Therapy that meets the two of you exactly where you are.
A couples-only outpatient practice in Pasadena, serving the greater Los Angeles area. We help partners get unstuck from the same fight, repair after rupture, and find a clearer next step together.
Same-day appointments
Available when openings allow — call us to ask about today.
All major insurance
Anthem, Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, L.A. Care, Magellan, MHN, and more.
LGBTQ+ affirmative
Affirmative care for queer, trans, and non-traditional couples is the norm here, not an asterisk.
Evening & weekend sessions
Life doesn't pause at 5pm. Telehealth seven days a week.
Most of the couples we sit with have already tried to figure it out alone.
You've had the same fight at 10pm on a Tuesday after the kids are asleep. You've made and broken the agreement to "talk less defensively." You've each privately wondered whether this is fixable, and neither of you has said so out loud.
It's okay if you can't quite explain what's wrong yet. Most of what brings a couple here is harder to name than to feel. Our job in week one isn't to fix anything — it's to help the two of you understand the pattern you're caught in well enough to start changing it together.
The relationship is the client. The therapist holds both of you with care, not a verdict.
Anything we ask you to try between sessions, we build together, in the room.
Week one is about understanding, not full disclosure. You move at your pace.
The first three weeks, plainly.
No pressure to share everything in the first session. No surprise homework. No taking sides.
Reach out
Tell us what's bringing you in — a few sentences is plenty. We'll write back the same business day with a few session times that fit both of your schedules.
Your first session
60 minutes. Both partners present. The therapist's job in week one is to listen for the pattern between you — not to assign fault, not to push toward a conclusion. You don't have to share everything.
The fit conversation
End of session, the therapist tells you what they're hearing and what working together would look like. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and refer you out. No hard sell.
Ongoing care
Most couples come weekly for the first 8–12 weeks, then taper. Some do shorter focused work. We'll plan it together.
"Are we bad enough yet?"
Almost every couple asks some version of this before booking. The honest answer: by the time you're asking, you're past the point where therapy would have been easiest. That's not a failure. It just means starting now matters.
Couples therapy is most useful long before things feel unmanageable — when the same conflict keeps returning, when you've started reading each other's silences, when one of you is leaning in and one is leaning out. You don't have to be in crisis to deserve help with this.
Therapy is probably worth a session.
- The same fight returns even when you both want it to stop.
- One of you is more sure about the relationship than the other.
- Something happened — an affair, a betrayal, a major rupture — and you don't know how to repair it on your own.
- You've stopped reaching for each other in the small ways. Not dramatic, just quieter.
- You're a few months out from getting married and want to start strong.
What people say afterward.
Composite testimonials below — illustrative of what we hear, not specific clients. Real ones replace these post-launch with proper consent.
"We had the same fight for two years. Three weeks in, we caught ourselves about to start it and laughed instead. That was the moment I realized something had actually shifted."
"I almost canceled twice before the first session. I'm glad I didn't. It wasn't what I was afraid of."
"I came in convinced I was the reasonable one. By session three I'd quietly noticed I wasn't always. That was hard, and it was the start of things getting better."
"After my husband's affair, I didn't think we'd survive a year. We're three years past it now. We talk differently than we used to. The therapy room is part of why."
"As a queer couple we've been talked-around by therapists before. Here, we were just a couple. That's the whole story."
"We did six sessions of premarital before the wedding. I think it gave us a vocabulary we'd never have built on our own."
"My ADHD had been quietly ruining our home for years. Therapy named it as a relational thing, not a 'me' thing. That changed everything."
"Discernment counseling let us figure out together that we wanted to stay. I don't know how we would have arrived at that on our own."
The things you're already wondering.
Does insurance cover couples therapy?
How much does couples therapy cost?
Will the therapist take sides?
What if my partner won't come?
The full FAQ has 60+ answers.
Insurance, HIPAA, telehealth, what your first session looks like — written in plain language.
Read the full FAQYou don't have to figure this out alone.
Couples therapy in Los Angeles, with a team that does this work and only this work. Reach out today — most replies go out the same business day.
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