Two formats, one useful question
Atlas Minds offers two kinds of therapy, and both use 50-minute sessions: $175 for individual therapy and $200 for couples and relationship therapy. Either way, sessions are online only, and everyone taking part must be physically located in Texas or Florida while the session is happening.
Choosing between them is less about which problem sounds more serious and more about where the pattern you want to change actually lives. Some patterns live mostly between people. Others live mostly inside one person's history, even when they show up in a relationship. Plenty involve both, and that is not a reason to wait.
When the pattern lives between you
Relationship therapy fits when the difficulty is the dance itself: the same fight returning with new details, one partner pursuing while another withdraws, trust that keeps thinning, or agreements that no longer match how the relationship is actually lived. In that work, the pattern is the focus rather than any one partner.
Working together lets everyone hear how the cycle feels from the other side, in real time, with someone helping to slow it down. That can matter when you are considering opening a relationship, repairing after a broken agreement, or navigating more than one partner, because those conversations depend on each person's voice being present. The word couples undersells it: more than two partners can take part in relationship sessions.
When the pattern lives in your own history
Individual therapy fits when the struggle follows you across relationships and settings: old trauma that keeps showing up, emotions that feel too big, exhaustion from carrying everything, or questions about identity you want to explore on your own terms. It offers room to go at your own pace, without a partner's reactions shaping what feels safe to say.
An IFS-informed approach can help you understand the protective parts behind those patterns, and it does not require you to relive or recount traumatic events. Mentalization-Based Therapy adds something that can travel back into your relationships: strengthening the capacity to understand your own mind, and other people's, especially under emotional pressure.
Individual therapy is also a legitimate place to work on relationship questions. You can explore jealousy, attachment, or the aftermath of a broken agreement from your own side, especially when you want to understand your reactions before bringing them to a partner.
When trauma shows up inside the relationship
Trauma histories and relationship conflict are not always separate problems. An old injury may shape how a raised voice, a delayed reply, or a closed door lands today. That does not make the person with the trauma history the problem, and it does not make the relationship pattern any less real. Both deserve attention.
You may want to understand your own history first, privately, before bringing it into shared sessions. Or you may find that the clearest view of the pattern comes from working on it together. Neither choice is more correct. What matters is that the format gives you enough safety to be honest, and that no one is pushed to disclose more than they choose.
When a partner is not ready to join
Relationship therapy depends on each participant choosing to be there. If a partner is not ready, or does not want to come, pressure can end up reproducing the very dynamic you are trying to change. You can still begin. Individual therapy can help you understand your side of the cycle, clarify what you want, and think through how to raise the conversation again.
Working on your part of a pattern is not the same as accepting all of the responsibility for it, and it is not a verdict on the relationship. In non-monogamous relationships, some partners may want to join while others do not. That difference can be named honestly without treating anyone's choice as a betrayal.
Let the consultation help you decide
You do not have to make this choice alone or get it right in advance. The free 15-minute consultation is a place to describe what is happening in a few sentences, ask practical questions, and talk through which format seems like a sensible starting point. Sensitive details can wait.
Whichever format you choose, the approach stays consistent: direct, calm, liberation-based, and free of pressure toward any conventional template. Nick draws on several approaches, including IFS-informed work, Mentalization-Based Therapy, EFT, ACT, DBT skills, and psychodynamic exploration, and none of them is applied as a script.
If relationship therapy feels like the right place to begin, the couples guide describes what the consultation and early sessions can look like.
What to Expect in Couples Therapy