Private Retreat · Two Days · Nationwide
Reconnection Without Pressure. Repair Without Pretending.
A private, two-day couples therapy/coaching intensive for neurodiverse couples who need more than a weekly session and are ready to go deeper together.
$2,997
Per couple · Two days
Payment plans available
Private · One Couple at a Time · Virtual or In-Person · By Application
Is This Right for You?
Some Things Can't Be Held in 50 Minutes a Week
Weekly therapy does important work. But there are moments in a relationship — turning points, accumulated weight, years of unresolved patterns — that need more time, more space, and more depth than a regular session allows.
The Balance & Bonding Retreat is for neurodiverse couples who are ready to go deeper. Who want more than incremental progress. Who need a contained, focused two-day experience to shift something that has felt immovable.
You've hit a turning point
Something has shifted — a crisis, a decision, a realization — and you need dedicated space to work through it together, with a skilled guide holding the container.
You want to accelerate the work
You're already in therapy and making progress, but you want to go deeper faster. Two concentrated days create the kind of shift that months of weekly sessions can't.
Weekly sessions haven't been enough
The 50-minute session keeps getting interrupted by life. You need uninterrupted time — for both of your nervous systems to settle and actually get somewhere together.
You want a shared foundation
You're ready to build something — shared language, shared tools, a shared map. Two days gives both of you the room to understand each other's wiring at a different depth.
"You don't need to be in crisis. You just need to care — and be ready to try something different."
What We'll Explore Together
Five Guided Sessions Across Two Days — Built Around Your Brains, Not a Generic Curriculum
Over the course of five guided sessions, we move gently through the core elements of reconnection in a way that respects both partners' brains, bodies, and bandwidth. The retreat is designed to address the unique challenges that arise from neurological differences — and it's fully customized to your specific relationship.
Session 1
Foundations of Safety & Understanding Your Wiring
We'll explore how each of you processes stress, emotion, connection, and disconnection — and how your patterns interlock. Together we'll identify your unique communication styles and emotional triggers, laying the groundwork for everything that follows.
Session 2
Communication That Respects Your Nervous Systems
You'll learn how to speak and listen in ways that feel safer and clearer for both of you. We emphasize developing communication strategies that work for both partners — especially in neurodiverse relationships where translation across neurotypes is a daily reality.
Session 3
Conflict, Repair & Returning to Each Other
We'll practice navigating rupture without blame — and building repair rituals that actually work for your dynamic. Using evidence-based approaches tailored to neurodiverse couples, we learn how to get back to each other after the moments that usually spiral.
Session 4
Sensory-Aware Intimacy & Authentic Connection
Physical and emotional closeness often mean different things in neurodiverse relationships. We'll explore the unique ways dating and intimacy are experienced in neurodiverse partnerships — and how you connect best, without pressure or performance.
Session 5
Celebrating Growth & Creating Your Relationship Toolkit
You'll leave with a fully customized Relationship Resource Kit and a clear, simple plan for continued connection at home — with resources specifically tailored to your neurotypes, your strengths, and the specific patterns you've been working through.
The Retreat Schedule
Designed for Emotional Spaciousness and Sensory Regulation
This rhythm is designed so neither of you feels rushed or overwhelmed. Breaks are built in intentionally. The pace honors both partners' nervous systems — not a clock or a productivity agenda.
Understanding & Mapping
Building & Grounding
"This retreat is not traditional weekly therapy. It's an immersive, therapeutic experience created specifically for neurodiverse couples who are ready to reconnect in real time."
What's Included
Everything Is Held. Nothing Is Left Hanging
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2 Pre-Retreat Sessions
One with each partner individually — 50 minutes each — to review your genogram, family of origin, and goals before the two days begin.
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5 Guided Retreat Sessions
5 × 90-minute sessions over two days — fully customized, trauma-informed, and paced for both of your nervous systems. Over 7.5 hours of dedicated support.
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Customized Relationship Resource Kit
Your personal roadmap of tools, scripts, rituals, and repair strategies — tailored to your neurotypes and built specifically from your two days together.
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Post-Retreat Integration Call
A follow-up session within two weeks of the retreat — so what shifted has somewhere to land, and the momentum doesn't disappear when real life resumes.
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Pacing for Neurodivergent Needs
Breaks built in intentionally. Schedule designed around sensory regulation and emotional bandwidth. The pace honors both partners — not a standard therapeutic template.
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Complete Privacy
No other couples. No group format. One couple at a time, with a therapist who knows this work from the inside — clinically and personally.
$2,997
That's over 9 hours of tailored, deeply focused support — and so much more transformative than the sum of its parts.
