Every couples page in this town tells you which method the therapist uses. Almost none tell you what happens once you’re actually in the room. This one publishes the sequence: the first 4 appointments and who sits in each, the written assessment you both complete before anyone proposes a plan, and what gets written in your file.
Quick answer: Couples therapy at FC PsychExperts runs 50 to 80 minutes with both partners and a licensed clinician, and the client is the relationship rather than either person. The first 4 appointments are a joint session, a separate individual session with each partner, and a joint feedback session where the clinician names the pattern and proposes a plan. Focused work often shows change in 8 to 12 sessions. Sessions are at 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201 in Jupiter, or by secure video anywhere in Florida. One partner can start alone. Florida requires your clinical record to be kept for 7 years after your last appointment. Call (561) 834-5849.
Four appointments before anyone proposes a plan, usually inside the first 3 weeks.
Most practices book you into a weekly slot and start working. That gets you talking faster and it means the clinician is forming a view of your relationship while you’re both performing for them. The sequence below separates assessment from treatment on purpose.
How the relationship started, what’s happening now, and what each of you wants out of coming here. The clinician runs the session, so the louder partner doesn’t set the agenda. Nobody gets asked to solve anything yet.
Held separately, usually in the same week. This is where each of you can say the thing you won’t say in front of the other, and it’s where safety screening happens.
The same session, run the same way. It’s also where a clinician finds out that one of you has already spoken to a lawyer.
The clinician tells you what they see, names the pattern the two of you are running, and proposes a plan. You leave with a written one-page summary of it. You decide whether to start. Some couples don’t, and that’s a legitimate outcome of an assessment.
A joint-only assessment gives the clinician one version of the relationship: the version the two of you can produce together. The individual sessions are where the gap shows up, and the gap is usually the work.
It’s also the only way to screen properly. Someone who’s frightened of their partner won’t say so with their partner in the room, and a format that assumes they will is a format that can do harm.
A named pattern rather than a diagnosis of either of you. A proposed length. A first thing to do this week. And a clear answer on whether couples therapy is the right product at all.
Sometimes it isn’t, and individual therapy for one or both of you is the better route. We’d rather say that at appointment 4 than at month 4.
Both partners complete a scored, published relationship assessment separately, online, before appointment 4. It takes about 40 minutes each and runs to roughly 120 items.
Separate logins matter. You answer without seeing what your partner said, which is the only way the scoring means anything.
The items cover conflict and how it escalates, friendship and daily connection, trust, intimacy, money, parenting where it applies, and how committed each of you currently is. That last one is measured rather than assumed, and it’s frequently the number that changes the plan.
A method badge tells you what the clinician was trained in. The assessment tells you what they’ll know about you by appointment 4.
A written profile at the feedback session, showing where the two of you agree, where you don’t, and where one of you rates the relationship materially differently from the other.
The value isn’t the score. It’s that the assessment asks the questions neither of you has asked out loud in 4 years, and it asks them the same way of both of you.
Seven of the 8 couples pages we reviewed in this market badge a named method. Not one publishes what it actually measures, what the report returns, or whether you get to see it.
This is the section nobody in this market writes, and it decides more bookings than the method does.
Florida sets the retention period in board rule, not in statute. Under Fla. Admin. Code R. 64B4-9.001, a full record of services shall be maintained for 7 years after the date of the last contact with the client or user. Fla. Stat. 491.0148 is the section that hands that decision to the board, which is why you won’t find a number if you read the statute alone.
Seven years after your last appointment. Not 7 years from when you started.
| How you pay | What the record looks like |
|---|---|
| Self-pay | The record can be kept as a couples record, with both of you as the client and the relationship as the subject. No diagnosis is attached to either of you for billing purposes |
| Using insurance | Carriers pay couples work as family psychotherapy, which is treatment of one person’s diagnosed condition. The claim carries one partner’s name and one partner’s diagnosis. The other partner is in the room and not on the claim |
| Either way | Kept 7 years after your last contact under Fla. Admin. Code R. 64B4-9.001. When a clinician stops practising, records are retained 2 years after termination |
That’s the trade-off, stated plainly: the insured route requires one of you to become a patient in a medical record. How insurers actually process couples therapy claims covers the coding and what to ask your plan.
Those 3 exceptions come from Fla. Stat. 491.0147. Practices differ on the no-secrets policy, so ask which one applies before you book anywhere. The difference matters most in exactly the conversation you’re worried about.
A written clinical record exists once you create it, and a court can later ask for it.
We’d rather you decide that on purpose than discover it.
Retention rule: Fla. Admin. Code R. 64B4-9.001. Confidentiality: Fla. Stat. 491.0147. Rulemaking authority: Fla. Stat. 491.0148.
Repair after a breach of trust runs longer than focused communication work. On our own published range, 3 to 6 months on a staged plan, against 8 to 12 sessions for focused work.
The staging is the part that matters, and it’s the part no local page publishes.
Roughly the first 6 weeks. Contact with the third party ends. The questions get a container, so the betrayed partner isn’t interrogating at midnight and the other isn’t answering in fragments for months. Sleep, work and the children come first. Nobody is asked to forgive anything in phase 1.
The disclosure happens in session, with the scope agreed in advance, and it happens once rather than leaking out over 6 months. Drip disclosure is what turns a recoverable affair into an unrecoverable one, and it’s the single most common way this work fails.
What the relationship was missing before, whether both of you want to build the replacement, and what each of you needs to see to believe it. Some couples finish phase 3 and separate with more clarity than they started with. That’s an outcome, not a failure.
