In-Person Couples Therapy in Chicago’s Loop
COUPLES COUNSELING FOR QUEER RELATIONSHIPS
In-person couples therapy for LGBTQ+ relationships in Chicago, focused on trust, communication, and repair when things feel strained or stuck.
POLYAMORY COUNSELING - CHICAGO
Therapy that helps you and your partners navigate love with clarity and trust.
COUPLES THERAPY FOR TRUST, COMMUNICATION, AND RELATIONSHIP REPAIR
ADDRESSING EMOTIONAL DISTANCE, CONFLICT, AND TRUST RUPTURES WITHOUT BLAME
Couples often reach out at moments of rupture. Trust has been strained. Emotional distance has grown. Something important feels off, and staying silent no longer feels sustainable.
This work is built for those moments.
It is couples counseling for people who want a thoughtful, non-adversarial process. A space where you can speak directly about what’s broken without turning each other into the problem. Many couples arrive carrying similar weight: breaches of trust, emotional strain, and the quiet fear that the relationship is slipping into something smaller than it once was.
It is possible to address the rupture without blame. It is possible to build something clearer and more grounded on the other side.
HOW COUPLES THERAPY WORKS AT QUEER TALK
Couples counseling at Queer Talk Therapy draws from Imago therapy and relational frameworks shaped by Esther Perel’s work. Sessions focus on surfacing what has gone unspoken: needs that were minimized, disappointments that were avoided, and ruptures that were never fully repaired.
In this work, the client is always the relationship itself. The space between partners. The patterns that show up when things get hard. The future being built together.
If individual mental health concerns or signs of intimate partner violence emerge, those issues must be addressed separately and outside of relationship therapy. This boundary protects both partners and the integrity of the work.
QUEER, TRANS, AND NONTRADITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
WHEN THE USUAL RULES DON’T APPLY
This work supports queer, trans, and nontraditional partnerships across a wide range of relational structures, including monogamous, open, evolving, and undefined.
Couples counseling here does not assume a single template for what makes a relationship valid or viable. The focus remains on clarifying how partners want to move forward in a way that aligns with shared values and the specific shape the relationship takes.
WHY RELATIONSHIP WORK MATTERS
WE HEAL THE MOST IN OUR MOST INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS
Deep healing happens in relationship. Not in isolation. Not through endless self-improvement projects or avoidance.
Intimate partnerships are where old wounds are activated and where meaningful repair becomes possible. Over time, many couples lose access to curiosity, tenderness, and intentional connection. This work treats those skills as recoverable and buildable, not lost.
THE SHAPE OF THE WORK
STRUCTURE, SCHEDULING, AND FEES
All couples counseling sessions are held in person at the Chicago Loop office. New couples are currently being accepted.
Appointments are available on weekday evenings, with limited Saturday availability. Sessions are 75 minutes.
Couples counseling at Queer Talk Therapy is private pay only. Insurance does not reimburse for relationship-centered care and requires identifying one partner as the patient and assigning a diagnosis.
This work centers the relationship itself rather than the treatment of an individual disorder. That distinction places couples therapy outside the scope of what insurance frameworks are designed to support. For this reason, relationship therapy is often more structured, intensive, and selective.
THE VIBE CHECK
A FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE METHOD
The Queer Talk Method begins with conversation. The vibe check is your first experience of that process. It’s a half-hour of real dialogue where you get a sense of how we work: curious, candid, and built for movement. You’ll feel how clarity happens here, not by performing insight, but by being met exactly where you are.
This isn’t a sales call. It’s a brief, human moment that mirrors the therapy itself: grounded, incisive, and unexpectedly energizing. Whether we end up working together or not, you’ll leave with a sharper sense of what kind of work actually fits you.