Who is the Happy Couple Intensive for?

This Intensive is specifically designed for busy couples who are ready to commit to an intensive two-day process. During this time, you will learn how to build a bridge toward one another and rediscover appreciation from a fresh perspective. Away from the demands of daily life, in an exclusive location, you’ll have the time and space to achieve meaningful breakthroughs together.

The Intensive provides valuable insights along with practical, proven tools to resolve conflicts and strengthen your emotional connection. By the end, you’ll understand how to listen deeply, create safety, and take responsibility for your shared "relational space." This opens the door to greater connection and playfulness.

The Happy Couple Intensive is also highly suitable for couples who have decided to separate but want to co-parent effectively. When parents work well together, they create an environment where their children can grow and thrive.

Approach

• We begin with an exploratory conversation to ensure there’s a good fit and mutual trust.
• Thorough preparation:
  • Each partner has an individual session to openly share what they want to change and work on.
  • In a joint intake session, we map out your goals and backgrounds to set a clear direction.
• Over the course of two intensive days, we focus on deepening your connection and fostering mutual understanding.
• A detailed report is created, summarizing agreements and insights to guide you moving forward.
• In a reflection session, we evaluate your progress and discuss any next steps.
   

Wil je samen verder of goed blijven samenwerken na een scheiding? De Happy Couple Intensive biedt de handvatten om een sterke, positieve basis te leggen.

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.