Relationship coaching is an ongoing dialogue among you, your partner, and a professional coach whose training and expertise enable them to help you improve your life with your partner.

 Unlike traditional therapy, the focus of coaching isn’t to analyze and resolve the events or mistakes of the past, but to implement new tools, skills, and beliefs to improve the future. You and your partner might identify old, unhelpful coping behavior patterns, but most of your “deep work” will be about discovering new ways to resolve conflict and strengthen your relationship’s sense of intimacy.

Your coach will typically give you and your partner “homework” to complete each week, either individually or as a couple. Homework assignments are exercises designed to help both you and your partner integrate new skills and habits to support a healthier, happier relationship.

At the beginning of the following session, you’ll discuss the results of your “homework” so you can celebrate your “wins” and fine tune your skills for even better results in the future.

Want to change your life for the better? While you're more powerful than you know, speaking to someone outside your life can be helpful. Two of the top services to consider are coaching and psychotherapy.

Though often used interchangeably, coaching and psychotherapy are different. Here's what you need to know about each of these options to determine which is best for your journey to a better, happier you.

• Psychotherapy can help with mental health issues
  Psychotherapy can be used to help those facing mental illness, while coaching isn’t meant for this purpose.
• Mental illness is more common than ever, impacting one in four Americans during their lifetime.
• Psychotherapy is the better option if you need help with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, or healing from trauma.

Focus and orientation differences

• Coaching focuses on ways to achieve your future goals.
• On the other hand, psychotherapy tends to focus more on the past and present.
• However, both services are holistic in that they can help you plan for the future while understanding how the past affects your present.

Goals

• Psychotherapy seeks to understand the behaviors and patterns of the subconscious and unconscious mind.
• This is why it’s ideal for addressing mental health issues.
• Coaching is all about helping people to get “unstuck” so that they can work towards their life goals.
• Coaching involves setting SMART goals and tracking achievements.

Service structure

Both psychotherapy and coaching use talk sessions, but the framework is different.

• Psychotherapy involves unstructured sessions that are usually guided by the client and the type of therapy being used.
• Psychotherapy also tends to be a more long-term commitment.
• Coaching talk sessions are much more structured. They focus on growth and actionable strategies to meet one’s goals.
• Coaching is usually short-term, as the purpose is to give people the skills and resources they need to become their own problem-fixer

We currently don't participate with any insurance provider, but we're happy to provide documentation to submit for reimbursement. Although your coaching sessions are conducted with a psychologist, we cannot bill your insurance because we are not offering mental health services. As therapy tends to be more long-term, coaching sessions are much more structured and focus on growth and actionable strategies to meet one’s goals. Coaching is usually short-term as it aims to give people the skills and resources they need to enhance their relationships immediately. 

Relationship coaching is quite affordable as it is effective. Typically, you’d pay a monthly fee of just $275, which includes video and/or face-to-face coaching sessions. In addition, exercises, homework assignments, assessments, and online learning will be used in between sessions to help keep you and your partner on task with achieving desired relationship goals. You may cancel at any time.