Why Work With Us
Better therapy – closer team
Do you love your private practice but want to change the way you support couples? This part-time opportunity is offered only to clinicians with a proven track record of having trained in and have experience in couples therapy. You must have your own office and already be in private practice. We augment, not compete with, your own successful practice. Join us.
Given this exceptionally challenging work, we regret that we cannot accept interns or those without a fully independent license to practice.
Currently hiring in the following metropolitan locations:
Austin, TX
What We Offer
We are a team devoted to changing the face of couples therapy. Share the passion? Join us.
Working With Us
We work intensively –16 hours over a two day, one evening timespan — with highly motivated couples ready to make high-powered relationship change. Contrast that with working clinically with 16 couples or 32 different clients at a comparable clinical fee.
We look for savvy, mature, private practice professionals who want to associate with other exceptionally skilled practitioners like themselves, while maintaining their independence.
While no two couples are alike, you’ll be working with couples who are as invested in being successful in their personal lives as they are in their careers, education, or efforts to change the world. But their problems can be intractable and they expect both experienced professionals and those with a high level of talent and skill. We regret that we cannot accept interns or those who are not licensed to practice at an independent level.
Our Intensive Clinical Fees
We work with you to help establish your clinical fees. Intensive retreat prices for a weekend range between $4000 and $7000, after your first six intensives. Your fees are related to your educational attainment, location, and certification/experience with couples
Our administrative team handles all billing and payment questions.
We don’t compete with your private practice
We offer a few couples therapists a chance to hone their skills in a safe, supportive environment.
We aren’t a referral service or online-only service with hundreds of providers on our “panel.” Founded by a clinical psychologist and directed by an MBA, both women, we hire carefully and focus on retention, fit ,and those interested in advancing their skills, regardless of attainment.
At a glance:
- Twenty hours each year of ongoing advanced training devoted exclusively to couples
- Monthly clinical case presentations with advanced couples therapists and Master trainers
- Access to Discernment Counseling training and certification at no charge
- Billing, booking, screening and scheduling for every intensive couples therapy you conduct
- National and international reach to promote your clinical skills as a professional specializing in couples therapy
- Training on a unique diagnostic tool used to assess your couples relationship
- Peer contact, collaboration and support from some of the most advanced practitioners in the field
Couples Therapy intensive retreat Weekend
Times and information below reflect a typical Friday-Sunday intensive schedule. We are often able to be flexible with starting times and even starting days of the week, as some highly in-demand therapists offer mid-week intensives as well.
Day 1 (6-8 pm)
Here’s how your initial “warm up” meeting (and continuation of the assessment) will go:
You will have already received the couple’s BIG BIG Book © and will know a great deal about them as you begin. However, we do not begin treatment until after the in-person portion of the assessment is completed and feedback is given.
- Problems Defined
- Structured Oral History Interview
Day 2
9:30-4:30
- Videotaping Communication Patterns
A 10-minute videotape to study your communication style during a disagreement.
- Individual Meetings.
- Feedback & planning session
- The therapy
- Breaks and first-day wrap-up and questions
Day 3
Sunday 9:30-4:30
Here you continue to institute the treatment plan for the couple, pivoting when necessary to meet their needs
Get to know your couple before you meet them
Every question in the BIG BIG Book © provides you with essential information you will need to help the couple you’ll be working with. Couples are asked to examine problematic aspects of their relationship in detail. You’ll learn what’s going well and poorly both as individuals and as a couple.
When you join the team you are provided with carefully planned one-on-one training to help you to work through this comprehensive assessment. You are never alone as you hone your skills. If you need a consult, there is consultation available to you.
What is the BIG BIG Book ©?
The BIG BIG Book © helps couples to move into the present and examine their relationship in a new way. It helps them to put things into perspective. The frame of the problem becomes clearer as they make their way through the assessment. The BIG BIG Book © isn’t a fun “compatibility test” that couples complete in 5 minutes. Neither is it SYMBIS, Prepare-Enrich, or even the Gottman Check-up.
Yes, it includes the Gottman Assessment but much, much more. You’ll have a thorough couples therapy assessment tool that examines nearly every detail of a couples relationship. It’s like having a road map to use at the start of a long trip. You will have a good sense of the terrain, where you’ll need to go, and what the goals are.
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What our therapists say
We have asked a few of our team to comment on what it is like working in this format and for this company. Here are their thoughts.
“Couples Therapy Inc. has transformed my career – this is not an overstatement…” “I was… Havi Kligfeld Licensed Clinical Social Worker
I strongly recommend CTI to therapists who wish to further pursue intensive couples therapy.
Michael McNulty Couples Therapist, Chicago
I thought the job posting was a scam. It was just too good to be true. But it’s not. It was my dream…
Catherine Pfuntner Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Looking for more information on becoming part of our team?
Who We Are
What makes us different?
Committed to a diverse team of dedicated couples therapists, Couples Therapy Inc. has a single focus: exceptional couples therapy that puts the clients and the clinicians front and center. Our goal is to set the standard, not follow the pack.
We want you to have the time and energy to think, write, present at conferences, and have resources left over for your personal life…all while making a fair living. This is challenging work, make no mistake about it, but for those who have a passion for couples work, it doesn’t get any better than this.
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We select our clients carefully
Highly effective, intensive couples therapy is not for everyone.
Sometimes a couple that is looking to schedule an intensive needs to be referred for other services. If there is a history of domestic violence, ongoing drug or alcohol addiction or untreated mental illness we do not recommend scheduling an intensive until after those concerns are addressed.
Their call with our client services team is intended to ensure that our services are a good fit for your client. You are provided detailed notes of their call. A second call, speaking directly to you, allows for you to make a final assessment of fit and discuss their issues and your approach.
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Feedback from our couples
We are now committed to building a marriage that is fun and amazing.
We were in a 25+ year marriage with no real communication. One partner felt ending the marriage would be best.
Recent Client Reports
Our therapist was personable, funny, and impartial. We never felt like she was taking anyone’s side. After the first few moments of speaking with her, we both felt very comfortable.
She is highly intelligent and insightful. During the intensive, we learned new “truths” about each other. We began to understand how our childhood experiences played a key role in our marriage. We let ourselves finally be vulnerable. Instead of pursuing a legal separation, we are now committed to working on building our marriage into something fun and amazing.
Life changing, earth shattering, amazing changes.
I am not kidding when I say this absolutely hands down saved our marriage. I am now looking at the world differently. I cannot believe that this had such an immediate impact on us and I am forever, forever grateful.
Recent Client Reports
The weekend intensive is miraculous.
We have rediscovered the depth of our friendship. The weekend intensive is miraculous, with enough consecutive hours of therapy to dive deeply into our marital issues–and come out the other side with a real understanding of what we felt.
Recent Client Reports