Marriage Intensive

Welcome to the Cord of 3 Marriage Intensive

A focused, faith-centered counseling experience for couples whose marriages are struggling and need concentrated support.

In contrast to traditional weekly counseling, where progress can be slow and interrupted by life’s distractions, a marriage intensive provides an immersive, extended period of therapeutic care designed to help couples make meaningful, measurable progress in their relationship in just one dedicated week.

Our Next Marriage Intensive is scheduled for:

August 17 – 21, 2026

Check-in Monday at 12 Noon

Check out at 12 Noon on Friday

All meals, activities, and lodging are covered under the registration fee

Location: Blackshear, Georgia

Registration Deadline: July 17th

Limited to 6 Couples

Who Benefits Most?

Our intensive is ideal for couples who:

  • Are experiencing serious relational distress
  • Have tried counseling but feel “stuck”
  • Are considering separation or divorce but want to fight for their marriage
  • Desire deeper connection and renewal

A Powerful Resource for Your Congregation

We invite pastors and ministry leaders to partner with Cord of 3 by:

  • Referring couples who need more than weekly counseling
  • Sharing this intensive as part of your pastoral care and discipleship ministries
  • Encouraging couples to take the courageous step toward healing

Together, we can help marriages find peace, reconnection, and long-term restoration grounded in Christ.

This Intensive Offers

Deep, Focused Counseling

Couples engage in daily extended sessions with licensed, experienced clinicians trained in both relational science and Scripture-centered care. This concentrated format allows couples to work more deeply, honestly, and effectively than a standard weekly schedule typically permits. Cord of 3 provides 4 designated counselors with the 6 couples for the entire week.

A Safe, Confidential Environment

The entire week is free from outside pressures — no kids, no work stress, no interruptions — so couples can focus on connection, healing, and reconciliation.

Extended Time Together

Over several days, couples will:

  • Unpack communication patterns that create distance
  • Identify the root causes of conflict
  • Learn tools for emotional safety and healthy dialogue
  • Rebuild trust and closeness
  • Grow together spiritually and relationally

This structure often results in what many describe as the equivalent of a year’s worth of traditional counseling in just one week.

Biblical & Clinical Integration

Our approach respects both the sacred covenant of marriage and best practices in relational therapy, offering couples healing that speaks to both the heart and the mind.

Ongoing Support After the Intensive

Healing doesn’t stop when the week ends. Couples leave equipped with tools, resources, and a plan for continued growth and optional aftercare coaching to help maintain momentum at home.

Marriage Intensive

In contrast to traditional weekly counseling, where progress can be slow and interrupted by life’s distractions, a marriage intensive provides an immersive, extended period of therapeutic care designed to help couples make meaningful, measurable progress in their relationship in just one dedicated week.

Cord of 3 Nonprofit Alliance Program

Our Nonprofit Alliance Program is dedicated to empowering other nonprofits to thrive through Kingdom-focused principles, guiding them toward sustainability and growth in Program Development, Strategic Planning, Advancement, Financial Accounting, and Capital Campaign management. We offer tiered service levels to meet nonprofits at their stage of development and growth goals.

Training and Discipleship

The Cord of 3 training and discipleship program serves the community by offering educational seminars on various mental health and related topics (parenting subjects, coping with loss, warning signs of addiction) as well as conferences, retreats, and seminars for area churches on matters that pertain to God’s design for the family.

Counselor Education & Supervision

Cord of 3’s Counselor education and supervision program is deigned to support interns who are completing their master’s degree, counselors who are working toward licensure, and professionals who are working to integrate their Chritian faith into their clinical practice.

Equine Therapy

Cord of 3’s equine therapy program is designed for individuals ages 7 and up as well as women ages 13+ and families. Equine therapy can help individuals and families overcome challenges, cuiltivate healthy relational skills, build trust, improve interpersonal and behavioral functioning, and create positive self-concept and identity in Christ.

Play God’s Way

A Christ-centered play therapy model to meet the spiritual, emotional, and mental health needs of children. Through play therapy, children learn to accept responsibility for behavior, engage in healthy coping strategies, acquire problem-solving skills, develop empathy for others, and gain an understanding of identity in Christ.

ADDICTION RECOVERY

Addictions always originate in pain… The question is never ‘why the addiction?,’ but rather ‘why the pain?’” (Dr. Gabor Maté). Counselors can help those struggling with addictions address underlying painful issues and then break the addictive patterns.

Child & Adolescent

Behavioral issues at home or in school often have an underlying cause, such as trauma, depression, anxiety, or other mental health conditions. The experienced staff at Cord of 3 meets each child with love, builds trust, and applies effective treatment that approaches the root cause of the behavior.

Marriage & Family

As in couple’s counseling, family counseling focuses on the relationship and dynamics within the family unit and between the individual members of it. Counselors will help clients identify unhealthy or unhelpful patterns, and to address them by developing healthier communication and conflict resolutions skills, create realistic expectations, and restructure familial roles to benefit everyone. The ultimate goal is to help the family be better able to thrive as a team.

STRESS & TRAUMA

Every person will at some point have at least one potentially traumatic experience, but this doesn’t impact everyone in the same ways. When struggling to process and move on from negative life experiences, therapy offers a powerful method of finding support and healing.

EMOTIONAL WHOLENESS

Individual counseling can help overcome the sometimes overwhelming fear and hopelessness by helping you better understand the conditions that led to the emotional brokenness you are experiencing, and applying healthy coping skills against them.