Marriage Counseling Sacramento
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Marriage
Counseling
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Better Methods. Better Lovin.
Better Methods. Better Outcomes. Better Lovin.
Empathi's counselors provide hope
to spouses in Sacramento
The Answer Engine Block (Above the Fold)
Empathi provides expert marriage counseling in Sacramento designed to heal your relationship at its root, not just manage symptoms. Unlike traditional talk therapy, we use the Empathi Method combined with research-backed Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help Sacramento couples move from stuck patterns to secure, lasting connection. Founded by Figs O’Sullivan, LMFT, our approach has an 86% success rate in helping partners reconnect.
We are extremely selective about which therapists are invited to join our practice.
Each of our therapists are trained to use our proprietary blend of the Empathi Method and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). We’ll help you understand both your intrapersonal and interpersonal struggles in a way that guides you to communicate better, repair after fights, and feel more deeply and securely connected.
Clinical research shows that 86% of couples improve after a brief period of EFT guidance, and 73% have maintained their improvements when we check back two years later.
The Empathi Method: Your Sacramento Journey to Repair
We move you through a structured 6-stage roadmap:
- Acceptance: Validating that getting started is the hardest part.
- Alliance: Shifting the focus to “us vs. the problem” instead of “me vs. you.”
- Empathy: Seeing the hurt and love behind your partner’s reactivity.
- Vulnerability: Finding the courage to share the hurt behind your own reactivity.
- Connection: Creating breakthrough moments of deep, secure bonding.
- Resilience: Building the tools to rely on your bond during future stuck moments.
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The Problem: When "Fine" Becomes a Crisis
You’re here because something is broken. Maybe it’s the same argument about the dishes that ends in three days of silence, or maybe it’s the heavy, quiet realization that you’ve become roommates who share a mortgage but not a life. In Sacramento’s fast-paced environment, it’s easy to let your relationship slide to the bottom of the priority list. You aren’t “two assholes yelling at each other” you are two people protecting yourselves from very old hurts in a very bad way.
Do I need Empathi couples therapy?
When a couple gets married, they don’t anticipate marriage counseling in their future. For instance, they often dismiss pre-marriage counseling as unnecessary because they sincerely believe that their union will be impervious to troubles. Therapy is for other people, not them. But, as years go by, the rigors of life wear at them individually and as a couple until one day they look at each other and realize that they lost something along the way.
If your marriage has gotten to a place where you feel something you once had is now missing, you aren’t reaching the end of your run, you’ve just been given the opportunity for a new beginning. There is real hope. We’re here with expert marriage counselors experienced in providing tools and guidance that can help you take your marriage back. Contact Empathi and begin renewing your relationship today.
Why Standard Advice Fails You
Most “communication tips” are like putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg. If your nervous system is screaming that you aren’t safe or loved, no “I” statement in the world is going to fix that. We don’t focus on “treatment” or “symptoms”. We focus on the attachment logic underneath. Your reactivity isn’t a disorder; it’s a protest against disconnection.
Here are the most common issues people in Sacramento come to us with:
Financial stress and arguments about money are the biggest reasons couples look for marriage counseling.
People frequently look for relationship counseling in Sacramento because they feel like they can’t communicate with each other like they used to.
When that sense of emotional and physical unity is diminished, a marriage counselor can help couples reconnect.
Differences in belief on how children should be raised often come to the surface after a child is born. This can bring new stress to a marriage which previously seemed rock solid.
Unfortunately addiction and addictive habits sometimes present themselves after a couple is married. Addiction causes great harm to relationships and often seriously damages marriages.
Here's why our approach works
Our experienced relationship counselors apply reliably effective counseling methods. With the guidance of a quality marriage therapist, you can restore your marriage to what it once was or make it even better.
Through attachment theory, we guide our couples into building trust, which is the most important part of any relationship. With our help, you can build trust and restore your faith in your partner.
