Couples Therapy and Marriage Counseling in Evanston, IL
Nurturing Relationships supports you in maintaining your individual identity while embracing your relational identity.
By understanding how you move as individuals in your relationship with each other, we help you reconnect with vulnerability and trust.
Couples Therapy
Even strong relationships hit rough patches. Whether you’re feeling distant, caught in the same arguments, or unsure how to love forward together, couples therapy offers a space to slow down, communicate clearly, and rebuild trust.
Our therapists will help you reconnect by working through patterns with honesty and a deeper understanding of each other. You’ll learn to move with empathy and allow your relationship to address difficulty – rather than let difficulty get in the middle of your relationship.
What we specialize in
Communication issues
Conflict resolution
Work-home relationship balances
Outside stressors and life transitions
Expectations and values
Trust and vulnerability
Integrating lives
Growing your relationship
How you’ll benefit After couples therapy
Feel less reactive and more openly vulnerable together
Be able to turn arguments into conversations
Find shared goals and experiences
Feel like you’re on the same team
Become more than roommates
Learn more about each other with greater curiosity and interest
Be able to grow intimacy and connection
Stop avoiding conversations by feeling prepared to handle difficult moments
Feel like you're moving from eggshells to walking on solid, common ground
What to expect
OUr pricing model
- 200 intake session
- $175 therapy session
Our clinicians are in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) PPO and will submit insurance claims on your behalf.
Private Workshops For Couples
Growing Your Relationships
Offered by our founder and couples therapist, Katelyn Easter, this workshop will help you have deeper conversations, hold space for your needs, and invite vulnerability with your loved one. You’ll leave with a foundation for honesty, insight into words and actions, and knowing how to lean into mutual trust and care.
One-Day Couples Workshop
Saturday or Sunday
4 hours of counseling for $1,000
Two-Day Couples Workshop
Saturday and Sunday
8 total hours of counseling for $2,000
After the series, you will receive additional guidance and referrals to help move your relationship forward.
We encourage you to visit this Couples Therapy blog post for more insight.
We’ll focus on understanding your relationship – how it began, how it’s grown, and what challenges you’re facing. We’ll also begin defining shared goals that will drive our treatment.
- Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Narrative Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
We urge you to contact the National Domestic Violence hotline for more critical support.
Call: 1-800-799-7233 or Text: “START” to 88788
How our therapy process works
Informed consent is a pillar of our approach, and we want you to know exactly what to expect from Nurturing Relationships. Here’s the process of how we’ll work together:
Setting Goals
We begin by creating a personalized treatment plan that outlines what you want to work on and how we’ll get there. From the first session, we’re building a shared understanding of your goals and checking in to make sure the process stays aligned with what matters to you.
Strengthening Bonds
It’s all about nurturing relationships, including ours. Throughout our work, we pay close attention to the client-clinician dynamic to ensure a strong connection. We’ll have ongoing conversations about your goals, the methods we’re using, and the strength of our therapeutic bond. Your feedback and comfort are essential to the process.
Learning and Practicing
Through evidence-based approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), you’ll start gaining practical skills like emotional regulation, distress tolerance, effective communication, and understanding patterns, values, and needs. These skills are practiced in session and applied in real life, helping you respond – rather than react – in difficult moments.
Digging Deeper
Once there’s a strong foundation of skills and regulation, we begin unpacking the deeper layers like attachment patterns, family of origin dynamics, and the emotions beneath the surface. With time, trust, and reflection, you’ll develop insight into why you respond the way you do – and gain skills and techniques to address what’s within and beyond your control.
Nurturing Connection
We help nurture a system for your long-term progress. We’ll look into what systems we need to put in place for you to maintain positive change with support from your community.
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