Couple Therapy & Relationship Counseling:
Expert Couples Therapy Services to Strengthen Your Partnership

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Every relationship faces challenges, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Our experienced marriage and family therapists provide compassionate couple counseling, online couples therapy, and comprehensive therapy services to help couples rebuild connection and create lasting change.

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When Couples Should Go to Couples Therapy:
Recognizing the Signs

Many couples wonder when it’s the right time to seek therapy. The truth is, couples seeking help early often see the best results. Research shows that couples wait an average of six years before addressing problems, but you don’t have to wait until things feel desperate. Here are common situations where couple therapy can help.

Common Reasons Couples Seek Therapy

Communication Has Broken Down or Feels Impossible

When conversations consistently turn into arguments, or when you’ve stopped talking about important things altogether, couples counseling can help. Maybe you feel like you’re speaking different languages, or perhaps one of you shuts down while the other pursues. These patterns are common in relationships, but they don’t have to be permanent. Therapy for couples focuses on helping you develop new communication skills, understand each other’s styles, and create space for productive dialogue. A qualified therapist can help couples identify the patterns that keep you stuck and teach practical tools to break those cycles. Whether you choose online relationship counseling or in-person sessions, learning to communicate effectively is one of the most valuable benefits of couples counseling.

Trust Has Been Broken or Damaged

Infidelity, lies, or broken promises can shatter the foundation of a relationship, leaving both partners feeling lost about whether repair is even possible. Couples in which one partner has betrayed trust often struggle to know how to move forward. Marriage counseling provides a structured environment to process the hurt, understand what happened, and decide whether and how to rebuild. Your therapist won’t tell you what to do, but will help both partners explore their feelings, needs, and whether there’s a path to healing. Some couples achieve renewed intimacy after betrayal, while others use therapy to separate with more clarity and less damage. Either outcome is valid, and counseling can help you determine what’s right for your relationship.

Intimacy (Physical or Emotional) Has Disappeared

When physical affection fades or emotional connection feels distant, many couples feel shame or assume the relationship is over. But loss of intimacy is often a symptom of other issues, not the core problem itself. Relationship counseling can help you understand what’s behind the distance, whether that’s unresolved conflict, stress, life transitions, differing needs, or other factors. Through couples therapy, you’ll explore what intimacy means to each of you, identify barriers to connection, and work toward rebuilding closeness in ways that feel authentic to your relationship. This work often involves emotionally focused therapy, an approach that helps couples reconnect with vulnerability and create secure attachment bonds.

Constant Fighting or Toxic Patterns Have Taken Over

If every conversation seems to escalate into a fight, or if you’re caught in patterns of criticism, defensiveness, contempt, or stonewalling, your relationship is in distress. These patterns don’t mean your relationship is doomed, but they do indicate a need for intervention. Couple counseling can help you understand the cycle you’re in and develop healthier ways of handling conflict. The approach to couples therapy we use emphasizes identifying these destructive patterns and replacing them with constructive alternatives. You’ll learn to fight fair, repair after arguments, and prevent small disagreements from becoming relationship-threatening battles. Many couples find that with the right support and therapy options, they can transform how they handle conflict together.

Life Stressors Are Overwhelming Your Relationship

Major life changes like having children, career transitions, financial stress, illness, loss, or caring for aging parents can strain even strong relationships. When external pressures mount, couples often turn on each other instead of supporting each other. Marriage or couples counseling helps you work as a team rather than adversaries during difficult times. You’ll develop strategies for managing stress, supporting each other’s needs, and maintaining connection even when life feels overwhelming. Online couples therapy can be particularly helpful during these busy, stressful periods, offering the convenience of online therapy sessions that fit into demanding schedules.

You’re Considering Major Decisions (Marriage, Children, Separation)

Couples looking to make major life decisions often benefit from therapeutic support. Premarital counseling is a type of preventive couple therapy that helps couples prepare for marriage by discussing expectations, values, finances, family planning, and potential challenges before they arise. Premarital counseling can help strengthen your foundation and develop skills you’ll use throughout your marriage. Similarly, if you’re considering separation or divorce, therapy can help you make that decision with clarity rather than in the heat of emotion. Some couples use counseling to consciously uncouple with less damage to each other and any children involved. Whatever the decision, having a neutral third party to facilitate these difficult conversations is invaluable.

