The therapists at Aspen Grove Family Therapy may have additional training and specialties that don’t fit cleanly into other categories. Some of these specialized services are listed below:

• Relationship Checkup’s – Like dental or medical checkup’s, a relationship checkup is designed to identify areas of strength and areas of concern that can help curb the need for long term couple or family therapy. These checkups usually involve three to four sessions of assessment and feedback. These services are not covered by insurance, but the price usually outweighs the typical costs of long term therapy. To learn more, please use the Contact Us form and indicate you are asking about a “Relationship Checkup”.
  
  
• Discernment Counseling – Discernment Counseling is a new format of therapy that takes couples on the brink of divorce with two opposing goals in mind to identify and work toward a unified goal. The goal of discernment counseling is to help couples have greater clarity and confidence in their decision making. The immediate decision is framed not as whether to stay together or divorce but whether to continue moving towards divorce or committing to a six month effort to restore the marriage, with divorce off the table for that time period. Currently (February 2020) Dr. Whitehead is the ONLY Discernment Counselor in the state of Idaho. Dr. Whitehead received advanced training in Discernment Counseling and can train other therapists as a result. For more information on Discernment Counseling checkout the Doherty Relationship Institute.