Our Services

Couples Therapy

Do you feel frustrated and alone in your relationship? Are you discouraged because your best efforts don’t seem to help? Angry because you feel misunderstood and criticized? Do you see the same pattern happening over and over again?

Relationship advice is everywhere you look in our media. You may read books, listen to podcasts, and watch shows all focused on the work of changing relationships. You might be the one in your relationship who keeps trying or the one who has given up – if you want expert direction and support to change your relationship, you both have to be in the room. Change happens in couples therapy as a result of having a different experience with your partner… a different kind of conversation… over and over again… as Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy said: “We change relationships by changing the emotional music.”

Relationship-Focused Therapy teaches you to:

Identify and interrupt negative cycles
Understand how power is used in your relationship
Develop greater emotional awareness and expression
Build secure attachment and trust
Navigate transitions and challenges together
Heal from relationship injuries
Strengthen intimacy and connection

Fee-for-Service Couples Therapy:

We don’t take insurance for couples therapy at Third Wave and here is why: Insurance — whether Medicare, Medicaid, or private — requires an identified patient, a diagnosis, and a treatment plan built around one individual. No insurer reimburses for relational distress (Z63.0) as a standalone diagnosis, because in their framework, relationships aren’t billable clients. Medicare does cover family sessions when medically necessary as part of treating an individual’s diagnosed condition like depression or anxiety — but when the goal is the relationship itself, that doesn’t apply. Paying privately means no diagnosis on your record, full confidentiality, and therapy that treats both of you. That’s the only way we know how to do this work with integrity.