Married Life Counseling

What Married Life Counseling does

Married Life Counseling is a privately-held, founder-owned outpatient counseling practice based in Akron, Ohio, operating with 1-10 employees (per the staffing band) and approximately 5-7 licensed clinicians plus administrative staff including Christie Orosz (MA, LPCC-S) as founder. Founded in 2018, the practice specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Genogram-based interventions, with supplementary offerings in Prepare/Enrich, SYMBIS, and faith-based integration for clients who want it. Its client base is couples as the primary segment, with individuals, families, and engaged/pre-marital couples as secondary segments.

The service product is structured around three tiers: standard 50-minute sessions priced $75-$190 depending on clinician and session type (individual, couples, or 50-minute specialty formats such as Genogram sessions at $190), extended double sessions for specific modalities, and full-day Couples Intensives priced $1,560-$2,225. Delivery is hybrid: in-person from the Akron office and statewide virtual/telehealth across Ohio, all delivered by licensed clinicians (LPCC-S, IMFT, LPC). Client onboarding runs through phone/email intake and is operationalized through the Simple Practice platform, which provides the client portal, scheduling, and EHR.

Revenue mechanics are exclusively self-pay/private-pay; the practice does not accept insurance, which keeps collection friction low and per-session realization high, but caps the addressable market to households able to fund therapy out-of-pocket. Distribution is driven by organic content marketing (an extensive categorized blog across Couples Insights & EFT, Mental Health, Faith-Based, Date Night, and Dating & Engaged verticals), clinician bios emphasizing personal marital experience and specialty credentials, and strategic alignment with the Gottman Institute and ICE-EFT certification bodies. There is no disclosed funding, no M&A activity, and no AI/ML tooling in the stack.

Name

Married Life Counseling

Legal name

Married Life Counseling, LLC

Website

https://marriedlifecounseling.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Married Life Counseling is a privately-owned Akron, Ohio counseling practice specializing in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, and Genogram interventions for couples, individuals, and families on a self-pay basis via in-person and statewide virtual sessions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marriage and Family Counseling Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

akta.pro primary industry

Couples & Family Therapy Teletherapy Platforms (HLALAEAG)

Keywords

• Couples therapy services
• Marriage counseling
• Emotionally focused therapy
• Premarital counseling
• Family counseling

Headquarters

HQ city

Akron, Ohio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Individual Counseling Sessions: 50-minute individual therapy sessions billed at session completion. Rates vary by counselor from $75 to $170 per session.
2. Couples Counseling Sessions: 50-minute couples therapy sessions. Rates vary by counselor from $100 to $190 per session.
3. Double/Family Sessions: Extended sessions lasting 1 hour 50 minutes for couples in crisis, those traveling distance, or those wanting faster progress. Billed at half fee non-refundable at scheduling.
4. Couples EFT Intensives: Full-day intensive sessions (8 hours or two 4-hour sessions) for couples in crisis or seeking focused attention. Pricing from $1,560 to $2,225 depending on counselor.
5. Superbill/Insurance Reimbursement: Out-of-network practice providing Superbills for clients to submit to insurance for potential reimbursement. Does not accept insurance directly.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Married Life Counseling is a private counseling practice in Akron, Ohio that provides couples, premarital, family, and individual therapy using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, and Genogram techniques. Services are delivered by licensed counselors both in-person at the Akron office and via secure video sessions throughout Ohio on a self-pay basis.

Product overview

Married Life Counseling offers a unified suite of relationship counseling services centered around Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). The core offerings include Couples Counseling, Couples Intensives, Pre-Engaged & Premarital Counseling, Family Counseling, and Individual Counseling. These services are delivered by licensed professional counselors in Akron, Ohio, both in-person and virtually. The company operates on a self-pay/private-pay model and does not accept insurance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Couples Counseling Marriage and couples therapy services using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method techniques, and Genogram methods to help couples improve communication, connection, and intimacy. 50-minute sessions priced $100 to $190 per counselor.
• Couples Intensives
• Pre-Engaged & Premarital Counseling
• Family Counseling
• Individual Counseling

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Simple PracticecoreTechnology or IntegrationHIPAA-compliant electronic health records (EHR) platform used for secure note-taking, file management, and practice management. All clinicians adhere to HIPAA standards using Simple Practice.
• Gottman InstitutecoreTechnology or IntegrationTraining and certification provider for Gottman Method Couples Therapy - one of the primary therapeutic modalities used by the practice. Counselors certified at Levels 1 and 2.
• ICE-EFT (International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy)coreTechnology or IntegrationInternational organization providing EFT training, certification, and research validation. Practice prioritizes EFT training for all clinicians.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Focus on the Family: Focus on the Family is a faith-based family support organization that runs the Hope Restored Marriage Intensive program and produces relationship content. It is explicitly referenced as a referral partner in Married Life Counseling's data and overlaps on the faith-based marriage support niche.
• Gottman Institute: The Gottman Institute is the certification and training organization behind the Gottman Method, one of the two core modalities Married Life Counseling uses. It is an ecosystem partner and enabler rather than a direct competitor, providing the credentialing backbone of the practice's clinical staff.

Emerging players

• Loom: Loom is an emerging digital couples therapy platform offering async messaging and live sessions focused exclusively on relationship work. It targets the same self-pay couples segment as Married Life Counseling but with a technology-first delivery model.
• OurRitual: OurRitual is a couples therapy platform that combines live therapist sessions with structured between-session exercises. It is a partial-overlap emerging competitor for the virtual couples counseling market that Married Life Counseling also serves.

Broad incumbents

• Talkspace: Talkspace is a publicly traded online therapy platform offering couples, individual, and psychiatric services across all U.S. states. It overlaps with Married Life Counseling on the couples therapy virtual channel and adds insurance contracting and psychiatry as broader incumbency advantages.
• BetterHelp: BetterHelp is the largest online therapy platform, offering individual, couples, and teen therapy across all 50 states. It competes with Married Life Counseling for the same virtual, self-pay relationship clients while operating at vastly greater scale and brand recognition.
• Cerebral: Cerebral is a national online mental health platform offering therapy and medication management across a broad set of conditions. While not couples-focused, it competes for the same out-of-pocket-paying mental health clients in Ohio and adjacent conditions (anxiety, depression) that Married Life Counseling also serves via individual counseling.

Direct peers

• Regain: Regain is an online therapy platform purpose-built for couples and relationships, offered under the BetterHelp umbrella. It is the closest digital-only analog to Married Life Counseling's couples therapy focus and competes for the same out-of-pocket-paying client segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/marriedlifecounseling
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/married-life-counseling
• Instagraminstagram.com/marriedlifecounseling

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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