02/19/2026
Therapy asks a great deal of the people who offer it. Presence, clarity, and emotional endurance are required hour after hour, often long after the day should have ended. Real Connections Counseling & Coaching grew from a simple conviction: shared clinical work protects energy, broadens perspective, and allows two skill sets to work together for the good of the couple and the integrity of the work.
Our practice has always functioned as a partnership. We work as a team for the couples we serve so the work remains grounded, balanced, and sustainable. That same collaborative posture now extends beyond our walls as we partner with other counseling organizations to support their clients when focused, breakthrough work can move the relationship forward.
Working in partnership allows difficult conversations to deepen without overwhelming the room. Emotional intensity settles more quickly, clarity emerges sooner, and extended sessions remain productive because the work is supported by thoughtful guidance rather than one professional pushing past depletion.
Why This Matters for Your Practice
Some couples reach a point where weekly sessions slow, repeat, or lose traction. This moment often signals readiness for focused time and sustained attention rather than more frequent appointments.
Real Connections Intensives provide that focused space.
We partner with counseling practices to offer structured intensives that help couples move through gridlock, rebuild trust, and regain forward movement. Couples return to their primary therapist with greater openness, clearer understanding, and practical direction. Ongoing therapy often becomes more purposeful and efficient.
Strengthening the Relational Health of Our Communities
Real Connections formed from a desire to strengthen the relational health of the communities we all serve. Healthy partnerships stabilize families, reduce crisis, support emotional wellbeing, and create environments where people flourish. Collaboration expands this impact. Shared pathways for breakthrough work allow couples to regain footing sooner, families to stabilize earlier, and communities to grow stronger. This kind of collective investment benefits every clinician, every practice, and every family touched by the work.
What Intensives Provide
Focused time creates movement where conversations have stalled. Guided processes support trust rebuilding and relational repair. Clear communication replaces conflict loops, shared direction emerges with clarity, and connection returns with renewed confidence.
The Couples We Serve
Couples step into the Real Connections Love Shop seeking growth, clarity, and renewed connection while navigating pressures that strain partnership. Many are moving from good toward great. Some are rebuilding trust after infidelity. Others feel strain from political and cultural differences within the home. Many are navigating grief, loss, aging parents, or shifting family roles. Chronic health challenges, demanding careers, and persistent stress often erode connection over time. Some relationships follow conventional structures, while others define partnership in ways unique to their lives. Our work centers on helping partners understand one another more deeply and build resilient connection in the midst of real life.
National Reach: In-Person Intensives & Virtual Coaching
In-person intensives and virtual coaching allow collaboration with organizations across the country. Alignment often includes counseling practices seeking breakthrough options for stuck couples, group practices desiring an intensive referral partner, dual-licensed clinicians open to collaborative care, faith-integrated organizations, and therapists seeking focused relationship growth support.
Our Goal
Real Connections exists to come alongside therapists and organizations with respect, humility, and clinical excellence. Strengthening the work already underway allows couples to rediscover connection and forward movement.
Partnership has always shaped our work, and by linking arms with other counseling practices we can bring clarity, renewed connection, and forward movement to more couples than any one of us could reach alone. When collaboration expands, more couples get unstuck, more homes feel lighter, and more people remember why they chose each other in the first place.
Real Connections grew from a faith-rooted conviction that relationships are sacred ground and that restoration strengthens families, communities, and the shared life we are entrusted to steward.
We welcome conversation, collaboration, and shared commitment to relational health.
The Elgersmas,
Real Connections Counseling & Coaching
Connection Architects | Relationship Restoration Intensives
