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Do you want to
rebuild safety,
restore connection
& reignite intimacy?

We guide couples through the

Four Fundamental Pillars of

Lasting IntimacyTM 

helping you break repetitive conflict cycles, move beyond defence strategies

and rebuild your relationship to feel secure, connected, and alive again.

You still love each other,

but something isn’t working anymore.

Disconnection can show up as tension, looping conflict, or emotional distance

— even after you’ve tried to talk things through.

 

You might feel stuck in the same patterns,

avoiding conflict to keep the peace, or quietly worrying about the future.

 

One part of you wonders if it’s too late;
another knows you’re not ready to give up.

There’s a mix of hope and quiet panic.

Grief for what’s been lost.  Fear of what happens if nothing changes.

And a deep longing to feel safe, close, and truly connected again.

What you know for sure is this:
the way you’re currently relating just can’t continue.

You've built a life together.

 

You manage work, kids, and logistics.

But underneath it all, there’s distance and the same dynamics keep repeating:

  • ​​Conflict escalates — or gets avoided altogether. One of you pushes to resolve things while the other shuts down, checks out, or walks away.

  • Conversations feel tense or shallow, and you find yourself holding back the full truth in case it comes back to bite you.

  • Intimacy feels out of reach, and even when you try to work on it or plan a date night, the spark doesn’t quite return.

  • The relationship can begin to feel more like co-managing life than being truly together.​

Here’s the important thing:
Just because you don’t know how to fix things, or what you’ve tried in the past hasn’t worked,
It doesn’t mean that things can’t get better. 

The good news:  we’re here to show you what does work.

So that you can not only get back to what you had, 

but awaken an entire new level of shared intimacy.

 

You've built a life together.

You manage work, kids, and logistics. But underneath it all, there’s distance and the same dynamics keep repeating:

Our Approach

Why talk therapy & date nights alone don't work

Conversation and shared adventure experiences matter —

but on their own, they rarely resolve what lives beneath the surface.
 

Many couples can talk for hours and still feel distant.

Others plan date nights or romantic weekends that bring a brief relief,

only to return to the same tension, triggers, and emotional distance.

While our work includes proven communication frameworks

(such as the 3 Ways to Get What You Want™ and the 4 Steps from Disconnection to Repair™),

it’s what happens before these conversations that allows them to land.
 

Lasting intimacy requires more than insight or novelty.

It requires addressing the unseen barriers to connection

— defensive strategies, accumulated resentment, and nervous-system reactivity —

and restoring a felt sense of safety and belonging.

For a relationship to truly thrive, four foundations must be in place:

Self- Awareness

and Embodiment

When you’re stuck in the same patterns, it’s not just what you’re communicating that’s the issue, but also how and when.

 

Real change begins when you can recognise your protective patterns and defensive strategies in real time and begin to regulate your body and brain, so triggers no longer run the show.

Creating Safety
and

Belonging

Emotional distance doesn’t happen overnight — it builds quietly through unresolved hurt and unspoken truths.

 

When safety, attunement and listening are restored, resentment softens, hope returns, and you begin to feel on the same page again instead of unhappy housemates.

Communication

and

Relational Skills

Many couples have all the information in the world but still get stuck — repeating the same arguments or avoiding them altogether.

Relational skill allows you to repair instead of escalate, express needs without blame, and move forward instead of circling back.

Aliveness,

Desire and Growth

The purpose of building strong foundations is not just stability — it’s aliveness.

Aliveness isn’t created through effort or novelty alone; it emerges when growth and polarity are consciously cultivated within a secure relational base.

As we become more able to stay present and grounded within ourselves,

we co-create greater safety in the relationship.

When couples feel emotionally safe, met, heard and understood,

play, intimacy, and the spark can return naturally.

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Your Guides

We’re not just relationship professionals
— we’re a married couple, living as a blended family, practicing what we teach in daily life.

We work with couples from the inside out because we live inside the same pressures you do: parenting, business, exhaustion, conflict, repair, desire, and choosing to come back to love and each other again and again.

Our work is shaped by:

  • Lived partnership, not theory alone

  • Formal training and qualifications in relational therapy, embodiment, coaching, intimacy, and polarity

  • Years of guiding couples through periods of deep challenge, relationship reckoning, and re-bonding

  • Over 25 years of combined experience supporting men and women individually on the path of self-awakening

Many couples arrive having already talked extensively about their relationship, yet still find themselves repeating the same patterns.

That’s because insight alone rarely shifts what lives in the nervous system — or the deeper imprints shaped by family history, attachment, and early conditioning.

 

Our work moves beyond talk therapy into embodied change, integrating mind, body, and relational skill so safety becomes the foundation of your relationship.

 

As safety and regulation grow, defensiveness softens. Repair becomes possible without escalation or self-abandonment. Desire and connection begin to return from a steadier, more secure foundation.

Couples choose us because we weave together lived marriage, clinical relational training, and embodied nervous-system work with genuine care.

 

We guide couples to slow reactivity, take clean responsibility, metabolise resentment, and rebuild trust in ways that hold under the real pressures of parenting, ambition, fatigue, and modern life.

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Are we a fit?

Our highly personalised support and services may be the right for you if:

✅ You’re a growth-oriented couple who love each other, yet feel stuck in recurring cycles of conflict, distance, or resentment.
 

✅ Life has become full — work, children, responsibility — and intimacy, play, and presence have slowly faded.
 

✅ You’re ready to move beyond surface-level communication and want change that’s felt, embodied, and lived.
 

✅ You’re seeking genuine relational healing, not another temporary fix or set of tools.
 

✅ You both sense that love alone isn’t enough, and are willing to slow down and take responsibility for your part in the pattern.

We are not the most
aligned guides for you if:

⛔️ You’re looking for a space to simply talk things through, without a readiness to apply what you learn or make meaningful changes.
 

⛔️ You’re unwilling to reflecting on your own role in the dynamic, and want to stay focused on what your partner needs to change.
 

⛔️ You’re hoping for quick communication tips, rather than a deeper process that involves the body, emotions, and nervous system.
 

⛔️ You’re unwilling to explore the underlying drivers of your behaviour and the less visible influences on your relationship patterns.
 

⛔️ You’re not interested in using your relationship as a place for growth — both individually and together.

Your first steps:

You don’t need to feel certain to move forward.
You can feel nervous and still be ready.
You can wonder if it’s too late and still make steps toward connection.

Change rarely begins with certainty.
It begins with willingness.

If you sense there’s more possible for your relationship, here are three ways to begin:

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You don’t need to settle for distance, resentment, or emotional flatness.
With the right guidance, your relationship can become a sanctuary of honesty, safety, & renewed intimacy.

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