Our expertise in experiential psychotherapy techniques gives you guidance for recovering from behaviors that have a negative impact on a relationship. Allow us to help you and your spouse away from harmful habits and destructive behavior.
Empathi employs emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to turn conflict into communication. 86% of couples experience significant improvement through EFT. 73% continue to see that improvement throughout their marriage.
Here are the ways we make it easy:
- Experienced professionals welcome you and make you feel at home.
- We provide a free quiz to ease you into the process and help identify the root of your marriage troubles.
- We all fear the unknown. Our podcast Come Here to Me provides great insight into what to expect from marriage counseling sessions. You'll discover that there's nothing to be afraid of and sessions can even be fun!
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Begin the Empathi Process
Your expert counselor is here to guide you back to connection using Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy and the Empathi Method.
Acceptance
The hardest part is just getting started.
Healing starts with accepting you need help, booking a free consult, and showing up as you are. Everything that comes next will be easier as you’re held by an Empathi therapist and a proven process. From now on, you’re not alone in this.
Alliance
Feel like you’re on the same team again.
Explore your process and discover a unified narrative where neither of you are wrong or right, “the good one,” or “the bad one.” Learn to approach suffering and conflicts as an “us” problem instead of a “them” problem or a “me” problem.
Empathy
See the hurt and love behind their reactivity.
Strengthen your new narrative by accessing empathy to recognize the root of each other’s reactivity, how much you matter to each other, and what love is. Understand the cycles you get into with the help of your expert Empathi counselor.
Vulnerability
Share the hurt and love behind your reactivity.
Get to know, live in, and share your vulnerable feelings. Then, learn to let in the ways that those feelings are understood and accepted by your partner through the power of the Empathi method and Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy.
Connection
Feel deeply and securely bonded to one another.
Mend your relationship and your wounds through the understanding that you matter to each other. Learn to grieve, show up for, heal, and accept the most vulnerable parts inside of each other without sacrificing those parts in yourselves.
Resilience
Rely on your bond to get out of stuck moments.
Having proved your ability to resolve long-standing issues, heated conflicts, and negative cycles, face your future together with a certainty that you will not only survive those moments, but grow stronger and more connected because of them.
Figs' life's mission is to help couples feel more connected.
Figs is the creator of the Empathi method and the certification process for Empathi therapists. He’s also Chief Empathi Officer, husband, dad, wounded-healer and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered as a champion for healthy relationships.
Figs’ life’s mission is to help couples feel more connected.
Teale is a wife, mother, artist and passionate advocate for love relationships. She has a special focus on cultural sensitivity, parenting, and how to prevent and repair affairs and other relationship injuries. Teale loves working with people to facilitate their greater sense of self-acceptance and capacity to experience joy and connection.
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We offer virtual counseling across the nation.
We are passionate about healing relationships.
Our team of couples counselors and marriage therapists can help you reconnect and discover that loving feeling.
- Feel safe to be your true self in life and love.
- Heal from recent or past grief and loss.
- Connect in a deeper and more authentic way.
- Stop having the same argument(s) over and over again.
- Avoid being disappointed in each other so much.
- Recover from infidelity or other breach of trust.
- Get back to more joy, laughter, and fun together.
- Work on your relationship even though your partner doesn't seem available.
Frequently Asked Couples Therapy Questions
Q: How long does marriage counseling take?
A: Every couple’s story is unique, but our EFT-based approach is structured for efficiency. Most couples begin to feel a shift in their “teamwork” within the first few sessions as we identify the negative cycle keeping them stuck.
Q: Do you offer virtual sessions for Sacramento residents?
A: Yes. We provide high-quality virtual therapy across California, allowing you to engage in this deep work from the comfort of your own home.
How much does marital counseling near me cost?
