Couples Therapy

What can couples therapy do for us?

Couples/Marriage/Premarital therapy are forms of psychotherapy that can help you and your partner improve your relationship. Ongoing relationship distress is harmful to each romantic partner’s mental and physical health and will almost certainly negatively impact the wellbeing of any children in the home.

Couples therapy can address a wide range of relationship issues. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss and resolve issues related to expectations of your roles in the relationship, beliefs and values, finances, time spent together, children, familial relationships, sex and intimacy, health issues, recurring conflicts, feelings of disconnection, an affair, issues related to sex and intimacy, external stressors and more. During this process, you may find that one or both of you would benefit from separate individual therapy sessions.

Couples therapy can help you at any stage of the relationship regardless of marital status, age, race, faith, or sexual orientation. Effective couples therapy can help you and your partner understand each other better, identify relationship issues, improve communication skills, resolve conflicts, strengthen friendship and attachment, terminate dysfunctional behavior and improve overall relationship satisfaction.

There are numerous approaches to couples therapy including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Couples Therapy, Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Relational Life Therapy (RLT). Your provider may lean towards one approach or pull from multiple approaches.

Insurance will require one partner be identified as the primary patient. The person named as the primary patient must have symptoms to endorse a diagnosis. If you know who the primary patient will be, please make us aware when you are completing the new patient paperwork. If you are unsure who has a diagnosis, your provider will help with this assessment. If symptoms do not support a diagnosis, self pay will be required.

Couples sessions are between 26 and 50 minutes and can be held in office or virtually.