Less Obvious Signs That Couples Counseling Can Help

You Feel More Like Roommates Than Partners

When your relationship functions logistically but lacks emotional or physical connection, it’s easy to wonder if this is just how long-term relationships are. It’s not. The feeling of being roommates rather than romantic partners is a sign that the relationship needs attention. Couples therapy can help you understand how you drifted apart and create pathways back to genuine partnership. You’ll explore what initially brought you together, identify what’s changed, and work on rekindling connection while respecting that relationships evolve over time. The therapy can help reignite intimacy in ways that feel authentic to who you both are now, not who you were when you first met.

One or Both Partners Feels Chronically Unheard or Invalidated

When you consistently feel like your partner doesn’t understand or value your perspective, resentment builds. Maybe your concerns are dismissed, your feelings are minimized, or your needs are treated as unreasonable. Counseling can help both partners learn to listen with empathy rather than defensiveness. A couples therapist creates a space where both voices are heard equally and helps translate between partners when communication breaks down. This balanced approach enables couples to validate each other’s experiences even when they disagree, which is essential for relationship health.

You’re Dealing with Different Values, Goals, or Life Visions

Sometimes couples face challenges not because of how they treat each other, but because they want different things. Disagreements about religion, parenting styles, career priorities, where to live, or how to spend money can feel insurmountable. Relationship therapy helps couples navigate these differences by clarifying what’s truly negotiable versus what’s a dealbreaker, finding creative compromises, and accepting differences that can coexist. The approach to couples counseling focuses on helping partners honor their individual needs while building a shared life that works for both.

One Partner Wants Therapy and the Other Is Resistant

It’s common for one partner to be ready for counseling while the other is hesitant. If this describes your situation, know that many reluctant partners become engaged once they experience therapy firsthand. The therapist can help address fears about being blamed or judged, and will work to create a balanced space where both partners feel supported. Even if your partner is resistant initially, starting the conversation about counseling shows you’re committed to the relationship. Sometimes individual counseling can help you navigate the relationship while your partner considers whether to join, though couples therapy ultimately requires both partners’ participation.

Remember: Seeking couples therapy isn’t a sign of failure, it’s a sign of commitment.

Couples who go to couples therapy are actively choosing to invest in their relationship rather than letting problems fester. The earlier you seek help, the more options you have for creating positive change.

90% of couples

see improvement with Emotionally Focused Therapy, our primary approach for relationship work

Evidence-based

We use scientifically-supported approaches including EFT, Gottman Method, and attachment-based therapy

Average couple waits 6 years

before seeking help. Early intervention leads to better outcomes and faster progress

Understanding Couple Therapy:
What Couples Counseling or Couples Therapy Actually Is

Couple therapy, also called marriage counseling or relationship therapy, is a specialized type of therapy where partners work with couples and families professionals to improve their relationship. Unlike individual counseling where one person works with a therapist, couples counseling involves both partners meeting together with a licensed therapist who specializes in relationship dynamics.

The therapist acts as a neutral facilitator, helping couples navigate difficult conversations, understand patterns, and develop healthier ways of relating. Couples therapy services may be offered online or in-person, with online couples therapy options becoming increasingly popular for their flexibility and accessibility.

During therapy sessions, you and your partner will explore the issues affecting your relationship in a structured, supportive environment. Your licensed marriage and family therapist will help you identify negative patterns, improve communication, and work toward the goals of couples therapy that you’ve identified together.

The Benefits of Couples Counseling

Research shows that couples therapy is highly effective when both partners are engaged. Studies indicate that 70% of couples in therapy report significant relationship improvement.

The benefits extend beyond solving immediate problems to include better conflict resolution skills, deeper emotional connection, and tools you’ll use throughout your relationship. Couples counseling can offer support during both crisis moments and proactive relationship maintenance.

Different Types of Couples Therapy Approaches

There are several evidence-based types of couples counseling, each with unique strengths. Emotionally focused therapy helps couples reconnect emotionally and develop secure attachment.

Gottman Method identifies destructive patterns and teaches practical skills. Cognitive behavioral approaches address thoughts and behaviors affecting the relationship. Your therapist will discuss therapy options and help you understand which approach might work best for your specific situation and relationship style.

Online Couples Therapy: Accessible Support

Online couples therapy services have made relationship counseling more accessible than ever. The convenience of online therapy means couples meet with their therapist from home, eliminating travel time and making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules.

Research shows that online relationship counseling is as effective as in-person therapy for most couples. Online therapy services provide the same quality care with added flexibility, offering online or in-person choices based on what works best for your relationship.

