Strengthen your partnership through couple therapy.

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Being in a relationship is hard work. Whether you’re facing the stress of upcoming nuptials, navigating life as newlyweds, dealing with the overwhelm of growing your family, or handling communication hurdles, our therapists are here to help you reclaim genuine connection and thrive in your partnership.

Our Bethesda couple therapists tailor their approaches to align with your relationship, communication style, and needs. We explore how family upbringing and past relationships influence your present partnership, we identify and overcome stuck habits and difficult cycles that interfere with relationship growth, and we equip you with strategies to practice outside of our sessions so that you can continue to foster trust and intimacy at home.

Quality care built on expertise and experience.

Your relationship matters, and so does the care it receives. When conflict rises, miscommunications increase, distance grows, or stressors come your way, you want to know that your relationship is in good hands. Our team is made up of quality therapists specifically picked for their excellence and compassion. Every relationship therapy provider at Capital Crescent Collective has been trained specifically in couple and family therapy from the very start of their career at the University of Maryland, where they learned from top experts in the field. Having our roots firmly planted in systemic therapy training within The School of Public Health means that we will always be prepared to see you and your relationship in context.

Through both our specialized training and years of practice, our couple therapists have gained extensive experience with many diverse couples at all stages of life. Starting a new relationship off on the right foot, learning and appreciating one another’s families of origin, preparing for marriage, becoming new parents, managing growing careers, transitioning to retirement, and deciding whether to uncouple all come with unique challenges. When these stages are new or overwhelming to you, your relationship deserves a therapist who not only has ample practice supporting couples through them, but is genuinely excited to help you grow together.

Compassionate understanding of your needs.

At Capital Crescent Collective, we understand that no one therapist is the best fit for every couple. You and your relationship will feel the most growth and healing with the therapist that is the best fit for you. Because of this, we have taken pride in creating a team of passionate therapists who have spent their careers developing a diversity of specialties. Each of our therapists has taken on unique learning opportunities and pursued different experiences so that together we can better serve our whole community.

Relationships and the way we feel in them are of course informed by our identities and backgrounds. We know that the story of your relationship will naturally include each of your neurotypes, disabilities, genders and sexualities, and cultures of origin. While each couple will have their own experience of how these identities intersect, your couple therapist will have the background knowledge and understanding needed to deeply hear your story and help you hear each other as well.

Having practiced for our entire careers in the DMV, our therapists understand the unique pressures on your relationship living here. When you are working high stress jobs, managing difficult commutes even to leisure activities, and trying to fit so many activities in your schedule, you need couple therapy that is easily accessible with a provider who understands your stressors. Therapists at Capital Crescent Collective frequently support couples who commute or travel for work and have atypical or demanding schedules. That is why we are committed to providing a wide range of availability, whether you need morning, evening, or weekend appointments. Our virtual appointments eliminate the need for another stressful commute and allow you to join a session from the comfort of your own home.

Your relationship deserves support when you are:

  • Entering a new phase of life together. You and your partner may be learning to cohabitat with one another, preparing for marriage, becoming parents, growing in your careers, launching children into adulthood, transitioning to retirement, and more. Our couple therapists understand the unfamiliarity and overwhelm that can follow entry into any new territory of life. We are excited to help you define your shared values, identify resources available to you, communicate needs to each other, and create a shared vision of your path forward so that you can proceed with confidence together.
  • Adapting to a new stressor. Being in relationships means that we do not have to face life’s hardships alone. It is possible that you and your partner are adjusting to health changes in yourselves or loved ones, finding a rhythm with new or increased career demands, managing conflict with your families, working hard to be there for your child in a difficult time, being impacted by major local events and policy changes, or even navigating conflict or distance between yourselves. In couple therapy, you will have the opportunity to practice holding each other’s stress, define what teamwork looks like in your relationship, build skills for communicating and caring even when stress runs high, learn one another’s emotional patterns and needs around stress even more deeply, and strengthen your connection to be even more resilient.
  • Cultivating understanding. The journey of being in a relationship means that we get to continue learning about our partner all the time, both by gaining newer or deeper insight into how they have gotten to today and by meeting the person they are becoming as you both grow. Together you might building understanding of your own and one another’s cultures and families of origin, the meaning of major life events and past relationships, your styles of attachment and emotional needs, and your neurotypes and the support needs that come with them. Couple therapy can provide a safe space to deeply explore each of these topics and what they mean to you, practice both sharing and listening around vulnerable truths, collaborate on solutions for when your expectations and needs are not aligning, and correct misunderstandings so that you can see one another authentically.

Our couples therapy expertise includes:

  • Adoption and blending families
  • Arguing and disagreements
  • Aging parents
  • Communication and conflict resolution
  • Coping with life changes, expected and unexpected
  • Cultural differences
  • Disconnection and loneliness
  • Family conflict and in-law issues
  • Family-of-origin issues and childhood wounds resurfacing
  • Federal Government employment
  • Grief and loss
  • Infertility and pregnancy loss
  • Infidelity, affairs, and trust issues
  • Interracial couples and families
  • LGBTQ couple and family issues
  • Loss of intimacy or connection
  • Medical conditions and chronic illness
  • Military service
  • Parenting
  • Pregnancy and new parenthood
  • Parenting as a united team
  • Premarital counseling
  • Sexual issues and rebuilding passion
  • Stress
  • Trauma and abuse recovery
  • Work-life balance and too-busy schedules

Couples counseling at Capital Crescent Collective will provide you with guidance and tools to improve your connection to your partner. Our couples therapists are specially trained to help couples repair and enrich their relationships. We understand the unique situations that couples can face. Couples therapy can help you resolve emotional and interpersonal struggles.

Our passion is working with couples in couples therapy who are motivated to make positive changes in their lives and relationships. Our Bethesda couples therapists have expertise helping dating, engaged, married, committed, and separating couples. Our practice is LGBTQ friendly.

Your couples therapist will make sure that therapy suits your unique relationship, couple style, and needs. We will talk about what you learned from the family you grew up in and from your past relationships, and explore how those experiences influence your present situation. Your couples therapist will help to highlight cycles in your current relationship and talk about how these patterns keep you ‘stuck’ in conflict and disconnection. We often encourage out-of-session practice so that the insights and skills you learn in the office help you build intimacy and trust at home. Frequently, we will refer to books that extend and deepen our discussion.

Sometimes, couples are not sure whether they’re ready for couples therapy.
Discernment Counseling for couples on the brink of separation or divorce provides greater clarity and confidence in decision making about the future of a marriage, based on a deeper understanding of what’s happened in the marriage.
It’s a short-term, powerful modality for making this most important decision.

Request a consultation today to learn more about getting started in couple therapy with Capital Crescent Collective in Bethesda, MD. Your relationship deserves good help.