
“What I liked the most was 1) That all the info is God’s way, 2) Very organized and on point. Dr. John is very knowledgeable, kind, and a great facilitator.”
— BH—
“Expert Guidance”
“Dr. VanderKaay is very intuitive and listened well to my husband and me individually and as a couple. He is insightful and straightforward.”
— CW
“Your even-handedness with both parties. A most caring, compassionate, and godly man.”
— RP—
“I will recommend Dr. V to any couple whether in distress or not. His guidance would benefit any couple.”
— PH—
“I much appreciated the gentle way of guiding us in preparation for the Repentance/Forgiveness session. Very well thought out course.”
— SW—
“Safe & Supportive Environment”
“Every effort was made for us to be comfortable and have peripheral needs met. All help is through a Christian lens. The intensive was comfortable, felt like a safe space, and provided set-aside time to just focus on us.”
— JC—
“Very professional, kind, made me comfortable.”
— EP—
“The intensive provided deep conversations that normally wouldn’t happen.”
— JC—
“Renewed Hope & Moving Forward”
“Thank you. We feel renewed and hopeful. Praying God will continue to show us grace as we rebuild.”
— QG—
“I love the program and highly encourage you to market retreats and conferences. The idea of repentance is so important and not addressed at other conferences. God used Dr. VanderKaay to bring powerful healing to our marriage.”
— TN—
“This was a fabulous experience. My husband and I came in with the same goal, and Dr. John helped us get there without conflict.”
— GW—
“What I liked the most was that Dr. John gave us great hope in our marriage future. Great job—made us feel very welcome.”
— DH—
“Thank you for your time, faithfulness, and care for us and our marriage.”
— MH—
“Very grateful for his patience and help.”
— MH—
“What I like the most is the Power of Forgiveness. Consider a two-day intensive.”
— TS—
“Intense.”
— SP—
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