You’ll learn how to prevent escalations and find ways to calm and reconnect during moments of tension. This day is packed with insights and practical exercises, all aimed at creating a clear and shared vision for the future of your relationship.

What does the one-day Happy Couple Essentials include?

This program offers you a practical and in-depth way to guide your relationship, without being hindered by the demands of daily life. The one-day session is a streamlined version of the two-day Intensive.

You’ll learn to better understand each other, address conflicts constructively, and communicate effectively about needs and expectations. The focus is on strengthening mutual understanding, creating safety, and deepening emotional connection, so you can build a solid foundation for the future together.
 

Approach

• We begin with an initial conversation to ensure there is a good connection and that the program aligns with your needs.
• Careful preparation:
  • Each partner participates in an individual session to freely share what they want to change and work on.
  • During a joint intake session, we clarify your goals and backgrounds and set a clear course together.
• Over the course of one intensive day, we focus on deepening your connection and strengthening mutual understanding.
• A detailed report is created, outlining agreements and insights to serve as a guide for the future.
• In a reflection session, we evaluate the progress made and discuss any additional steps.
   

See below how other couples experienced the Happy Couple Intensive.
 

• If you have been together as a couple for a bit longer, it is like an old painting, which varnish has yellowed and crackled a bit. The undercoat is still fine, but there's all sorts of things wrong with the top coat. You can tackle the top layer and try to clean it and repair the cracks, but these are still patch-up measures. It is better to remove the entire old paint layer and apply a new, fresh one, so that it can last for years again. If you follow the Happy Couple Intensive at Le Cabinet Maastricht, you do not have to expect any patch-up solutions. With great patience and skill, the old layer of varnish is removed and the colourful show, in all its splendour, becomes visible again. You learn to communicate with each other again, so you can start a beautiful new painting together. Thank you, Monique, for your craftsmanship, your patience, your keen eye, and all the insights you offered us. It was a wonderful experience.                          Maria and Aart
   
• We came to Monique because one of us had fallen in love with someone else. An intense event and struggle. How do you deal with this when you have been together for over 20 years? Monique helped us take the time to face this, share our feelings, look at our own relationship, recognise patterns in it, but above all look at ourselves. In a number of joint but also individual conversations, she helped us do this. We completed this with a two-day session in which we expressed to each other that we wanted to continue with each other. I learned a lot about our relationship but also about myself, my needs and pitfalls. A very enriching and deepening process. It took an intense event for us to embark on this process. But, I would recommend it to any couple to look at and discuss your relationship together in this way. Monique creates a safe environment and uses her extensive experience and knowledge to help you in this process. What we both liked was that you created and guarded the space within which we could both safely tell our story. This did not mean that you did not ask difficult questions. However, the way you did this was without judgement and invited honest answers. You regularly put what you heard into a more realistic perspective; that no one expects perfection, but that what we have is so much more beautiful and solid than we individually perceive due to our insecurity.
   
• You helped us start a shared vocabulary and develop ways of communicating. We now enjoy each other immensely and our relationship has become much more resilient. There is trust. We know better and better how to keep the paths to each other open. We have grown in love.
   
• hello Monique, since a few months we have been living together again. In the beginning, it was still a bit uncertain and there were certainly some unpleasant conversations, but that didn't last very long. Now, we really have the relationship we both wanted. We have a very good and pleasant time together. Without you, we would never have been back together. How well you sensed and helped us. I will visit you again soon to thank you in person, lots of love.....
   
• When my wife and I fell into a serious relationship crisis in mid-2020, we sought contact with Monique. Driven by the hope to come out of this better together - just for our three children and, moreover, each other - we got in touch via the internet. To this day, we are extremely happy with this choice, which turned out to be a golden match from the very first intake interview. A personal, human, neutral and loving approach with a dose of humour typifies Monique like no other. Her refined working method and carefully tuned conversation techniques helped us find back what we had almost lost.