About Hold Me Tight
Do you long to feel connected with your partner again? Do you wish to feel heard and understood and not so alone in your relationship? Do you often end up feeling like you can’t get it right? Maybe you are preparing for marriage and want to understand how to have a lifelong successful relationship. Or maybe you just want to make a good relationship even stronger. Join us for our transformative couples weekend workshop. “Hold Me Tight®” is a registered trademark to Sue Johnson.
Everyone needs a secure bond with another. This bond offers us a safe haven in the world. Couples get in distress when they become disconnected and that bond does not feel secure. This is a transformative workshop based on the therapy model Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy by Sue Johnson.This workshop will help you better understand romantic love and the pivotal moves and moments that define your relationship. You will be able to shape the positive moments of reaching and responding that create a secure bond. A safe, loving, lasting bond is entirely possible if we have a map. This is a workshop that provides that map.
This workshop is for any couple who wants a better, stronger, intimate relationship. It is good for premarital couples who want to best be prepared for the road ahead to avoid common pitfalls in marriage, it is for struggling couples who want to get unstuck from negative patterns that leave both feeling frustrated and alone. And it is even for healthy couples who want to deepen their intimate connection with one another.
This workshop is not appropriate for couples where there is an active and ongoing affair, active or untreated addiction, or where there is active abuse in the relationship. If you are struggling with any of these issues, please contact us for counseling resources to guide you toward the help you need.
About Hold Me Tight
Do you long to feel connected with your partner again? Do you wish to feel heard and understood and not so alone in your relationship? Do you often end up feeling like you can’t get it right? Join us for our transformative couples weekend workshop.
Everyone needs a secure bond with another. This bond offers us a safe haven in the world. Couples get in distress when they become disconnected and that bond does not feel secure. This is a transformative workshop based on the therapy model Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy by Sue Johnson.
This workshop will help you better understand romantic love and the pivotal moves and moments that define your relationships. You will be able to shape the positive moments of reaching and responding that create a secure bond. A safe, loving, lasting bond is entirely possible if we have a map. This is a workshop that provides that map. “Hold Me Tight®” is a registered trademark to Sue Johnson
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Workshop Registration
One ticket per couple
Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop
Our April 2024 workshop will be held
weekly for 6 weeks.
Meetings will be every Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm from April 17th to May 22nd.
Cost is $100 per session for early bird registrants. $125 per session standard fee for those who sign up after April 1st.
To register, please contact Lynne Sales at 865-283-1777
Hold Me Tight® is a 6 week intensive workshop based in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy by Sue Johnson, created for couples struggling with communication, intimacy and security. This workshop will be led by Shana Kennedy and Doug Messer of Healing Hearts counseling and is held in Knoxville, Tennessee to help couples heal broken bonds and create a more secure, intimate relationship.
This workshop will help you better understand romantic love and the pivotal moves and moments that define your relationship. You will be able to shape the positive moments of reaching and responding that create a secure bond. A safe, loving, lasting love is entirely possible if we have a map. This is a workshop that provides that map.
Our September and November 2024 workshops will be held in the two day weekend intensive format. Register below.
September 21 and 22, 2024
8:30am to 5pm
Hold Me Tight® is a 2 day intensive workshop based in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy by Sue Johnson, created for couples struggling with communication, intimacy and security. This workshop will be led by Suzanne Robinson and KellyAnn Woodburn of Healing Hearts Counseling and is held in Knoxville, Tennessee to help couples heal broken bonds and create a more secure, intimate relationship.
This workshop will help you better understand romantic love and the pivotal moves and moments that define your relationship. You will be able to shape the positive moments of reaching and responding that create a secure bond. A safe, loving, lasting love is entirely possible if we have a map. This is a workshop that provides that map.
November 9 and 10, 2024
8:30am to 5pm
Hold Me Tight® is a 2 day intensive workshop based in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy by Sue Johnson, created for couples struggling with communication, intimacy and security. This workshop will be led by Jennifer Harms and Tyler Edmondson of Healing Hearts Counseling and is held in Knoxville, Tennessee to help couples heal broken bonds and create a more secure, intimate relationship.
This workshop will help you better understand romantic love and the pivotal moves and moments that define your relationship. You will be able to shape the positive moments of reaching and responding that create a secure bond. A safe, loving, lasting love is entirely possible if we have a map. This is a workshop that provides that map.
- Understand the underlying reasons you get into struggles over and over.
- Change negative patterns that leave you frustrated, angry and hurting.
- Express needs and longings.
- Engage in conversations keeping your love alive and secure.
What You Will Learn
Through a series of seven conversations, as a couple, you will learn:
- The science of bonding and attachment, our wired in need for connection, acceptance and support from our intimate partner
- The patterns of interaction that prevent or sabotage the very closeness we seek, how we spiral and get stuck
- To become aware of those patterns when they appear, and learn how to stop them
- To establish new ways of communicating and connecting, based on love and the need for closeness and connection
- To carry new understandings and new skills forward, to continue to nourish, deepen and grow your relationship.
- Hold Me Tight® workshops are held from 8:30am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday, with an hour and half break for lunch on your own each midday.
- Coffee, water and light snacks will be provided throughout the workshop.
- The workshops are held at 10261 Kingston Pike Knoxville, TN 37922
- For those coming from out of town, recommended area hotels and restaurants will be provided.
- The cost for the weekend is $995 per couple. (Early Bird Pricing Available)
- The workshop format will be broken up into multiple segments where you will have opportunity to work on exercises privately as a couple.
- Group size is limited to 10 couples. You will not be asked, or required, to share during the group portions of the weekend.
- It is highly recommended that you read Hold Me Tight, the 7 Conversations of Love by Sue Johnson prior to attending the workshop.
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What People Are Saying
“The entire weekend presented us a safe place to explore our connections and find ways
to strengthen our bonds and heal old wounds. It allowed both of us to identify and share
with each other the deeper emotions behind our surface actions. We both feel like
we now have an excellent foundation to continue moving forward in our marriage.We very strongly recommend this workshop for any and all couples.
What a great weekend!”