January workshop
Setting Relational Goals for 2024
Ignite a shared journey of growth, connection, and achievement for you and your partner as we dive into setting the foundation to a successful next chapter. Get ready to dream big, communicate effectively, and create a roadmap that leads to a life you both envision!
Saturday, January 27th
11:00AM-3:00PM
virtual workshop
$150 per couple
Conversations with The Browns
Coming 2024
Reconnect and Rebuild Your Relationship
who we are
With over 15 years of marriage, we have built a solid foundation grounded in dedication, growth, and authenticity. While we don’t claim to be perfect, our commitment to continually strengthening our relationship has made us a powerful example of how daily effort can lead to lasting connection and improvement in a partnership.
As parents, partners, and business owners, we deeply understand life’s challenges and pressures on relationships. We have faced and continue to practice the skills necessary to overcome the fires that can test any bond, spending years refining our skills in working relationally with each other, as well as with couples and families.
Our message is simple yet impactful: relationships require constant work, learning, and practice. While the effort never truly ends, mastering the tools provided by Relational Life Therapy (RLT) can make the journey smoother and more rewarding. RLT’s transformative practices emphasize breaking through barriers like shame, blame, and self-righteousness to foster deeper connection, emotional honesty, and relational balance. We specialize in helping couples identify dysfunctional patterns, repair ruptures, and establish healthier, more sustainable dynamics.
Through our experience and guidance, we've helped numerous couples achieve their desired relational balance—not by being the solution but by empowering couples to become their own solution. By integrating RLT principles into our approach, we provide couples with practical tools to navigate triggers, build effective communication, and deepen intimacy.
We are passionate about teaching the skills necessary for relational success and showing others how to use them effectively. We welcome you to begin the journey of embracing the work of building stronger, healthier relationships through the proven methods of Relational Life Therapy.
our approach
Often, couples deeply desire to love and be loved within their relationship. However, relational patterns, past wounds, or unconscious behaviors can sometimes block the very connection they seek. In our couples therapy, we incorporate Relational Life Therapy (RLT) practices to help partners move beyond shame, guilt, and self-righteousness, fostering understanding and compassion. We guide couples in developing healthy boundaries and creating a willingness to truly let one another in.
Using RLT, we teach you how to navigate moments when you feel triggered and instinctively want to fight or withdraw. Our work focuses on showing you how to repair and rebuild connection, fostering deeper love and resilience in your relationship. Our goal is to equip you with the tools to face challenges together, develop a strong sense of self, and maintain a cohesive and supportive family system.
Over the years, we have found that working as a couple with couples provides a unique and impactful dynamic. Our approach, grounded in Relational Life Therapy, is designed to enhance the lives of the couples they engage with. We offer resources and practical skills to help couples cultivate healthier, more fulfilling relationships, improve communication and intimacy, and deepen overall relationship satisfaction.
Why Dedicate a Weekend to Your Relationship?
Why Dedicate a Weekend to Your Relationship?
Long-term relationships have changed from those of old. The requires of a loving committed long-term relationship today demand skills that were never taught by our parents, schools, or society. Quality of relationship matters! Research shows that the quality of our relationships is a key predictor of both longevity and physical health. While relationships take effort, many of us don’t know what that effort actually looks like. The real work of relationships isn’t inconsistent, it requires your attention—it happens moment by moment. How do you navigate those minute-to-minute interactions? That’s exactly what you’ll learn here.
This workshop will provide you with the tools and skills needed for those crucial moments that build authentic intimacy. In a small group setting, you’ll receive expert guidance, personalized attention, and plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage directly with Ya’Ron and Stacee. While it’s not a quick fix for every problem, past participants have called the experience transformative and life-changing for their personal growth and relationships.
What Makes This Workshop Unique:
- 14 hours of psychoeducation in Relational Life Therapy: Gain a deep understanding of proven techniques to improve relationships.
- An educational group, not therapy: A less intense, safer learning environment that focuses on skill-building. Neuroscience confirms we learn best when we feel secure!
- Efficient and cost-effective: More affordable and less time-consuming than traditional therapy, offering practical symptom relief when you need it most.
- Interactive learning: Share experiences, hear from others, and practice new skills in a supportive group dynamic—because it’s not just “me,” it’s “us.”
What to Expect at Bootcamp
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) is a powerful and effective approach to relationship therapy created by renowned therapist and bestselling author Terry Real. This workshop equips you with practical skills to build and sustain meaningful connections. The experience includes a combination of engaging lectures, small group activities, and guided personal reflections. Ya’Ron and Stacee will provide individualized support throughout to help you maximize your learning.
Who Should Attend?
- Couples: Whether you're engaged, newlyweds, or long-term partners, this workshop is ideal for those looking to strengthen their bond, improve communication, and sustain or enhance intimacy.
- Individuals: If you want to overcome obstacles to intimacy and build deeper connections, this workshop is for you. Even one person taking new steps can create meaningful shifts in a relationship.
- Mental Health Professionals: Perfect for therapists seeking to enhance their understanding of the Relational Life Therapy (RLT) model, boost their effectiveness with couples, and learn how to lead their own Relationship Bootcamps.
This workshop is open to everyone. We ensure a welcoming, respectful, and safe environment for participants of all races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and nationalities.
Outcomes of Bootcamp
By the end of this transformative experience, you will gain the tools and skills to:
- Handle conflict calmly: Learn to override knee-jerk reactions in heated moments and navigate disagreements with composure.
- Break free from unhelpful patterns: Identify and let go of the losing strategies that block true intimacy in your relationship.
- Communicate effectively: Complain without blame, express your needs clearly, and get more of what you want from your relationship.
- Support and celebrate progress: Encourage your partner’s efforts, fostering growth and positive change together.
