Center for Couples & Family

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.

Couples can access care through insurance-based couples therapy when clinically appropriate and eligible, or through our private-pay Specialty Relationship Services, which offer greater flexibility in the format, duration, and intensity of relationship-focused care.

What We Treat

Gridlocked conflict
Communication breakdowns
Infidelity and trust issues
Emotional disconnection
Addiction and relationship recovery
Parenting and co-parenting challenges
Step/blended family adjustment
Divorce/separation navigation
Grief and loss within the family
Family conflict and behavioral concerns
Religious or political differences
Family transitions

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.

Couples Therapy & Relationship Services

Find the Right Level of Relationship Care

Every relationship is different, and the right type of care depends on what you and your partner are experiencing, your goals for treatment, and whether services meet the requirements for insurance coverage.

The Center for Couples & Family offers two primary pathways for couples care:

Insurance-Based Couples Therapy

Insurance-based couples therapy may be available when one partner has a behavioral health diagnosis and couples therapy is clinically appropriate and medically necessary as part of that individual's treatment.

When eligible, couples can participate in ongoing outpatient therapy focused on relationship concerns that are connected to the identified patient's clinical needs.

Insurance coverage is subject to the patient's benefits, medical-necessity requirements, and provider participation with the insurance plan.

Interested in using insurance for couples therapy? Our team can help you determine the appropriate next steps and connect you with a provider based on your clinical needs, insurance coverage, preferences, and availability.

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Specialty Relationship Services

For couples and families seeking relationship-focused care outside of an insurance-based treatment model, CBI offers private-pay Specialty Relationship Services designed to provide greater flexibility in how relational care is delivered.

Our private-pay options include Couples & Family Therapy, structured relationship programs, and more concentrated Couples Therapy Intensives. Services are grounded in evidence-based approaches and matched to the needs, goals, and preferred treatment format of those seeking care.

Cash-Pay Couples & Family Therapy

Private Pay | 60- or 120-Minute Sessions | Couples & Family Therapy with Our Relationship Experts

Cash-Pay Couples & Family Therapy provides evidence-based care for couples and families who want to address relational concerns outside of an insurance-based treatment model.

Treatment may focus on communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional connection, intimacy, parenting and co-parenting challenges, family conflict, blended-family concerns, relationship or family transitions, changing roles and boundaries, betrayal or relationship injuries, and other relational concerns.

Because this service is not dependent upon an individual behavioral health diagnosis or insurance medical-necessity requirements, treatment can focus directly on the couple or family system and its identified relationship goals.

Cash-Pay Couples & Family Therapy is provided in a one or two hour session format and may be used for ongoing therapy or a more focused course of care based on the couple's or family's needs and goals.

Additional Specialty Relationship Services for Couples

Couples seeking a more structured or concentrated relationship experience may also choose from CBI's additional private-pay specialty services, including:

Gottman Premarital Counseling & Relationship Enrichment Program
Half-Day Relationship Intensive
One-Day Relationship Intensive
Signature Two-Day Relationship Intensive

These services are specifically designed for couples and range from preventive relationship enrichment to highly concentrated therapeutic intervention.

Gottman Premarital Counseling & Relationship Enrichment Program

Private Pay | Structured Five-Session Program

A structured program for couples preparing for marriage or partners who want to proactively strengthen an existing marriage or committed relationship.

The program begins with the Gottman Relationship Checkup, which helps identify relationship strengths and areas for growth. The clinician then uses the results to individualize five focused couples sessions addressing areas such as communication, conflict management, emotional connection, intimacy, shared meaning and values, relationship expectations, and preparation for important life transitions.

This program is particularly well suited for premarital preparation, preventive relationship care, and relationship enrichment.

If additional treatment is recommended following the program, couples may transition to another appropriate relationship service, including intensive therapy or, when clinically appropriate and eligible, insurance-based couples therapy.

Couples Therapy Intensives

Sometimes couples need more concentrated therapeutic work than can reasonably be accomplished through traditional weekly sessions. CBI's Couples Therapy Intensives provide extended blocks of dedicated therapeutic time based on the couple's needs and treatment goals.

Half-Day Relationship Intensive

Private Pay | Four Hours

A focused intensive designed to create therapeutic momentum around a specific relationship challenge or treatment goal.

A Half-Day Intensive may be appropriate for couples working through significant communication difficulties, repetitive conflict, betrayal or relationship injuries, important relationship decisions or transitions, stalled progress in ongoing therapy, or another focused concern.

It may be used as a stand-alone intervention, a starting point for additional couples therapy, or a therapeutic booster during an existing course of treatment.

One-Day Relationship Intensive

Private Pay | Seven Hours

A full day of concentrated relationship assessment and therapeutic intervention for couples who need more substantial work than can reasonably be accomplished during a Half-Day Intensive.

The extended format provides additional time to understand important relationship patterns, work through difficult interactions, practice new relationship skills, and establish a focused plan for continued change.

This option may also be useful for couples seeking accelerated therapeutic progress or whose travel or scheduling needs make traditional ongoing therapy difficult.

Signature Two-Day Relationship Intensive (Marathon Couples Therapy)

Private Pay | Two-Day Intensive

CBI's most comprehensive and immersive relationship service.

The Signature Relationship Intensive is designed for couples seeking substantial relationship work or addressing more complex or long-standing concerns, including entrenched conflict patterns, significant emotional disconnection, betrayal or major relationship injuries, or multiple interacting relationship concerns.

Because this is a highly concentrated therapeutic experience, participation is based on clinical appropriateness and the couple's readiness for intensive relationship work.

Not Sure Which Couples Service Is Right for You?

You do not need to determine the right pathway on your own.

Whether you are seeking insurance-based couples therapy, premarital counseling, ongoing specialty relationship therapy, or an intensive couples experience, our team can help identify the service that best fits your needs, goals, insurance eligibility, and preferred treatment format.

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