Couples Therapy in Madison, WI

Rekindle Joy. Deepen Your Connection. Strengthen Trust in Your Relationship.

Get to Know Your Partner on a Whole New Level.

We provide couples counseling, premarital therapy, and family therapy to partners throughout Wisconsin. Our therapists have supported hundreds of couples and families in enhancing their relationships, and we genuinely love helping partners grow closer together.

During couples sessions, we use research-informed approaches and tools to help you identify areas where you may be getting stuck and to unlock new understanding and deeper connection. We’ll assist you in understanding each other’s emotional needs, which may be influencing the patterns that create conflict or disconnection.

We often try out different strategies and work through areas of tension experientially during sessions, allowing you to leave each appointment with practical ideas and strategies to improve your relationship.

Support for partners

  • Premarital counseling
  • Therapy for married and unmarried couples including LGBTQIA+ couples
  • Pre and post baby support for couples
  • Parenting sessions
  • Bringing Baby Home Workshops and couple sessions for new and expecting parents
  • Prepare Enrich Assessments
  • Support through transitions including moves, family changes and the empty nest period

Here are a few things we can address together in couples therapy

  • Premarital counseling

  • Preparing for the addition of a new child to your family

  • Postpartum challenges

  • Infertility

  • Parenting: aligning parenting styles, managing challenges in parenting

  • Blended families

  • Communication challenges

  • Adjustment and life transition challenges

  • Ambivalence about staying in the relationship

  • Trust concerns and infidelity

  • Intimacy challenges or desire differences

  • Financial disagreements

  • Navigating extended family or in-law dynamics

  • Cultural differences

  • Managing stress and external pressures

  • Differing life goals or values

  • Trauma

  • Grief and loss

“Being the ‘best you can be’ is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”

— Sue Johnson

Insurance and Couples Sessions

Most insurance providers do not offer coverage for couple’s therapy, even if Kind Therapy is in your insurance network.

Couples Therapy in Madison, WI - Premarital Counseling, Bringing Baby Home Workshops, Prepare ENRICH

While we always want to support the use of insurance benefits, we do not bill insurance for couple’s therapy, as it is not considered a “medical necessity” by insurance. To bill insurance for couple’s therapy, we need to diagnose one partner with a mental health diagnosis and all sessions and documentation must be focused on treatment of that partner’s mental health needs. This can interfere with our ability to effectively work with partners relationally, and it can skew the treatment towards one individual’s concerns rather than the relational dynamic between the couple.

Therefore, most couple sessions are an out-of-pocket expense. Health savings account and flex spending plan dollars can often be used for these appointments, if you have this benefit available to you.

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