A One-of-A-Kind 5-Day Couples Intensive Personalized to Help You and Your Family
Offered in North Vancouver, Online via Video Conference, or In-Person in Your Community (by request). *For one couple at a time.
Your relationship or family is struggling.
You’re worried for yourself, your children, or your relationship with your partner.
You’re likely exasperated trying to resolve your problems.
Things seem to be going nowhere despite your best efforts. You may not speak much to your partner and perhaps avoid each other.
Perhaps it’s been a slow, steady deterioration of your relationship.
Due to your busy schedules, you may live parallel lives without connection to each other.
There may be so much distance in your relationship that you feel lonely and alone.
Or, maybe a crisis has happened that has sent your relationship or family spinning in high stress and chaos.
You might be afraid that your relationship is not going to make it.
You’ve always dreamed of having a loving partner and a happy family.
But you realize that your relationship is not sustainable with the problems you’re having.
If things continue this way, you’re scared the dream might come to an end.
You desperately don’t want your relationship or family to continue to struggle.
You feel helpless as to how to get it back on track.
The good news is my 5-day couples and parenting intensive can help…
My Powerhouse Couple Intensives are for Couples who are Experiencing:
- A sense of disconnection, lack of closeness or intimacy – you may not have enough time to spend together as a couple. You feel lonely.
- Struggling with communication; you and your partner have conflict that never gets resolved
- A relationship that feels stagnant or stuck
- Frustration that you can’t agree on parenting methods and styles
- A crisis:
- You’re reeling after a betrayal (e.g., extramarital affair, ongoing lies about finances or other important matters)
- Your family or child has experienced a stressful or traumatic event (e.g., an accident, critical illness diagnosis, witnessed heated arguments or abuse at home)
- Your child is struggling with social, emotional, or psychological problems, and these are straining your relationship.
- You’re on the brink of separation or divorce
- You’re mostly satisfied and happy in your relationship and family. However, you want to learn tools and strategies to live your life to your fullest potential as a couple and as parents.
Contact me today to discover how you can become a Powerhouse Couple!
Why Participate in a 5-Day Couples Intensive with Me?
Reason #1: Sometimes, weekly therapy sessions are not enough to help overcome problems.
There is no doubt about it.
Engaging in weekly therapy sessions, whether individually, with your partner, or with parenting coaching sessions, can help you heal problems and develop skills and tools to improve your relationship and help your family cope with challenges.
I’ve helped thousands of individuals, children, couples, and parents make remarkable improvements in their lives through these 1-hour therapy sessions.
BUT sometimes, weekly sessions are not enough to make quick and profound shifts in your life.
There are times you want to solve your problems fast, especially if you’re in crisis, where there is an urgency to resolve issues NOW.
Participating in a 5-day therapy intensive can help you quickly break through the places you’re stuck and bring lasting change.
Reason #2: Education and therapy combined are a powerful blend that helps you heal deep-seated problems.
Education provides critical information to improve your relationship or parenting skills.
BUT, when you’re stuck and can’t find a way through, education by itself is often insufficient.
My therapy intensives add an extra element that helps you deal with inner conflicts and complex problems that have strong emotions.
Intensive therapy and education together are the quickest route to making sustainable changes in your relationship and family.
Hi, I’m Laila Presotto, a Passionate and Skilled Psychotherapist and Educator
I’m a one-stop shop for therapy with adults and couples with children or teens. I also help individuals resolve trauma and improve their mental health.
I’m not your typical therapist.
I don’t just listen as you tell me your problems. Instead, I help you deeply understand and heal yourself, your relationship, and your family.
I’m a dedicated educator as well as a therapist. I’ll ensure you get the information you need about your mental health, relationships and parenting.
I’ll help you build your capacity for vulnerability to open your hearts to love one another more deeply.
I have over 2 decades of experience as a therapist and am trained in numerous methods of therapy that focus on helping people resolve past challenging and traumatic experiences that are at the root of problems. In addition, I hold certifications in the research-backed methods below.
Contact me today to discover how you can become a Powerhouse Couple!
As a Couples Therapist:
Certified in The Gottman Method (Level II)
Certified in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).
These 2 approaches developed by world-renowned leaders are some of the most popular and effective science-based couples counselling methods used today.
Both are proven to help couples solve problems, improve their communication, strengthen their connection, and create more connection and joy in their lives.
As a Parent and Child Therapist:
Certification in 10 parenting courses of Dr. Gordon Neufeld’s Attachment Paradigm
My passion for helping parents, educators and children led me to get certified with leading parent and child psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld.
Dr. Neufeld’s developmental approach is research-based. It helps parents:
- Gain awareness about your childhood and how it’s impacting your family
- Acquire knowledge about emotional and psychological childhood development
- Learn attachment theory, which focuses on strengthening the connections within families
Certification in the Trauma-Based Somatic Therapy Method of Dr. Peter Levine.
