Intensive Couples Therapy
for San Francisco Couples
Make 25 weeks of progress in 3 days. Built for Bay Area professionals.
Intensive couples therapy built for San Francisco professionals who cannot afford to wait. Three-day virtual and five-day in-person options for Bay Area couples who know something needs to shift and refuse to spend six months in weekly sessions that keep getting rescheduled between board meetings and product launches. Serving couples throughout California and coaching clients globally.
See results now.
Seize the day , make incredible, foundational progress in a container of 3 or 5 days.
Exit crisis mode.
Don't just make progress on the messes. Have deeply rewarding transformative experiences.
Maintain your gains.
Refresh or deepen your newfound connection with complimentary intimacy exercises and priority therapist access.
Actually have FUN.
With Figs & Teale, you can forget what you think "research-backed" & "emotionally intensive" are supposed to mean.
Figs & Teale: Wounded Healers
We do not teach this work from a distance. We live it. Teale and I founded Empathi right here in San Francisco because we know what Bay Area life does to a relationship. Both of us have been in the kind of pain that makes you wonder if you chose the wrong person. We have had moments where we did not know if we could stay.
We had no business ever making love and relationship work.
We repaired our marriage. Not theoretically. We lived through rupture and came out the other side while building a practice in one of the most demanding cities in the world. Our marriage is on display in every session. We model what vulnerability looks like because San Francisco couples do not need another polished expert. They need someone who has been in the fire.
What Makes the Empathi Method Different
Our approach combines Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with the Empathi Method, built from years of working with Silicon Valley couples. EFT has an 86% improvement rate. We know Bay Area professionals want to optimize everything, but your relationship is not a bug in the code. You cannot think your way out of an attachment injury. We work nervous system first, then conversation. Bottom-up, not top-down.
3,000+ Couples. One Core Truth.
We have sat across from over 3,000 couples. Engineers making two hundred thousand a year crying because they still cannot buy a home. Founders worth eighty million feeling like failures because someone else raised more. Partners who became a single parent with a joint bank account. The pattern underneath is always the same: two people who love each other stopped feeling safe. Our job is to rebuild that safety. Read what our couples say.
Choose Your Intensive Format
5-Day In-Person Intensive on Oahu
Meet in person with Figs and Teale together. The deepest, most immersive experience we offer. Five full days on Oahu with clinical sessions, processing time, and space to integrate.
- A 5-day intensive couples therapy retreat on Oahu island, where Teale was born and raised.
- Meet in-person with Figs and Teale.
- Personalized Relationship Map
- Conflict Solution Course
- Intimacy Exercises
- Tropical paradise
- Lodging not included
3-Day Virtual Intensive via Zoom
Conducted via Zoom with Figs or Teale. The format most San Francisco couples choose. No commute across the bridge, no fighting Bay Area traffic, no disruption beyond the three days. All the clinical depth from the comfort of your home. For California-licensed couples. Coaching available globally.
- A 3-day online couples therapy retreat conducted via Zoom.
- Meet virtually with Figs or Teale.
- Personalized Relationship Map
- Conflict Solution Course
- Intimacy Exercises
- Tropical paradise
Is a Couples Therapy Intensive Right for You?
You both actually… make sense?
You’re on the same page. Communication is natural.
Without realizing it, you haven’t had a fight in weeks , and when you do, it’s short-lived.
In fact, you only grow more intimate with each passing repair!
For the first time, you know what it is to be truly safe with someone , completely supported, completely accepted. Completely loved.
Sound like a fairytale? With our couples therapy intensive San Francisco program, it’s ordinary. Figs & Teale have helped thousands of Bay Area professionals find their way back.
How Our Virtual Couples Therapy Intensive Works
You probably came here because weekly therapy in San Francisco feels too slow. You cancel a session for a board meeting. Your partner cancels the next for a product launch. Three weeks go by and whatever progress you made has evaporated. Our intensive format works best for Bay Area professionals, tech founders, and couples in crisis who need concentrated progress, not incremental check-ins. Book a free consultation.
Before Day 1: The Prep
We start with assessment and intake. Each partner gets an individual call before the intensive begins. We want to know your real story. Three days is not a cure. It is a breakthrough into a different way of being together.
Day 1: Setting the Container
You will spend 5 to 6 hours helping us understand your competing narratives. We will map your cycle, teach you the architecture of how you got stuck, and start the first physiological shift toward safety.
Day 2: Going Deep
Day 2 is where the armor comes off. Bay Area professionals live in their heads. They send a polished, strategic persona into the world and protect themselves from the messy vulnerability underneath. On Day 2, we move past that representative. Couples often cry together for the first time in years. This is where both of you finally see: we are both hurting because we love each other.
Day 3: Integration and the Road Forward
We build a plan for what happens when you go back to the demands of Bay Area life. The 70-hour weeks, the dual-career pressure, the startup stress. We teach you tools for real life, not theory. We identify early warning signs of your specific cycle. Most couples leave feeling like they finally have a map and the ability to read it together.
"With Empathi, Figs has created a fun and creative way to help people feel more connected in their relationship and to become acquainted with the transformational power of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy."
Dr. Sue Johnson
Creator of Emotionally-Focused Therapy for Couples
The Empathi Method in Intensive Format
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Frequently Asked Questions About Couples Therapy Intensives in San Francisco
You know something has to shift. You have built companies, managed teams, and solved problems most people cannot even understand. But the distance between you and your partner keeps growing. This intensive is designed for San Francisco professionals who know something is broken and want to actually fix it, not spend six months talking about fixing it while your calendar keeps winning.
How much does intensive couples therapy cost?
This is NOT for you if: Active domestic violence. Active substance use (30 days sobriety minimum). Currently in an affair and unwilling to close that door. One partner completely checked out.
Is online intensive couples therapy effective?
The question is not whether you can afford to do this. It is whether you can afford not to. Serving couples throughout California and coaching clients globally.
How long does a couples therapy intensive last?
If you are somewhere in the middle, book a free consultation. We work with San Francisco Bay Area couples, tech executives, and founders.
What is the difference between a couples intensive and a couples retreat?
Virtual intensive couples therapy actually works very well. Visual co-regulation is mandatory and the Zoom format keeps you in a contained space together.
Is intensive couples therapy covered by insurance?
Can we do an intensive if only one partner wants to?
Step 1
Schedule your free virtual consult.
Step 2
Meet with us & book your times.
Step 3
Show up and let us work our magic.