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Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
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Insurance-Covered Couples Therapy in Tigard, Oregon
Feel Connected To Your Partner
You Still Love Deeply Again
Underneath the fights and the distance, you both still care, and with the right support, you can find your way back to each other.
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Even When Your Partner Turned Into Your Roommate, There’s Still A Way To Reconnect.
From the outside, most couples who reach out to us look like they’re doing okay.
You show up to the same events. You sleep in the same bed. And you get the kids to school.
But at home, the conversations have shrunk down to logistics.
Whose turn to cook, who’s picking up from practice, did you pay the thing?
Some couples are here because of one specific moment, a betrayal, a blow-up neither of you can walk back from, the word “divorce” said out loud for the first time.
Others are here because they just slowly turned into each other’s roommates, and maybe aren’t sure why.
And maybe you’ve already tried to bring back the connection with a few conversations that turned into the same fight.
Either way, with the right support, you can feel emotionally safe, understood, and connected with the person you still love deeply.
David Corse, LPC, on what the first session is actually like.
What Couples Therapy Gives You:
- You stop bracing before conversations start, and you can bring up something that’s bothering you without it turning into a three-day cold war.
- You feel like a team again. Even when you disagree, it stops feeling like it’s the two of you against each other and starts feeling like it’s the two of you against the problem.
- Home becomes a safe place again, because your partner has become someone you want to talk to about your day again, instead of someone you fight with.
Therapy Tailored To You
We started The Psychotherapy Associates of Oregon with one belief in mind:
Therapy should be centered on you, not on any one prescribed worldview.
Your values, your beliefs, and the way you and your partner define a good relationship are the starting points for us.
Why Work With TPA Oregon
Most practices don’t accept insurance because insurers often don’t classify it as medically necessary.
We work with these insurers to offer insurance on your sessions:
- Aetna
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicare
- Optum
- PacificSource
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
- UnitedHealthcare/Optum
- Oregon Health Plan (open card)
Our team includes clinicians with different specialties, so that the therapy fits the two of you, instead of the two of you having to fit the therapy.
Available seven days a week, in person or online.
A free 15-minute consultation first, so you can find out what this would be like before you commit to anything.
Get Started With Couples Therapy In Tigard
In 3 Simple Steps
01
Reach Out
Book a free 15-minute consultation. This is a no-pressure phone call where we’ll talk about what’s going on and see if we’re a good fit.
02
Start Structured Couples Therapy
We’ll begin with an assessment of your relationship’s specific strengths and weaknesses, then build a plan around what you two actually need.
03
Feel Like Partners Again
Finally reconnect with the person you still love deeply. You’ll notice less fighting, that you two actually want to talk to each other, and that the romantic flame in your relationship gets lit again.
Meet Your Tigard Couples Therapists
David Corse
Licensed Professional CounselorLPC · CADC III · CGAC II
People come to me carrying lots of different challenges, like addiction, depression, anxiety, trauma, or relationship struggles.
And whichever one is you, I have a passion for helping people with their transformation.
With couple therapy specifically, my job isn’t to decide who’s right.
It’s to help you both understand what’s actually happening between you, so you can find your way back to each other.
Abby Feinstein
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
I work with couples who’ve been impacted by violence, anger, or feeling fundamentally misunderstood.
Including relationships that don’t look like everyone else’s.
You shouldn’t have to leave parts of yourself at the door to get good couples therapy.
My job is to help you build a story for your relationship that includes the two of you feeling connected, emotionally safe, and understood.
See What People Say About TPA Oregon
Endorsements from licensed clinicians across Oregon and Washington, left on Psychology Today.
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Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
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Tom O’Leary
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
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Holly Shumway
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, NCC, LPC
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View profile on Psychology TodayDo You Accept Insurance?
Sessions cost $180-$205, depending on the clinician.
And yes, we accept all of the following insurances:
- Aetna
- Cigna and Evernorth (including Cigna EAP and Cigna Medicare)
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicare
- Medicare Advantage
- Optum (including Optum EAP)
- PacificSource
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
- UnitedHealthcare/UBH
- Oregon Health Plan (open card, non-CCO plans)
- First Health
- Medicaid
Plus, we can also provide a superbill if you use another insurance company.
Claim Your Free Therapy Consultation, And Connect With The Person You Still Love Deeply
This is a free, no-pressure 15-minute phone consultation to see how we can best help you. Most couples leave this call feeling more confident that they can handle their challenges.
Your information is confidential and isn’t shared with anyone outside the practice.
Or call (503) 451-6603. We get back to people the same day.
Visit Us In Tigard, Or Meet Online
You’ve probably gotten good at managing how your relationship looks to other people.
The version of your relationship you show at dinner parties, to your parents, and to your kids, in here, you don’t have to keep that up.
Our office is a quiet and unhurried place, where you walk in as you are that day, tense, exhausted, guarded, whatever it is, and that’s simply where we start.
7440 SW Hunziker St, Suite E, Tigard, OR 97223
Couples Therapy FAQs
How do we know if we actually need couples therapy?
Most couples who reach out to us aren’t in a screaming-match kind of crisis.
More often, they’re exhausted, stuck in the same argument, or feeling more like roommates than partners.
You don’t have to be on the edge of divorce for this to help.
In fact, many couples wish they’d started sooner, before the distance became this painful.
What if only one of us wants therapy?
That’s common, and it’s still worth reaching out.
A free 15-minute consultation is a low-pressure way to talk through what’s going on, without either of you committing to months of therapy on the spot.
We’ve tried couples therapy before, and it didn’t help. Why would this be different?
A lot of couples have had an experience where sessions felt unstructured, like paid space to keep having the same fight.
Our approach starts with an assessment of your relationship’s specific patterns.
Then, we target the work to those patterns, instead of only open-ended talk.
Will the therapist take sides?
The goal isn’t to decide who’s right.
It’s to help you both understand the pattern you’re stuck in together, and help you change it for the better.
Neither of you will leave feeling ganged up on or blamed.
We waited a long time to reach out. Is it too late?
If you’re both still willing to show up, you can still fix your patterns and feel connected again, even though it feels impossible right now.
Research on couples therapy has shown meaningful outcomes even for couples recovering from infidelity or years of high conflict.
Do you offer both in-person and online sessions?
Yes.
We see couples in person at our Tigard office and online across Oregon, seven days a week.
Do you accept insurance?
Individual sessions cost $180-$205, depending on the clinician.
And yes, we accept all of the following insurances:
- Aetna
- Cigna and Evernorth (including Cigna EAP and Cigna Medicare)
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicare
- Medicare Advantage
- Optum (including Optum EAP)
- PacificSource
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
- UnitedHealthcare/UBH
- Oregon Health Plan (open card, non-CCO plans)
- First Health
- Medicaid
Plus, we can also provide a superbill if you use another insurance company.
How do I get started?
Simply click the button below and book a free 15-minute consultation, or call us directly at the following number: (503) 451-6603
It’s a no-pressure conversation to talk about what’s going on and see if we’re the right fit for both of you.
And most couples leave this short call feeling more confident that they can handle their challenges.
You Don’t Have To Keep Drifting Apart
The couples who wait the longest are usually the ones who wish they hadn’t. You don’t need to have it all figured out to take the first step; you just need fifteen minutes.
