Transform Your Marriage. Reignite Your Spark.
Marriage isn’t meant to feel like you’re just surviving.
It’s meant to feel alive, connected, passionate, and safe.
But even the strongest couples hit seasons of distance, arguments, or disconnect.
The spark fades. Old triggers resurface. Stress takes over, and you wonder if this is as good as it gets.
It doesn’t have to be.
At The Couples School, we believe every couple has the capacity to thrive: to feel understood, supported, desired, and deeply connected. And we know exactly how to get you there.
Here’s how it works:
One-Day Retreat: Kickstart Your Transformation
You’ll spend a full day immersing in fun, insight, and reconnection. Explore our 8-step framework, watch real couples in action, and try mini-exercises that spark intimacy and joy right away.
Seven Weekly Sessions:
Integrate and Deepen Over the next 7 weeks, we’ll meet online to go deeper. Each session explores one of the 7 steps, with practical tools and guided exercises you’ll immediately apply at home. Between sessions, you’ll receive short readings and practices to strengthen your connection day by day.
Ongoing Growth and Support
You’ll also get access to recordings, a workbook, and bonus resources so you and your partner can revisit the tools anytime.
Relationship Tools You’ll Acquire
Recognize and catch yourselves from the negative cycles
Recognize and catch yourselves from the negative cycles
Recognize and catch yourselves from the negative cycles
Learn to identify the destructive pattern you are in. And begin the process of getting to the root of the problem. Learn to express your needs through healthier, more constructive communication.
Finding the Vulnerability Underneath
Recognize and catch yourselves from the negative cycles
Recognize and catch yourselves from the negative cycles
Learn to look beyond immediate, impulsive reactions to figure out what raw spots are being hit causing the strong reactivity.
How to Repair
Recognize and catch yourselves from the negative cycles
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Couples establish a platform for de-escalating conflict and repairing rifts in the relationship along with building emotional safety.
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Emotional connection paves the path towards sexual intimacy, and intimacy paves towards deeper emotional connection. Learn the universal concepts and discover your unique nuances as a couple to navigate romance and physical closeness.
Communication for Connection
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Communication for Connection
Through structured conversations, couples learn to be attuned, emotionally responsive, and deeply engaged with each other.
By the end of the program, you can expect to experience:
- Deeper Emotional Connection – truly being seen, heard, and valued.
- Stronger Intimacy & Passion – rekindled romance and closeness, both emotional and physical.
- Better Conflict Resolution – fewer fights, more understanding, and safer communication.
- Secure Attachment – a relationship rooted in trust, empathy, and safety.
- Lasting Transformation – new habits and tools that stay with you long after the program ends.
- Renewed Joy & Partnership – more fun, laughter, and excitement about being together.
“Josh brought both his great sense of humor as well as his deep compassion to teaching us this vulnerable approach to connecting with each other. We walked away feeling a renewed sense of love and commitment to each other."
Dr. Danielle Dragon, PsyD
About Josh
With years of in-depth training under couples counseling pioneers such as Dr. Sue Johnson, Josh is one of the first Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) practitioners in the Midwest to achieve ICEEFT certification both as a Couples Therapist and as a Supervisor. His passion is sharing the power of bonding through EFT, and he has done so extensively, offering workshops for couples, leading therapist-consultation groups, and providing supervision and training to fellow practitioners.
From his private practice - where he works exclusively with couples and families - to his regular regional trainings and leadership roles (including service on the Chicago EFT Board), Josh brings both heart and rigor to helping couples deepen connection, navigate challenges, and grow together.
This is for couples who...
- Are concerned the connection is fading
- Want to understand and be understood more deeply
- Long to bring back passion and closeness
- Are ready to grow together with intentional tools and guidance
Whether you’ve been married a few years or more than a decade…
or whether you’re navigating daily stress or struggling with bigger patterns…
you’ll leave with hope, tools, and a renewed bond.
Your investment
The Complete Program includes:
- One-Day Kickoff Retreat
(Monday, February 16)
- 7 Weekly Online Sessions
(Mondays, 2:30pm-3:15pm CST)
- Comprehensive Workbook + Reading Materials
- Access to All Session Recordings
Think of it as an investment you’re making: in your marriage, your family, and your future.
Why Couples Say“This Is Exactly What We Needed”
"I am recommending this workshop to my clients, colleagues, and friends! Any couple, whether feeling strongly connected or hanging by a thread, can and will benefit from attending..."
"Josh, you brought us hope, connection, and a passion we didn't know could be there anymore. From the depths of our hearts, thank you!”
“This program helped us feel stronger, safer, and more passionate. We now have the tools to work through arguments and reconnect quickly. It’s changed our marriage for the better.”
"I experienced a deep feeling of connection to my husband that I haven't felt in years!" - Lucy A.
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