If you or someone you know is experiencing distress, therapy with a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) can help. MFTs are trained in systemic, or relational, therapy and believe that throughout life we exist in a number of relationships that directly and indirectly impact our well-being.
Our relationships with family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors influence and create our individual experience. Research and theory have shown that mental illness and family problems are best treated in the context of relationships.
We want you to know that the health of you and our staff is a top priority at the Center for Couple and Family Therapy. We encourage you to take responsibility for yourself and your family. If you feel ill, please call our office at 850-644-1588 and we will reschedule your appointment.
PLEASE NOTE: For new clients, please click on the links to the right to complete intake paperwork and to be placed on our waiting list. These documents must be completed before we can match you with a therapist to begin sessions.
The Florida State University Center for Couple & Family Therapy (CCFT) has a long and rich history. We are one of the oldest accredited couple and family therapy programs in the country.
The Center is a research, teaching and training facility for doctoral students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program. One or more clinical faculty individually supervises each student. All clinic supervisors have American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor status.
The clinical faculty conducts supervision, in accordance with COAMFTE guidelines, using a balanced mix of traditional live, videotaped, and case presentation supervision strategies with both individual therapists and with groups of therapists.
The audio-visual resources of the Center are state-of-the-art for both clinical supervision and process research. Each treatment room is equipped with cameras that feed into a standard and digital storage bank (We can store, code, and immediately recall for supervision/research 23,000 hours of therapeutic interaction). In addition, there are three computer stations available for the students therapists.
The Center for Couples and Family Therapy offers group therapy sessions as an opportunity for discussion and support. Group sessions are led by a CCFT therapist and may help individuals gain unique perspective on important issues.
Examples of group therapy sessions include anxiety and depression for individuals, parenting training for families, and couple enrichment and divorce support for couples, etc. Group therapy can serve an important role for individuals, as it provides a support group as well as diverse ways of approaching situations.
Every Tuesday night, the Center for Couple and Family Therapy (CCFT) hosts a support group for victims of interpersonal trauma. It is a safe space to process difficult emotions and find healing in a community of people with similar experiences.
Yes, Florida has outstanding laws that assure confidentiality, privacy and privilege for mental health services. The staff at CCFT are trained to protect your rights as a consumer. Any research that is conducted at CCFT requires additional informed consent participation. Your privacy is of utmost importance to us.
Go to the Schedule Appointment page. Choose individual or relational (couple, family) session and complete the form. This will add you to our waitlist. As soon as you are paired with a therapist, our staff will reach out to you. Please keep in mind our waitlist may be a few months long. If you are unsure whether you need an individual or relational appointment, please call our office and we would be happy to assist you.
If you are not feeling well, experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, have been in close contact with an infested person, or are waiting COVID-19 test results, please call 850-644-1588 to reschedule your session.
Yes, we provide evidence-based premarital counseling services. These sessions help you learn important tools for a successful relationship, typically 4-8 sessions. The fee for premarital counseling is $40 per 50-minute session. $30 for FSU, FAMU, TCC students. For more information, please contact CCFT.
The Couple and Family Therapy Clinic is here to help you cope with issues and challenges that affect your everyday life. Our clinic provides high-quality, affordable mental health services to NIU and the community with a commitment to empowering you to nurture strong relationships through addressing the issues you are facing.
Our therapists are trained to provide sensitive, appropriate, effective therapy that both considers and values your background, spiritual beliefs, gender, sexual identity, age and socioeconomic status. This care extends to issues of disability, mental or physical illness and discrimination.
We work with individuals, couples and families, offering a safe space to discuss conflicts or problems with a partner, spouse, children, parents, siblings, family members, friends or roommates. We provide assistance with challenges such as everyday stress from responsibilities and decisions; child and adolescent behavioral problems; more persistent difficulties such as physical, sexual or psychological abuse; coping with addiction; feelings of despair, loneliness, anxiety or fear and thoughts of suicide.
We offer support for people experiencing a wide range of concerns, including family challenges, parenting issues, depression, anxiety, divorce, trauma, communication problems, anger management, sex and sexuality concerns, grief and loss, religious and spiritual struggles, and couple/relationship issues.
We are also deeply concerned about the impact of COVID-19 and continued violence against people of color and work with our students to provide therapy that is inclusive of clients from all backgrounds and identities.
Protecting Your Privacy
We will protect your privacy by assigning a number to you and your family for use in our files. Unless required to do so by law, we do not disclose that you are coming to the center or anything about your therapy to anyone without your prior written approval.
Fees and Scheduling Appointments
We are committed to supporting social equity through widened access to affordable therapy. Counseling sessions are currently being conducted in-person or through teletherapy to individuals, couples, and families around Washington state.
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Couple-Years of Protection (CYP) is the estimated protection provided by family planning (FP) methods during a one-year period, based upon the volume of all contraceptives sold or distributed free of charge to clients during that period. This includes permanent methods, such as sterilization, and the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM).
CYP is calculated by multiplying the quantity of each method distributed to clients by a conversion factor to yield an estimate of the duration of contraceptive protection provided per unit of that method. The CYP for each method is then summed for all methods to obtain a total CYP figure. CYP conversion factors are based on how a method is used, failure rates, wastage, and how many units of the method are typically needed to provide one year of contraceptive protection for a couple. The calculation takes into account that some methods, like condoms and oral contraceptives, for example, may be used incorrectly and then discarded, or that IUDs and implants may be removed before their life span is realized.
CYP is easy to calculate from data that programs routinely collect; these data can come from a variety of sources and are relatively easy to track. The term "CYP" reflects distribution and is a way to estimate coverage and not actual use or impact. The CYP calculation provides an immediate indication of the volume of program activity. CYP can also allow programs to compare the contraceptive coverage provided by different family planning methods.
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm explores the ongoing strength and insidious grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal.
The authors provide an analysis of how the couple-form is institutionalized, supported and mandated by legal regulations, social policies and everyday practices, and how this serves to shape the intimate life choices and trajectories of those who seem to be living aslant to the conventional heterosexual cohabiting couple-form. Attending also to practices and moments that challenge couple-normativity, both consciously chosen and explicit, as well as circumstantial, subconscious and implicit, The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm makes an important contribution to literatures on citizenship, intimacy, family life, and social change in sociology, social policy, socio-legal studies, gender/sexuality/queer studies and psychosocial studies.
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