WORKSHOPS
To navigate the wild world of relationships, teens, emerging adults, and parents need more than an education about risks and dangers; they deserve a broader understanding of relational health. For two decades, we have worked with our clients on how to cultivate vibrant, safe relationships, and we want this information to be available to anyone who is open to learning. The following workshops teach teens, emerging adults and parents to be in relationships with curiosity, confidence and respect.
New Workshop Series starting May 23, 2026!
Relationship Roadmap for Teens
Love is a skill set. We teach it early.
Communication. Boundaries. Attraction. Consent. Conflict. Fun.
Three-part series on the science of safe, successful, and fun relationships taught by two couple therapists who help steer relationships from their worst to their best.
May 23rd, June 6th , June 13th
11 am -1 pm
Ages 15-18
May 23rd: Relationships are more complicated than you think
Learn how to design a relationship that is safe, successful and fun.
June 6th: Learning Love
Become an expert on yourself and your partner.
June 13th: Real-life Relationship Challenges
Take your relationship into the real world. Learn how couples handle things like betrayal, distraction and differences of opinion.
Individuals or couples welcome.
Cost: $25 per person per class
You can come to one, two or all three workshops
Contact Caroline to register or with questions (518) 857-9361, carolinerrsmith@gmail.com
Next Series starting Fall 2026!
CREATING INTIMATE CONNECTION: An 8-week Course for Adult Couples
Are you and your partner wishing to:
Reconnect after long periods without sexual intimacy — months, years, decades?
Resolve tension related to differences in sexual interest and desire?
Bring sexuality back into your relationship after major health issues or losses?
Experience greater intimacy and enhance your sexual relationship?
We offer a confidential and comfortable setting for couples to address intimacy issues. The course is 16 hours long with weekly homework assignments. The more homework you complete the more you will find the course beneficial. Sexual intercourse is never assigned however the homework always includes various communication and non-sexual touch exercises that invite couples to share in experiences of safety, curiosity, and connection. We will invite you to listen music, watch movies and Ted Talks, read together, dance, play, talk and touch. There is truly something for everyone.
An initial assessment will help you determine if this group is right for you. We are screening for the next group now. Call (518) 857-9361 or email carolineRRsmith@gmail.com.
Total Cost for the workshop: $400 paid in full in order to register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will we be comfortable working on such private issues in a group?
It surely sounds paradoxical: bring one of your most personal issues and perhaps one of your biggest marital disappointments into the full view of complete strangers? It is indeed paradoxical and it works. The group format initially feels like a tough sell to many people and in the end they realize that it is the golden ticket! Sexual shame breeds isolation and isolation makes everything worse. So often couples feel like they are the only ones struggling with sexual intimacy. When couples come together to share in a process of growth, when they support and challenge one another, change happens with remarkable kindness, efficiency and good cheer.
We will never ask anyone to share if they do not wish to and we do not discuss intimate sexual details. This might sounds strange for a course all about optimizing sexual intimacy but it is true. This course isn't about sexual technique. It is about connection.
We have struggled with sex for such a long time. Will this work?
This course draws from Emotionally Focussed Therapy, The Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy as well as research from The Optimal Sexual Experience Research Team at the University of Ottowa. These approaches are practical, researched and effective. We believe this course is highly effective, cost-efficient and will change the way you feel in your couple and how you enjoy sexual intimacy.
Can you bill my insurance?
We do not participate with insurance plans directly but we will provide you with a receipt at the end of the course with all the necessary information you will need to submit in the event your plan has an out-of-network benefit.
What is the cancellation policy?
Payment is required to reserve your place in the course. Once the course begins there will be no refunds.
We have run groups and taught classes for over 25 years so we know the importance of challenge, entertainment and engagement in the service of learning. Comfort and confidentiality are just as important. We will use role-play, art, yoga and movement, lecture, writing, and mindfulness practices along with plenty of humor and discussion for so our participants can connect and grow. We welcome participants of all races, sexual and gender identities, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds and abilities and we make a point of exploring how our various identities shape our experiences of connection.
Please email carolineRRsmith@gmail.com or call Caroline at 518-857-9361 with questions or to register.