The retreat costs a total of $5,000. This covers the training, your lodging, your AASECT CEs, the shuttle, and your meals. We have a three-part payment plan available to help you spread the charge over a few months.

You will be responsible for travel to Seattle.

At a peaceful, gorgeous retreat center (the Rainbow Lodge) in North Bend, Washington. It’s a lush woodsy haven, just 45 minutes from the Seattle airport. We’ll be gathering in Seattle for a meet-and-greet on our first day, and we’ll provide a shuttle to take you from the meet-and-greet location to the retreat center, and to the airport at the end of the training.

We’re designing this experience very intentionally in order to support your learning. To that end, it will comprise a mix of core instruction and practical experience in order to help you embody the interventions. The core instruction component will be delivered by Martha, and the practical experience component will be supported by Martha and her team.

Plan to arrive before 2 pm PDT on April 26th. We’ll be hosting an opening meet-and-greet starting at 2 pm in Seattle (exact location TBA), and we’ll have a shuttle to take you from there to the Rainbow Lodge. If you want to arrive a bit earlier, you’ll be able to drop off your luggage at the meet-and-greet location and spend some time relaxing there or exploring the city.

As for departure, our training will continue through the afternoon on April 30th. We’ll have a shuttle at 2 pm PDT to take you from the Rainbow Lodge to the airport. It’s a 45 minute drive, so plan to have enough time to get through security and catch a plane. If you need to leave earlier, that’s ok, but you will miss 3 CEUs of instruction.

You can certainly make plans with a colleague to attend together! (You will both need to apply and be accepted.) However, as this is a tucked-away retreat center, and we’ll be the only group in attendance, don’t plan to bring a non-participant partner or friend. (Instead, you might want to extend your trip on one end or the other and meet up in Seattle or the surrounding area!)

Nope! However, we don’t have a discount for staying elsewhere, and you will have to get yourself to the lodge for training each day.

Yes, there will be parking available for retreat participants.

This retreat is open to mental health care providers regardless of credential or experience level. Whatever your background, this training will have something new to offer you; it’s appropriate for anyone who wants to significantly enhance their effectiveness with individual interventions. If you need help determining whether it will be a good fit for you, please contact my team at [email protected] with your questions; we’ll be happy to help.

This is a process-focused retreat designed to help you use relational interventions with individual clients. This approach is also applicable to landing an intervention with one partner at a time in a relational session. It will also help you decide if you want to have individual meetings in between relationship sessions, and how to use that time effectively to move your relationship work forward.

This retreat doesn't focus on every aspect of doing individual therapy; for instance, we won't be focusing specifically on treating trauma, or diagnosing or treating specific mental health conditions, although we might discuss client presentations that include those aspects.

Yes! We have a three-month payment plan that will allow you to spread the cost into three charges of $1,667.

We will confirm receipt of your application within two business days, but it may take us several more days to process applications, depending upon the volume we receive. We will notify you of your status within 7 business days of receiving your application. If you are accepted, you will have 3 days to reserve your spot by enrolling in the course. You may choose to enroll by paying one lump sum ($5,000) or by starting a payment plan, which will break the cost into three installments of $1,667, charged to your card on file.

Because live training involves a substantial amount of overhead and financial risk, we can’t offer no-cost cancellations. Before February 15, 2026, a cancellation fee of 50% of the full retreat price will apply. We will not allow refunds after February 15, 2026. If you decide to cancel at the last minute, full fees apply. 

Participants must notify IRI of cancellation in writing via email: [email protected]. Please watch for our reply confirming receipt of your letter and acknowledging your cancellation; that is how you will know your enrollment has been canceled. Our reply is your confirmation of cancellation.

You do have the option of transferring your registration to another person. The person who you select to take your place must fill out the application and be accepted. If you want to transfer your registration, get in touch with us via email: [email protected]. 

Yes, there are a limited number of scholarships available, depending on how many people sign up. The first step is to fill out the application linked below, and then, if accepted, let Team IRI know you would like to apply for a scholarship.