A: No. Most insurance and job benefit plans don't cover life coaching as a service, so most likely this will be an out of pocket cost to you.  

However, sometimes employers offer wellness stipends that use a client reimbursement model. We'd be happy to provide the necessary invoices for that, if you're one of the lucky few to have such a benefit. 

A: There are certainly differences between the coaching and therapy methods.  Choosing the right one for you/your situation can be confusing, so here's some quick info in hopes of clarifying.  

Coaching is most effective when you are committed to making changes in yourself and your relationship. It is great for relatively high-functioning folx who want a plan of action for change and the mentorship and accountability support to ensure it happens. Coaching can and does support deep healing work, but its focus is not on the past so much as it is on creating your future. Coaching is usually time-limited and more directive in its support than therapy. 

Therapy is a better fit for more intense or severe mental health experiences such as severe or complex traumas, severe and persistent mental illness, disordered eating, personality disorders, psychosis, substance abuse, and violent behaviors. Therapy can also offer diagnoses, which coaching cannot. It tends to be longer-term support and more client-led. 

We truly believe that you can benefit from both simultaneously (if needed), and we may recommend individual therapy to support the mental health, needs of one or both partners as they go through our couples coaching program. 

The International Coach Federation (ICF) uses this analogy:

“A coach is like an athletic trainer while a therapist is like a medical doctor specializing in sports medicine. Both draw from a shared body of knowledge that includes anatomy, kinesiology, nutrition, and the like. The trainer works from the assumption that the athlete is essentially sound in body and is focused on improving fitness and performance. The trainer will refer the athlete to the team doctor if there is reason to believe they have an injury. Similarly, coaches and therapists work with the same material but with different skill

A: Yes! 

Most of the time, couples therapy isn't able to offer you the kind of support, feedback, or accountability checks that couples on the brink of divorce or breakup really need. Plus, the support you do get happens only during your weekly or bi-weekly sessions (as opposed to ongoing support, like we can offer). This can result in momentum that drops off, or builds only very slowly, thus not getting couples the results or changes that they'd like... at least not very quickly.

Additionally, couples therapy doesn't usually include a lot of deep and essential relationship education. Sure, you might be experiencing improvements but do you know why? What's happening? What are you doing? How can you do more of it? What tools will you use to keep up the improvements when therapy is over?

Our programs are designed to empower you with the information and tools that we ALL need to be more effective and successful in relationships... (skills which, if you ask us, should really be part of our primary educational curriculum!)

In fact, as a PhD trained Couple and Family Therapist with over a decade of work in that role, Dr. Jeni has VERY intentionally helped to build our programs in such a way that they meet the needs that therapy so often doesn't, while also creating enough of an additional value that even people who are still going to and finding success in therapy can still benefit from working with us, without getting a lot of repeat in the type and "flavor" of the support and resources they're receiving.

Thus, our programs are a wonderful alternative OR addition to couples therapy and counseling!

So, if you're looking for a more effective solution than your standard couples therapy/marriage counseling path... you're in the right place! 

A: This answer depends a whole lot on you. 

If you can really put yourself into this work, you can significantly improve your experience in your relationship in about 3 months (or less sometimes). However, we see those results more often in our higher-level program where there is more direct support from us.

Still, even in our lower-level support programs (like the PowerfuLove Success System), we offer a ton of resources and support, and so if you are the kind of driven "doer" who will choose to use these supports, we KNOW that you'll experience change far more quickly than you'd expect, because what we teach you truly is SO life-changing. 

That said, we will add that the people that are most successful in seeing fast and dramatic healing and transformation exhibit  what we call, the 3C's.  (You can check out a video from Jeni on our home page where she talks more about what these are and why they're important.)

First, Commitment.  This means a commitment to the relationship to be sure.  But commitment also refers to the time and energy you commit toward engaging in the material, showing up to calls, doing the integration exercises, using the support, resources, and community, and being consistent in it. We recommend that our coaching clients find at least 2-4 hours a week to prioritize this work. The  more you put in, the more you get out... Also, we know life happens. ;)

Second is Courage.  Courage is about your ability to look at yourself and the situation with the honesty and vulnerability it requires.  Courage is also important when you try to do something you have never done, tried, or might be afraid of or resistant toward. Your nervous system's self-protection responses play a BIG role in what doesn't go well in your relationship... and doing something different can also feel really vulnerable and uncomfortable. This is where courage becomes so important. It's choosing love over fear. 

Finally, the third C is Coachable.  This refers to your ability to receive, trust, and integrate new learning, skills, tools, into your way of being in the world and in your relationship.  You can't take in new information with the door closed.  Additionally, learning is just a step on the journey of change.  Practicing, applying, refining, incorporating feedback, showing up and using the resources we offer and suggest is part of being coachable.

If you believe you have these qualities and are motivated to make your relationship everything it can be, then we are here for it! And we expect the transformations you seek will not be too far along.  

A: Yes... and no.

We offer a money-back guarantee ONLY for the purchasing of our digital courses. 

If you purchase a digital course and determine we aren't the teachers for you, we offer a 14-day money-back guarantee provided less than 25% of the course offerings have been consumed.

If you are paying for a membership monthly, you can cancel simply cancel at any time. 

There is a very intentional reason that we don't offer this "money-back guarantee" on our higher-level coaching programs... and it has everything to do with setting you up for success. (Remember, we understand how human psychology works!)

If you're already on the brink of divorce/dissolution, or in a high level of stress... making the powerful decision to truly COMMIT to a 3-month intensive (without the ability to back out) is going to set your brain and nervous system into a determined place to capitalize on the investment of time, money, and energy and squeeze every bit of benefit you can from those 3 months (which is exactly what we want!) We want you ALL IN! Because we know that's the mindset and commitment you need to really succeed in turning things around quickly.