Virtual Couples Therapy • Connecticut
Couples Therapy for West Hartford Residents
Private couples therapy from the privacy of your own home
Understanding West Hartford Couples
West Hartford is home to people who staff the hospitals and insurers next door. Physicians, nurses, and partners on a call schedule share a house with someone who is tired of being the one who waits.
Hartford HealthCare, Saint Francis, and UConn Health in nearby Farmington shape a lot of these weeks. I mention those institutions only as the working landscape, and I am not affiliated with any hospital or insurer.
A lobby downtown, or outside a unit where a colleague also waits, is a professional exposure. Video removes it, and you meet from your own space. There is no clipboard and no shared bench.
Specialized Services for West Hartford Couples
I only work with couples, and that is the whole practice, so here is where I can help with the relationship in front of you.
General Couples Therapy
You keep having the same argument, and by now you could recite your partner's part, so we look at why you end up there and what each of you contributes.
Learn More →Infidelity Recovery
An affair can leave you questioning more than fidelity, and we address the betrayal directly, including the responsibility of the person who chose it.
Learn More →Intimacy & Sex Therapy
Feeling unwanted hurts, and so does feeling pressured or misunderstood, so we make room for an honest conversation about your sexual relationship.
Learn More →Neurodiverse Couples
When autism or ADHD is part of the relationship, advice that ignores that difference can leave both of you more frustrated, and I am a Certified Neurodiverse Couples Therapist (AANE).
Learn More →Maintenance Therapy
You do not have to wait until you are wondering whether the relationship will survive, because starting while you still like each other is a reasonable decision.
Learn More →Why Virtual Works for West Hartford Couples
Complete Privacy
There is no waiting room and no chance of running into a neighbor, a colleague, or a friend, because you meet from your own home.
Schedule Flexibility
Evening and weekend appointments are available, and because I keep a small caseload I can usually move a session when something urgent comes up between meetings. If you or your partner are in crisis or unsafe, call or text 988, or call 911.
Expert-Level Care
I only see couples, I have done this work for more than 20 years, and I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method Level 3, Relational Life Therapy, and sex therapy.
No Commute
You can skip the drive and log in from home, a hotel room, or any place where you can close the door, as long as you are physically in a state where I am licensed.
The Investment
I do not accept insurance, and I can give you a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement if you have questions about HSA, FSA or your plan, and the consultation is 30 minutes and $100, applied toward your first session, and I refund that fee if I am not the right fit.
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Call Schedules and the Person Left Holding Home
What the shift does to a marriage
From West Hartford the hospitals are close and the time together is not, so a long shift comes home as silence, irritability, or a partner asleep through the only window you had. Rotating nights make a shared meal rare, and the person off the schedule starts to feel like staff, and the person on it feels guilty and defensive at once.
I see couples where both partners are clinical, and couples where one is in medicine and the other has been running the household around an unpredictable calendar. Competing pagers, missed events, and the identity of being the fixer all belong in the conversation, and you can be excellent at taking care of patients while still contributing to the distance at home.
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Two formats, one method
We generally start with regular sessions, and when the roster makes a weekly hour impossible, a weekend intensive held in your home can carry more of the work, between stretches of nights you do not control. Regular sessions stay on Zoom.
The base of the work is Emotionally Focused Therapy, and I am trained to Gottman Method Level 3, and I use that material when you want a concrete way to talk. I am also trained in Relational Life Therapy, and I do not take individual clients. Couples are the practice.
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Payment, and the limits of what I will say
Ninety minutes costs $750, the consultation that precedes it is 30 minutes and $100, credited if you continue and refunded if I am not the right fit, I do not file an insurance claim, which also means nothing is routed through an employer health plan, though I can give you a superbill.
I will not tell you what a hospital, a licensing board, or an employer expects you to disclose. If that question matters, read the current wording from the body that asks. I am licensed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, provided that is where you are sitting for the session. Regular sessions are on Zoom from home.
Not in a Hospital Lobby
Hartford, Farmington, and Glastonbury are where you work
I have no office in West Hartford, and none in Hartford, Farmington, or Glastonbury. Those names are where you live and work, and regular meetings are a video call from the house. Hartford HealthCare, Saint Francis, and UConn Health explain your hours, and they are not partners of this practice.
School parents, neighbors, and people from a club or a department will not meet you in a lobby of mine. Join from home, from a call room only if you truly have privacy, or from the car after a shift.
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Common Questions from West Hartford Couples
Can we both be physicians, or a physician and a nurse, in the same session?
Yes. Two clinical careers in one house are a common reason people call. Competing shifts, competing guilt, and almost no overlap in waking hours all belong in the work. We protect a window you can both actually attend.
What if one of us is post-call and too tired to do this well?
Say so. We will either go gently or move the meeting, and I would rather reschedule than pretend exhaustion is a good use of the time. You may ask to move a session when something urgent comes up. If the situation is a crisis, call or text 988 or call 911. I do not offer emergency sessions.
Will couples therapy show up in hospital credentialing?
I do not send records to your employer, and I do not generate an insurance claim. I cannot describe what your hospital or board asks you to report. Check that language at the source, and the meeting itself is a video call from a place you control.
Also Serving Nearby Communities
I also work with couples from these nearby communities:
- Hartford, CT
- Farmington, CT
- Glastonbury, CT
A Therapist From Outside West Hartford
West Hartford is a small world, and I am not in it: I do not live in West Hartford, I am not at your events, and I do not know your friends. We meet on a private video call, and the work stays in that conversation, which for many couples is what makes an honest conversation possible.
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A $100 consultation is applied toward your first session, and I refund the fee if I am not the right fit.
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