The founding team members originally worked with Gary Smalley’s Smalley Relationship Center where Dr. Greg Smalley had assembled an amazing team of counselors to serve couples beyond the conferences provided by the Smalley Relationship Center. Under the leadership of Robert Paul a new and innovative program was designed to help couples in the most desperate of marital distress. This team of therapists continued to collaborate, learn and define a new way of working with couples, and a new program called Intensives was born. Couples that had lost hope were now identifying and moving past the barriers that kept them from experiencing individual and relational healing.