Issues such as depression, anxiety, and painful patterns of relating most often have a traumatic origin.
Most people have had some type of traumatic event in their lives, even if these events seemed insignificant at the time.
The somatic therapy method helps you enhance your well-being and become more resilient. This, in turn, enables you to be a better partner and parent.
Certification in Advanced Applications in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with Dr. David Burns.
CBT is a short-term, evidence-based, goal-oriented counselling treatment that helps you change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour at the source of your difficulties.
When you change your thoughts, you also change the way you feel. This leads to making better choices that are more positive and fulfilling.
Certification in the Positive Neuroplasticity Course with Dr. Rick Hanson
Positive Neuroplasticity (PN) refers to the physiological ability of the brain to form and strengthen connections, produce beneficial neural changes, and increase mental states.
PN is one way to develop inner strengths to overcome mental health challenges, improve how you relate to others, and increase your overall well-being.
My Couples Intensive Provides Both: In-Depth Therapy and Education
The Intensive is Based on Up-to-Date Research on Love, Relationships, and Parenting
The Structure of the 5-Day Intensive
MORNINGS – Days 1-3: Individual and Couples Therapy Sessions
We’ll spend the mornings during days 1-3 in therapy sessions. During these 3 days, I’ll conduct a thorough assessment of your relationship using the process developed by John Gottman, a world-renowned marriage and couples therapist.
Day 1 Morning – You’ll participate together in a therapy session.
Day 2 Morning – You’ll each attend individual therapy sessions with me.
Day 3 Morning – You’ll attend a session together for feedback.
We’ll assess your relationship and family strengths and the areas that need improvement.
We’ll also discuss your hopes, dreams, and goals for your relationship and family.
We’ll dig deep into your relationship, family dynamics, and personal histories. The goal is to help you become aware of the roots of your patterns and behaviours to develop a plan to improve your relationship.
AFTERNOONS – Days 1-4: Educational Sessions
The afternoons of Days 1-4 will be an educational format. I’ll share critical videos on parenting.
These comprehensive videos will help you understand how children realize their potential and the role you play as parents in the process.
We’ll discuss how the concepts in the videos can be applied in your family to address your issues.
Without judgement, we’ll also explore how your upbringing has influenced your behaviour patterns in your relationship with your partner and children.
We can then work to heal the past so you can make adjustments in your behaviour for the betterment of you and your relationships with your partner and children.
DAY 4: Couples Therapy and Educational Session
On Day 4, you’ll have a session with me together. I’ll provide education on trauma, mental health and couples communication.
We’ll integrate aspects of what was revealed in the assessment into this session.
You’ll explore how you get triggered and learn ways to cope with stress and enhance your mental health.
DAY 5: A Marathon Couples Therapy Session
We’ll do a day of marathon couples therapy to help integrate your learning, resolve remaining issues, and plan for your future.
Depending on your situation and needs, we may have sessions with both you and your partner together or individually.
My goal in this intensive is to help you see differently so you can do differently.
Contact me today to discover how you can become a Powerhouse Couple!
My approach is direct yet gentle.
I’ll motivate, inspire, and empower you to thrive as an individual, couple, and family. You can then live your life to the fullest potential.
I’ll help you create a rewarding relationship and family you can be proud of.
I’ll help you develop a toolbox with practical and actionable strategies to strengthen your connection as a couple or family.
Benefits of Becoming a Powerhouse Couple
- Communicate more effectively and resolve disagreements respectfully
- Heal pain from the past and forgive each other
- Understand your and your partner’s triggers and patterns of reacting
- Listen better so that you truly understand each other
- Save a relationship that feels broken beyond repair
- Become closer than you’ve ever been
- Learn valuable insights to enhance emotional resiliency and develop a happier and healthier mindset for a more fulfilling relationship
Benefits of Becoming a Powerhouse Parent
- Discover current research on children’s emotional and psychological development to enhance your child’s maturing process
- Overcome blind spots you may have about your own childhood so you don’t repeat them or overcompensate for them with your children
- Get on the same page as your partner when parenting so you can be consistent with the messages you’re giving your children
- Get help managing troublesome behaviours your child is experiencing
- Boost your confidence as parents
- Become the best parents that you can be
Creating a fulfilling relationship with happy children doesn’t have to be a mystery.
With your commitment, my therapy skills, and a healthy dose of education, you can get back the dream of having a happy, connected and fulfilling relationship and family.
Will things be perfect after your 5 days with me?
Absolutely not.
BUT you’ll have the knowledge and skills to help you weather any storm that comes your way.
You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Invest in this intensive and witness the transformation.
Offered in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Squamish, Lower Mainland, BC, online via video conference, or in-person in your community (by request).