There's still hope for your marriage.

A counseling retreat to help your marriage survive and thrive.

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You deserve to have a marriage you both love.

An intensive is a period of counseling over 3-5 days that allows our licensed counselors to help you get to the root of your issues.

We offer specialized help that goes beyond what a ‘primary care doctor’ can offer.

Many programs offer help through ‘marriage coaches’ who offer valuable life experience, but few credentials. Every one of our therapists is a trained professional who is trained in our unique intensive approach.

Even with weekly marriage counseling, the start-and-stop of 50-minute sessions can make it difficult to get to root issues. You come in, unpack the week, go home, and experience more conflict. Then you do it all over again. An intensive allows you the gift of uninterrupted time, which allows our counselors to help you make the progress you want. In fact, you’ll receive about a year’s worth of counseling in just a 3-5 days!

Hope Restored marriage intensives are all-inclusive programs that occur at one of our three beautiful retreat centers. The ability for you to be free from all distractions is an essential part of the path to healing that we offer. Everything is taken care of so you can focus on your most important relationships.

Common Questions

What's the format?

Arrive to a beautiful retreat center. Get a year's worth of crisis counseling in just 3-5 days, using a method that gets to root issues quicker than with weekly counseling.

Does it work?

Yes. Many people think their situation is uniquely 'bad', but we've seen it all. Our 99% satisfaction rate and reviews speak for themselves. Even if you're in the divorce process, there is hope.

What's included?

Your intensive counseling program, top-notch meals & lodging, and aftercare coaching. 92% of couples say their financial investment was worth it.

Licensed Counselors

Our empathetic Christian counselors are uniquely trained to address complex issues.

3 Locations

Arrive to a peaceful & secluded retreat center in Missouri, Michigan or Georgia to reconnect with yourself, your spouse, and God.

99% Satisfaction

99% of our 7000+ alumni would recommend a Hope Restored intensive to others.

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Stories of Hope:

We attended the intensive in Branson. It was life changing. I was convinced that nothing could change what was going on in our marriage. The counselors were amazing and created the safest environment. We are on a much different course now, and I believe we received a miracle that week. Thank you Focus on the Family, for such a wonderfully eye-opening, life-changing experience.

Upon arrival at Focus on the Family, I was very unsure whether or not our marriage could be healed. I can say with the utmost confidence that through our sessions with the counselors and learning [the tools], our marriage is on the way to being whole in a way that we have never experienced.

Our home felt like World War 3. We came broken, nervous, skeptical, but this past week has been a truly amazing journey. Our marriage has transformed in the past 4 days. The closeness we feel with each other now, we have never felt before. I would recommend this place to any married couple.

When we arrived at the Focus on the Family Retreat Center we had been separated for 2 1/2 months. We had been to four different marriage counselors on and off over 15 years. My husband had told me that he had little hope and that if God didn’t do something big it would be time for “formal separation”. I am thrilled to say that we both have hope and now have some great tools to start operating in a “safe place” with each other.

I came here feeling hopeless, brokenhearted, with no emotion. I felt this was our last chance to heal our marriage. The presence of God in the room was truly felt. It was amazing to feel the love of God come back into our lives and those around us. I am looking forward to returning home a changed man, loving and caring for myself and my wife. I am departing with my most heartfelt emotion – “I love my wife.”

We just experienced an extreme miracle through the Focus on the Family. My husband is military, and it came out that there had been an affair during his recent deployment. We attended a marriage intensive and the therapists were nothing short of anointed. The Lord really showed up. We’ve seen life-changing differences in our marriage. We cannot thank you enough for that.

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