Relationship and Marriage Counseling in Clarks Summit, PA
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Brian Swope
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Relationships must be able to adapt to the any of the lifespan changes that are inevitable - job and financial changes, children and in-laws. The list is extensive. Relationships are different than friendships in that they require work - deepening communication, making time for intimacy and sex and managing individual growth/exploration. Doing this work without building resentment and defensive is one way that therapy supports relationships to make them more responsive to the changing needs across time.
16 Years Experience
Online in Clarks Summit, PA
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Dr. Marion Rudin Frank
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
Making room for two different people is often a challenging relationships. Behavioral and cognitive strategies are important components here.
41 Years Experience
Online in Clarks Summit, PA
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Dr. Mike Strand
Psychologist, PsyD
Every couple faces challenges that can create distance instead of closeness, turning conversations into conflicts. I see the struggles behind silent dinners and unresolved disputes that linger like unwelcome guests. My couples therapy provides a bridge back to each other, offering tools for communication, understanding, and renewed connection in your relationship.
18 Years Experience
Online in Clarks Summit, PA
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Dr. Jason Wang, Inflection Points Therapy
Psychologist, PhD
I offer strengths-based, topic-focused therapy for couples with a generally stable relationship foundation. This work can help partners understand one another more deeply, communicate more clearly about the topic, prepare thoughtfully for challenges, and approach important decisions with greater intentionality. Although I remain attentive to the broader context of your relationship, the specific area bringing you to therapy will remain the primary focus. If you are seeking therapy centered on the relationship as a whole or on concerns spanning multiple areas, comprehensive couples therapy with another provider may be a better fit.
My couples work is limited to three areas:
**Pre-marital or pre-commitment therapy** offers a guided, semi-structured opportunity to prepare for a life together. We may explore communication and conflict, trust and commitment, intimacy, values and expectations, identities and cultures, family and community, finances, careers, work-life balance, and your shared goals and vision for the relationship.
**Financial therapy for couples** focuses on the psychological, emotional, relational, and cultural dimensions of money. Our work may involve understanding each partner’s money history and beliefs, communicating more openly about finances, navigating differences in values or risk tolerance, addressing financial anxiety or avoidance, and approaching shared decisions more collaboratively and intentionally. This service is psychotherapy rather than financial planning or advising.
**LGBTQ+ family-building therapy for couples** supports partners who share a commitment to pursuing parenthood and want help choosing among or navigating possible paths to building their family. This may include assisted reproduction, surrogacy or gestational carrier arrangements, adoption, or other paths to parenthood. Therapy can help you clarify values and priorities, communicate about genetic or gestational connections and family roles, manage medical, legal, logistical, emotional, and financial demands, and navigate uncertainty or setbacks together. This is not discernment therapy focused on whether to become parents.
Across all three services, the goal is to help you engage the topic as a team while making room for each partner’s experiences, needs, values, identities, and perspectives.
8 Years Experience
Online in Clarks Summit, PA
Relationships
Dr. Elizabeth Coldren
Psychologist, PSYD, PSYPACT
I specialize in working with estranged families and have done this work for over 25 years, long before “estrangement” became a common term. I support adult children and parents who are navigating separation, cutoff, long‑standing disconnection, or early attempts at reconnection. Many families come to me unsure what is possible, what they want, or how to move forward without repeating old patterns or causing further harm. The families I work with are often thoughtful and self‑aware, but feel unsure how to apply that insight to such a painful, layered situation.
My approach draws on family systems therapy and is rooted in trauma‑informed care, relational repair, and deep respect for the complexity of family history. Sessions often explore what led to the estrangement, what may or may not be repairable, and what each person needs in order to feel emotionally safe. We look closely at communication patterns, boundaries, intergenerational trauma, and the roles each person has carried over time. When reconnection is desired, we move in careful, stepwise ways that are tolerable and sustainable for everyone involved.
I meet with adult children and parents, as well as estranged adult siblings who wish to participate together. This service is offered online for adults in PSYPACT states, including families who live in different states and want to meet together in a format that is emotionally safer and more feasible. My role is to offer structure, clarity, and close attention so the work does not move faster than anyone is ready for or stay stuck when more is possible.
26 Years Experience
Online in Clarks Summit, PA
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Clarks Summit, PA Statistics
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Clarks Summit, PA average 18 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (78%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (41%), and Family Systems Therapy (38%).
Average years in practice
18 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Accept insurance
34%
Offer sliding scale
43%
Gender ID
| 56% |
Female |
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| 38% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 66% |
In Person and Online |
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| 34% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 78% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 41% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 38% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 36% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 36% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 33% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 28% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 67% | Young Adult |
| 54% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 24% | Children |
Client Focus
| 54% | Women |
| 48% | Men |
| 43% | LGBTQ+ |
| 25% | Christian |
| 24% | Black / African American |