Invite vulnerability, curate intimacy

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other’s arms, holding love, asleep.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

Who Is Appropriate for Couple’s Work?

If you are in a relationship, engagement, marriage or “situationship” looking to improve communication, increase understanding, break maladaptive relationship patterns and grow in your partnership, couples therapy is right for you. Whether you are struggling with a recent act of partner betrayal, issues with trust, difficulty with communication, difference in desires and vision or one of the many other hardships life lovingly throws our way, we’ve got you.

*All genders and sexual orientations welcome.

What Does a Session Look Like?

A 50, 75 or 115-minute session curated to foster intimacy, vulnerability and connection. Sessions may look different week-to-week and couple-to-couple. Typically, though, a session will include a series of prompts, conversations, and experiential exercises designed to provide authentic connection, safety and containment to difficult conversations, and a platform for each partner’s feelings and concerns to be heard and understood.

What Methods Are Used?

No one couple is the same.  For that reason, our couple’s therapists will carefully assess your current needs and presenting concerns, listen to your desires and goals, and create a trauma-informed therapeutic cocktail (alcohol-free, of course 🙂 of various techniques and modalities, including but not limited to: EFT (Emotionally-Focused Therapy), Gottman principles, Attachment Theory, Motivational Interviewing, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and more. These fancy terms primarily mean that sessions will aim to incorporate skills, conversations and education to attune partners towards one another by digging beneath the surface to uncover resentments and needs, communicate feelings, challenge negative core beliefs, establish or re-establish safety and trust and, ultimately, work as a team rather than opponents.

Our therapists can also facilitate a Therapeutic Separation, if and when appropriate or requested. A Therapeutic Separation is similar to a legal one but different in that the end goal and motivator is to resolve issues and move towards reconciliation, rather than termination. If the couple, ultimately, decides that parting ways is best, the couples sessions can serve as a safe place to process, plan and amicably part.

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Jessie Gladden LPC-MHSP

Meet Our Couples Therapists

Jessie is trained in EFT and often incorporates The Gottman Method and Attachment Theory into her work. Her most valuable training, though, comes from lived experience. She and her husband engaged in years of couples counseling that improved communication, aligned goals, fostered attunement and deepened intimacy and connection. Although her marriage, like any partnership, will always hold room for continued growth and refinement, she attributes much of her happy marriage today to the difficult yet rewarding journey of couples therapy.
Meet Jessie
Outdoor, vertical shot of Caverly Warren standing and smiling at the camera
Caverly has experience working with couples and families in both residential and outpatient settings. She utilizes an eclectic approach, combining relational, experiential, and attachment focused therapies. Caverly loves working with couples of all kinds, but has a particular heart for working with couples who are either wanting to become parents, or are already navigating parenthood together.
Meet Caverly
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