Okanagan Relationship Wellness Centre

11/27/2025

We’re thrilled to announce the 2026 Hold Me Tight Couples Adventure Retreat, an unforgettable blend of relationship-deepening work and breathtaking wilderness travel.

If you and your partner are craving connection, clarity, and a meaningful shared experience, this 5-day guided canoeing and camping journey is the perfect reset.

Our expert team trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy will guide you through the proven Hold Me Tight conversations while you explore quiet lakes, gorgeous shorelines, and the restorative rhythm of nature.

This retreat offers the perfect balance of adventure and emotional growth.

You’ll enjoy guided paddling days, cozy evenings around the fire, and private time as a couple to integrate what you’re learning.

All gear, meals, and therapeutic programming are included - just bring your openness, your partner, and your sense of adventure.

Spaces are limited, and 2026 registration is now open. We’d love to have you join us. Early Bird Pricing ends December 1st.

This special edition of the "Hold Me Tight" couple's workshop is paried with a 7-day outdoor canoeing experience on the Kootenay River.

08/03/2024

Have you been thinking about our Hold Me Tight workshop? ❤️

If you have more questions about it, we are offering 100% FREE, 15-minute Hold Me Tight Consultations, at absolutely no charge!

You'll be able to meet Henry Sawatzky, get your questions answered and sort out if a Hold Me Tight workshop is the right fit for you and your partner.

It's super easy. Get started at the link below, and set aside your 15 mins today!

07/23/2024

Couples... let's talk!

We get it... relationships aren't always easy. It's natural to face challenges along the way.

But imagine if those challenges could be turned into opportunities... Opportunities to strengthen your emotional bonds and deepen your connection with your partner.

❤️ Do you want to learn what cycles prevent you from hearing one another’s deepest desire for love and connection?

❤️ Look beyond immediate, impulsive reactions, and seek to understand vulnerabilities and fears instead?

❤️ Move your partnership into a more accessible, emotionally responsive, and deeply engaged way of being?

Our Hold Me Tight workshops are for you!

Hold Me Tight is designed to help couples at any stage of a relationship who wish to enhance their connection.

You and your partner will become more empathic, accessible, responsive and engaged with each other.

You will better understand the science of attachment and love.

The only question is... ❤️ Are you ready for it?

Details below: ⤵️

Couples & Marriage Counselling Kelowna: Our Hold Me Tight workshop is an experience for couples, bonding through guided & safe conversations.

06/07/2024

Are you Looking for more Relationship Connection?

Hold Me Tight is a workshop for couples seeking stronger relationships. 💞

Our 2024 registrations are now open. The workshop date is October 5 & 6, 2024 at the Royal Anne Hotel in Kelowna, BC.

Early Bird Pricing available until September 1, 2024. ⤵️

Couples & Marriage Counselling Kelowna: Our Hold Me Tight workshop is an experience for couples, bonding through guided & safe conversations.

09/22/2021

When Covid is long in our rear view mirror, what societal carnage will it leave in it’s wake and how will that be repaired? 🤔

Stage one: Nothing to worry about I first started hearing about the Novel Corona Virus in January, 2020. I wasn’t too concerned. It was something happening half-way around the world. It seemed far away and I felt immune. After all, it hadn’t been too long ago when another corona virus, SARS, had...

12/15/2020

This 7-day retreat experience is designed specifically for outdoorsy couples who want an exciting summer holiday, and who are ready to commit some focused work on their relationship. Learn more here ⤵️

The Okanagan Relationship and Wellness Centre and Elements Adventure Company have collaborated to offer you a Hold Me Tight couples workshop in the context of a fully-guided and catered whitewater canoe trip down the Kootenay River in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, BC, Canada. This retreat ...

05/08/2020

Starting Tuesday, May 19th we will be resuming in-person appointments at our clinic. Read more: https://mailchi.mp/62179016ce75/your-therapy-and-covid-19-update-1195820

03/17/2020

Are you looking to enhance your relationship connection?

Hold Me Tight is an educational program by Sue Johnson, who developed the model of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples. 📘 You will receive the book Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson in advance of attending a workshop.

The Hold Me Tight retreat is designed to help couples at any stage of a relationship, and will help strengthen your emotional connection with your partner. 🥰 You and your partner will become more accessible, responsive and engaged with each other.

You'll work through 7 Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. All sharing is between you and your spouse with fully trained therapists ready to support you as needed.

Are you ready to establish a more secure emotional connection with your partner? Find more info here: ⤵️

An experience for couples, bonding through a series of guided and safe conversations.

08/08/2019

Dates Correction: Budget Wise Hold me Tight - http://eepurl.com/gzGJ0X

08/07/2019

Dates Correction: Budget Wise Hold me Tight - https://mailchi.mp/bdead0fdfc13/budget-wise-hold-me-tight-743431

08/06/2019

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