Couples Therapy in Ferndale
Learn empathetic communication skills, deepen your bond, identify deep-rooted patterns, and release the cycle of criticism and defensiveness in your relationship. The goal of couple’s work is to feel more fully safe and seen in your relationship.
We provide LQBTQIA+ affirmative care and we are Poly and ENM informed and affirmative.
We work in an integrative way that changes based on your needs, but our approach is guided by:
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Learn communication skills like empathetic listening, work through tension areas, and improve your bond.
This approach offers comprehensive assessment tools, resources, and interventions that are all evidence-based. It offers structure to the couples therapy process. Some couples prefer structure and some prefer open-ended sessions- just let me know what feels supportive to your needs!
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Learn to break generational cycles that leave you feeling unloved or unwanted in some way.
Our early experiences teach us how to relate to others. Better understanding your own attachment style and that of your partner can deeply impact how secure and loved you both feel in your relationship.
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How many fights are about doing the dishes or taking out the trash? Turns out, these fights run a lot deeper than we might expect. Societal expectations and gender norms can impact your relationship, often leaving one partner managing the mental load and feeling burnt out and resentful. The other partner often feeling left out, disempowered, or disconnected.
Learn how to communicate clearly and work as a team to manage life tasks like running a household or raising children.
Enhance
A Short-Term Couples Therapy Program
This program is for couples who want to improve their communication and relational skills and feel more deeply connected to each other. You might be a good fit if you are starting to build your life together, going through a life transition, or feeling that you’ve lost your way and want to get back to a place of love and lightness.
The Enhance Program Includes:
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You’ll take the Gottman Method Assessment, which covers all aspects of a relationship. Please be thorough in your answers and dedicate about 1 hour to complete the assessment. Both partners will complete the assessment separately and responses will be kept private.
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I’ll provide you with a summary of your scores (no individual answers will be shared) and education on the aspects of a healthy relationship.
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Four 90 minute sessions scheduled within 2 months of each other.
Session 1: Both partners are present to provide information on the history of your relationship, your current struggles, and your hopes for counseling. I’ll observe your communication style and offer feedback as early as the first session.
Session 2: Each of you has a 45 minute individual session with me to speak plainly about your personal history and current patterns. I’ll spend time getting to know each of you in order to understand how you come together as a couple.
Sessions 3 & 4: These sessions are dedicated to deepening conversation and understanding of each other as well as learning and practicing relational skills. I’ll provide you with recommendations for the future and assist you in setting goals for after therapy.
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I’ll provide you with additional resources to continue enhancing your relationship after therapy.
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If needed or desired, you can add additional couples sessions at a rate of $170 per 60 minute session.
Enhance Program Pricing:
Working with Caitie Fey (practice owner & supervisor): $1,000 paid at the time of the first session OR four installments of $250
Working with Courtney Sommers (mental health graduate intern): $360 paid at the time of the first session OR four installments of $90
Sliding scale available for couples demonstrating financial need
You cannot use Health insurance and HSA/FSA funds for this program because the focus is equally on both partners and the sessions are longer to allow for deep relational work.
Some insurance plans cover limited couples sessions focused on one partner’s diagnosed mental health condition (I offer this to my individual therapy clients who meet criteria for medical necessity).
