Couples Therapies
Conveniently massed sessions to save time & money (less than half the cost of traditional couples sessions) with minimized scheduling & travel demands.
Consistently receiving high praise for instrumentally restructuring and fortifying a re-envisioned and re-engineered relationship.
Dr. Mason continues to integrate the Gottman Method in Marathon sessions so couples will receive the full relationship analysis with completion of initial assessment.
Start on a Friday and by Monday your relationship’s trajectory can be reoriented to a much better future!
Approximate Pricing:
4-6 Hour 1/2 Day ♦ $550-750
8-10 Hour Full Day ♦ $899-1000
Full Weekend ♦ $1750
Call to arrange your package. 415-370-4256
Learn how to effectively join forces, synergize individual strengths, & marshall resources to orchestrate a successful first 7 years.
Safeguard, shield, & rise above the most common personal and partnered challenges: Sex, money, decision-making, leading/enhancing, leisure, family, safety, household standards, & commitment behaviors. Intentional planning to address unique liabilities & develop resources to address inescapable challenges inherent in every partnership. Yours will just run remarkably smoother!
Single Session Intro with take home DIY ♦$250
3 Session Mini-Course ♦ $500
6 Session Full Course ♦ $900
10 Sessions: Full Course + Individual Sessions &
Couple Specific Dynamic Analysis + discounted rate on future services ♦ $ 1275
The 7 Principles of Making Marriage Work (Gottman Institute’s signature couples program) can always be arranged in a weekly 1 hour format or customized to fit your unique situation.
Contact us for more information.
415-370-4256
From post-affair detection/discovery, to how to disclose an affair, from ending an affair and recommitting to your partner to how to set up a therapeutic separation, these sessions clarify next steps and help you see beyond the fog. This therapy is designed to help you feel more confident about the right thing to do for you and your family.
You’ll be guided through the necessary steps to recovery, healing, and the re-engineering of your relationship. Learn how to affair proof your relationship, prevent the cascade of behaviors that lead to affairs. Clear up the ambiguity. Take comfort in understanding what to expect after the affair with expert support and trustworthy guidance.
Learn the trick to communicating with your partner to reach the truth and set healthy boundaries. Solve perpetual problems and address resentments that if neglected destroy relationships by sabotaging secure attachment and intimacy.
Affair recovery is often arranged as an initial Marathon session with subsequent traditional follow-up sessions as needed. There is a science to relationship recovery after betrayal.
Call to create a package that works for you or take it one session at a time.
A warm welcome to relationship 2.0!
This therapy begins with an initial analysis. Traditionally, this would take (3) 90 minute sessions. Quite a few couples choose to use a 1/2 day Marathon which often completes the assessment.
Coalesced data from individual interviews, questionnaires, and couples interview outline strengths and challenges unique to the couple’s dynamic.
Thanks to data-driven treatment planning and a scientifically sound relationship model, couples therapy using the Gottman Method, expeditiously identifies key practices to adopt (to achieve your goals) while meticulously supplanting adaptive behaviors to replace unhelpful behaviors driving partner dissatisfaction.
With a precision treatment plan, thoroughly vetted take-home exercises, and skillfully executed guidance, couples feel confident to continue progress on their own. This therapy is designed to prevent dependence on the therapy/therapist to maintain therapeutic successes.
As nearly 69% (According to 40 years of couples research via the Gottman Institute) of interactions are conflict-producing or conflict-responding, having the right knowledge and skill-base means you navigate expertly for the benefit of the relationship. Clients receive step-wise instruction to develop efficacious conflict communication. Because conflict is a healthy part of every relationship these skill sets are invaluable.
And when conflict goes sideways, which it will, from time-to-time, clients have directions to follow to prevent poisonous resentments from taking hold. Regrettable incidents are properly repaired, leaving you and your partner with hope and renewed closeness.
Many couples complete therapeutic goals and appreciate recommended follow-up care. Dr. Mason will reach out to you at recommended follow-up intervals (usually, 1 month, 6 months, & thereafter annually or bi-annually). In this way, your re-invigorated relationship receives on-going support from your therapist, who knows you and prizes your relationship history, strengths, and challenges.
Based on the (Gottman Institute’s) Bringing Baby Home Workshop, these sessions include a peek into, or deeper analysis of the dynamics of your partnership. The habits, strengths & challenges of your pre-baby world play differently in the post-baby environment. Couples who want to grow their relationship versus watching it wither on the vine, take smart steps to protect and preserve their most precious connection–the best legacy to pass on to one’s children is a functional and thriving positive relationship between their parents!!
Effectively renegotiate roles & responsibilities with mindful and intentional anticipation of the requisite changes in the post-baby epoch. Support one another better as you embrace (versus fight) the brave perspective shifts that accompany parenthood. Feel better during the metamorphosis of your significant identity transformation.
These sessions better equip your partnership by offering concrete communication and conflict management skills you will come to rely on to increase the responsiveness, flexibility, and adaptability needed in the weeks, months, and years to come. Plus we cover all the tough subjects and how to get through together. A strong partnered relationship is ont of the best treasures you may ever offer your children.
3 session Mini-Course ♦$450
5 Session Full Course + Complete Couples Analysis with suggested areas for maximizing strengths and targeting areas for improvement. ♦ $650
These are private sessions with Dr. Mason. Better Treasures also offers group/building community experiences via Workshops.
Want to reinvigorate and enliven your partnered sex experience? Dr. Mason guides you through the Gott Sex? program, where you are updated with the sex habits of the Relationship Masters.
You’ll also receive the latest evidence-based therapeutic interventions to reignite passion and end between-the-sheets avoidance.
If you and your partner struggle to create comfort in negotiating a mutually satisfying love life, there is hope. And it is not impossible to create sustainable changes.
It starts with little things, communication is king, and there are so many fun exercises to make approaching this area of your life workable and pleasurable.
Sessions cover:
- Changing Attitudes About Sex
- Reaching New Altitudes of Satisfaction.
- 3 Skills to a Better Sex Talk
- Updating your Sex Road Maps
- Initiating & Refusing Sex
- Sustaining Quality & Quantity
4-6 sessions ♥ $750
Parents today have it rough. Less support. Less inherited models of effective, safe, and secure parenting. The greatest contribution to developmental psychology has been the findings in the field of the neurobiology of attachment. These findings, which reflect a confluence of neuroscience, biology, and socio-emotional and behavioral sciences illuminate and substantiate a new path for parenting, devoid of harsh punishments, but not requiring helicopters, manipulation, coercion, or authoritarianism.
While adherence to the science of parenting may be daunting, the truth is that making mistakes is necessary, good, and useful.
Secure attachment is the first goal. It requires rupture, responsiveness, and repair. It is a process all of us can learn. The benefits extend transgenerationally. The world peace-process starts at home, in the sweet moments of love shared in a glance, in arms that don’t flinch no matter what pain is being shared, in shared laughter and dried tears. In togetherness.
For many of us, about 40-60%, it is a process we learn as a gift of love to our children. A gift that extends to our partner, our family, friends, and beyond.