Created for Connection Baton Rouge
Move toward a deeper emotional connection with your partner!
Recognize the causes of disconnection and learn to repair, heal, and reconnect.
Become more emotionally attached and closer
Revive that “in love” feeling
Understand the negative cycles that keep you apart
Repair wounds and forgive injuries
“Created for Connection” couples’ workshops are “Hold Me Tight” workshops for Christian couples based on EFT, Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy, and the book she authored with Kenny Sanderfer entitled “Created for Connection”.
These experiential learning workshops are presented in a Friday afternoon - Saturday format. The workshops provide a context for couples to work together on designed structured exercises.
This program will help you ignite your romantic fire by experiencing new ways of connecting by applying the research-proven concepts of EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy.
"Created for Connection" is based on EFT, the most successful couple therapy model developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. Numerous solid research studies substantiate EFT's effectiveness. These studies find that “70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements.” (EFT info)
God created us with a need for connection with Him and with each other.
“Key moments of bonding, when one person reaches for the other and the other responds, take courage, but they are magical and transformational”.
“Divorce is mainly about loss of emotional responsiveness”.
--Dr. Sue Johnson
Here is Dr. Sue Johnson, originator of EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy speaking about “Created for Connection”.
Hold Me Tight® is a registered trademark of Sue Johnson. All Rights Reserved.
Pastor Reviews of C4C:
Many Pastors have attended C4C with their spouses and all have rated the workshop very highly
Gerrit Dawson, Senior Pastor - First Presbyterian Church
Gerrit had this to say after he and his wife, Rhonda, attended Created for Connection.
Kevin McKee, Senior Pastor -
The Chapel on the Campus
Kevin attended a C4C workshop with his wife, Mary, and strongly encouraged church members and staff to attend as well.
Andrew Bates, Lead Pastor
First Baptist Church, Eunice, LA
Andrew attended C4C with his wife, Emily, and had this to say about their Created for Connection experience.
At the end of each C4C workshop, we ask participants to share in one or two words to summarize their weekend experience. These are a sample of common responses.
Created for Connection
2025 Workshops
2 Workshop Options:
SPACE IS LIMITED FOR EACH WORKSHOP — SIGN UP SOON
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“Secure Connection”
June 21, 2025
Saturday 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
This one day Saturday workshop focuses on your emotional bond and connection as a couple. “Secure Connection” incorporates EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and “Created for Connection” (C4C) concepts to help couples have more closeness and less conflict in their relationship. We will also explore the attachment styles in marriage (anxious, avoidant, and secure) and learn how to better regulate your own and your partner’s emotions.
The Chapel - Siegen in Baton Rouge
9611 Siegen Lane (between Perkins and Highland)
$250 per couple ($200 for early bird by midnight June 6)
Chapel Members- $130 per couple
Scholarships are available
Light breakfast, lunch, water/sodas/coffee and snacks are included
No childcare provided
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Created for Connection
October 3-4, 2025
Friday 12:30 - 5 PM / Saturday 9 AM - 5 PM
”Created for Connection” is a day and a half weekend workshop conducted in the traditional Friday afternoon and all day Saturday format that the Adams have provided 20 times since 2018 in the Baton Rouge area. These C4C workshops have been evaluated as 9.5 on a 10 point scale. Participants have found “C4C” to be highly effective in increasing emotional closeness and reducing conflict.
First Presbyterian Church in Baton Rouge
$500 per couple ($400 for early bird)
Special rate for members of First Presbyterian Church: Use the coupon code FPC and your part of the fee will be immediately reduced to $175 (early and late bird)
$175 per couple for FPC church members
FPC will pay the remainder of your fee in support of your commitment to your marriage!
Coffee, water, snacks and lunch on Saturday are provided
There are full or partial scholarships for Pastors and for those in ministry.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
More than 220 couples attended our one-day “Secure Connection” couples workshop at the Healing Place Church Arena on November 2, 2024.
This workshop is scheduled again for June 21, 2025 at the Chapel - Siegen in Baton Rouge.
Registration will open soon.
About Your Facilitators
Dee Adams, PhD, LPC, LMFT and Certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Dr. Adams has been in private practice since 1987 specializing in couple counseling. Dee has 3 degrees in marriage and family studies from Ohio State, Michigan State, and Florida State and did post doctorate study in counseling at LSU. As an Assistant Professor she taught marriage and family classes at LSU and later at Louisiana Tech. Dee has done over 28,000 hours of counseling with over 2,6Re00 clients (a couple is equivalent to one client). From 1991-2021 she served for exactly thirty years as the founding Director of Baton Rouge Christian Counseling Center (BRCCC), a ministry of First Presbyterian Church.
The study of EFT started for Dee in 2009 with Dr. Sue Johnson and in 2011 she became the first certified Emotionally Focused Therapist in Louisiana. Along with her husband, Pete, they have participated in 3 and taught 21 different Hold Me Tight or “Created for Connection” weekend workshops, impacting more than 700 couples.
Raised Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dee became a Christian through Young Life in 1968. She and her husband, Pete Adams, have been married since 1980 and members of the Chapel on the Campus since then Dee is child-free by choice.
If interested in Dee’s counseling practice, see counseling with Dr. Adams for more information.
Pete Adams, Attorney at Law and Certified Relationship Coach
Pete retired in 2019 after serving as the Executive Director of the Louisiana District Attorney’s for 44 years. He graduated from USL in Lafayette and LSU Law School. Pete and Dee were trained as PAIRS leaders (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills) and taught PAIRS together 4 times. PAIRS was a 16-week skills-based course for couples that included 3 hours of education per week plus 4 full weekends of instruction.
Pete completed a 4-day Externship in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) with Dr. Sue Johnson in 2009 in San Diego and has participated in 3 Hold Me Tight/Created for Connections workshops and been a teacher / facilitator at 21 C4C workshops. He has been a consultant and speaker for non-profit organizations across the nation, has a private law practice, and is a Certified Relationship Coach. “Papa Pete” has 2 adult children, 12 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren. The Chapel on the Campus has been Pete and Dee’s church since 1980 and they still sit in the same section where Pete prayed to receive Christ on November 30, 1980.
Contact Us:
C4C WEBSITE: www.C4CBR.com
BEST EMAILS FOR GENERAL INQUIRIES:
Dee Adams Dee@brchristiancounseling.com
Pete Adams Pete@epeteadams.com
BRCCC office (225) 387-2287