Queer Relationship Immersions
One day tailor-made relationship intensives designed for couples and polycules to cultivate queer joy
Question?
Has your partnership constellation been ignored or overlooked by the mental health field? Are you turned off by the prospect of relational counseling because you can't trust that you and your partner(s) will be embraced by your provider? Are you tired of dealing with providers turning you away because "they aren't specialized" in nurturing your delight in each other?
Or maybe you're fed up with providers implementing worn out therapeutic techniques that were designed with only cis-het couples in mind?
Us too.
Answer?
One-day tailor-made relationship intensives just for queer folx and their partner(s)
Queer Relationship Immersions
What You Get:
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An initial "vibe check" video call with Marley Toben, LCSW, wherein you and your partner(s) get to decide whether or not a QRI is right for you before you invest.
02
A preparatory 90-minute clarifying conversation with Marley Toben, LCSW, to identify exactly what it is you and your partner(s) are looking for from this experience and to customize a process for collaboratively assessing progress towards your specific goals. This will ensure that your time will be focused, intentional, and ultimately well-spent.
03
Six hours of deep and purposeful therapeutic work with Marley, a qualified queer therapist devoted to offering a tailored and affirming approach. You will be guided to deeply learn each other's stories and how they influence present-day, identify pain points and unhelpful patterns that arise within the relationship(s), create safety for one another to emotionally explore and expand out of limiting beliefs, implement positive change, and learn how to courageously commit to integration and maintenance.
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A customized experiential practice to put intention into action over your lunch hour. This unique experience will be designed to cultivate deeper intimacy, tap into joy, and get to know your partner(s) in a new and exciting way- all while getting some good, peace and privacy together with your partner or partners.
05
An intentional closing conversation to ensure that each person feels safe, seen, and equipped to harness the strengths you've refined during the day's work.
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A relationship-specific "Aftercare" letter from Marley Toben, LCSW, to round out the experience and provide you and your partner(s) with a helpful frame of reference for continued exploration and deepening of the work in your own time.
Bonus:
The first 5 couples/polycules who book will receive one 55-minute follow up session within the first 60 days post-QRI to check in about how it’s going and to make sure you’re set up to thrive long-term.
Who is Marley Toben, LCSW?
Marley is a quirky, queer, 30-something who is also a kink-, trans-, poly-, nonconformist-affirming therapist with years of specialized training in supporting queer folx of all relationship configurations in getting the love they want.
Marley understands the universally experienced doldrums of partnership, as well as the gender- and sexuality-specific challenges that can arise when facing down minority stress, deconstructing internalized -isms, managing complex family of origin dynamics, and discovering the expansiveness of love, intimacy, and connection out beyond the cis-het stories society attaches to us.
If anyone has ever made you feel excluded from the systems that are meant to care for you, the shame is on them, not you!
Marley sees Queer Relationship Immersions as her part, however small, in beginning to right this wrong.
With capitalism and hustle culture biting at our heels, our time has never been more precious. These one-day intensives are for those of you who don't want to wait to experience profound and lasting change in your relationship(s). QRIs can also be an excellent accelerator to the relationship therapy you may already be doing or planning to do.
If it's a "hell yeah, sign me up!" click here now to schedule an interest call with Marley
We get it.
The mental health field wasn't built for us. If you and your partner(s) haven't been understood and celebrated through "traditional" therapy, QRI was made for you. Don't pour any more of your time, energy, and soul into those normy, one-size-fits-all approaches. Your relationship matters.