Marriage and couple therapy helps you gain safety, trust, and intimacy to learn to communicate skillfully and heal the wounds that you bring to the relationship. You will be guided to identify unhelpful relational patterns that interfere with stability and disrupt connection.

High-quality relationship counseling can help you:

• Explore the issues in your relationship that are causing you distress and unhappiness

• Understand patterns from the past that are repeated in the present with your partner

• Become a resource for your partner so that you can become emotionally and physically closer

• Resolve conflict and communication impasses

• Remain connected even when you are struggling

• Address mental health concerns that impact the relationship

• Feel safe together so that you can have difficult discussions

• Understand and communicate your own needs

• Understand the needs of the other and respond in helpful ways

• Recover from hurtful experiences and feel more resilient

• Develop patience with your partner

• Decide whether or not to separate or divorce

• Manage parenting concerns, step, blended and extended family issues

• Find ways to navigate new challenges in your life better

• Develop the skills to create meaningful change in your lives

• Heal from emotional or physical betrayal such as emotional or physical infidelity

• Address challenges with intimacy and sexual concerns

• Address addiction and alcohol problems that are interfering with your relationship, family, and professional life

• Gain support for life-stage challenges, and issues related to chronic pain and physical illness

What happens during couple therapy sessions?

Successful relationship counseling can provide a container to help one or both members of the partnership feel safe enough to express deeply felt needs, longings, and concerns, as well as disappointments, frustration, and anger. Whether you seek counseling because of a longstanding problem, or a new circumstance, therapy can help you gain the insight and clarity to move forward and heal.

Patterns and dynamics frequently recreated within the relationship are some of the most common and complex problems that couples face. Many seek therapy because they struggle with communication problems or they have high-conflict relationships, with tension, fighting, and resentment. A trained professional can see these dynamics through a clear lens, which can address the confusion that couples experience when conflicts arise. An experienced marriage or couples counselor can help you build the tools you need to have healthier and skilled communication patterns, which can restore intimacy and lead to a more satisfying relationship.

We counsel clients in all stages of relationships, which may bean coming together and finally connecting with a healthy partner, or falling apart and finding the courage to leave a relationship. Many of our clients also seek counseling to address intimacy concerns or heal from an emotional or physical betrayal.

Some common problems that we see in our practice include parenting difficulties, infertility, sexual concerns, blended-family strife, work/life balance, unresolved trauma, undiagnosed mental illness or a problem with alcohol or addictions, changes in values and goals, and more. We offer a safe space for you to dig a little deeper and create the relationship you desire.

Our relationship therapists honor diversity and strive to make our services accessible to everyone, working with people from diverse cultural background, Kink, poly, LGTBQ+and all forms of traditional or non-traditional couples.

Our Bozeman Montana couple counseling accepts most In-Network insurance plans.

Integrative Psychotherapy & Mind-Body Medicine counseling practice accepts in-network health insurance for couples therapy, including BlueCross and BlueShield, PacificSource, Montana Health Coop, Allegiance, EBMS, and Aetna, and can process your out-of-network insurance claims as well. Health insurance coverage (after deductibles are met) typically covers most, and sometimes all of the costs of your visits to Integrative Psychotherapy & Mind-Body Medicine, and typically, the average client co-pay for appointments is $25- $35. We also work with clients who wish to pay for their therapy sessions privately and accept cash, checks, credit cards, and HSAs.