Hold Me Tight ® Weekend Workshop
Reconnect. Understand. Repair.
Build Emotional Safety.
Ready to Transform Your Relationship?
Hold Me Tight ® Weekend Workshop
Reconnect. Understand. Repair.
Build Emotional Safety.
Ready to Transform Your Relationship?
When love is there - but connection feels fragile
You love each other, but conversations escalate, distance grows, or silence takes over. You try to talk it through, but end up feeling misunderstood, defensive, or alone.
The Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop is a structured, research-based weekend designed to help couples slow down, understand their patterns, and learn how to reconnect in ways that feel safe, supportive, and lasting.
This isn’t about surface-level communication tips. It’s about attachment, nervous systems, and emotional safety.
This is not group therapy
What is the Hold Me Tight® Workshop?
The Hold Me Tight® workshop is a structured, experiential weekend that helps couples understand and repair their attachment bonds.
It is based on Dr. Sue Johnson’s groundbreaking work in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)—the gold standard in couples therapy research. EFT is supported by decades of studies showing measurable improvements in relationship satisfaction, emotional safety, and secure attachment.
Dr. Johnson’s best-selling book, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, forms the foundation of the workshop. Using this research-backed roadmap, couples learn to:
Recognize negative cycles and patterns
Strengthen emotional responsiveness
Build lasting trust and connection
This workshop is carefully structured, not improvised, offering couples a tested, evidence-based path to repair and strengthen their relationship.
The weekend combines guided teaching, video examples, reflective exercises, and private couple conversations – allowing you to apply what you learn directly to your relationship in real time.
Why couples get stuck (and why it’s not your fault)
Most couples struggle not because they don’t care, but because attachment needs drive emotional responses:
One partner may pursue closeness; the other may withdraw.
Negative cycles form, creating distance, resentment, and repeated fights.
Over time, connection feels unsafe and exhausting.
The workshop helps couples:
Identify their negative cycles
Understand emotional triggers
Rebuild trust and safety
Practice intentional, effective conversations
No matter where you are in your relationship, this weekend meets you with compassion and practical support.
What Couples Will Learn
7 Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
A transformational weekend for couples who want closeness again
You don’t need more advice.
You need a guided reset.
This weekend retreat is built around the 7 Hold Me Tight® Conversations—a proven, trauma-informed process that helps couples move out of conflict and back into connection.
No lectures.
No forced sharing.
Just skilled guidance, real conversations, and lasting change.
1. The Pattern That Keeps Taking Over
End the same fight—for good
You’ll identify the cycle that hijacks your relationship and learn how to stop turning on each other when things get hard.
Most couples say:
“This alone was worth the weekend.”
2. Why This Hurts So Much
Understand the tender places underneath the reactions
You’ll uncover what’s actually getting touched in moments of conflict—so defensiveness softens and compassion grows.
This is where blame loses its grip.
3. Repairing What Went Wrong
Talk about a painful moment—without it blowing up
With therapist support, you’ll revisit one key interaction and experience what real repair feels like.
Clear. Safe. Relieving.
4. Hold Me Tight
Learn how to reach—and respond
This is the heart of the retreat. You’ll practice asking for closeness and responding in ways that build safety instead of distance.
These moments change relationships.
5. Healing Old Injuries
Address what still lives between you
Betrayal, abandonment, emotional injuries—handled with care, structure, and respect for your pace.
No rushing.
No minimizing.
Real healing.
6. Reconnecting Through Intimacy
Closeness without pressure or performance
You’ll explore how emotional safety reshapes desire, touch, and physical connection.
Relief replaces tension.
Connection replaces effort.
7. Keeping Love Alive
Leave with a shared roadmap
You’ll walk away with language, tools, and confidence to handle conflict, stress, and future challenges—together.
Not perfect.
Connected.
This Weekend Is For You If:
You feel stuck in the same arguments
Trust has been shaken
You love each other but feel far apart
You want deep change—not surface fixes
This Weekend Is Different
Led by licensed trauma-informed therapists
Structured to prevent overwhelm
Designed for real repair, not just insight
You don’t need to try harder.
You need the right container.
Who this workshop is for
Ideal participants are:
Couples who love each other but feel disconnected
Couples repeating the same arguments despite trying to communicate
Partners open to slowing down and exploring the “why” behind their reactions
Couples committed to practicing new ways to connect
Not appropriate if:
You are in acute crisis or high emotional volatility
One or both partners are actively considering divorce
There is untreated addiction
You are in early/acute affair recovery
There is ongoing deception, coercion, or lack of basic emotional safety
Couples in these situations may benefit more from a private intensive, which provides individualized, contained support and preparation for group work later.
Workshop Details
Dates & Times: March 28 & 29, 2026
Location: Naples, Florida
Group Size: Maximum of 6 couples
Facilitators: Licensed therapists advance trained in EFT, couples therapy and trauma specialists.
How registration works
Free consultation – call or text us to confirm the workshop is a good fit.
Share your availability – let us know which weekends work.
Flexible scheduling – once 6 couples are ready for the same weekend, we’ll call to confirm.
