Many therapists, religious communities and self-help groups offer marriage-counseling services, but for some couples those sessions are not enough. Intensive marriage counseling allows couples travel to a location away from their home and find out what is really the matter with their relationship. This can be just the thing for spouses who want to preserve their marriage but need to deal with a lot of built-up problems all at once. Different than a regular marriage retreat, an intensive marriage counseling therapeutic session can last for over a week and will only involve the one couple that is seeking help. As the name suggests, this can be an intense experience, but also one that targets the deep issues that surround destructive behavior that damages so many modern marriages.