Couples and Family Therapy in Portland

What These Sessions Are For

Couples and family sessions often focus on a specific pattern the two of you, or the family, want to change. It might be how a disagreement starts, how it escalates, or how it ends with everyone retreating to separate rooms. The point is not to decide who is right but to see the exchange clearly enough that each person can try something different. Everyone in the session has a say in what you work on, and goals are set together.

What Couples Bring

For couples, the starting point might be communication: conversations that loop, one partner going quiet while the other pushes harder, or small comments that land as criticism. Sessions can focus on managing conflict and on building the relationship skills that can help restore closeness, such as asking plainly for what you need and hearing a request without defending. Or you may mainly want to get on the same page about the big and small things of everyday life.

What Families Bring

Family sessions might center on communication and conflict between parents and children or teenagers, such as the same argument about school or screens that starts at dinner and ends with a closed door. They can also help a family adjust together to a transition or milestone, like a move, a graduation, or a child heading into the teen years. For families adjusting to life after divorce, sessions can work on co-parenting and on what blending a new family asks of each person.

Format, Fees, and the First Call

Couples and family therapy is $225 per 50-minute session, usually weekly. Online sessions are possible when everyone joining is located in Oregon at the time of the session. In-person sessions take place at 1125 SE Market St, Portland, OR 97214, with details confirmed before scheduling. To cancel, please give at least 48 hours' notice. Before anything is booked, a free 15-minute consultation by phone or video gives you room to describe the pattern and ask how sessions would run.

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