Meet Your Facilitators
Betcy Aley, LMHC & Danielle Sethi, LMFT
This Hold Me Tight® Weekend is facilitated by Betcy Aley and Danielle Sethi, experienced clinicians and relationship specialists trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
Together, Betcy and Danielle bring:
Extensive experience working with couples navigating conflict, trauma, and reconnection
A grounded, compassionate presence that helps couples feel safe and understood
A balance of warmth, clarity, and practical guidance
Deep respect for the vulnerability it takes to repair and strengthen relationships
Their collaborative facilitation style allows couples to feel supported while being gently guided through meaningful, transformative conversations.
Is this workshop right for you? (Mini-Quiz)
Take a moment to reflect together. There are no right or wrong answers – just notice what resonates
- Do we love each other but feel emotionally distant?
- Do we repeat the same patterns despite trying to communicate?
- Do we want more emotional safety, not just fewer fights?
- Do we find ourselves talking endlessly yet feeling no more connected?
- Are we open to slowing down and exploring our reactions together?
- Do we want a research-based, structured approach?
Mostly Yes: This workshop is likely a strong fit.
Why Therapists Recommend Hold Me Tight®
Evidence-Based & Structured: Rooted in Dr. Sue Johnson’s EFT and decades of attachment research.
Safe & Contained: Small group, professionally facilitated, emotionally safe environment.
Complements Therapy: Couples leave with materials to work through with their therapist.
Attachment-Focused: Helps clients identify negative cycles and strengthen secure bonds.
Professional-Friendly: Supports therapy without replacing it.
“This workshop gives couples the tools and language to practice connection safely—supporting my work in session without replacing it.”
PRICING
General Weekend Package
Small Group: Up to 6 couples
$
999
per couple
- Workshop hours: Saturday 8am–5pm, Sunday 12pm–6pm
- Up to ½ hour follow-up call with your regular therapist
- Optional facilitated group phone sessions to work through the Hold Me Tight® Workbook weekly with accountability
Premium Weekend Package
Intimate Group: Max of 3 couples
$
2,500
per couple
- Workshop hours: Saturday 8am–5pm, Sunday 12pm–6pm
- Personalized yoga sessions
- One-hour assessment and coaching session for each partner prior to the workshop, plus one hour post-workshop
- One session each at Urban Meditation on 5th
- Availability for 15-minute coaching calls the week following the workshop
- Lunches, snacks, and Saturday breakfast included
- Personalized attention from both Danielle Sethi and Betcy Aley
Private Hold Me Tight® Intensive
One-on-One with a Therapist
$
3,300
per couple
- Best suited for those facing sex or porn addiction, neurodivergence, empathy challenges, or anyone needing more personalized care and attention.
- Full weekend private intensive tailored to your relationship
- Workshop hours: customized for your schedule
- Emotional release massage from a LMT in house
- One-hour assessment and coaching session for each partner prior to the intensive, plus one hour post-intensive
- Optional follow-up calls or facilitated exercises with accountability
- Lunches and refreshments included
General Weekend Package
Small Group: Up to 6 couples
$
999
per couple
- Workshop hours: Saturday 8am–5pm, Sunday 12pm–6pm
- Up to ½ hour follow-up call with your regular therapist
- Optional facilitated group phone sessions to work through the Hold Me Tight® Workbook weekly with accountability
Premium Weekend Package
Intimate Group: Max of 3 couples
$
2,500
per couple
- Workshop hours: Saturday 8am–5pm, Sunday 12pm–6pm
- Personalized yoga sessions
- One-hour assessment and coaching session for each partner prior to the workshop, plus one hour post-workshop
- One session each at Urban Meditation on 5th
- Availability for 15-minute coaching calls the week following the workshop
- Lunches, snacks, and Saturday breakfast included
- Personalized attention from both Danielle Sethi and Betcy Aley
Private Hold Me Tight® Intensive
One-on-One with a Therapist
$
3,300
per couple
- Best suited for those facing sex or porn addiction, neurodivergence, empathy challenges, or anyone needing more personalized care and attention.
- Full weekend private intensive tailored to your relationship
- Workshop hours: customized for your schedule
- Emotional release massage from a LMT in house
- One-hour assessment and coaching session for each partner prior to the intensive, plus one hour post-intensive
- Optional follow-up calls or facilitated exercises with accountability
- Lunches and refreshments included
All packages provide couples with tools, structure, and guidance to strengthen connection and emotional safety.
General Weekend: Small group learning, structured experience, workbook support
Premium Weekend: Small, intimate group with extra personalized attention, coaching, and yoga
Private Intensive: One-on-one attention, fully customized to your couple’s needs, with the highest level of privacy and support
This weekend is an invitation to choose your relationship on purpose.
If something in you knows it’s time for focused support, we invite you to reach out.
To register or ask a question, call or text us directly. We’ll help you determine if this weekend is the right fit for you.
Space is intentionally limited to protect the depth and safety of the work.
Cancellation Policy *
- $50 administrative fee applies to all cancellations.
- 30+ days’ notice: Full refund minus $50
- 14–29 days’ notice: 50% refund; remaining balance transferable to another workshop within 1 year
- Less than 14 days’ notice: No refund, but registration is transferable within 1 year