There are no hard statistics on the cost of marital counseling in Sacramento. However, in California one can expect to pay between $45.00 and $200.00 per session, and one can expect the cost in Sacramento to be comparable. The cost ranges so greatly because some therapists are in higher demand for their experience and success rates. Some marital counselors might charge more than $200, but these are often highly specialized therapists with impressive success rates.
Empathi’s pricing varies, but it’s always worth every penny. Our marriage counseling professionals are experts who provide you with personalized marital guidance and teach you the tools to make your marriage successful and fulfilling.
What are the divorce statistics for Berkeley, CA?
Divorce is a painful and damaging experience. Most couples try to avoid divorce if they can, but it still occurs. Luckily, national divorce rates have been on a decline over the past three decades and the trend appears to be continuing.
California has one of the lowest divorce rates in the country. World Populated Review data places the divorce rate in California at 9.0%. The divorce rate in Sacramento is higher than that, at 11.8%.
There are many issues that contribute to divorce. Financial stress is the most common issue that leads to marriages breaking up. Marital infidelity and problems with communication also rank high as problems at the center of a divorce. These impact people across California and in Sacramento too. They are all issues that can be resolved and healed with quality marriage counseling.
How many marriage therapists are in Sacramento, CA?
The most recent data from BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) places just over 60,000 people employed nationally as marriage or marriage and family therapists. There are just over 32,000 marriage and family therapists employed in the state of California, which is the highest number in the nation. There are 1,440 marriage counselors in Sacramento, according to BLS statistics.
Many sites have a list for “best relationship counseling near me” to aid marriage therapy-seekers. A search of best marriage therapists in the San Francisco area places Empathi founder, Fiachra Figs O’Sullivan in the top 10 list on Yelp and the top 5 list on GuideDoc.
How do I choose the best marriage counselor near me?
First, you want to make sure you find a therapist who specializes in marriage counseling and has experience in the field. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find a qualified marriage counselor, but you’ll want to make sure the one you go with is right for you and your partner.
If someone you trust has overcome serious marital problems in the past, they most likely had a skilled therapist to help guide them through to the other side. Find out if your friend is willing to share their marriage counselor’s information with you.
But not everyone has a friend who’s repaired their marriage or a friend who wants to clue anyone in on their troubles. Looking online is the perfect way to anonymously narrow down which marriage therapists might be right for you.
Search for the best marriage counselors in your area. A therapist who’s done well for their clients is going to have superb reviews. When you’ve found a relationship counselor that seems to be what you’re looking for, give their state licensing board history a thorough review to determine if they have a record you’re comfortable with.
Here are some questions to help you decide:
- How long have you been practicing marital counseling?
- What training/qualifications do you have that makes you the right therapist for me?
- How long does marriage counseling with you usually last?
- How do you determine if I'm making progress?
- How will we know if counseling was successful?
- What are your views on divorce?
An experienced professional should be able to answer these questions clearly to give you a better understanding of their philosophies, values, and methods.
It’s important that you stick with counseling. The best therapist in the world can’t help if you don’t go to your scheduled sessions, and you’ll get the best results if you complete the counseling plan. Couples who’ve stayed with therapy until it was complete have better all-around results. They reap the benefits of better emotional health. They live longer and report being happier than before their counseling started—some would say happier than the day they were married.
Seeking out a quality marriage therapist is the best first step in repairing your relationship. Their training and expertise put them in a unique position to take an objective look at your marriage and determine what tools at their disposal are best suited to help you.
If you and your spouse need guidance to help restore your marriage, now is the best time to take action. The sooner you act, the sooner quality marriage counseling can help you. Come to us for quality counseling.
Contact Empathi right now and start the restoration process today!
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Between the emotional hurdle of accepting you need help and the logistical nightmare of finding a therapist you trust, actually starting couples therapy is the hardest part…
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- Pick a date & time for your free consult with an Empathi counselor.
- Show up for the call. Explain your circumstances and needs.
- Book a first session with the right therapist for your price point and situation.
- Show up for your first session.
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