Every intimate relationship involves challenges, requiring partners to navigate differences, and sometimes face painful dilemmas. Couples can benefit from learning to speak and listen carefully, helping to break repeated patterns of conflict. Often, even as they fight, each partner may be wondering “Do you hear me?  Am I safe with you? Will you meet my needs?”  Through a process of individual work and looking inward in the context of couples therapy, each partner can experience deep healing, which in turn promotes compassion, and safer, braver conversations that encourage openness and connection. Weekly 50- minute sessions or bi-weekly to 90-minute sessions are available to help couples navigate their conflict, pain, and desire to reconnect. 

For more information on scheduling couples counseling services, send in an email request or click here to book a free consultation.

Intensive couples counseling can be a good option for couples who may feel they are in crisis, such as in the case of a betrayal, or imminent for divorce. Intensives allow time for couples to work through especially difficult conversations, deescalate, learn to self-soothe, and gain a deeper understanding of one another’s positions, with an aim towards increased empathy and compassion. Intensive counseling happens in a concentrated block of time, usually a full day, multiple days, or a weekend. Sessions can run from three to six hours per day.

Please check back for updates to the schedule of upcoming intensives for couples counseling, or use this contact to request more information.

Westlake Family Counseling offers a variety of trauma-informed, relational therapy treatment options, including Internal Family Systems/Intimacy from the Inside Out, Emotional Attachment Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and other professionally recognized systems-based approaches. Knowledgeable and culturally competent care is available for special communities, including LGBTQIA+, and Consensual Nonmonogamy.