Relationship and Marriage Counseling in Huntsville, AL
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Gregory Smith
Counselor/Therapist, LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), BCPC
As a certified facilitator for Prepare & Enrich, and a previous pastor, I have many years of marriage counseling, including pre-marital couples and couples needing to improve their relationship. My wife and I have taught several marriage seminars for struggling couples. Click here to learn more about Prepare and Enrich. https://www.prepare-enrich.com
21 Years Experience
Online in Huntsville, AL (Online Only)
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Cindy Yu
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
As a marriage and family therapist, I am well-trained and experienced in finding commonalities and resolutions between couples. My goal is to help couples understand the misunderstood, speak the unspoken, improve communication, and discover hope from hopelessness.
5 Years Experience
Online in Huntsville, AL (Online Only)
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Michelle Peacock
Psychologist, PhD
Relationships and couples/marriage counseling is one of the main reasons people seek therapy. Attachment research is clear about our need as human to connect with and have a loving relationship with another that is mutual and reciprocal.
21 Years Experience
Online in Huntsville, AL
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Dr. Jacob Lebar
Psychologist, PhD, JD
This is a secondary specialization of mine. Relationship stress is common in those dealing with primary mental health concerns. My specialty here is in the facilitation of communication, teaching communication tools, increasing insight on when the present emotions are too high and what to do about that. I also help my clients who have partners with mental health concern themselves and how to best communicate how those issues may impact them and the partnership as a whole.
11 Years Experience
Online in Huntsville, AL
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James Parker
Psychologist, PhD
In my experience, there are two vital things to truly understand when a relationship is not going as you would like. First, the communication is likely not where it needs to be. The implicit has to be made explicit so that there is little or no room for misunderstandings or misinterpretations to occur. Second, needs need to be known and conveyed to one another. If needs were respected and being met, things would likely be going well. Those two principles are essential to make sense of when difficulty arises in a relationship with a significant other. If addressing both of those does not improve the dynamic, then the work becomes understanding what emotional things are getting in the way of needs being known and communicated.
9 Years Experience
Online in Huntsville, AL (Online Only)
Huntsville is one of the most economically anomalous cities in the American South — anchored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the US Army's Redstone Arsenal, and a massive aerospace and defense industry cluster — creating a highly educated, well-compensated population with therapy demand centered on high-stakes career stress, security clearance-related anxiety, and the unique pressures of working in national security-adjacent roles. The city has grown dramatically in recent decades, attracting transplants from across the country, and therapists frequently address the social isolation and adjustment challenges of a fast-growing city where community roots are shallow for many residents. Huntsville Hospital provides institutional mental health resources alongside a growing private practice community. Huntsville's unusual demographic profile — high concentration of STEM professionals, veterans, and military contractors — gives its therapy community a distinctive character compared to other Southern cities of similar size.
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Huntsville, AL Statistics
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Huntsville, AL average 18 years of experience and charge around $210 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (78%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (38%), and Psychodynamic Therapy (37%).
Average years in practice
18 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$210
Accept insurance
32%
Offer sliding scale
41%
Gender ID
| 55% |
Female |
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| 40% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 62% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 78% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 38% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 37% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 35% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 35% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 33% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 28% | Integrative Therapy |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 62% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 23% | Children |
Client Focus
| 54% | Women |
| 47% | Men |
| 41% | LGBTQ+ |
| 27% | Military / Veterans |
| 25% | Black / African American |