Inseparable and satisfied to distant and tense?
It doesn’t matter how your story began; maintaining healthy relationships takes work. Each and every one of us has things in our lives that can pull us apart from our partners: work, kids, and a million other obligations. It’s hard enough sometimes to keep our own heads above water that it’s easy to begin neglecting what brought you together in the first place.
Whether your relationship has become stagnant, disconnected, or high-conflict, we can help you identify and execute a plan that makes sense for you as a couple.
Couples counseling isn't about deciding who's right. It's about understanding the patterns you've fallen into — how you fight, how you go quiet, how old wounds show up in new arguments, and learning a different way through them. Some couples come to us in crisis, trying to figure out if they should stay together. Others come in fully committed, just looking for better tools to fight less and connect more. Both are good reasons to start.
We work with you as a couple, not as one patient and one bystander. That's a deliberate choice.
Your Couple’s Therapist
Our clinician who specialize in working with couples is:
Kyle Schadler, LICSW — Kyle has been in the field over 25 years and has extensive experience supporting couples.
Is Couples Counseling covered by insurance?
Insurance only covers treatment when there's one identified patient with a diagnosable condition. For couples work, that means one of you would legally become "the patient" on record — and the other, your actual partner in this process, would have no right to access, request, or weigh in on those records. If things ever got contentious down the line, only one of you would own that chart. We don't think your therapy records should be usable against either of you, or withheld from either of you, in the middle of your own relationship. Paying privately keeps this work equally yours.
Can I use my HSA or FSA?
Often, yes — but it depends on your specific plan administrator's rules for what counts as a qualified expense. We can provide a receipt with the date, service, and amount paid. We can't provide a diagnosis code for couples sessions, since that would require diagnosing one of you with something to make billing work, which isn't something we're willing to do. Check with your HSA/FSA administrator directly to confirm your plan accepts a receipt without a diagnosis code.
Can I submit my receipt to my insurance for reimbursement myself?
You're welcome to try, but be aware that most plans deny relational or couples treatment regardless of documentation, for the same reason we don't bill it directly: there's no diagnosable condition tied to one identified patient.
Why not just bill it under one of our individual diagnoses?
Some practices do this. It only works if that partner actually has a real, individually diagnosable condition, not just relationship distress, and it still creates a permanent record under their name, tied to a chart the other partner has no legal access to. We'd rather be upfront about cost than build a workaround that disadvantages one of you.
What does a session cost?
Our intake rate is $175 and ongoing sessions are $150.
How long does couples counseling typically take?
There's no set timeline. Some couples come in for a focused handful of sessions around one specific issue; others work with us for months while navigating something bigger, like rebuilding trust after a betrayal or deciding whether to stay together. We'll talk through your goals early on so you both know what you're working toward.