An intensive two-day workshop from The Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Institute

Learn the Essential Skills To Transform Your Relationship

The Relationship Bootcamp

Join a powerful workshop in Annapolis designed to condense six months of traditional therapy, practices and education into one weekend.

For couples, individuals and mental health professionals looking to improve communication, understand their patterns, and learn how to handle conflict in ways that make your relationship stronger, healthier, and more meaningful right away.

Katharine Petzold, Facilitator of Relationship Bootcamp (Relational Life Therapy)
Katharine Petzold, Facilitator of Relational Life Therapy (RLT's), bootcamp in Maryland

Saturday April 5 – Sunday April 6, 2025
The Graduate Annapolis, MD
9:30am – 5:30pm both days

Build a Relationship Built on Compassion and Collaboration for Lifelong Intimacy

In a small group setting, you’ll gain a wealth of practical skills you can use immediately to build healthier, more meaningful relationships, including:

✓ What gets in your way of the deeply satisfying relationship you want.

✓ How your self-esteem & boundaries intersect to create repeated patterns in your relationships. 

✓ How to ground yourself so you can effectively engage in challenging conversations.

✓ Healthy listening & responding skills to improve communication & de-escalate conflict.

✓ How to assert your wants & desires in a way that empowers your partner to meet them.

✓ Winning strategies to nurture your connection and cherish your partner.

How the Relationship Bootcamp Has Helped Others

  • Terry Real’s Boot Camp was life-changing for me and my husband. We’ve been together 30+ years so it’d be fair to wonder what would we possibly have to work on. My love-avoidant, grandiose man said this shifted our relationship to a deeper, more loving level; his love-dependent, grandiose wife agrees. The Boot Camp weekend opened up new ways to talk, to see ourselves and to love each other.

    — Sarah P., Portland, OR

  • My wife and I both found RLI’s workshop to be exceptional, and well worth the time and effort to fly to Boston. I would recommend it highly, particularly to couples having communication problems. RLI’s approach is unique, but common sense, so it is easy to understand and, hopefully, to apply.

    — A.M., Toronto

  • The couples work that you do is so valuable — we are relating now in a wholly new and expansive way. It’s what each of us knew we were missing but could not have found on our own. Thank you so much!

    — Todd, Boston, MA

  • For therapists doing couples work, the Boot Camp is a great chance to see a compilation/distillation of RLT skills in action, plus a great way to do your own relational work. That last part was valuable beyond measure and has shaped my work as a therapist and partner in powerful ways.

    — Sarah P.

  • I have found that most couples really want a relationship that works for both people and they have no idea how to make that happen. Once they learn that implementing a set of learned skills can achieve their goal, the majority of couples are willing to do things differently. They become empowered to change!

    — J.G., Dallas, TX

Terry Real, founder of RLY Therapy Model

Intimacy isn’t something you have, it’s something you do. And you can learn to do it better.”

— Terry Real

Annapolis: The Perfect Retreat Setting for Your Transformative Bootcamp Experience

Meet Your Facilitators:

Katharine Petzold, Certified Facilitator for The RLT Relationship Bootcamp

Katharine Petzold, LCSW-C , Easton, MD

Katharine is a skilled therapist and facilitator passionate about helping individuals and couples build stronger, more fulfilling relationships.

Certified in Relational Life Therapy and with a warm, dynamic and engaging approach, Katharine creates a safe, supportive environment for participants to explore their relational patterns, learn new skills, and experience profound personal growth. You deserve to show up as your best self—your loved ones deserve that from you, too.

Risa Ganel, Certified Facilitator for The RLT Relationship Bootcamp

Risa Ganel, LCMFT, Columbia, MD

Risa facilitates Relationship Health through 2 Day Couples Intensives, Relationship Bootcamps and traditional weekly Couples Therapy and public speaking engagements. 

Her gifts blend wisdom with quiet strength and relationship science with empathic connection. She is skilled at being kind and fierce in the same breath, helping her clients connect to the truth to transform conflict into connection.

As a Maryland Licensed Clinical Couple and Family Therapist and a Certified Relational Life Therapist and Trainer for the Relational Life Institute, she sees couples and individuals in her private practice in Maryland. 

Learn more about Risa

The Relationship Bootcamp

Saturday April 5 – Sunday April 6, 2025
The Graduate Annapolis, MD
9:30am – 5:30pm both days

Reserve Your Spot!

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$1,390.00

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$795.00

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CONTINUED LEARNING

MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WHO ATTEND WILL LEARN:

✓ Relational assessment techniques to help clients identify and transform destructive relationship patterns, moving from cyclical conflict to constructive connection

✓ Innovative clinical approaches for building client self-esteem, developing healthy boundaries, and creating frameworks that support both personal autonomy and intimate relationships

✓ Practical intervention strategies for teaching couples and individuals effective communication, conflict resolution, and emotional repair techniques

✓ Experiential learning methods to integrate Relational Life Therapy principles into professional practice, enhancing both clinical effectiveness and personal relationship dynamics

Relational Life Institute (Relational Life therapy) - two day bootcamps

This is an authorized presentation of Terry Real’s Relational Bootcamp, using the skills and principles from his Relational Life Therapy (RLT) model. 

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