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Our mission is to change the face of couples therapy

Now in our second decade, we remain leaders in intensive couples counseling, helping relationships thrive. Our specialty is providing science-based couples therapy, using innovative approaches.

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For over a decade, Couples Therapy Inc. has helped 3500+ couples in an intensive format. It is all we have ever done, and we’ve gotten very good at it. Our cadre of professionals is exceptional. Our assessment instrument was designed specifically for effective intensive work. We are intentionally international and multicultural, constantly learning and evolving to improve our work.

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The story of how we got started

Welcome to Couples Therapy Inc. – I’m Dr. Kathy McMahon, the president, founder, and a clinical psychologist.

My own relationship challenges and experience with ineffective couples therapy were painful. Like many of you, I received inadequate couples therapy and quit, believing it was my relationship that failed, not the therapy.

I then divorced.

Years later, when I learned about science-based couples therapy, I was upset that no one (other than those same institutes) was talking about how damaging poor couples therapy is.

What passes for therapy with couples continues to this day to be insurance-driven and too often utterly ineffective. More than a decade ago, I decided to do something about it.

I began networking with skilled couples therapists and asked them if they’d be willing to devote part of their practice to doing marriage retreats and online couples therapy with me. I was surprised by the warm reception!

It turns out that they yearned to be part of a true couples therapy group. Most told me it was lonely to be the sole couples therapist among a sea of individual therapists.

Couples Therapy Inc. was born.

We’ve been practicing online internationally, as well as conducting in-person intensive couples therapy retreats, for the entire decade we’ve been a clinical practice.

If you’re unsure about whether couples therapy is right for you, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us for a free phone consultation. Let us help you and your partner reignite your relationship!

Sincerely, Dr. K

Kathy McMahon, Psy.D. Psychologist, Sex Therapist and President and Founder of Couples Therapy Inc.

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Our core beliefs & values

We have always been international by intention. We value a broad tapestry of ages, ethnicities, languages, and knowledge, but we all share a passion for working with couples.

We believe couples therapy isn’t for every couple.

We believe couples therapy isn’t for every couple. Couples therapy is stressful work and too emotionally challenging for those who have trouble regulating themselves or perceiving the world around them accurately. Many refuse to entertain the notion that two different points of view can both be valid. They expect the therapist to “change” their partner or convince their spouse to agree with their point of view. Neither is the work of couples therapy.
We believe couples therapy, the way it is practiced today, is substandard.

Sadly, most couples therapy is haphazardly done by insurance-reimbursed therapists, working half the time they need to provide services for which they need more training. Forty-five-minute sessions are designed for individuals, not couples. These are reasons why couples see little progress.
We believe couples need larger blocks of time than insurance companies will reimburse.

We believe couples need larger blocks of time than insurance companies will reimburse. Just like you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole, you can’t squeeze two people into a time slot designed for one. And insurance doesn’t pay for couples therapy in the USA anyway. If they paid for your couples therapy, one of you got a psychiatric diagnosis.
We believe that the best therapy comes after a thorough assessment.

We believe that the best therapy comes after a thorough assessment. Couples can walk in, and you can ask them questions, but it wastes a lot of valuable clinical time. As the weeks wear on, couples become more frustrated and hopeless. In contrast, we want to know a great deal about you before you arrive. We want to ask targeted, intelligent, and informed questions based on the knowledge you have already provided us.
We believe that couples therapy is a specialty.

We believe that couples therapy is a specialty. However, just as surgery was practiced by any physician at the turn of the century, our field has yet to be recognized as needing specialized post-graduate education. No graduate school in the USA has adequate training in couples therapy. Being observed doing couples therapy and developing skills happens after you’ve become licensed.

Our Team of Experts

You’ll find only highly qualified therapists here

Half of our group have doctoral degrees; one-third have the coveted title “Certified Gottman Therapist” (less than 500 worldwide claim that title). Advanced training in multiple models and a decade or more of experience working with couples make our group uniquely suited to help. Discernment Counseling, Imago, and Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy are just some of the additional training they possess.