Couple/Relationship/Marriage | LifePaths Therapy
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*Pre-engaged & Premarital Packages

Start your relationship out on the right path. Offered as an 8 session package, access assessments that can help identify areas for growth & healing, as individuals and a couple. Learn emotional regulation skills, how your nervous systems interact with each other and improve your communication skills to set yourselves up for success.  Each couple’s story is unique of course, and if there is one thing you can count on, it is that along your journey together there will be both ups and downs. If you want to bomb-proof your relationship, this package is for you.  

*Couples-Relationship-
Marriage Therapy

Every couple faces some problems. Each couple’s story is unique of course, but if there is one thing you can count on, it is that along your journey together there will be both ups and downs. Even though at the most difficult of times you may not see how you can resolve the problem the two of you face, you can find a way.

Emotional intimacy is possibly the most important of working with couples. Feeling distant or disconnected from each other is often the primary reason couples seek counseling. It may also be the underlying problem affecting your ability to communicate, or other issues that have come between you.   Improving intimacy and a sense of connection between you is almost always part of our work with couples.

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Most of the couples that get in touch with me have been worried about their relationship for quite a while.  They have worked hard trying to improve things themselves, but they still feel it could be better.  Couples therapy is one more tool you could use to help your relationship.

Some of the issues that bring partners to couples counseling may be:

  • Improving communication skills

  • Improving conflict resolution skills

  • Working through a recent problem such as addiction or infidelity

  • Creating deeper intimacy, closeness, connection

  • Pre-marital counseling

  • Starting a new family-first baby, blended family, step-parenting

  • Infertility issues

  • Coping with a problem outside the relationship such as in-laws, or the death of someone close to you both

  • Betrayal

  • Infidelity

  • Financial Indiscretions

  • Lies/Secrets/Manipulation

Communication and conflict resolution skills are fundamental to a healthy relationship. It is possible to learn skills that will help you resolve the inevitable disagreements that come up throughout your life together. These skills are based on openness, trust, compassion, and respect. Regardless of the issue that brings you to counseling, discussing these concepts will be a part of our work together.

What if My Partner Won’t Come to Therapy With Me?

Partners that aren’t willing to go to couples therapy may decide this for one of these reasons:

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  • They don’t feel they are the problem, that the partner that wants to go to therapy is the one that needs it;

  • they don’t believe counseling is helpful;

  • therapy might be uncomfortable, and they are worried about it.

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Even if your partner won’t come with you, you can still work with a counselor yourself to gain insight and understanding about the problem  going on, and gain skills you can use to help the relationship be as good as it can be.

 

Even if you’re not sure about starting counseling as a couple or on your own, get in touch with us for a free 15-minute consultation. We are happy to talk with you about your concerns and the situation and help you find the best way to go forward.

*PLEASE NOTE:

If you are seeking marriage counseling, insurance companies typically do not pay for this.

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Even if the provider you select in in-network with your insurance.  

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Most insurance companies require a diagnosis of a mental disorder by one or both participants before marriage counseling will be covered.

 

Regardless of where you go for your marriage counseling, you will most likely be required to pay out of pocket or your therapist will need to diagnose you with a mental disorder, which will stay with you when you go to seek future medical or mental health treatment, possibly even future employment.

 

The average cost of services for 

can vary widely in Tennessee. At LifePaths, we offer relationship therapy and your rate will be determined by the clinician you choose and the amount of time needed for your session. We typically recommended designating 90 minutes to 2 hours on your calendar.  

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