Hold Me Tight Weekend Workshop

for Couples

Is it time to improve your relationship and learn how to communicate 
​ in ways that promote better understanding and closeness? 
 Would you like to feel more accepted by your partner and have less conflict in your relationship? 
 Would you like to feel like your partner is more accessible, responsive and engaged with you?

We can help you in our Couples Workshop! $595 per couple
October 18 & 19, 2014, 9:00 am -5:00 pm 
Highlands Gate Wellness, 
4381 Wolf Grove Road, ​Lanark Highlands, Ontario, K0G-1K0

Marleen MacDonald MSW, RSW Marriage and Family Therapist
​Marleen is a therapist at the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, practicing and supervised by Hold Me Tight author, Sue Johnson.  Marleen has her Masters of Social Work, and is experienced working with individuals, couples and families.   She has worked with people dealing with addictions, relationship dysfunction, anxiety, depression, and family conflict. 

Susan Cressy, MA Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Susan practices counselling and Equine Facilitated Wellness at Highlands Gate Wellness, an 85 acre farm in the rolling hills of Lanark County.  She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and provides a holistic, nature based and experiential approach to psychotherapy integrating mindfulness and focusing techniques.  Learn more at http://www.highlandsgatewellness.org

Dr. Sue Johnson developed the Hold Me Tight program, based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and her bestseller book, Hold Me Tight.Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has been empirically validated, and its outstanding success has been heralded in many scientific journals, professional magazines and other media such as the New York Times and TIME.

The focus of EFT is to help partners to understand more clearly each other’s deepest emotions. Feelings are often hidden, unexpressed or misunderstood. Our relationships can be a cause of stress and pain or a source of comfort and joy. In EFT, we help couples learn how to deal with their feelings together, reach towards each other, and be responsive in more loving and positive ways. 

​The GREAT news is that we are now bringing the EFT model to you in our Hold Me Tight Couples Weekend Workshop that will be Effective, Safe, Supportive, and Validating. Most importantly, the weekend will be Positive, Proactive and FUN!  The tools you learn will continue to serve your relationship long after this weekend.
At our Hold Me Tight Workshop,you will learn and experience how to:
•    Affirm strengths in your relationship
•    Address negative interaction patterns
•    Understand more clearly each other’s emotions
•    Recognize underlying reasons for your conflicts
•    Learn how to repair and forgive
•    Enhance your emotional and physical closeness
•    Improve your communication

​Hold Me Tight Workshop Couples: $595 per couple
Register today to guarantee your space. For more information call 613-257-9332 or info@highlandsgatewellness.com
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The price for the weekend include:s
:•    At the Hold Me Tight Workshop, you will each receive a workbook full of helpful exercises.
•    Engaging presentations, video demonstrations of other real life couples, and the opportunity for many private exercises and conversations with your partner.
​•    Marleen and Susan will be available to give you personal support and guidance as needed.
•    Lunch, Coffee, Tea and Light Snacks will be provided 

What to expect:
The Hold Me Tight Workshop is designed around seven conversations based on the Hold Me Tight book, all of which have been shown to be essential to successful relationships. You will learn how to understand and improve your relationship by presentations by the workshop leaders, private exercises and conversations with your partner and by watching video demonstrations of other couples.Although we encourage questions and comments, you do not need to speak in the group if you do not wish to. All of the dialogues with your partner will be done in private, as we always emphasize privacy and comfort. We welcome people of all backgrounds, ages, faiths and sexual orientations. We encourage you to seek therapy if you are in high relational distress. 

​Hold Me Tight Workshop will be offered at beautiful Highlands Gate Wellness, an 85 acre farm located about 50 minutes west of Ottawa and 20 kms west of the town of Almonte, Ontario:  Highlands Gate Wellness, 4381 Wolf Grove Road, Lanark Highlands, Ontario, K0G-1K0

For retreat details and registration, please visit http://www.highlandsgatewellness.com We look forward to meeting you at Hold Me Tight Workshop




​Praise For Dr. Sue Johnson’s Hold Me Tight 
“At last a road map through Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with its creator. Dr. Johnson’s superb science, humor, and clinical wisdom are finally accessible to all of us. I couldn’t pick a smarter, warmer and more real guide for this journey.”- John Gottman, PhD, bestselling author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and co-author of And Baby Makes Three

​“Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart, stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving your relationship.”- William J. Doherty, PhD, author of Take Back Your Marriage

“Wonderful… Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. Hold Me Tight will be of great benefit to couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo!”- Daniel J Siegel, MD, author of Parenting from the Inside Out

​“A much-needed message to all couples and therapists, and I recommend it to all”- Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Getting the Love You Want