This might include building emotional intimacy, resolving conflicts more effectively, healing from betrayals, or deciding whether to stay together or separate. The types of couples therapy vary, with different approaches focusing on different aspects of relationships. Emotionally focused couples therapy works on attachment and emotional connection, while cognitive behavioral therapy for relationships addresses thought patterns and behaviors. Your therapist can help couples determine which approach to couples therapy best fits your specific needs.

It’s important to understand that couples counseling can help in many different situations, but it’s not magic. Success requires active participation from both partners and a willingness to be honest, vulnerable, and open to change. Family therapists who work with couples are trained to handle complex relationship dynamics, including couples and families from diverse backgrounds, LGBTQ couples, non-traditional relationship structures, and couples facing specific challenges like infidelity, addiction, or mental health issues.

The counseling and therapy process typically involves regular sessions over weeks or months, with each counseling session building on the previous one as you work toward your treatment plan goals.

Improve Communication

Learn to express needs clearly and listen with empathy instead of defensiveness, criticism, or emotional withdrawal from each other.

Break Negative Cycles

Identify and stop destructive patterns of conflict, pursuit-withdrawal, or emotional disconnection that damage intimacy and push you further apart over time.

How Couples Therapy Strengthens Your Bond

Couples therapy provides a safe, structured space where both partners can be heard, understood, and supported by a trained relationship expert. Unlike trying to resolve issues alone, therapy offers proven techniques for improving communication, rebuilding trust, and creating deeper emotional connection. We help you break destructive patterns and build the strong, loving partnership you both desire.

Rebuild Trust & Safety

Create secure emotional bonds where both partners feel valued, heard, and safe to be vulnerable without fear of judgment or rejection.

Strengthen Connection

Deepen emotional intimacy and create lasting positive patterns that sustain your relationship through life’s challenges and bring you closer together.

How Couples Therapy Can Help: The Real Benefits of Investing in Your Relationship

Couples counseling can help couples transform their relationships in practical, meaningful ways. Here’s how relationship counseling services create lasting positive change.

Improve Communication and Understanding

One of the most immediate ways counseling can help couples is by improving how you communicate. You’ll learn to express needs clearly, listen without defensiveness, and understand your partner’s perspective even during disagreements.

Many couples find that the communication skills learned in therapy transform not just their relationship, but all their relationships. Your therapist can help couples identify when they’re stuck in unproductive patterns and teach specific techniques for having difficult conversations constructively.

These skills become tools you use long after therapy ends, helping you handle future challenges more effectively.

Identify and Change Negative Patterns

Most relationship problems follow predictable patterns, but couples often can’t see these patterns from inside the relationship.

Couples therapy can help you step back and recognize cycles that keep you stuck. Maybe you pursue while your partner withdraws, or perhaps you both escalate conflicts until someone explodes. Understanding these patterns is the first step to changing them.

The approach to couples therapy involves identifying your specific cycle and developing new responses. With guidance and practice, couples navigate conflicts differently, breaking free from destructive patterns that once felt impossible to escape.

Rebuild Trust, Intimacy, and Connection

Relationship counseling can help couples reconnect emotionally and physically after distance has developed. Whether trust was broken through betrayal or intimacy faded due to life stress, therapy provides a structured path to rebuild.

Using approaches like emotionally focused couples therapy, your therapist helps you understand attachment needs, express vulnerability, and create moments of genuine connection. This isn’t about forcing intimacy, it’s about creating safety where real closeness can develop naturally.

Many couples achieve deeper connection after therapy than they had even in their early relationship, because they’ve learned to be truly vulnerable with each other.

Work Toward Shared Goals and Vision

Therapy helps couples clarify what they want from their relationship and create actionable plans to get there.

You’ll work together to define the goals of couples therapy specific to your relationship, whether that’s improving daily interactions, planning for the future, healing from past hurts, or deciding whether to stay together. Having a treatment plan gives your work structure and direction.

Your couples therapist facilitates these conversations, ensuring both partners’ voices are heard and helping you find common ground even when you have different priorities. This collaborative goal-setting also help couples feel like a team again rather than adversaries.

Our Approach to Couples Therapy:
Why Choose Relationship Counseling Center of California

We offer couples therapy that’s tailored, inclusive, and rooted in evidence-based practices. Our marriage and family therapist brings both expertise and compassion to help couples work through challenges and build stronger partnerships.

Specialized Training in Multiple Couples Therapy Approaches

Our marriage and family therapists have extensive training in various types of couples therapy, including emotionally focused therapy, Gottman Method, and integrative approaches.

