Couples Counseling
Disatisfied with Disconnection
As a husband and father—and as someone who has been deeply affected and healed by counseling—I know that close relationships can hold both profound joy and profound pain. I work with couples who feel stuck in conflict, distance, mistrust, or patterns they have not been able to change on their own. My goal is to offer both partners a compassionate, steady place to slow down, speak honestly, and begin moving toward greater understanding, connection, durable hope, and lasting change.
Common Concerns for Couples
Couples often seek counseling after trying to solve the same problems on their own for a long time. You may care deeply about one another while feeling exhausted, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. Concerns may include:
- Recurring conflict and communication breakdown: The same argument keeps returning, but neither partner feels heard or understood.
- Emotional distance: You feel lonely, disconnected, or more like roommates than partners.
- Trust and betrayal: Infidelity, secrecy, broken promises, or feeling manipulated has made it difficult to feel secure together.
- Intimacy and sexuality: Differences in desire, affection, expectations, or past experiences are creating tension or avoidance.
- Stress and transition: Parenting, work, finances, grief, military life, or other major changes are placing pressure on the relationship.
- Old wounds and stuck patterns: Family-of-origin experiences, trauma, addiction, or spiritual wounds are affecting the relationship in the present.
Austin’s Approach to Counseling
I believe relationships are central to our well-being. So often, we are wounded in relationship, but it is also in relationship where we can experience healing. I listen carefully to both partners and work to create a safe, respectful space where we can slow down recurring conflict, explore what sits beneath it, and name the wounds and patterns affecting the present.
Together, we can practice healthier emotional, mental, and relational patterns. I bring my LPC, MAC, and MDiv credentials, graduate training in counseling and divinity, and professional experience working with couples and families in community, church-based, and independent counseling settings.
Costs and Next Steps
Couples counseling sessions are $210 for 90 minutes. I accept Tricare and Aetna and also offer self-pay or out-of-network options; because coverage for couples counseling can vary, please confirm your benefits directly with your insurer. Sessions are available in person in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area, and by telehealth for clients located in Colorado or Virginia. If you are curious but unsure whether counseling is the right next step, begin with a free 15-minute consultation. There is no obligation; it is simply a chance to ask questions and learn what couples counseling with me could look like.
Frequently Asked Questions
A: No. You do not have to wait until the relationship feels unmanageable. Counseling can give you a place to understand recurring patterns and begin practicing new ways of relating before the distance grows.
A: Uncertainty is understandable. You can begin with questions during the free consultation and learn what working with me could look like before deciding on a next step.
A: My role is not to declare a winner. I listen carefully to both partners and help you understand the emotional and relational patterns that keep pulling you into the same conflict.
A: Yes. Christian counseling and spiritual concerns are among the areas I address. You can tell me how you would—or would not—like faith to be part of counseling.
A: Couples sessions are 90 minutes and cost $210. I accept Tricare and Aetna; please confirm couples-counseling benefits with your insurer.