Relationship and Marriage Counseling in East Renton Highlands, WA
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Relationships
Avanour Behavioral Health Clinics PLLC
Psychologist, PsyD, LMHC, LMHCA. LSAW. LSW
Avanour provides compassionate relationship and marriage counseling for couples experiencing communication difficulties, recurring conflict, loss of trust, emotional distance, intimacy concerns, or major life transitions. Our clinicians create a respectful, balanced space where partners can better understand one another, express their needs, resolve conflict constructively, and rebuild emotional connection. Counseling is tailored to each relationship and focused on creating healthier, more supportive, and lasting partnerships.
0 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
Relationships
Alignwell Modern Therapy
Counselor/Therapist
Lindsay and Jane both work with individuals and couples who want to improve communication, navigate conflict, and strengthen emotional connection. Therapy focuses on understanding patterns in relationships and developing healthier ways of relating to one another. Our couples' therapists are highly trained and use the PACT and EFT models.
20 Years Experience
In-Person Near East Renton Highlands, WA
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA
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Ian Hagemann, MSW
Counselor/Therapist, MSW, SWAA 60977729
When working with couples or groups in sexual and/or romantic relationships, I specialize in non-monogamous, polyamorous, and other open relationships. I believe in enthusiastic consent, healthy boundaries, and mutual respect. I also
7 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
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Melanie Carey
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA
Relationships often bring both deep connection and deep activation. Even in loving partnerships, it is common for couples to find themselves stuck in repeating patterns of conflict, distance, miscommunication, or emotional disconnection that can feel difficult to shift on their own.
In therapy, we slow down these patterns and begin to understand what is happening beneath the surface of interaction. From a psychodynamic and attachment-based perspective, we explore how each partner’s early relational experiences, protective strategies, and emotional needs are shaping the dynamic in the present.
Rather than focusing only on communication skills or surface-level conflict resolution, this work supports a deeper understanding of the emotional cycles that keep couples stuck — including pursuit and withdrawal patterns, sensitivity to rejection, shutdown responses, and unmet needs for safety, closeness, and autonomy.
Using a trauma-informed and Focusing-Oriented approach, we also pay attention to the body-based experience of relationship moments. The “felt sense” can reveal important information about what is happening internally during conflict or disconnection, often before it can be fully put into words. Learning to notice and stay with these internal signals can create more choice, regulation, and empathy in real time.
Therapy supports partners in developing the capacity to stay present with themselves and each other, even in moments of discomfort. This includes increasing emotional awareness, strengthening repair after conflict, and building more secure and responsive connection patterns over time.
Carey Counseling offers support for individuals navigating relational challenges as well as partners in both traditional and non-traditional relationship structures, including polyamorous and consensual non-monogamous relationships.
This work is especially supportive for couples who feel stuck in repetitive cycles, emotionally disconnected, or unsure how to reconnect after rupture — and who are seeking a deeper, more embodied way of understanding and transforming their relationship patterns.
2 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
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Debiruth Stanford
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, DWTF, CEQP
"Relationships succeed or failure, gradually and then suddenly, one conversation at a time." Fierce Conversations/Susan Scott
Relationships of any kind depend on the quality of the conversation. No conversation. No relationship. I help you be seen and heard so that you can move into choosing the relationship you want. I work with all kinds of relationships: married, partnered, open, polyamorous, friends, parents and adult children, siblings. Even business relationships. Let me draw from the best of Gottman Technique, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Emotional Intelligence, and others to assist you in creating the right conversation and the best relationship possible.
27 Years Experience
In-Person Near East Renton Highlands, WA
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA
Relationships
Annie Kurz
Counselor/Therapist, M.A., M.B.A., LMHC
Ms. Kurz has been working with couples for 15 years. Typically she meets with the individual who reached out with a full session, then a separate session for the spouse and then she brings the couple in together. Some couples make significant progress in 10-12 sessions, but others continue to seek on-going support. She is well-read and practiced in Gottman Institute literature and research (John and Julie Gottman) and attended their weekend retreat years prior. Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couple's Therapy is also a structure she follows whereby each member of the couple learn how to listen and to share so that the other hears and understands.
20 Years Experience
In-Person Near East Renton Highlands, WA
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA
Relationships
Dr. Michael Drane
Therapist, LMHC
I really enjoy helping people with relationship issues and have been helping to save relationships for many years.
10 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
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Finley Anderson
Therapist, LMFT
In couples work, I help partners slow down the patterns that are keeping them stuck. We explore what’s really happening underneath the conflict: the fears, the unmet needs, the old wounds each person brings to the relationship.
3 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
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Yukiko K Hartman
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MS, LPCC, LMHC
Why are relationships so sweet some time and so difficult other time? It's because we have emotional connection with our loved ones. In fact, building close relationship and maintaining it require a lot of awareness of what's happening in you and your partner, and between two of you. Also, knowing how to maintain emotional connection and how to repair the connection quickly when it's broken is the key for you to keep your important relationship going. In my therapy, we will look into your relationship to see what is not working and how it has affected you and your partner. I will introduce to you many elements of healthy relationship and have you learn new skills and behaviors. Relationship issues are often complicated and take time before you see the improvement. So, you may need to commit to therapy, but I believe it is worth your time and effort if you think your relationship is important for you.
15 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
Relationships
Brian McCormack (Connemara Counseling)
Counselor/Therapist, LPC-A/LMHCA
I provide relationship and marriage counseling to help couples improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen emotional connection. Using evidence-based approaches such as cognitive-behavioral and emotionally focused techniques, I support partners in understanding patterns of interaction, rebuilding trust, and developing healthier ways of relating. My work focuses on fostering mutual respect, increasing intimacy, and creating practical strategies that promote long-term relationship stability and satisfaction.
2 Years Experience
Online in East Renton Highlands, WA (Online Only)
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in East Renton Highlands, WA Statistics
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in East Renton Highlands, WA average 17 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 99% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (70%), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (41%), and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (37%).
Average years in practice
17 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Accept insurance
34%
Offer sliding scale
38%
Gender ID
| 54% |
Female |
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| 41% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 59% |
In Person and Online |
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| 40% |
Online Only |
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| 1% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 70% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 41% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 37% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 34% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 33% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 32% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 28% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 63% | Young Adult |
| 57% | Senior |
| 41% | Teen |
| 21% | Children |
Client Focus
| 55% | Women |
| 44% | LGBTQ+ |
| 43% | Men |
| 25% | Military / Veterans |
| 23% | Hispanic / Latino |