Middle Way Wellness
Middle Way Wellness
Invest in your future together.
Build a resilient, joyful, and lasting partnership before life gets complicated. Evidence-based, inclusive, and tailored to modern couples.
Our program gives you concrete tools and a deeper understanding of each other that you will carry into every season of your relationship.
Relationship researchers have found that couples often struggle for years before seeking professional support. By then, negative patterns including resentment, contempt, and emotional withdrawal are often deeply entrenched and much harder to shift.
Premarital and pre-commitment counseling flips that script. Instead of addressing damage after it is done, you come in with momentum and goodwill on your side. You learn the skills before you need them under pressure.
Even happy, deeply compatible couples bring different attachment histories, communication defaults, and unspoken assumptions into their partnership. These are not flaws; they are human. But without a shared framework for navigating them, they can slowly erode even the strongest foundation.
Premarital counseling gives you that framework: a shared language for conflict, clarity about your values and expectations, and the tools to repair quickly when things go sideways, because they will, for every couple.
69%
Of relationship problems are "perpetual problems" rooted in personality differences between partners, according to Gottman Institute research. The goal is not to eliminate conflict, but to navigate it well.
90%+
Accuracy with which Gottman researchers could predict divorce by observing couples' interaction patterns, per longitudinal studies spanning over 20 years. The patterns that predict breakdown are identifiable and changeable.
30%
Average improvement in relationship outcomes for couples who completed premarital education compared with those who did not, according to a meta-analytic review of premarital prevention programs (Carroll & Doherty, 2003).
Both have their place. But there is a real difference in what is possible when you come in with love and openness instead of exhaustion and hurt.
We draw from the most rigorously researched approaches in couples therapy and adapt them to your specific relationship.
No values pushed on you. No pressure to fit a mold. We work with modern couples in all their forms.
Courtney and Caitie both love working with couples, and each brings their own training and perspective to the room. They strike an important balance between compassion and directness: they will point out the relational patterns that are hard to look at, and you will feel held along the way. After your consultation, Courtney will match you with the therapist who is the best fit for your relationship.
Warm, collaborative, and honest. A safe space for couples to slow down, be heard, and get clear on what they want together.
I love working with couples because relationships are where so much healing happens, and also where old wounds and unspoken needs show up the loudest. Together we slow things down so you can see the patterns that keep you stuck and build the communication, trust, and emotional connection you both want.
My style is warm and collaborative, and I will also be honest about what I see. Some sessions focus on practical tools you can use at home. Others make room for what is happening underneath the conflict. Either way, both partners will feel heard.
Supervised by Jennifer Korenchuk, LPC, PhD
Mindful, grounded, and direct. Helping couples work through conflict, rebuild trust, and feel closer.
I love helping couples turn toward each other in the moments that usually pull them apart. Drawing on the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and a trauma-informed lens, I help partners understand the cycle they get caught in and what each of them needs underneath it.
I bring a mindful, grounded presence, and I am direct. I will name the patterns that are hard to see from the inside while making sure you both feel safe enough to look at them. My background in somatic work and yoga also helps couples notice what happens in their bodies during conflict and learn to settle together.
All couples inquiries begin with a free consultation with Courtney.
Schedule a ConsultationA clear, structured process designed to feel supportive, not clinical.
A 15-minute video call with Courtney, with both partners attending, to discuss your goals. She then matches you with your best-fit clinician.
Before your first session, you will each complete online assessments that help your therapist understand your relationship's strengths and growth areas.
Each partner meets separately with your therapist to share personal history and any concerns you would like to explore privately first.
Over 4 to 8 sessions, you will build skills, have structured conversations, and create the rituals and tools you will carry forward together.
Pre-commitment counseling is private pay only. Insurance requires a diagnosis for one partner, but in relationship work we do not view one person as the problem. We focus on the partnership as a whole. A limited number of sliding scale spots are available for couples in financial distress, with 60-minute sessions from $120 and 90-minute sessions from $175 based on household income; ask about availability during your consultation. HSA and FSA funds may be accepted; check with your plan administrator to confirm your coverage before your first session.
No pressure, no commitment. Please make sure you can both attend so Courtney can hear both of your goals.
All couples inquiries meet with Courtney first. In your consultation she will:
Private pay · Limited sliding scale spots available · HSA / FSA may be accepted; check with your plan administrator · In-person in Ferndale, MI · Virtual throughout Michigan