This diverse expertise means we can provide therapy tailored to your relationship’s unique needs rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method.

We’ll discuss different therapy options and collaboratively determine which type of counseling best fits your situation, goals, and preferences.

Flexible Online and In-Person Therapy Services

We offer both online couples therapy and in-person sessions, giving you flexibility to choose what works best for your lives.

Our online therapy services provide the convenience of online sessions from your home, which can be especially helpful for busy couples, those with childcare challenges, or partners who travel frequently.

Online premarital counseling and online marriage counseling are just as effective as in-person work, and online couples therapy options make relationship support more accessible than ever.

Neutral, Balanced Approach That Supports Both Partners

One of the most important roles of a couples therapist is maintaining neutrality while supporting both partners.

We don’t take sides or assume one person is “the problem.” Instead, we help couples work together to understand relationship dynamics and create change collaboratively.

Both partners will feel heard, validated, and supported. This balanced approach enables couples to move from blame and defensiveness toward mutual understanding and shared responsibility for relationship health.

Inclusive, LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care

We’re explicitly committed to supporting LGBTQ couples and people in non-traditional relationship structures, including polyamorous, non-monogamous, and other alternative partnerships.

You won’t need to educate us about your relationship or worry about judgment. We understand the unique challenges faced by marginalized communities and provide culturally responsive care that honors your identity and relationship structure.

Including couples from all backgrounds and identities is central to our practice values.

Integration with Individual Support When Needed

Sometimes issues affecting a relationship require individual work alongside couples therapy.

We can coordinate with individual therapists or recommend individual therapy when it would benefit the relationship. For example, if one partner is dealing with trauma, addiction, or mental health concerns, addressing these individually while also doing couples work often yields the best results.

Our holistic approach recognizes that healthy relationships require healthy individuals, and we support whatever combination of therapy services best serves your partnership.

Practical Tools You Can Use Immediately

While deep emotional work is important, we also believe in giving couples practical tools they can apply right away.

You’ll leave the first few sessions with specific strategies for improving communication, managing conflict, and supporting each other. These aren’t vague suggestions, they’re concrete techniques you can practice between sessions.

Counseling help is most effective when you’re actively applying what you learn, and we’ll support you in implementing changes in your daily life together.

Who Can Benefit from Couples Therapy Services:
A Wide Range of Relationships and Concerns

Couples therapy can help people in all types of committed relationships address countless challenges. Here are some of the most common situations where couples counseling can offer meaningful support:

Communication problems and frequent misunderstandings

Trust issues and infidelity recovery

Loss of intimacy (emotional or physical)

Constant arguing or conflict patterns

Considering separation or divorce

Preparing for marriage (premarital counseling)

Blended family challenges

Financial disagreements and stress

Differences in parenting approaches

Major life transitions or stressors

Sexual intimacy concerns

Cultural or value differences

Premarital Counseling: Investing in Your Future

Premarital counseling is a type of preventive therapy that helps engaged couples prepare for marriage by addressing potential challenges before they become problems. Premarital counseling can help couples discuss expectations about finances, children, careers, family relationships, intimacy, conflict resolution, and division of labor.

Many couples find that working through these topics with a neutral third party strengthens their foundation and gives them tools they’ll use throughout their marriage. We offer online premarital counseling for couples who want the flexibility of virtual therapy session meetings.

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Some couples wonder if their problems are “serious enough” for therapy, or if counseling is only for relationships in crisis.
Here’s the truth:

The truth is, couples counseling can help at any stage, whether you’re in crisis, experiencing minor frustrations, or simply want to strengthen an already good relationship. If you’re reading this page, that’s probably a sign that some part of you recognizes your relationship could benefit from support.

The best way to find out if couple therapy might help is to schedule a free consultation. We’ll discuss what’s happening in your relationship, answer your questions about the therapy process, and help you determine if working together makes sense. There’s no pressure to commit, just an honest conversation about your relationship and your options.

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What to Expect from Couples Counseling:
Your Journey from First Session to Stronger Partnership

Understanding what happens in couples therapy can ease anxiety about starting. Here’s what your journey with our couples therapy services typically looks like.

Step 1: Free Consultation (10 minutes)

Before you commit to therapy, we offer a free phone consultation where you can share what’s happening in your relationship and ask questions about our approach. We’ll explain how couple counseling works, discuss whether online or in-person sessions might work better for you, and help you understand what to expect from the process. This brief conversation helps you determine if we’re the right fit for your relationship. Both partners don’t need to be on this initial call, though both are welcome if that works better for you.

