Therapeutic Tseng

Couples Therapy

Phone: (240)-388-9333 | Email: contact@therapeutictseng.com

Couples therapy sessions are available for 50 minutes at the rate of $160 per session and at 90 minutes at the rate of $240. All sessions are conducted through telehealth on a videoconferencing platform.

You will receive a Good Faith Estimate displaying information regarding expected costs for treatment. You are able to submit these therapy sessions to your insurance company and use your out-of-network benefits to receive reimbursement. I partner with Mentaya to submit your superbills to your insurance company so that you don’t have to do it yourself and still get your reimbursement. The cost for this service is $8, which is 5% of the session fee. You can use Mentaya’s insurance benefits checker here.

Being in relationship with others is one of the hardest, yet most sacred and important things we can do in our life. Having true relationships with each other means cultivating respect and acceptance for our partners and ourselves. Relationships are mirrors. Through our partner, we see our raw parts and our wounds. We see things we don’t want to see… and then we react. Learning to cultivate healthy relationships means learning to heal yourself and learning to uplift your partner as they go through their respective healing journey.

Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies in Relationships

Relationships is an area where sexism and the patriarchy continue to perpetuate damage into our society. I have never known a happy relationship where the relationship was structured in diminishing another’s worth or capability on the basis of their gender identity. Alas, patriarchy lies at the core of all our traditional societies, taking root in the foundation of romantic relationships and family structures. Patriarchy occurs when the Masculine energies in a relationship become overactive or out of balance and subsequently where Feminine energies are also out of balance. Masculine and Feminine energies reside in all of us, regardless of gender identity. Stagnancy occurs when we live as though men should only express masculine energies and women should only express feminine energies. We should allow our relationships the flexibility so that the humans in it (regardless of gender identity) have the agency to express themselves with a mixture of masculine and feminine energies so they feel empowered and aligned with their authentic selves.

Interracial Relationships

Since I have started my practice, a little more than 50% of my couples clients have been interracial relationships, where the partners identify as a different race from each other. 73% of my couples clients identify as BIPOC, where at least one partner identifies as a race other than White. 40% of my couple clients include at least one partner who identifies as Asian.

I have had extensive experiences holding and honoring the differences that racial and cultural experiences bring into the couple relationship. Many couples will initially find navigating cultural differences in the relationship to be difficult. It’s no surprise, as each person may come from a very different culture with different core beliefs and a different set of cultural traumas. To embark on an interracial relationship is to build a strong connection with our own culture and to learn to love and appreciate that of our partners’. Couples therapy can be incredibly helpful in cases where partners are unconsciously acting out intergenerational traumas rooted in their cultural history, but that knowledge is not immediately accessible to the couple.

Conscious Family Creation

When we have children and start a family, what are our hopes and dreams for our children? Most people would say that they hope their children have a better life than their own, be it materially or psychologically better. Many parents hit roadblocks to this goal when their own psychological wounds and triggers resurface when parenting. This is an essential stage in the parenting journey. In order to be the most supportive and uplifting parents, we need to look back into our own experience as children with our own parents. Frequently, we still have wounds from how our parents raised us. If we do not heal those wounds, we may find ourselves repeating the negative patterns of our parents or overcompensating by raising our children in an opposite extreme, which may not support them either. Healthy families are rooted in a healthy relationship with the parents, which comes from those individuals learning to heal their relationship with their experience of being parented.

Financial Psychology

Loving each other is a pre-requisite for a happy couple relationship. Another crucial element is having a strong and connected financial system in the couple relationship. Many couples do not plan or spend their money together, which leads to miscommunications and loss of trust. Many of us associate money with survival and if we perceive that our partner is not managing our money well, our nervous system can associate that behavior as our partner thwarting our survival. The reasons for financial behavior issues are complex and often are part of our childhood, cultural, or societal traumas. Very often, our partner is not intentionally sabotaging the financial health of the relationship, which is why working with a therapist aware of financial traumas and intergenerational traumas can be helpful in dissecting issues and guiding the couple to implement restorative behaviors.

I have completed the Financial Therapy Association’s video education series on financial therapy. In addition, I use concepts from intergenerational trauma, manifestation, and quantum shifting to help clients break unhealthy financial patterns and develop abundant financial behaviors.