About the Center for Couples & Family
The Center for Couples & Family at Cognitive Behavior Institute offers specialized outpatient services for individuals, couples, and families seeking to improve connection, communication, and emotional well-being. Founded in 2016, the Center was created to address the growing need for high-quality, relationship-focused care that fosters stronger bonds within families and intimate partnerships.
Our mission is to provide expert support using proven, evidence-based models such as the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). With a team of highly trained clinicians, we partner with clients to create individualized care plans that cultivate understanding, intimacy, and long-term relational health.
What We Treat
- Marital or partner conflict
- Communication breakdowns
- Infidelity and trust issues
- Emotional disconnection
- Parenting and co-parenting challenges
- Step/blended family adjustment
- Divorce/separation navigation
- Grief and loss within the family
- Family conflict and behavioral concerns
- Spirituality and religious differences
Our Treatment Philosophy
At the Center for Couples & Family, we believe in the power of healthy relationships to heal, strengthen, and provide meaning. Our approach is rooted in collaborative, emotionally attuned, and strengths-based care. We use gold-standard, research-backed therapies such as:
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Focused on building practical relationship skills, trust, and conflict management.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Helps deepen emotional bonds and attachment between partners or family members.
Structural Family Therapy
Improves family functioning through reorganizing roles, boundaries, hierarchies, and interactional patterns.
Brief Solution-Focused Therapy
Supports families and couples in identifying and amplifying their strengths.
Our Services
Couples Therapy
Evidence-based support for trust issues, communication, conflict, and emotional disconnection.
Premarital Counseling
A 5-session PREPARE/ENRICH or Gottman program assessing relationship strengths and growth areas.
Family Therapy
Support for families navigating transitions, parenting struggles, conflict, and behavioral concerns.
Marathon Therapy for Couples
An intensive treatment model for distressed couples seeking deep, immediate progress.
Workshops
Including "The Art and Science of Love" weekend experience for couples.
Meet the Team
Tori Novosel, LPC
Center Consultant
Licensed Professional Counselor. Specialty areas: couples therapy, family systems, communication, grief, and premarital counseling.
Meet Our Couple and Family Therapists
Resources & Community Engagement
For Strengthening Your Relationship
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (The Gottman Institute)
- Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (The Gottman Institute)
- Gottman Card Decks & Relationship Apps
- Gottman Relationship Adviser
For Communication & Conflict
- Fight Right, by Drs. John & Julie Gottman
- The Gottman Relationship Blog
For Emotional Connection
- Hold Me Tight and other books by Dr. Sue Johnson (ICEEFT)
- The Hold Me Tight Workbook (ICEEFT)
- Hold Me Tight Relationship Education Resources (ICEEFT)
- International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
For Premarital Couples
- PREPARE/ENRICH: Resources for Couples
- Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (The Gottman Institute)
For New Parents
- And Baby Makes Three, by Drs. John & Julie Gottman