My partner won't come. Can I do couples work alone?

Yes. Relationship-focused individual counseling is real and useful — changing your side of a pattern changes the pattern. Many reluctant partners join later, once therapy stops being an abstract threat and becomes a concrete thing that's clearly helping.

Is couples counseling only for marriages in crisis?

No. Couples come for tune-ups, big-decision seasons (kids, moves, career changes), premarital work, and the slow drift of two busy lives. Earlier is easier — patterns are lighter to shift before they've calcified.

The counselor's client is the relationship. Expect both of you to be heard, both to be challenged, and the focus to stay on the pattern between you rather than a verdict on either person.

Who we help · Adults

Couples & Marriage Counseling in Spokane Valley, WA

Child, Marriage & Family Counseling provides couples and marriage counseling in Spokane Valley, WA, helping partners repair communication, work through conflict and infidelity, and reconnect — whether the relationship is in crisis or just drifting.

When the same fight keeps happening

Most couples don’t have fifty problems — they have two or three patterns that generate the same fight in fifty costumes. Couples counseling makes the pattern visible, slows it down, and gives you both a way to step out of it before it runs.

What we help couples with

Communication breakdown and recurring conflict
Infidelity and rebuilding trust
Emotional distance and disconnection
Marital conflict around parenting, money, or family
Premarital counseling
Divorce decisions and, when needed, respectful separation

What sessions look like

You’ll meet together with a counselor trained in relationship work. Early sessions map the pattern — how a conversation about dishes becomes a referendum on the marriage. From there, sessions are practice: communicating underneath the conflict, repairing after ruptures, and rebuilding the everyday connection that conflict has crowded out.

Getting started

Sandra Robinson (MS, LMHCA, LMFTA) focuses on couples and relationship work — meet the team or send us a message to get matched.

Common questions

My partner won't come. Can I do couples work alone?: Yes. Relationship-focused individual counseling is real and useful — changing your side of a pattern changes the pattern. Many reluctant partners join later, once therapy stops being an abstract threat and becomes a concrete thing that's clearly helping.
Is couples counseling only for marriages in crisis?: No. Couples come for tune-ups, big-decision seasons (kids, moves, career changes), premarital work, and the slow drift of two busy lives. Earlier is easier — patterns are lighter to shift before they've calcified.
Do you take sides?: The counselor's client is the relationship. Expect both of you to be heard, both to be challenged, and the focus to stay on the pattern between you rather than a verdict on either person.