Step 2: Your First Couples Therapy Session : Your Intake Appointment

Your first counseling session typically involves both partners meeting together with your therapist. We’ll spend time understanding your relationship history, current challenges, and what you’re hoping to achieve through counseling. This session helps us assess relationship dynamics, communication patterns, and areas of strength as well as struggle. We’ll also discuss the guidelines for our work together, including confidentiality, session frequency, and how we’ll measure progress. By the end of this first session, you’ll have a clearer sense of what therapy will involve and whether you feel comfortable with the therapeutic approach.

Step 3: Creating Your Personalized Treatment Plan

After getting to know your relationship, we’ll collaboratively develop a treatment plan that outlines specific goals and the approach we’ll use to achieve them. This might include improving communication, rebuilding trust, increasing intimacy, resolving specific conflicts, or making decisions about your relationship’s future. Your treatment plan provides structure while remaining flexible enough to adjust as your needs evolve. We’ll clarify what success looks like for your unique relationship and create a roadmap for getting there together.

Step 4: Active Couples Therapy Sessions

Regular therapy sessions form the heart of couples work. Most couples meet weekly or biweekly, though frequency can be adjusted based on your needs and circumstances. During each therapy session, we’ll work on the issues you’ve identified, practice new communication skills, process difficult emotions, and address both immediate concerns and deeper patterns. Sessions typically last 50-60 minutes, though some couples benefit from longer 90-minute sessions. Between meetings, you’ll often have exercises or practices to try together, helping you apply what you’re learning in real life. Whether you’re doing online couples therapy or meeting in person, consistency is key to creating meaningful change.

Step 5: Progress Review and Adjustment

Throughout your work together, we’ll regularly assess progress and adjust our approach as needed. Couples meet their goals at different paces, and what works early in therapy might need modification as you grow and change. We’ll celebrate improvements, address setbacks constructively, and ensure the therapy continues serving your relationship’s evolving needs. Some couples reach their goals and end therapy feeling confident in their new skills, while others continue with less frequent maintenance sessions. The decision about when to end or reduce therapy is always yours, made collaboratively based on your progress and satisfaction.

Timeline and Duration:
How Long Does Couples Therapy Take?

The duration of couple therapy varies significantly based on your goals and the issues you’re addressing. Some couples benefit from short-term therapy focused on specific skills or decisions, which might last 8-12 sessions. Others engage in longer-term work to heal from major betrayals, change deeply ingrained patterns, or address complex dynamics, which could continue for six months to a year or more.

Many couples find that counseling focuses on intensive work early on, with sessions becoming less frequent as they build skills and confidence. Research indicates that most couples see improvement within 12-20 sessions, though individual experiences vary widely. Your insurance plan may also influence duration if you have session limits, though many couples find that investing in their relationship is worth paying out-of-pocket when insurance doesn’t cover couples therapy.

What matters most isn’t the timeline but whether the therapy is helping your relationship. We’ll check in regularly about progress and make sure counseling continues to feel valuable. If you’re not seeing improvement, we’ll adjust our approach or discuss whether a different type of therapy or therapist might serve you better.

Therapists Who Specialize in Couples Therapy

Common Questions About Couple’s Therapy

How is couples therapy different from individual therapy?

While individual therapy focuses on one person’s growth and healing, couple therapy addresses the relationship system between partners. The therapist works with both of you together to understand relationship dynamics, communication patterns, and how you affect each other. Sometimes couples also do individual therapy alongside couples work, especially if personal issues are significantly impacting the relationship. However, couples therapy specifically focuses on improving the relationship itself, not just supporting individual growth. Counseling professionals who work with couples require specialized training in relationship dynamics and systems theory beyond standard therapy training.

Will the therapist take sides or tell us what to do?

A skilled couples therapist maintains neutrality and doesn’t take sides with one partner over the other. The goal isn’t to determine who’s right or wrong, but to help both partners understand each other better and work together more effectively. Your therapist won’t tell you whether to stay together or break up, that decision is always yours. Instead, the therapist can help couples clarify their values, understand their patterns, and make informed decisions about their relationship’s future. Some decisions may emerge naturally as you work through issues together, but the therapist facilitates this process rather than dictating outcomes.

What if my partner doesn’t want to go to therapy?

