Is Marital Counseling Too Expensive?

At a cost of $100 to $150 per session, marital counseling (or therapy) seems pretty expensive. After 10 sessions, you've spent between $1,000 and $1,500. So is it worth it? Several studies say yes! According to Caldwell, Woolley, and Caldwell (2007), marital therapy is a cost-effective approach to reduce public divorce costs or to offset health care expenses that come in the wake of divorce.

Certainly, 10 to 15 sessions of marital therapy are much less expensive than all of the associated costs of divorce. Not only that, your relationship itself is worth more than a couple thousand dollars. Long-term health benefits of being married alone are worth the investment in counseling.

I've conducted some research recently that demonstrates the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of marital counseling in managed care, and the results are very promising. Receiving professional help for relational problems can be minimally costly, relatively brief, and quite effective. In fact, some recent research indicates that people who are simply looking for sufficient change to feel "good enough" to move forward on their own may only need around six therapy sessions.

Whatever relational problems or issues you bring to the table, consider marital counseling as a cost-effective method of getting the help you need.


Adam Moore provides cost-effective marital counseling services in St. George, Utah and would love to help you!
http://www.adammmoore.com/