Marriage Counseling in Tigard, Oregon
Rebuild Trust. Strengthen Connection. Grow Together.
Couples therapy in Tigard provides an in depth look at communication patterns, goals, dreams and desires both as individuals and as a couple, to assist in shaping and creating the connection you want in your relationship.
Gottman Therapy For Couples Near Me
We Know What It’s Like to Feel Disconnected and Unsure If Repair Is Even Possible
If you’re a couple experiencing:
+ Lack of intimacy or connection
+ Painful communication patterns
+ Betrayal or infidelity
+ Infertility struggles
You’re not alone in your struggle.
Rebuilding trust in a relationship after problems or betrayal takes time and intentional care. We’re here to help you rediscover your connection step-by-step with Portland couples therapy, marriage counseling, and infidelity counseling.
We offer Gottman method couples therapy in marathon and traditional format.
Evidence-Based Approach to Help Couples Get Unstuck and Create Healthier Patterns
Chelsea’s training for Gottman therapy in Portland is through the Gottman Institute with their science based couples counseling, with over 40 years of research honing in on what makes a relationship work utilizing the Sound Relationship House and a thorough relationship assessment. Chelsea is a Certified Gottman Therapist who is passionate about relationships and guiding couples into intimate connection and personal growth.
Natalie, Sky, Alli, Jeanne, and Amber are also trained in the Gottman Method, and provide assessment and treatment utilizing this approach with their couples, helping them seek connection and better ways to manage conflict. We are also offering premarital counseling services, to help you start off your relationship with a strong foundation and a set of tools to help you navigate communication and conflict in order to build a lifetime of love together.
Couples Therapy | Portland, OR + Tigard OR
Therapy Options to Manage Conflict and Start Communicating Again
Traditional Sessions
We offer traditional couples counseling in Portland. Traditional therapy sessions, 80-90 minutes in length are available. Typically we suggest you commit to 12 sessions to start.
It is imperative that a couple be ready to make the commitment to do the work in order to create the changes you desire for your relationship. Your therapist will consider unique treatment goals and discuss length of time working together once the intake process is complete. Intake is 4 sessions total, culminating with treatment planning.
Therapists Sky, Natalie and Alli, Jeanne and Amber offer this service.
Pre-Marital Counseling
If you’re looking for premarital therapists in Portland, we’d love to help. We provide both premarital counseling and marriage counseling in Portland. We know that going into the unity of a lifelong commitment with another human being can be challenging. We want to help you go into your marriage with your eyes wide open. Insight into each other and ourselves is essential in the relationship journey.
Therapists Sky, Natalie and Alli, Jeanne and Amber offer this type of couples counseling.
Marathon and Intensive Counseling
These sessions are offered by Chelsea- the founder, and by Natalie and Sky, for couples who are looking to deepen their understanding of one another and gain valuable insights right away. This format offers the couple an immersive experience, with less distraction of external stressors and time constraints of traditional format. Couples can expect to explore deepening their emotional intimacy, expedited support on critical needs and quicker access to necessary tools to improve their relationship right away. This format is also ideal for affair recovery counseling or couples who have had a recent breach of trust or experienced betrayal.
Learn more below.
Intensives & Marathons
We are often asked which is better? An Intensive, marathon, or traditional sessions. Here’s our breakdown.
Ready to begin your journey with couples counseling in Tigard? Some couples choose to engage in intensive sessions at the beginning of their relationship to help establish a solid foundation for their life together. Many couples describe this kind of in-depth work as powerful and life altering, having spent the quality time together focusing solely on the relationship, without outside distractions and the limitations of shorter session time blocks.
This is offered similar to traditional format couples counseling services but longer in session length, ranging from 2-6 hours. Engaging in this type of work still necessitates you put in the effort over a period of time and to not expect immediate results. Change takes time, but is possible, when you put in the effort to practice the skills you learn.
Many couples begin their journey with a one day intensive of 6hrs, to complete the intake and assessment, followed by a second full day or half day to launch into their therapy journey once they have completed the assessment day and have been given treatment recommendations. Treatment recommendations are personalized to each couple and vary, including outside referrals.
Ongoing sessions are offered on a monthly basis and range from 2-4hrs on average.
Intensive sessions are offered by our founder, Chelsea Bliss Ward for $300 per hour.
You can read Chelsea’s words about intensives here
This format is also now being offered by Natalie and Sky at $200 per hour.
Minimum session length is 2 hours / Average session length is 6 hours
Your Answer to “Find Relationship Issues Therapists Portland” and “Couples Therapy Portland Near Me.”
Getting Started with Couples Therapy
Step One:
Fill out the contact form, here.
Step Two:
Our Intake Coordinator will contact you to verify insurance benefits, complete intake documents and gather payment information.
Step Three:
You’ll be matched with a couples therapist in Portland, and schedule your first session- in person or online. You can always request a specific therapist during intake!
Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling in Tigard
Answering Your FAQs
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Research shows that 71% of couples saw improvement in their relationship after going to counseling. The most common benefits of couples therapy includes better communication and a stronger overall relationship.
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Therapy and Counseling are often synonymous terms, generally representing the same type of service, however counseling can refer to shorter term ‘issue specific’ work, and therapy can refer to longer term work looking at root causes.
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We recommend a minimum of 12 sessions to address your main goal as a couple. Many couples continue in therapy with additional goals identified in the first 3 months, extending to 6 months.
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Gottman Method is a research based form of couples therapy that focuses primarily on the Sound Relationship House- which focuses on strengthening friendship, deepening intimacy and managing conflict in healthy ways.
Many couples looking for relationship counseling will specifically seek out Gottman therapy.
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Yes. In fact most couples who engage in repair work through infidelity counseling and affair recovery counseling, report that their relationship is better than it was before the betrayal.
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There are several evidence based modalities of couples therapy that have been shown to help couples improve their relationship. Gottman method couples therapy is evidence based and backed by study after study of its effectiveness in helping couples to communicate better, fight fair, repair their ruptures and build more meaningful dynamics.
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Yes, we work with individuals seeking relationship support. We also provide individual therapy concurrent to couples therapy to deepen the individual growth.
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Couples sessions (90min in length) range from $250-300 depending on clinician.
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We offer both in person and online couples therapy.
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Intensives offer an immersive experience for the couple, setting aside the day to day distractions and eliminating the need for weekly or bi-weekly appointments. Intensives are for any couple seeking to deepen their relationship or repair a rupture in connection. Intensives are offered in 3-6hr blocks, allowing intentional time to spend within the relationship support space, to advance toward your goals in a deeper way. Intensives can be offered on a monthly basis as a replacement for weekly therapy once done with the intake process.
Looking for Individual Therapy?
We offer therapy for individuals with a range of specialties. You can be seen virtually or in person in our Tigard OR office.
Looking for Portland Therapy for Children & Teens?
With Licensed Social Workers on our staff and play-based therapists, we’re here to help.