In this short video, I explain why a few sessions close together can take a couple further than months of scattered appointments.
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Back-to-back online couples therapy gathers several couples sessions into a short stretch: two in a single day, a run of days in a row, or a handful inside one week. We meet by video, so you can join from home, a hotel or two different countries.
It suits English-speaking couples whose lives make a regular rhythm hard, and couples who need to stay with a single issue long enough to settle it. It is a format within online couples therapy with me. You will also find a version for one partner alone, a version built on EFT, one for neurodiverse couples and one for couples living abroad.
You can ask for a free 30-minute call, book a session, read my client policy or write to me.
Back-to-back online couples therapy is for English-speaking couples, anywhere in the world, who would rather give the relationship a few concentrated days than months of occasional appointments. Everything happens by video.
A focused block is not right for everyone. If one of these lines fits you, follow its link.
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These reviews describe clients’ experiences of working with me. They come from my wider practice and do not all relate to online sessions. Each person’s experience is their own, and a review does not promise a particular outcome.
“Looking back over my 22 years of practice, I keep noticing how much shifts once a couple has room to breathe. In one session, many couples only find the real subject in the last ten minutes. When the next session follows the next morning, we can carry on from that point. Beneath the arguments, one partner is often wondering ‘Am I still your first choice?’, and the other ‘Can I ever get this right for you?’. With a few days together, both of those can finally be said out loud, and answered.”
Mark Colclough, MA, psychotherapist and EFT couples therapist
I am Mark Colclough, MA. I have practised since 2004 and offer online psychotherapy and couples therapy in English.
My training brings together your emotions, your thoughts and your relationships. My deep passion is the moment when what happens between you finally makes sense, to each of you and to each other. I have lived and worked in nine countries, so I know something of life across languages, cultures and borders.
Read about my background, or explore online psychotherapy and online couples therapy.
I meet regularly with experienced psychotherapists to reflect on my work, question my understanding and develop my skills. Supervision is part of the professional care I bring to individual and couples work, including online sessions.
My focus is thoughtful practice, integrity and responsibility.
You are welcome to ask about the kind of support you need.
Tell me where you are based and your time zone. We can then consider whether online sessions together are suitable.
Priya and Marcus live in Dubai with a two-year-old and two demanding careers. For a year they have had the same fight about who carries more and who has stopped trying. Marcus travels most weeks, and a regular evening appointment kept falling through after two attempts.
They block out two days while his mother visits to help with their daughter. Day one goes on drawing the loop they keep falling into and finding the loneliness beneath it. That night, at the kitchen table, they test one small change in how they speak. Day two starts from what happened at the table, and ends with dates for two follow-ups. They close the laptop worn out, and warmer towards each other than they have been all year.
I have presented this clinical example as a compound of 22 years of clinical practice.
You want things to move. A session every few weeks keeps losing its grip on you both.
Back-to-back online couples therapy gives your relationship focused attention in a short space of time. Instead of meeting every two or three weeks for months, we work in a planned block, and then decide together what should follow.
When there is only a night between sessions, nobody has to rebuild the courage to open up. The conversation is still warm when we pick it up again.
With long gaps, life fills the space. When you finally meet again, the thread has gone cold and the opening of the session is spent on news.
When sessions sit close together, we start exactly where we stopped.
Long hours, shifts, travel and small children can turn every fixed appointment into a juggling act.
With a block, you sort out childcare and time off once, not every other week.
Some couples spend weeks apart for work, or live in two places for a while. Finding a regular hour that suits both clocks can feel impossible.
A block lets us find a few days when you are both free, and I plan the times around both your time zones.
Sometimes there is one thing you need to face properly: a breach of trust, a fight that never ends, a choice about children or about where to live.
Several sessions in a row let us stay with it until it is really understood, rather than touching it for an hour and then putting it away again.
Some couples tell me that earlier therapy felt like circling the problem. Short, far-apart sessions make that easy.
Connected time gives us room to slow down and get to what really hurts.
Staying or parting, a baby, a move to another country: choices this size need unhurried time.
A block clears space to think it through together, away from the noise of a normal week.
Sound familiar? Request a call or book a session, and we will shape a block around you.
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Within a few days you can spot the loop, test a change and look back at the result.
The opening sessions draw the loop you share. The ones in the middle look at what fuels it: the feelings and needs each of you protects. The closing sessions turn to everyday life, and how the new habits will hold there.
Each block has an aim we agree on before we start. We choose the main focus, the number of sessions it calls for and when to pause.
Usually, yes. With the last conversation still fresh, the pattern is easier to catch, and many couples find that a relief.
Yes. Practise a different way of speaking in the afternoon, use it that evening, and report back in the morning.
Often. With unbroken time, the softer layer under sharp words or silence, such as fear, sadness or longing, comes to the surface more easily.
If a decision is waiting, we give it room. I make sure each of you has been fully heard before anything is chosen.
In the last session we write down what each of you will keep doing, and how you will notice when you slip. Follow-up dates go in the diary too, so routine does not wash it away.
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Close together is not the same as endless. Every block has breathing space built in.
A brief call comes first. We settle the focus, the rough number of sessions and the days that work on both your calendars, and then I put the schedule together.
A morning and an afternoon session, each two hours, with a long lunch between. Good when one free day is all you have, or you are together in one place for a short time.
Meeting on successive days lets you sleep on each session without losing the thread.
Three or four meetings across one week keep things connected while leaving room for work and practice.
Saturday or Sunday times are occasionally possible. Ask, and I will see what I can offer. If you would rather come to Copenhagen in person, see weekend couples therapy in Copenhagen.
Piling on hours is not the goal. I watch how tired you both are and slow down or add pauses whenever it helps.
Together we choose the next step: occasional follow-ups, a move into ordinary online couples therapy, or a clean ending.
Weighing up formats? Here are the closest alternatives side by side.
| Option | Choose it when | Pace |
|---|---|---|
| Back-to-back online couples therapy (this page) | A few concentrated days fit you better than months of sessions. | A few 2-hour sessions within days |
| Online couples therapy | Steady meetings over months suit you. | One 2-hour session every two to three weeks |
| Acute online couples therapy | Something has just happened and you cannot wait. | A first session as soon as I can offer one |
| Back-to-back online couples therapy alone | You want a block, and your partner will not join. | A few 1-hour sessions within days |
It is a short block of online couples sessions booked close together, instead of one session every two or three weeks. It suits English-speaking couples who want focused work, live busy or split lives, or cannot keep a regular appointment. We meet by video, wherever you are.
Yes. A morning and an afternoon session with a long pause between is a common choice.
Yes. Successive days keep the work moving and give you an evening to digest each session.
Yes. Three or four meetings in one week is another option.
Occasionally. Mention it when you write, and I will check my calendar.
No. Plenty of couples pick a block purely for practical reasons. If something has just happened and waiting feels impossible, acute online couples therapy may suit you better.
It depends on your aim. We set a number together beforehand and revisit it during the block.
It should not feel that way. I watch your energy, add pauses and slow down if one of you is tiring.
Each session is a 2-hour online couples session. Current fees, in US dollars, are on my prices page. Since a block covers several sessions, a therapy bundle saves you 10 per cent.
Ask for a free 30-minute call or write to me. Tell me briefly what you hope to work on, which dates might work and where each of you is based.
Once we have agreed the plan, you book the sessions.
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I want therapy to help you understand your experience and make choices you can use in everyday life. We pay attention to feelings, needs and the responses that happen before you have time to think.
Our online room should offer enough trust and honesty to explore what is difficult. I bring attention and professional judgement. You bring your experience, questions and the right to say when something does not fit.
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