Rediscover the love
your relationship
deserves in our
Hold Me Tight
Workshop
Saturday & Sunday
February 22 & 23, 2025
Discover the path to renewing and deepening your relationship with the Hold Me Tight Workshop. This transformative experience is crafted for couples seeking to build intimacy and emotional connection, understand destructive patterns, and revitalize their bond. By uncovering the root causes of conflicts, you’ll learn to move beyond surface issues and truly understand your partner’s intentions. Take the first step towards a stronger relationship today.
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Couples will benefit from the
Hold Me Tight workshop if they:
- Feel distant from their partner or like they’re just roommates.
- Have busy schedules or struggle to find weekly childcare.
- Have a hard time committing to regular counseling sessions.
- Are in crisis but are both committed to improving their relationship.
- Are dealing with conflict, communication issues, or feeling disconnected.
- Are already in therapy but seeking additional support.
- Want to enhance their relationship even if it’s going well.
- Desire a deeper emotional bond.
- Are seeking to reconnect or revitalize their relationship.
In this immersive weekend experience,
you and your partner will learn to:
- Identify what is under the surface when conflict occurs.
- Understand the story you tell yourself, and how it affects your connection.
- Change negative patterns that keep you feeling frustrated and disconnected.
- Heal from wounds that you may have carried for years.
- Repair the damage that has been done, and restore a sense of safety to the relationship.
- Learn new ways to communicate with each other.
- Become more accessible, responsive, and engaged.
- Deepen your emotional and physical connection.
What should we expect during this workshop?
Hold Me Tight Workshops are far from ordinary for couples! They’re exciting, informative, and full of practical tips to transform your relationship. The workshop blends hands-on experiences and learning with group talks, videos, and exercises that you can use right away.
During the workshop, you’ll go through seven important conversations. These talks help couples grow closer, understand their conflict habits, manage emotions, and improve communication.
While the conversations are best explored in order, each one has valuable insights on its own. Every part of the workshop is designed to enhance your relationship.
Although the workshop is in a group setting, you’re never forced to speak in public if you’re uncomfortable. The exercises are done privately, allowing you and your partner to focus on each other away from other couples.
Your Hold Me Tight Facilitators
Andrew Frager, LPC
Andrew holds his work in the highest regard, feeling honored to help couples rekindle their affection for each other. Founding Saint Louis Family Counseling has allowed him to witness these heartwarming transformations firsthand, providing him with deep fulfillment. Andrew’s role extends beyond therapy; he also conducts “Hold Me Tight” workshops, guiding couples as they explore new dimensions of their relationships. His commitment to continuous learning is clear from his successful completion of both foundational and advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method. He appreciates EFT for its straightforward approach to deciphering relationship conflicts, a method that has also enriched his personal relationships with his wife and adult children. Andrew eagerly anticipates sharing these insights in the upcoming “Hold Me Tight” Workshop, aiming to offer clarity and support to more couples in their journeys towards stronger, more loving relationships.
Anna Kisting, LPC
For almost two decades, Anna has enthusiastically supported clients and couples struggling within their relationships. Understanding the profound influence of relationships and attachment has fueled her drive for serving others through various roles as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, psychology professor (even developing a college course about relationships called “It’s Not You, It’s Me”), and co-facilitator of Hold Me Tight workshops. As the Executive Director and Owner of Cozy Chair Counseling, Anna leads a talented team of clinicians who specialize in relationships and attachment trauma in St. Peters, MO. She has completed advanced clinical training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Sensate Focus sex therapy. As a married mom with two young kids, she is passionate about helping couples in distress work through their conflict and rebuild a lasting foundation of emotional, intellectual, and sexual intimacy.
Katheryn Barton, LPC
Katheryn is a native St. Louisan and the guiding light behind Uplift and Connect Counseling. She is someone who truly gets the complexities of relationships. With her counseling practice nestled in the heart of Kirkwood, Missouri, Katheryn blends her education and experience in this field with a heap of empathy and a dash of humor for good measure. Think of her as the friend who isn’t afraid to lovingly nudge you towards those hard but necessary conversations. When Katheryn first took an Emotionally Focused Therapy course she was hooked. It felt like magic. Since then she has immersed herself in extensive trainings in EFT and is buzzing with excitement over the Hold Me Tight workshops. The guidance they offer for couples is unmatched. Couples leave Hold Me Tight workshops with a deeper connection and understanding of their bonds, their needs, and strengths they didn’t even know they have.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Cancelations & Refunds
If you need to cancel your workshop registration, please be aware of the following refund options:
- A non-refundable $50.00 administrative fee will be deducted from all refunds.
- Cancellations made with at least 30 days’ notice will receive a full refund, minus the $50.00 administrative fee.
- Cancellations made after January 22, 20245will receive a 50% refund, minus the $50.00 administrative fee.
- Cancellations made with less than 2 weeks’ notice are not eligible for a refund. However, we are happy to transfer your registration to a future workshop within 1 year.
How is this workshop different from couples therapy?
While we’re big supporters of traditional therapy for couples, we understand it might not be the best fit for everyone. Weekly therapy sessions offer personalized attention and a chance to deeply explore relationship issues. However, some couples find the open-ended nature of therapy too slow or not immediately impactful.
For those seeking quicker results, couples workshops can be more appealing. These formats condense material and skills into a shorter timeframe.
Both options have their merits, and the right choice depends on your needs and preferences. This workshop is ideal for couples who are short on time, seeking extra support alongside therapy, or looking to make a significant impact quickly.
It’s worth considering that a workshop can complement therapy or serve as a jumpstart to it. The key is to find what will benefit your relationship the most right now.
The Hold Me Tight workshop may not be suitable for:
The Hold Me Tight workshop may not be suitable for:
- Couples who don’t share the same goals for the relationship; however, if both partners are committed to working on the relationship but are unsure how to improve it, the workshop could be beneficial.
- Couples currently experiencing an ongoing affair. While the workshop can be helpful for those healing from an affair, it is not the best option for those still engaged in one.
- Couples with a volatile relationship or who are unable to be in the same room for an extended period without conflict.
- Couples experiencing active intimate partner violence in the relationship.
The Seven Principles of Hold Me Tight
- RECOGNIZING DEMON DIALOGUES – Identify the repetitive cycles in your relationship that lead to disconnection, misunderstanding, and conflict.
- FINDING THE ‘RAW SPOTS’ – Understand how you instinctively react to conflicts with your partner and uncover the raw spots these conflicts touch.
- REVISITING A ROCKY MOMENT – Learn new strategies to reduce conflict, mend emotional wounds, and establish a sense of safety in your relationship.
- HOLD ME TIGHT – Develop openness and vulnerability to better connect with your partner, enhancing emotional responsiveness and engagement.
- FORGIVING INJURIES – Focus on healing past hurts, offering sincere apologies, and forgiving to deepen your bond as a couple.
- BONDING THROUGH SEX & TOUCH –Understand how emotional closeness enhances physical intimacy, and how physical intimacy strengthens emotional connection.
- KEEPING YOUR LOVE ALIVE – Cultivate an ongoing process of nurturing your relationship, ensuring continued connection and closeness.
We can’t wait to see you!
Date: Saturday & Sunday, February 22-23, 2025.
Time: We will meet from 9:00am – 4:30pm each day.
Cost: $799 per couple for the weekend. Click here to contact Andrew if you would like to arrange a payment plan.
Location: Cozy Chair Counseling, 2705 St. Peters Howell Road, St. Peters, MO 63376
