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A Message From Our President
I’m so glad you’ve found your way to this webpage and I’m delighted to introduce you to Well Marriage Center and our team, mission, and vision. At its heart, Well Marriage Center is an effort to disrupt business models that don’t prioritize us therapists. We are reimagining private practice and as a group prioritizing what therapists want, need, and may have struggled to achieve in traditional private work. What this means is we are committed to bringing the best parts of private practice—autonomy and financial potential—to a specialized team setting for a richer vocational experience. Doing what’s best for therapists means everything to us and to me, and as you learn more about Well Marriage Center and the movement we’re creating together, I’m confident you’ll see that mindset permeate our approach in everything we do. I hope we get a chance to meet one another and talk about this exciting field of couples work!
Glen Denlinger, LCSW, BCD
President & Lead Clinician
A Message From Our President
I’m so glad you’ve found your way to this webpage and I’m delighted to introduce you to Well Marriage Center and our team, mission, and vision. At its heart, Well Marriage Center is an effort to disrupt business models that don’t prioritize us therapists. We are reimagining private practice and as a group prioritizing what therapists want, need, and may have struggled to achieve in traditional private work. What this means is we are committed to bringing the best parts of private practice—autonomy and financial potential—to a specialized team setting for a richer vocational experience. Doing what’s best for therapists means everything to us and to me, and as you learn more about Well Marriage Center and the movement we’re creating together, I’m confident that you’ll see that mindset permeate our approach to everything we do. I hope we get a chance to meet one another and talk about this exciting field of couples work!
Glen Denlinger, LCSW, BCD
President & Lead Clinician
Our Niche
Well Marriage Center is a group of therapists enjoying the challenges and rewards of specializing in one of the most difficult forms of therapy: couples! Our clinical mission is to provide the highest quality couples counseling to our communities by assisting couples in changing/healing longstanding toxic relationship patterns and learning new skills for deep and thriving relationships. If you love working with couples, we’re confident this can be a place where you find professional success and vocational fulfillment.
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Our Vision
We as therapists prefer to do deeper and more transformative work with couples. Our emphasis here is not short or brief-term work, but rather guiding couples into the deeper levels of their ‘stuckness,’ where the change can be more profound and long-lasting. We want to be doing more transformative work at Well Marriage Center, not simply putting band-aids on couples.
Approach & Model
What is most important to our group is the recognition that each of us as therapists have our own unique personality, strengths, and a style that works for us. We want you to become the best and most authentic version of your professional self that you can be as a couples therapist. We appreciate the many therapists and researchers who have contributed to this field’s understanding of relationship and couple dynamics/psychology. We learn from all of them and build eclectic toolboxes that include interventions and lenses which work best for our unique styles and our couples’ needs.
Trainings
Becoming a couples specialist is a lifelong journey! We value great training, including but not limited to: Dr. Ellyn Bader, Dr. John Gottman, EFT with Dr. Sue Johnson, Imago therapy with Dr. Harville Hendricks, RLT with Terry Real, various trainings with Esther Perel, and many others.
The Logistical Details
We might be a center in name, but it won’t feel like a center in practice, and that’s purposeful. We’ve tried to create a type of turn-key private practice with all the support a therapist could ever hope to have. Here are some of the details:
We value autonomy
Just like in a private practice, therapists set their own schedules and have full autonomy with scheduling. Therapists here also provide therapy in the way they see best for their clients, with no oversight/micromanagement from insurance companies or agencies.
We value financial autonomy and potential
This will feel like a private practice in terms of income. The more hours you do the more income you generate. It’s very important to us that therapists who perform 20 clinical hours a week make over $100,000. Depending on the area you are in, you can make significantly more than that. Therapists set their own rates. Therapists also offer discounted sessions whenever and as much as they want to.
We are out-of-network with insurance companies
All our clients are private-pay clients.
You get to do what you wanted to do when you got into this clinical field
Focus on client care!
We take care of all the business elements for you:
- We have an in-house, dedicated operations manager who takes care of all office and business logistics for you. HVAC isn’t working? Email them and they’ll do the rest. Get a subpoena (very, very rare)? Email them and they’ll take care of it. Need help with a client’s superbill that isn’t loading right for them? Email them and they’re on it! We support you with whatever you need.
- We have an in-house, dedicated intake team who take care of all incoming referrals for you. With private-pay rates, the amount of calls that actually turn into clients for most therapists isn’t high. We have trained intake specialists who talk with referrals, get them into your schedule, get them all your paperwork, and get them fully ready for your first session. We’ve even streamlined communication processes so that you update your schedule whenever and however you want. Full? No problem. Need clients? We got `em! You let us know the amount of hours you want and when those hours are. We do the rest.
- We have an in-house, dedicated marketing manager whose job is to make you look good! We do all the marketing and get all the referrals for therapists. We have over 10 years of proven marketing strategies and often have more referrals than our therapists can handle, which is always a good problem to have.
This is not a position that requires a lot of paperwork
We keep things simple and streamlined.
Great benefits
401k and CEU investment for all, and access to health insurance benefits for 25+ hours/week caseloads.
You get the highest quality training
We believe couples counseling is a lifelong journey. We also believe strongly in supporting you along that journey with the highest quality trainings we can provide. The training we’ve found most helpful and inclusive is the Developmental Model for Couples: Differentiation, Attachment, and Neuroscience. It’s developed by Dr. Ellyn Bader and offered through her Couples Institute in San Francisco. It’s a top notch, year-long program (written lessons with once a month calls) offered online, and is something we provide for every therapist who joins us. It’s a truly wonderful framework for helping couples and has resonated more than anything else with our team.
We are a group of 30+ therapists
The best part of Well Marriage Center for many of us is the camaraderie. There is a wonderful spirit of collegiality within our team, always someone who will be glad to do a case consult with you, and certainly a sense of belonging to something special. We meet in small groups once a month and also set aside time to be together as a whole team several times a year.
The Bottom Line
The reason for our success is therapists. Our team has developed an amazing reputation in each of our communities because of the helpful and hopeful way they’ve supported relationships. We believe every community should have a specialized couples clinic. As we continue to grow, we do it by honoring therapists. Every business decision we make uses this criteria: Will it be good for the therapists?
If you’ve read this far, if you’ve been intrigued by what you’ve read, and if you really enjoy working with couples, then we hope you’ll reach out and start a conversation. We’re always delighted to have opportunities to talk with other therapists in our communities and create connections.
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