Therapy in Maryland
The Foundation Series
A personalized couples therapy experience for people building toward commitment
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You are not here because something is wrong. You are here because what you are building together matters and you want to get it right.
The Foundation Series is a structured, deeply personalized couples therapy experience designed for people who are ready to invest in their relationship before the hard moments arrive. Not because you are broken. Because you are intentional.
Before Forever
Most pre-marital programs hand you a checklist.
Have you talked about finances? Check. Kids? Check. In-laws? Check.
And while those conversations matter, a checklist does not tell you why you fight about the same thing every time. It does not explain why you shut down when your partner gets frustrated, or why certain topics always seem to go sideways no matter how many times you revisit them.
The Foundation Series goes deeper than a checklist. It helps you understand the patterns underneath so you can build something that lasts.
The Problem With Traditional Pre-Marital Counseling
This is not a curriculum you sit through. It is a personalized experience built around you.
Every couple brings something different into a relationship, different histories, different attachment styles, different fears, different longings. The Foundation Series is designed to honor that. Your sessions are tailored to what you actually need, not a generic script about what couples should cover.
You will leave with more than insight. You will leave with a Personalized Relationship Handbook, a document built specifically for your relationship that you can return to again and again.
What Makes This Different
- Engaged or moving toward a long-term commitment
- Wanting to understand each other more deeply before taking the next step
- Navigating a significant life transition together: moving in, getting married, starting a family
- Not ready for ongoing therapy but wanting more than a single session or a weekend workshop
- Committed to building something intentional, not just hoping for the best
The Foundation Series is designed for couples who are:
Who This Is For
The Foundation Series is structured across a suggested 8 sessions, with the flexibility to add or reduce sessions based on what your relationship needs. No two couples are the same and the series is designed to reflect that.
What We Cover
Session 1 — Joint Assessment
We begin by getting to know you together. This session gives us the foundation for everything that follows and ensures the series is tailored to what you actually need.
Session 2 — Individual Assessment, Partner A
Each partner has their own full individual session with me. This is a dedicated space for you to share your own history, your own experience of the relationship, and anything that feels important to name outside of the joint space. These sessions are not confidential from the couples work, what comes up individually informs everything that follows and helps me build your Personalized Relationship Handbook with real depth and specificity.
Session 3 — Individual Assessment, Partner B
Same as above for the second partner. Having a full session with each of you individually gives me a much richer picture of who each of you is and what you each bring into this relationship.
Session 4 — Attachment Patterns and Your Cycle
We explore how each of you learned to attach and how those patterns are already showing up between you. We name your negative cycle together.
Session 5 — Your Sexual Cycle
An honest, thoughtful exploration of how your emotional patterns and your sexual relationship are connected. This session is held with care and without judgment.
Sessions 6 — Your Values
Based on your priorities, we spend time on the topics that matter most to you — from family planning and finances to monogamy, and everything in between. The number of sessions spent here may flex depending on what surfaces.
Session 7 — Repair
We build your repair toolkit — the strategies, signals, and agreements that help you find your way back to each other after conflict.
Session 8 — Strengths, Community, and Looking Forward
We close by naming what you have built, celebrating your strengths, and sending you forward with your Personalized Relationship Handbook and a clear sense of the resources available to you.
Some couples move through this arc efficiently and complete the series in 8 sessions. Others want more time on a particular topic or find that the work opens up territory worth exploring further. Extension options are available — see below.
Inside your handbook:
- Your attachment styles and how they interact
- Your negative cycle mapped and named in your own language
- Your triggers and protective behaviors
- Your inner world: how you each see yourself and each other
- Your primary emotions and attachment needs
- Your sexual cycle and what connection looks like for each of you
- Your strengths as a couple
- Your repair toolkit
- Your values map and areas of alignment
- Resources and recommendations tailored to your relationship
This is not a generic workbook. It is a living document that belongs to your relationship, something to return to when things get hard, when life gets busy, or when you simply want to remember what you built together.
Your Personalized Relationship Handbook
The Foundation Series is structured across 8 sessions and includes:
What We Cover
Your Attachment Patterns
Understanding how each of you learned to love and how those patterns show up in your relationship today. This is the foundation everything else is built on.
Your Negative Cycle
Every couple has one. A pattern that gets set in motion when things get hard, faster than either of you can catch it. We name it, map it, and start to interrupt it.
Your Sexual Relationship
An honest, shame-free exploration of how your emotional cycle and your sexual connection are linked and what safety, desire, and intimacy actually look like for each of you.
Your Values
The conversations that matter most, family planning, finances, religion, monogamy, in-laws, career, and more. You choose what is most important. We explore together.
Repair
Not conflict prevention but repair. Learning what each of you needs to find your way back to each other after a rupture. Because ruptures are not the problem, not knowing how to repair them is.
Your Strengths
What you already do well. What makes your relationship resilient. What to lean into when things get hard.
The Foundation Series $2,500
The Foundation Series is offered as a complete package, including all sessions across the suggested arc, your fully Personalized Relationship Handbook, all between-session materials, and any resources tailored to your work together.
Need More Time? For couples who want to go deeper on a particular topic or find the work opens up territory worth exploring further, additional sessions are available at $220 per session.
Is This Covered by Insurance?
The Foundation Series is offered as a private pay package and is not billed through insurance. Depending on your plan, you may be able to use HSA or FSA funds toward the cost of the series. I am happy to provide documentation to support this if needed.
Investment
- 8 personalized couples and individual therapy sessions
- Two full individual assessment sessions
- Fully Personalized Relationship Handbook
- Between-session reflection prompts and materials
- Values mapping and priority alignment
- Repair toolkit built specifically for your cycle
- Recommendations for ongoing support tailored to your relationship
What Is Included
I want this to be accessible. The Foundation Series can be paid session by session or as a package — whatever works best for you.
Pay as you go
Sessions are billed individually at the time of each session.
Pay in installments
The $2,500 package can be structured as:
Two installments: $1,250 at Session 1 and $1,250 at Session 5 Three installments: approximately $834 monthly beginning at Session 1
Custom arrangement Reach out to discuss what works for you.
Payment
Most couples spend thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, planning a single day of celebration.
The Foundation Series is an investment in every day that follows. For the cost of a rehearsal dinner, a photographer, or a honeymoon upgrade, you will leave with a deeper understanding of each other, a map of your patterns, a repair toolkit, and a personalized document that belongs to your relationship for life.
The couples who do this work early do not just have better weddings. They have better marriages.
A Note on Value
Know a couple who is building toward something lasting? The Foundation Series is one of the most meaningful gifts you can give, something that will serve them not just on their wedding day but on every day that follows.
Reach out directly to purchase The Foundation Series as a gift and I will handle the details.
Gifting The Foundation Series
Spaces are limited and filled on a first come, first served basis.
Ready to Begin?
How to Get Started
Book a Free Consultation
A 20 minute phone or video call to answer your questions, make sure the series is the right fit, and talk through scheduling and logistics. There is no pressure and no obligation.
Complete Your Intake
Once you decide to move forward, you will receive an intake questionnaire and consent documents before your first session. This helps me hit the ground running and ensures Session 1 is as useful as possible.
Begin Session 1
Your first session is a joint assessment. This is where we get to know each other, understand what you are working toward, and begin tailoring the series to your specific relationship.
Do the Work
Over the course of your sessions you will build something real, a shared language, a deeper understanding of each other, and the tools to navigate whatever comes next.
Receive Your Handbook
At the close of the series you will receive your Personalized Relationship Handbook, a document built entirely around your relationship that you can return to again and again.