Valentine’s Weekend Couples Retreat

A Transformational Weekend for Couples

An immersive, therapeutic retreat designed to help you rebuild connection, strengthen trust, and transform the way you communicate.

This retreat is for the couple who keeps saying:

“We’re busy. We’re tired. We keep missing each other.”
“We fight over stupid things.”
“We feel more like roommates than partners.”
“We want closeness… we just don’t know how to get back there.”

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone, and nothing is “wrong” with your relationship.
You simply haven’t been taught the tools that create emotional safety, repair, and lasting connection.

What Makes This Retreat Different

Most retreats focus on “romance” and hope it magically fixes deeper issues.

This retreat is different.

You’ll learn evidence-based relationship skills proven to build trust, intimacy, and emotional safety; the same ones I’ve used with thousands of couples over 20+ years.

Across two immersive days, you’ll experience:

Therapeutic exercises to understand each other more deeply.
Clear, step-by-step tools for communication, complaints, and compromises.
Skills that reduce conflict, shutdowns, and emotional distance.
Multiple structured breakaways to practice the tools together.

And because psychotherapy is the primary service,
the entire cost is eligible for workplace benefits reimbursement.
(A beautiful bonus when you’re investing in something this meaningful.)

What’s Included

✓ 16 Hours of Expert-Led Couples Therapy

Based on my signature intensive model — powerful, skills-based, and designed for real transformation.

✓ Two Gourmet Breakfast Buffets

Fresh, catered, made-for-you meals with bacon, sausage, eggs, potatoes, toast, fruit, and pastries.

✓ Two Catered Lunches

Nutritious and delicious buffet-style meals to keep you energized for deep emotional work.
(Allergies, vegetarian, and other needs accommodated.)

✓ A Beautiful Spiral-Bound Couples Workbook

Filled with tools and exercises you’ll use for years.

✓ Thoughtful Surprises

Because joy strengthens connection.

✓ Premium Venue

Four Points by Sheraton, Sarnia
A spacious classroom set-up designed for comfort, privacy, and connection.
Walking distance to:

Gateway Casino
Waterfront trails
Onsite Boston Pizza

All you have to do is show up. Everything else is handled.

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Who This Retreat Is Perfect For

Ideal for couples who:

Want to reconnect emotionally and physically
Feel overwhelmed, stressed, or stuck in negative cycles
Struggle with communication or feeling understood
Want to heal resentments or long-standing hurts
Want a structured therapeutic approach (not a “fluffy romance retreat”)
Want to build a goal-oriented future together

Many couples attend not because they’re in crisis,
but because things are “fine,” and they want better, deeper, closer.

What You Will Learn

By the end of the retreat, you will know how to:

Communicate without triggering shutdowns or defensiveness
Repair conflict and soothe emotional injuries
Understand and manage triggers, stress, and overwhelm
Rebuild trust and closeness through simple daily habits
Create emotional safety and stay connected during conflict

You will practice concrete skills, including:

Understanding attachment — what makes and breaks it
Recognizing the 3 “alarm bell” behaviors that signal distress
Attending to your partner with presence and empathy
Identifying your conflict style and managing fight-or-flight
Stopping arguments from escalating
Interrupting dysfunctional cycles
The 4 communication behaviors that end relationships
How to express and resolve complaints
A clear 4-step model for compromise
Validation, listening, and emotional attunement
Releasing resentment and restoring forgiveness
Understanding each other’s love languages and emotional needs

This is deep, foundational work. The kind that transforms relationships.

Investment

$999 per person — No tax
Eligible for full reimbursement through most workplace benefit plans.
(Insurance receipts will be provided at the retreat.)

A $150 deposit per person reserves your spot.
Full payment is due February 13, 2026.

Email us today to secure your spot, or call us at 519-541-9173.

Why Valentine’s Weekend?

Because choosing each other, with honesty, courage, intention, and love, is the most meaningful Valentine’s gift of all.
A turning point.
A reset.
A renewal.

Reserve Your Spot

Spaces are extremely limited.

If you’re ready for a transformative weekend that finally gives you the tools you’ve been missing, this is your moment.

Email us at info@thecouplesclinic.ca

About Your Instructor

Ronnie Littlewood, M.S.W., R.S.W.
Founder of The Couples Clinic®, Creator of Couples 101, Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist, wife of over 30 years, and relationship expert with 25+ years experience.

Ronnie has worked with thousands of couples navigating communication issues, attachment wounds, infidelity, infertility, addictions, trauma, and mental health struggles.

She brings a refreshing, intuitive, humorous, and deeply grounded approach, with occasional salty language (tee hee).

Her mission: to help #1MillionMarriages

Accommodation

Hotel stay not included (some guests use reward points or prefer upgraded rooms).

Please book directly with:
Four Points by Sheraton, Point Edward
📞 519-336-4130
Mention you are attending the Valentine’s Day Couples Retreat for the special guest pricing.

Saturday dinner is not included as couples are encouraged to enjoy a private date night and explore local amenities.

The Couples Clinic offers counselling virtually in Ontario and in-person (Sarnia) for couples who are looking to improve their relationship and individuals who are looking for support with an issue they are struggling with.