A couple that can’t get through phase 1 doesn’t move to phase 2. We’ll say so.
If one of you is most of the way out and the other is all the way in, the format built for that is discernment counseling rather than couples therapy, and it caps at 5 sessions. Couples therapy across Palm Beach County covers the 3 places couples arrive from and which format fits each.
Jupiter’s population was 62,350 as of 1 July 2025, and 24.4% of residents are 65 and over, against 17.5% who are foreign born and a 78.5% owner-occupied housing rate, on U.S. Census Bureau figures.
A town with that profile has a large number of households keeping a second address. Weekly couples therapy quietly assumes both of you are here in July.
Do it before you book, not in March.
| What you are working on | How long it runs | Against a 22-week season |
|---|---|---|
| Focused communication and conflict work | 8 to 12 sessions. Weekly, that is 2 to 3 months | Fits twice over |
| Repair after a breach of trust | 3 to 6 months on a staged plan | Fits once, with no room for the 3 weeks you will lose to holidays and travel. Start it in February and it does not fit at all |
| Discernment, when one of you is leaning out | 1 to 5 sessions | Fits inside any season |
Three options, and the wrong one is drifting into June without a plan.
Run the 4 assessment appointments in the first 2 weeks of the season rather than the first 6, so the working sessions start while you have runway.
A short season is an argument for discernment or for focused work, not for starting a staged repair you’ll abandon.
If you’ll need sessions while you’re away, that’s a licensure question rather than a scheduling one, and the answer depends on the clinician’s credential. Ask it before appointment 1.
Florida law treats care as happening where the patient sits, so a clinician’s licence has to match the state you’re in. The credentials differ on whether they can follow you and the rules are moving. Couples therapy in West Palm Beach sets out which licence can see you in July and which can’t.
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Population and demographic figures: U.S. Census Bureau figures for Jupiter town, Florida.
FC PsychExperts runs 2 Florida offices, and of the therapy pages on this site this is the one where the city in the heading and the consulting room are the same place.
Both formats are the same clinician, the same session length and the same confidentiality rules.
The consulting room is at 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, just off Indiantown Road.
A Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of relationship-focused clinical work, and she runs the couples work here. Her approach is relational and strengths-based: slowing the pattern down, naming the need underneath the complaint, and building better ways to say it and to hear it.
Works with: married and unmarried couples · premarital · after an affair · co-parenting couples
The founder of the practice, practising since 2008 and supervising all clinical work. Her background in family law means couples who are separating or co-parenting get guidance from someone who knows how Florida family courts work in practice.
Member of: American Psychological Association · Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Dr. Cathy Colet is licensed in Florida as a psychologist, licence PY9058.
The number is published here so you can check it rather than take our word for it. Search it on the Florida licence verification portal, and ask every practice you call for the licence number of the person you’d actually be seeing. A practice that won’t give you one has told you something.
Couples who’ve already separated and are working out the parenting side usually want co-parenting therapy instead.
Related Jupiter services: individual therapy, family therapy, court-ordered therapy, and immigration evaluation.
Both of you, 80 minutes, with the clinician running the session. How the relationship started, what’s happening now, and what each of you wants from coming in. Nobody is asked to solve anything. It’s the first of 4 assessment appointments that happen before a plan is proposed.
Because a joint-only assessment shows the clinician the version of the relationship the 2 of you can produce together, and the gap between your 2 private accounts is usually the actual work. It’s also the only way to screen for safety properly, since nobody discloses fear of their partner with that partner in the room.
Session notes covering what was worked on and the plan. If you’re self-pay the record can be kept as a couples record with both of you as the client. If you use insurance, the claim carries one partner’s name and diagnosis. Access rules depend on how the file is opened, so ask at intake which applies to you before your first session.
Florida requires a full record of services to be kept for 7 years after the date of your last contact, under Fla. Admin. Code R. 64B4-9.001. The statute itself doesn’t set a number. Fla. Stat. 491.0148 hands that decision to the board, which is why reading the statute alone leaves you without an answer.
A written clinical record exists once it’s created, and a court can order its release. Under Fla. Stat. 491.0147 what you say is confidential, with narrow exceptions: your own written consent, an action you bring against the therapist, and a specific threat of serious bodily injury or death to an identified person the clinician judges imminent. Tell us on the first call if there’s an open or expected case, because Dr. Colet is court-appointed in the 15th Judicial Circuit and we check for conflicts before booking. Your treating clinician doesn’t write opinions for your case in any event.
A November to April season is about 22 weeks. Focused communication work runs 8 to 12 sessions, so it fits with room to spare. A staged repair after a breach of trust runs 3 to 6 months and fits once if you start in the first weeks of the season. Starting that in February doesn’t work. If you’ll need sessions after you leave Florida, ask about the clinician’s licence before the first appointment, because a Florida licence covers you only while you’re in Florida.
Yes, separately and without seeing each other’s answers. It’s scored on the difference between your 2 sets of responses, so 1 completed questionnaire tells the clinician very little.
Same clinician, same session length, same confidentiality rules. Partners can join from 1 screen or from 2 different ones. The Jupiter office is at 210 Jupiter Lakes Blvd, Unit 4-201, just off Indiantown Road, and couples from the north county usually come in.
First couples sessions are usually available within the same week. Call (561) 834-5849 Monday to Friday 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM or Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM, or send the form on this page and the office calls back within 1 business day.
Yes. Same format and the same 4 assessment appointments, with the focus set by what you’re working on rather than by marital status.
A short call with our office. One of you or both. We answer scheduling and insurance questions, we ask whether there’s an open court case, and if a different route fits you better we’ll say so on that call.