A note about this post: If you qualify for a mental health diagnosis and want your partner to be involved in your care, you can search for providers who take your insurance and inquire with your insurer whether they will cover family sessions. In this post, I use the term …
I often have couples tell me that they want to use their insurance for couples therapy or have been to a couples therapist before and that therapist billed their insurance. So why don’t I?
Most couples who seek counseling are married or have lived together for at least a few years. Often, by the time these couples seek counseling, their problematic patterns are ingrained, and it can take time to repair the damage. On the flip side, couples in long-term committed relationships typically seek out counseling …
Couples counseling is an intimidating endeavor for most people. It’s vulnerable enough to share your own innermost feelings with a counselor, but when you also invite along the person who knows you best in the world and might bring up some of your less-than fantastic qualities – that takes guts! …
No! Expert psychologists and researchers, such as Dr. Sue Johnson and Drs. John and Julie Gottman, agree that fighting in and of itself is not the primary problem in troubled relationships and is not the strongest predictor of divorce. Instead, emotional disconnection and the way couples fight are more relevant …