It’s common for one partner to be more enthusiastic about therapy than the other. If your partner is hesitant, try having an open conversation about why therapy feels important to you and what concerns they have about the process. Sometimes partners fear being blamed, judged, or forced into decisions they’re not ready for. Sharing information about what couples therapy actually involves can help ease these fears. If your partner remains resistant, you could start with individual counseling to work on your side of relationship dynamics. Sometimes seeing positive changes in one partner motivates the other to engage. However, truly effective couples work does require both partners’ participation eventually.

Is online couples therapy as effective as in-person?

Research consistently shows that online couples therapy is just as effective as in-person counseling for most couples. Online therapy services offer significant advantages including eliminating travel time, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, and providing access to specialized therapists who might not be available locally. A virtual therapy session can feel just as intimate and productive as meeting in person, and many couples find the convenience of online counseling helps them attend more consistently. Whether you choose online relationship counseling or in-person sessions should depend on your preferences, schedules, and what feels most comfortable for your relationship.

How long does couples therapy typically take?

The length of therapy for couples varies significantly based on your goals and circumstances. Some couples achieve their objectives in 8-12 sessions, while others benefit from longer-term work spanning six months to a year or more. Factors affecting duration include the severity of issues, how long problems have existed, both partners’ commitment to change, and whether you’re addressing multiple concerns or focusing on one specific issue. Your couples therapist will discuss expected timelines during your initial sessions, but these are estimates that may adjust as therapy progresses. What matters most is that you’re making meaningful progress, not adhering to a predetermined timeline.

What happens if we decide to separate during therapy?

Sometimes couples enter therapy hoping to save their relationship but realize through the process that separation is the healthiest choice. This isn’t a failure of therapy, it’s actually a valuable outcome if it helps you make that decision with clarity and compassion rather than in anger or confusion. If you decide to separate, your therapist can help you do so in ways that minimize harm, especially if children are involved. Some couples continue therapy briefly after deciding to separate to work through the practical and emotional aspects of ending the relationship. The goal is always supporting what’s best for both partners, whether that’s strengthening the relationship or ending it consciously.

Do you work with LGBTQIA+ couples and non-traditional relationships?

Absolutely. We’re explicitly affirming of LGBTQIA+ couples, polyamorous partnerships, non-monogamous relationships, and other non-traditional structures. Our approach recognizes that while all relationships face universal challenges, LGBTQIA+ and non-traditional couples also navigate unique stressors including discrimination, lack of social support, and relationship structures that don’t fit conventional models. You won’t need to explain your relationship or defend your choices here. We have experience working with diverse relationship configurations and are committed to providing culturally responsive care that honors your identities and relationship structure.

Is couples therapy confidential? What if one partner shares something in private?

Couples therapy operates under specific confidentiality guidelines. What you discuss in joint sessions stays confidential and won’t be shared outside therapy without your permission (except in legally mandated situations like imminent danger). However, therapists handle individual contact differently. Some maintain “no secrets” policies, meaning anything shared privately will be encouraged to come up in joint sessions. Others allow some individual communication but won’t keep significant secrets that affect the relationship. Your therapist will clarify their confidentiality policy during your first session so everyone understands the boundaries. This transparency helps build trust in the therapeutic process.

Do you accept insurance, or what are the costs?

We understand that the cost of therapy is an important consideration. We accept most major insurance companies. You can check to see if we accept your insurance here. Many insurance plans do cover therapy. We also accept cash payments for clients who do not have or do not want to use insurance.

What should we do between therapy sessions?

The work you do between sessions is just as important as what happens during counseling. Your therapist will likely suggest exercises, conversation topics, or practices to try together at home. This might include using specific communication techniques you’ve learned, setting aside time for connection, reading recommended materials, or avoiding certain destructive patterns. The key is actually implementing these suggestions rather than just discussing them in therapy. Couples who actively practice new skills between sessions typically see faster progress. If you’re struggling to follow through on homework, let your therapist know so you can problem-solve together about what’s getting in the way and how to make between-session work more manageable.

Ready to Strengthen Your Relationship Through Couples Therapy?

Your relationship deserves support, and seeking help is a sign of strength and commitment. Whether you’re dealing with immediate challenges or want to deepen an already strong partnership, couples counseling can offer the tools, insights, and support you need. We provide therapy that honors your unique relationship while helping you build communication skills, deepen intimacy, and create lasting positive change.

Your first step is simple: schedule a free consultation. We’ll discuss what’s happening in your relationship, answer your questions about couples therapy services, and help you determine if working together feels right. No pressure, just an open conversation about your relationship and your options.

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Couple Therapy & Relationship Counseling: Expert Couples Therapy Services to Strengthen Your Partnership

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