TRUST AFTER TRAUMA
A 5-Day Couples Backpacking Retreat in Colorado
July 19-23, 2026
A 5 day backpacking & rock climbing retreat to help you and your partner rebuild trust and restore your connection.
Trust After Trauma is a backpacking adventure designed for couples who are longing to rebuild a foundation of trust, emotional safety, and intimacy within their relationship after trauma has created a divide. This retreat is an opportunity to break away from the chaos and demands of life and focus on repairing and restoring your relationship.
This program is all about exploring the ways trauma has created challenges within your relationship, and finding your path toward emotional safety, trust, and connection despite all you’ve been through. Through the natural joys and challenges that come with being in wild spaces, you will learn to be present with each other in ways it has been difficult to access in your daily life.
You will be led by two guides who are versed in the tandem flow of inner and outer journeys and who will support your relationship’s unique path with skills for holding each other’s vulnerabilities well, growing in responsiveness to each other, and being deeply present to yourself and your relationship.
Through outdoor adventure, mindfulness, and couples workshops, you’ll have space to reflect as a couple and within community, and feel fully present with each other and the raw beauty of the landscape around you.
This trip is for you if you long to rebuild trust and set a foundation of emotional safety for your relationship to flourish from in the years to follow.
What to Expect:
Backpacking: Deepen your sense of connectedness with your body, your partner, and other couples walking a similar healing path as you move through the wilderness. Explore what it looks like for your unique relationship to engage each other amidst vulnerabilities and challenges in supportive ways.
Therapeutic Rock Climbing: Strengthen the trust in your relationship through beginner rock climbing that takes the healing work deeper. (No prior climbing experience necessary)
Camp: Escape from the distractions of daily life and practice presence and simplicity by connecting to the rhythms of nature under the backdrop of alpine lakes and starry skies. Discover what is possible when you and your partner have each other’s undivided presence.
Meditation: Restore your mind through daily meditation practices designed to help you reconnect, reflect, and return to the present moment.
Couples Workshops: Explore how challenges in your life have shaped your nervous system and the ways you engage with your partner. Learn relationship tools that build relational safety and trust.
Group Discussions: Emerge from the loneliness that comes with relationship struggles and be embraced by a community of couples who get it. May you be nourished by the group and be one who nourishes in return with insights, wisdom, and shared experiences.
Duo Time: Enjoy 1-on-1 moments for you and your partner to give your undivided attention to your relationship. Take time to reflect and reawaken the parts of your relationship that have gone dormant.
Meet Your Leaders:
Camille Leininger
CSW, WFR, SPI
Camille has been climbing since she was a teenager and working as an outdoor educator and mountain guide since 2018. Her interests are at the intersection of adventure and healing. As a mountain guide and clinical social worker specializing in rock climbing therapy, Camille believes that time in the mountains can be both grounding and life-changing.
She has guided clients on Mount Rainier, throughout the North Cascades, and various locations within Colorado supporting people as they challenge themselves, grow their confidence, and deepen their relationship with the outdoors. Camille is passionate about helping others discover their strength in and connection to wild places.
Outside of work, Camille loves meandering on glaciers and making jewlery.
Christie Morgan
LPC, WFR
Christie is a relational trauma adventure therapist who is passionate about creating a space where her clients can return home to the parts of themselves that have been buried beneath their trauma. Christie’s passion first developed when her own childhood trauma led her to walk through her own healing both through the support of therapy and her experiences on long distance trails.
Prior to becoming a therapist, Christie was as an Outdoor Instructor in California, where she created healing spaces for parents and teens to heal their relationships with each other through backpacking and rock climbing.
When Christie is not supporting others on their journeys home to themselves, she enjoys adventuring with her husband & kiddos, running trail ultras, climbing, backpacking, and painting!
Included:
5 days/4 nights of guided backpacking in Colorado’s Holy Cross Wilderness(July 19-23)
Guided beginner rock climbing (*no experience necessary)
Three delicious meals each day
Daily mindfulness sessions
Abundant space to connect to yourself, your partner, and nature
All group gear (first aid, cooking gear, maps, water purification, etc.)
Campsite and permit fees
Guided group discussions
Couples workshops to reconnect with your partner and discover a new path toward emotional safety and trust
Investment:
Early Bird Pricing (Register by March 31): $1525/per person
Regular Pricing (Register by May 15th): $1600/per person
Example Itinerary
Day 1:
Meet and Ground
Orientation + Gear Check
Hike to Camp
Dinner & Get to know each other
Opening ceremony
Day 2:
Morning Yoga and Meditation
Couples Workshop & Group processing:
Experiential Healing through Rock Climbing
Dinner & Reflection time
Day 3:
Morning Yoga and Meditation
Hike to Next Campsite
Couples Workshop & Group processing:
Set up Camp
Dinner & Reflection time
Day 4:
Morning Yoga and Meditation
Couples Workshop & Group processing:
Duo time at lake
Dinner & Reflection time
Day 5:
Morning Yoga and Meditation
Closing ceremony
Hike to trailhead
FAQs
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Yes! We will meet prior to the trip to make sure that you have everything you need to have a successful retreat.
Throughout the retreat, our guides will be teaching you everything you need to know to enjoy your time in the wilderness.
No prior experience is necessary.
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Click the “Apply” button and fill out the application form. The retreats are by application only so that I can be sure the retreat is a good fit for all involved.
After submitting your application, you will receive an email from me letting you know if you are offered a space in the retreat.
Your space in the retreat is reserved upon submission of the security deposit.
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You are responsible for your own transportation to and from the trailhead. On our form, you can opt-in to coordinate carpooling with other couples on the trip!
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All meals are provided! Plan to bring your own snacks, warm beverage of choice, and foods you can’t live without :)
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Plan to bring your own personal gear including: backpack, sleeping pad, sleeping bag, clothing, and personal accessories.
You will be provided with a complete packing list prior to the trip.
We will provide all group gear (water purification, bear canisters, stove, first aid, maps, etc) as well as all climbing gear.
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We will be backpacking and climbing in Colorado’s Holy Cross Wilderness, just outside of Leadville CO. Our route will involve stunning alpine lakes and we will be backpacking at a high elevation.