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Couples Therapy

Explore your relationship dynamics in an space where both partners feel seen and heard.

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What Is Couples Therapy?

Our couples therapists play an essential role in supporting couples to explore their relationship dynamics and foster an environment for each partner to feel seen and heard in the space. When supporting couples, we use evidence-based approaches, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method.

Whether you have been partnered for many years or are seeking counseling before you enter into marriage, our couples therapists are here to support you and your partner across a variety of therapeutic needs. We recognize that relationships have different phases and seasons.

What living with couples issues can feel like

  • You keep having the same argument without resolving it

  • You feel distant or unseen, even when you are together

  • Your small misunderstandings turn into big conflicts

  • You are working through broken trust or an old wound

  • You want closeness but struggle to reach it

How We Help

We can support you in the following ways:

Understand the current needs of both partners: Conflict is a normal part of long-term romantic relationships, and is to be expected in even the happiest of couples. Couples therapy helps you identify and articulate your needs and better understand the underlying causes of the issues in the relationship. Conflict often grows from each partner’s unmet childhood attachment needs, and we support you in identifying each of your needs and how to attune to one another in a healthier way.

Help each partner feel seen and heard: Our therapists teach couples how to attune or lean in to their partner’s bid for connection. We strive to ensure both partners feel heard and understood in their emotional experience, and through in-session exercises, you learn to practice these things in your relationship. Both partners build self-regulation skills and learn to manage conflict more effectively because they have felt cared for through the process.

Bring healing to past disputes: Through the principles and skills of the Gottman Method and other relationship therapies, our therapists help couples replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions, and heal and let go of old wounds. By creating healthy attachments within the relationship, we can help you increase emotional and physical intimacy.

What Can Change

  • Hard conversations stop turning into blowups

  • Conflict cools down faster

  • You feel closer, seen, and heard again

  • Trust starts to rebuild

Meet Our Couples Therapists

Taking The First Step

Step 1
Reach Out

Call 608-683-8188 or schedule a free consultation online. Our team helps with scheduling and insurance.

Step 2
Talk with Amy

Your consultation is with Amy, our founder. She learns what you are looking for and personally matches you with the right therapist.

Step 3
Begin Couples Work

Start sessions focused on your patterns and building new ways of relating over time.

Free 30-minute Consultation

Frequently Asked Questions

  • It helps when both partners are open, and it is common to start at different levels of readiness. We can work with that.

  • No. We focus on the relationship and the pattern between you, not on assigning blame.

  • That usually points to a pattern underneath. We work on changing the pattern rather than settling each argument one by one.

  • Couples and relational sessions are private pay at $200 for a 50-minute session, and we can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement.

  • Yes, we offer sessions in person at our Madison & Waunakee offices and online across Wisconsin.

Ready to Get Started?

You do not have to keep circling the same conflict. With support, couples can change the pattern and find their way back to each other. Reach out for a free consultation.

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