Accepting New Clients (updated Mar 18)

LGBTQ+ Couples Counseling & Therapy in Seattle

Anchor Light Therapy is not just LQBTQ+ friendly, we are LGBTQ+ informed and LGBTQ+ affirmative. We offer an atmosphere free from homophobia, cisexism, prejudice, fear, and ignorance. 

Seattle LGBTQ+ Couples Therapists

Anchor Light Couples Therapy Program

Find out what to expect when you engage in couples therapy at Anchor Light

Open up in a Safe, Private Space

The therapists at Anchor Light Therapy support the sex-positive community. We are Poly and Kink friendly, LGBTQ+ friendly. We offer an inclusive and safe space for those that may have felt judged or misunderstood in other therapeutic relationships. promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of the human experience.

LGBTQ Couples Therapy Seattle – Gottman Method Certified

Anchor Light Therapy Collective therapists use the Gottman Method of couples therapy. Through this approach, we apply proven assessment techniques and intervention strategies to support you in learning how to navigate conflict, improve communication, strengthen friendship, deepen intimacy, build trust, and share your life’s purpose and dreams with your partner.

LGBTQ+ Issues We Can Help With

  • Trauma and PTSD Involving
    • attachment and prior relationships
    • societal misunderstandings and stigmas around relationships that are not heterosexual or monogamous
    • Sexual abuse/assault
  • Coming Out & Openness
  • Sexual Health & Satisfaction
  • Family planning and fertility obstacles
  • Outsider’s perceptions of your relationship
  • Family rejection
  • medical, social, or legal transition
  • Gender roles

Our LGBTQ+ patients typically find us when searching, “lgbtq couples therapy.”

Polyamory Therapy Seattle

Therapy for Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Consensual Non-monogamy

If you are considering opening your relationship, you might want some guidance on setting ground rules. Whether you are considering exploring these types of relationships or have long-established partnerships, couples therapy can help. Relationship therapy can be a great place to explore the needs that aren’t being met, and open up lines of communication between you.

EMDR Therapy Seattle

What Is Couples Counseling?

Going into your first session of couples counseling can feel intimidating at first. Couples therapy differs from individual therapy in that your therapist is treating you and your partner as a couple. Therapy is focused on the best interest of the couple, it is not focused on the interest of one of the partners.

However, couples therapy does include individual therapy at times so that your therapist can get to know you and learn your history and perspective as an individual as it pertains to your relationship. You do not need to be married or monogamous to go to couples therapy, any type of relationship or partnership can benefit from doing couples counseling.

When To Get Couples Counseling/Therapy?

Couples often head to couples counseling when they are unsure how to improve and repair the relationship. People often come to couples counseling when things get “bad enough” that they are thinking about ending the relationship. But couples counseling also works for partners who want to “tune-up” their relationship and remain on a healthy path – before a major relationship breakdown.

Gay and Lesbian Couples Counseling

Many same-sex pairs may experience extreme stress if every day supports are lacking in their lives—for example, familial, legal, religious, economic, and social support. Members of same-sex couples have experienced societal prejudice in different ways and have dealt with it internally in their own ways, but the effect of “minority stress,” or the effects of living with often negative social conditions, always exists to some extent.

We help couples who are actively searching for

  • “gay couples therapy seattle”
  • “gay marriage counseling seattle”
  • “gay couple counseling seattle”
  • “same sex couples counseling seattle”
  • “same sex couples therapy”
  • “ground rules for couples therapy”
  • “same sex marriage counseling”
  • “codependent counseling seattle for gay couples”

If you relate to any of these searches, then please schedule your free 20 minute consultation.

Transgender Couples Counseling

When we talk about the issue of gender-related to transitioning or couples with one or both partners identifying as transgender, gender nonconforming, gender-neutral, etc., it’s important to have a couples therapist that understands these experiences. Couples counseling for transgender couples can be effective when one or both of you are thinking about, planning or are in the process of transitioning.

Couples Therapy Pricing

Therapy creates a space for you to experience healing and progress in a way that can change your life. But of course, it’s also an investment of both time and finances. When you’re ready to commit to healing and transformation, here is what you can expect.

First session
$230

All subsequent sessions
$190 (50 minutes)

Insurance

We do not participate with any insurance panels. Anchor Light Therapy Collective is considered an out-of-network provider.

As a courtesy to any individual clients who wish to utilize their insurance benefits, We are happy to verify your out-of-network plan benefits to tell you what portion, if any, may be covered by your health insurance provider.

Out of Nework Insurance Options