Private Couples Intensive
Couples Intimacy Retreat
Less pressure. More curiosity. A renewed sense of us.
A different kind of space
You can love each other and still miss each other.
You manage a life together, but the moments that once made you feel like a couple have become harder to find. Perhaps one of you wants more sex while the other feels pressured. Perhaps affection has faded, or talking about intimacy ends in hurt, silence, or another conversation postponed.
The Couples Intimacy Retreat offers a private space in Siesta Key to slow down and understand what connection means to each of you now. With Wendy Haggerty and Dr. Maureen Ryan, you can explore the emotional, relational, and sexual concerns that are difficult to untangle in everyday life.
This is not about meeting a quota, performing, or returning to who you used to be. It is about building a shared language for desire, comfort, pleasure, and closeness—and making room for an intimate life that works for both of you.
What we can explore together
Connection begins with understanding, not performance.
Conversations that open doors
Practice sharing wants, worries, and boundaries without turning a vulnerable conversation into an argument.
Your unique desire patterns
Explore how stress, context, life stage, and relationship dynamics influence desire. Difference does not have to mean incompatibility.
Touch without an agenda
Learn about consent-centered, pressure-free ways to approach affection and private at-home touch practices.
Comfort in your changing body
Make space for body image, performance worries, and the impact of health changes on sexual confidence.
Emotional closeness
Notice the patterns that leave you feeling unseen, and practice responding with greater curiosity and care.
Everyday room for pleasure
Identify realistic ways to bring affection, play, and intentional time together back into the life you actually live.
Is this right for you?
For couples who want to turn toward each other, but need help finding a way back to emotional and physical connection.
You do not need to have the perfect words for what is happening. These experiences may feel familiar.
- You feel more like roommates or co-managers than partners.
- Different levels of desire have become a source of rejection or pressure.
- Parenthood, midlife, illness, or other transitions have changed your intimate life.
- You want to talk about sex, touch, or pleasure with less embarrassment and defensiveness.
The focus of your retreat
From difficult conversations to new possibilities.
Understand what gets in the way
Bring your different experiences into the conversation, including the things you have struggled to name. The focus begins with understanding, not assigning fault.
Explore connection differently
With guidance from two AASECT-certified sexuality professionals, consider new ways to communicate, respond to one another, and approach intimacy with choice and curiosity.
Bring the work home
Identify practices and conversations you can continue beyond Siesta Key. Meaningful change grows through what you do together after the retreat, too.
Your Therapeutic Guides
Two perspectives. Thoughtful, personal guidance.
Wendy Haggerty, LMFT, CST-S, is an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist & Supervisor. Dr. Maureen Ryan, DNP, AHNP-C, WHNP, is a nurse practitioner and AASECT-Certified Sexuality Counselor & Supervisor.
Together, they bring complementary relationship and sexual health perspectives to the concerns you bring, with respect for each partner's experience.
Meet your therapeutic guidesBeyond the weekend
What you can work toward.
A more compassionate understanding of each other's intimate needs, language for conversations you have been avoiding, and practical ideas for nurturing connection at home—not a promise of a particular sexual outcome.
Investment
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every retreat includes three days of private, specialized intensive work with both of your therapeutic guides. Choose the setting that fits your stay.
Without accommodations
$3,500
The full private weekend intensive, with lodging and travel arranged on your own.
With accommodations
$6,500
The weekend intensive plus three nights of luxury accommodations in Siesta Key.
Request information to confirm availability for your dates and what your specific retreat would include.
Questions you may be carrying
Before you reach out.
Retreat disclaimer: These retreats are educational intensives and are not a replacement for ongoing therapy, medical care, or crisis services. Consider how continuing professional support can help you build on the conversations begun here.
Your next step
Make room for each other again.
Tell us what has changed, what you miss, and what you hope to explore. Start a conversation about whether an intimacy retreat fits your relationship.
Request informationAsk about couples intimacy retreat dates, pricing, and availability.