2 pre-retreat individual sessions (50 min each)
5 retreat sessions × 90 minutes = 7.5 hours
Customized Relationship Resource Kit
Post-retreat integration call
Full customization — no generic curriculum
Lived & clinical expertise from a 40-year neurodiverse marriage
What This Retreat Is Not
So You Know Exactly What You're Stepping Into
🚫 A "quick fix" or shortcut to perfection
🚫 A one-size-fits-all workbook weekend
🚫 A space for crisis intervention or separation decisions
🚫 A place for judgment, blame, or pressuring either partner
🚫 A retreat about being "normal" — this is about being real
🚫 A group format — this is fully private, one couple at a time
"This is an experience that honors your unique dynamic, your neurotypes, and your shared desire to feel close again. Each retreat is fully customized to meet the unique needs, wants, and dynamics of you and your partner."
What Past Couples Say
Why Choose?
Why Choose a Retreat Instead of Weekly Therapy?
- Real-time, hands-on support — not homework between sessions
- Immediate clarity about your relational patterns
- Practical tools you'll practice together — not just talk about
- A customized plan designed around your brains, not generic strategies
- A safe, nurturing space for co-regulation and deep healing
- Sometimes it takes stepping away from the everyday to reconnect with what really matters
Common Questions
You Might Be Wondering…
Is this therapy? Do we have to be in crisis to attend?
No — and please, no. This is a private, therapeutic experience rooted in clinical training, lived experience, and deep understanding of neurodiverse relationships. It's designed for couples who want to feel close again — not those in active crisis. You might be feeling stuck, disconnected, or like you keep missing each other. That's enough of a reason to come.
Do we need a diagnosis to attend?
No. Many couples attend without a formal diagnosis — self-identified or suspected neurodivergence is completely welcome. What matters is that the dynamics feel familiar and that both partners are committed to the work.
What if one of us talks a lot and the other shuts down?
That's one of the most common dynamics in neurodiverse couples — and it's something this retreat is specifically designed to work with. The pacing, the structure, and the facilitation are all built to honor different communication styles and regulation needs.
I'm nervous about doing relationship work. What if I say the wrong thing?
There is no "wrong thing" here. The space is held with care, structure, and a clear commitment to both partners feeling safe. You won't be pushed beyond what either of you is ready for.
Can two days really make a difference?
Yes — when the two days are structured, paced, and built specifically around your relationship. Many couples find that the concentrated, immersive format creates shifts that months of weekly sessions hadn't reached. The post-retreat integration call helps make sure those shifts hold.
Is the retreat in person or virtual?
The retreat is available both virtually via secure telehealth and in person. We discuss location and format details during the Clarity & Connection Zoom. I have two home bases: Pacific Grove, California, on the Monterey Bay, and Huron, Ohio, near Sandusky, Cedar Point, and the Lake Erie shores and islands. If you'd like me to fly to you, we can work that out together, with travel and lodging factored into the overall pricing.
Are meals, lodging, and travel included?
Those are your responsibility to arrange — meals, lodging, and any activities around our sessions. If you're near one of my home bases, I'll simply commute to you. If you'd like me to meet you somewhere else, I ask that my lodging and travel be reimbursed.
Your Therapist
Barbara (Blaze) Lazarony, MA, LMFT
"I've been in a neurodiverse marriage for over 40 years. I know this work from the inside — not just the clinical picture, but the daily reality of navigating a relationship when you're both wired differently. That's not something you can get from a training. It's something you live."
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#151788), neurodivergent couples specialist, and founder of Love on the Autism Spectrum. The Balance & Bonding Retreat draws on my clinical training, my lived experience in a 40+ year neurodiverse partnership, and the Neurodivergent Spiral of Life framework I created for this work.
I hold a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Sofia University, with advanced training in Autism, ADHD, and Complex Trauma. Before my clinical career, I spent 20 years in Fortune 500 leadership — neurodivergent the entire time, without the language for it.
LMFT #151788
MA Counseling Psychology · Sofia University
Private Retreat · Nationwide
20 Years Fortune 500 Leadership
40+ Years Neurodiverse Marriage
Creator · Neurodivergent Spiral of Life
Continue Exploring
Other Ways We Can Work Together
If a different format fits where you are right now, here's what else is available.
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Couples Therapy & Coaching
Ongoing weekly support for neurodiverse couples ready to understand each other's wiring.
Partners of Neurodivergent Adults
Individual therapy for late-diagnosed AuDHD adults — unmasking, identity, self-trust.
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Adult Assessments
Comprehensive Autism, ADHD, and AuDHD evaluations. California only.
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The Love Lab
An ongoing weekly group for 3–4 neurodiverse couples — small, intentional, real attention.
Ready to Feel Close Again?
This Starts With a Conversation
The Balance & Bonding Retreat is a private offering available by application. The Clarity & Connection Zoom is the place to start — a free 20-minute call to explore whether this is the right fit for where you are right now.
No pressure. No commitment. Just a real conversation about what you need.
"Take a breath. Settle in. I'm so glad you're here."