- Work as a team: Move past the battle of “who’s right” and focus on finding collaborative solutions.
In addition, you’ll:
- Develop a deeper awareness of what drives you and your partner emotionally.
- Uncover the root causes of painful disconnections.
- Explore interpersonal neurobiology and learn how to create new, healthier relationship patterns.
- Understand the natural cycles of harmony, disharmony, and repair in relationships—and how to navigate them effectively.
This bootcamp is a cost-effective, time-efficient alternative to traditional therapy, offering real symptom relief and actionable strategies for immediate use.
What Will Couples Learn?
- Identify and address ineffective relationship patterns that hinder connection.
- Replace unhelpful behaviors with strategies that promote harmony and deeper connection.
- Gain a clearer understanding of relational dynamics and how they impact interactions.
- Develop practical skills to foster positive, meaningful communication.
- Learn through interactive sessions and peer discussions for a richer learning experience.
- Leave with enhanced relational knowledge and a renewed sense of empowerment in your relationship.
This is an authorized presentation of Terry Real’s Relational Bootcamp, using the skills and principles from his Relational Life Therapy (RLT) model.
Why Choose a Couples Intensive?
The Couples Intensive is a personalized, two-day program designed for individuals or couples—regardless of marital status or sexual orientation—to focus on enhancing their relationships and improving the skills necessary for meaningful interactions.
During this intensive, we will explore the history of your relationship journey, identify key goals, and engage in powerful exercises such as experiential roleplay and psychodrama.
These activities are designed to heal past wounds and establish new, healthier patterns of connection. Couples will uncover unhelpful strategies currently in use and learn effective, winning approaches to foster deeper understanding and connection. Participants will gain tools to break cycles of negative relationship patterns and cultivate more positive interactions.
The outcomes of the Couples Intensive mirror those of a relationship bootcamp. You will gain insight into interpersonal neurobiology and the natural cycles of harmony, disharmony, and repair in relationships. This intensive offers a transformative, personalized approach to healing and growth.
Reasons to Choose a Couples Intensive:
- You have experienced a significant relationship rupture and seek expedited healing.
- You desire focused, personalized therapy and coaching.
- You have faced repeated relationship challenges and want to address them intensively.
- You prefer one-on-one therapy outside of a group setting.
What to Expect in a Couples Intensive:
- A six hour, two-day program featuring individual and shared work with your partner.
- Engaging exercises, including experiential roleplay and psychodrama, tailored to your unique relationship needs.
Outcomes of a Couples Intensive:
- Deep personal awareness of your own triggers and your partner’s emotional needs.
- Clarity on the root causes of painful disconnections in your relationship.
- Insight into interpersonal neurobiology and how it impacts relational dynamics.
- Practical tools to navigate cycles of harmony, disharmony, and repair.
- The ability to create new, healthier patterns that support long-term relationship satisfaction.
Couples Therapy
Transforming Relationships. One Truth at a Time.
At Growing Deeper in Love, we believe that relationships are the sacred ground where healing, truth, and transformation can unfold. As a married couple and Licensed Professional Counselors, Ya’Ron and Stacee Brown bring not only clinical expertise but lived experience into the therapy room—helping couples rediscover intimacy, honesty, and mutual respect using the powerful framework of Relational Life Therapy (RLT).
What Is Relational Life Therapy (RLT)?
Developed by renowned therapist Terry Real, RLT is a bold, direct, and transformative approach to couples therapy. It helps partners identify toxic relational patterns, speak truthfully (yet compassionately), and take radical personal responsibility for their role in the relationship.
RLT doesn’t waste time with vague communication exercises—it gets to the heart of the matter. Together, we explore your history, your triggers, and the beliefs that block intimacy and connection. Then, we help you replace those patterns with new relational skills rooted in respect, vulnerability, and repair.
Why work with us?
As RLT-trained therapists—and a real-life couple who understands the highs, lows, and hard-earned lessons of partnership—we bring a deeply integrative, honest, and supportive presence to your work.
You get the benefit of:
- A balanced therapeutic team—the perspective of both a husband and wife who are trained clinicians
- Real talk—we call out dysfunction with empathy and compassion
- Cultural competence—we honor identity, culture, and legacy in how you love
- High accountability—each partner is responsible for doing their own growth work
- Skills-based healing—we teach tools you can apply in and out of sessions
Is RLT Right for You?
Couples therapy with Ya’Ron and Stacee is ideal if you're ready to:
- Break through communication breakdowns and cycles of blame
- Rebuild trust after betrayal or disconnection
- Develop deeper emotional and sexual intimacy
- Heal generational wounds that impact your relationship today
- Be lovingly challenged to grow as individuals and as a team
- Learn how to lead with love, clarity, and truth
Whether you're newly committed, in crisis, or years into the journey—this work meets you where you are.
What to Expect
Our couples therapy process includes:
- Intake Session (90 mins): Understanding your relationship history and current challenges
- Individual Sessions: Deep-dive into each partner’s personal history, family legacy, and relational blueprint
- Joint Sessions: Practicing relational skills in real-time, guided by the RLT framework
- Homework & Integration: Between-session exercises to reinforce new patterns and insight
Sessions are offered virtually or in person (based in Metro Atlanta), and can be booked as:
- Biweekly sessions
- Half-day intensives for accelerated growth (coming soon!)
- Weekend couples intensives
Let’s Grow Deeper, Together
We don’t believe in quick fixes or blame games. We believe in truth-telling, vulnerability, and the power of love to transform. If you’re ready to move from surviving to thriving in your relationship, we’re here to walk with you—side by side, heart to heart.
📩 Book a 15-minute discovery call today to begin your couples therapy journey with Ya’Ron and Stacee.
“True intimacy is not something you find. It’s something you build—brick by honest brick.”– Ya’Ron & Stacee
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