Loss affects relationships in powerful ways. Whether you are grieving together or coping differently, adjusting after retirement, facing infertility, or simply feeling disconnected.
You may feel like you are on different pages with one person wanting to talk, while the other wants to withdraw. These experiences can make couples feel that they are no longer on the same team.
Couples therapy offers a way to work together to communicate more effectively, understanding each other’s needs, and resolving conflict in healthier ways.
Therapy for Couples in Overland Park, Kansas
Sometimes what looks like a communication problem is actually grief asking to be understood.
You might benefit from couples therapy if:
You love each other, but lately you feel more disconnected than connected.
You keep having the same arguments without feeling truly heard or understood.
Communication has become difficult, tense, or exhausting.
You’re struggling to navigate a loss or major life change together.
You’re grieving differently, and you don’t know how to support each other.
One of you wants to talk while the other pulls away.
You miss the closeness, friendship, or intimacy you once shared.
Resentment, hurt, or misunderstandings are getting in the way of your relationship.
You’re facing a transition—such as becoming empty nesters, retirement, infertility, illness, or a significant family change—and it’s affecting your relationship.
You want to reconnect but aren’t sure how to get back to each other.
COUPLES THERAPY IN OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS CAN HELP
What If You Could Go From:
Feeling disconnected —> to feeling close again?
Constant conflict —> to deeper understanding?
Feeling unheard —> to feeling truly understood?
Talking past each other —> to communicating with each other?
Resentment —> to reconnection?
Feeling like roommates —> to feeling like partners again?
Repeating the same arguments —> to creating meaningful change?
Feeling alone in your relationship —> to feeling like a team again?
Hurt and misunderstanding —> to connection and compassion?
Step 1.
Understand your pattern - We’ll explore what’s happening beneath the conflict and identify the patterns that keep you feeling stuck. You’ll have space to understand your own needs while gaining a deeper understanding of your partner’s experience.
Step 2
Reconnect and communicate - Together, we’ll work on creating safer, more meaningful communication. You’ll learn to express what you need, listen with greater understanding, and respond to each other with more compassion.
Step 3
Rebuild your Connection - We’ll focus on creating the relationship you both want—one built on trust, emotional connection, teamwork, and shared understanding. We’ll work toward greater trust, emotional connection, and understanding so you can feel close again and move forward together.
MEET YOUR OVERLAND PARK COUPLES THERAPIST
HEATHER HARGROVE, LCPC
Hi, I’m Heather, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. I help couples navigate conflict, life changes, and loss while finding their way back to connection.
I’ve spent several years supporting couples who feel stuck. My hope is to help couples move from disconnection to connection, conflict to understanding, and uncertainty to a deeper sense of security in their relationship.
I’m passionate about working with couples because I believe our closest relationships have the power to shape how safe, understood, and connected we feel in our lives. And when that connection becomes strained, it can be painful and lonely for both people.
If you feel unheard, misunderstood, or emotionally distant from your partner, this is the space for you.
Together We Will:
Navigate the grief and changes that have impacted your relationship and find your way back to one another.
Create a safe space to process loss, understand each other more deeply, and rebuild your connection.
Explore how grief and life changes have affected your relationship and strengthen the sense of safety and connection between you.
Move through difficult seasons with greater understanding, compassion, and emotional connection.
Make space for the losses you’ve experienced while rebuilding trust, connection, and security in your relationship.
Understand how grief may be showing up between you and learn to support each other through it.
Move from feeling disconnected and alone to feeling understood, supported, and more secure with each other.
Frequently Asked Questions
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I help couples navigate communication struggles, conflict, emotional disconnection, trust issues, intimacy concerns, grief, loss, and major life transitions. Sometimes couples aren't in crisis—they simply miss feeling close and want to strengthen their relationship.
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Grief can change a couple's emotional connection, communication, intimacy, and daily routines. Partners may grieve differently or feel unsure how to support one another. Together, we can create space for both experiences while helping you reconnect and navigate the loss as a team.
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It's okay if you're not both in the same place initially. Therapy can begin by creating a space to understand what's happening in your relationship and what each of you hopes could be different. The goal isn't to force change but to create an environment where meaningful conversations can happen.
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We'll work together to understand your relationship patterns, improve communication, explore the emotions underneath conflict, and strengthen your emotional connection. We'll also address the specific challenges you're facing, whether that's grief, a major life transition, or ongoing relationship struggles.
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My fee for services is $150 per 50-minute session.
I am currently considered to be an out of network mental health provider.
I am happy to provide you a superbill each month to give to your insurance. Please check with your insurance about your out of network mental health benefits - many of my clients are able to get reimbursement from their insurance.
Why you should consider working with an “out of network” therapist:
No limitations on sessions. We can meet for as long as you need without having to worry if insurance will cut us off, or end coverage, which could abruptly end your care.
Allows me to offer you more flexible, personalized, and intentional care.
Helps me keep your information completely confidential, without needing to share diagnosis or notes with insurance companies.
Allows us to avoid surprise billing issues, which can lead to lapses in treatment.
Lets us focus on what’s best for you, not what insurance says is best for you!
Other Services
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THERAPY FOR GRIEF
For anyone who has lost something meaningful – a person, relationship, role, version of ourselves, or the future we thought we would have. Let’s help you make sense of what you’ve been carrying and find a way forward.
*Make sense of your loss and how it has changed you
*Create a safe space to explore your story, your grief, and what you’ve been experiencing
*Work together to understand what you’re feeling and develop ways to navigate the difficult days
*Explore what you need to feel grounded, connected, and supported
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THERAPY FOR ANXIETY
For anyone who feels constant worry, racing thoughts, trouble sleeping, panic, or a fear that something else bad is going to happen. Together, we'll help you feel more grounded, reconnect with yourself, and regain trust in your ability to navigate life after loss.
*Understand what your anxiety may be communicating about your grief and loss.
*Feel safer in your body and learn ways to calm the fear, racing thoughts, and overwhelm that can follow loss.
*Process the loss underneath the anxiety instead of feeling like you have to simply manage the symptoms.
*Rebuild trust in yourself and your ability to move through life
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THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION
For anyone who is feeling numb, exhausted, disconnected, or unable to find joy in things that once mattered. What feels like depression may be your mind and body responding to a significant loss.
*Understand the connection between your depression and what you have experienced or lost.
*Give words and space to emotions that may feel difficult to access.
*Reconnect with yourself, your relationships, and the parts of life that still matter.
*Find hope and meaning without minimizing or rushing your grief.
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THERAPY FOR LIFE TRANSITIONS
For those who are feeling lost or unsure of who you are and where you belong. Life transitions can bring a kind of grief that is difficult to name. Retirement, an empty nest, divorce, a career change, relocation, marriage, or other major changes can leave you grieving the life, identity, relationships, or expectations you once knew.
*Understand and make space for the grief that comes with change.
*Process the emotions that may accompany leaving one chapter of life behind.
*Reconnect with who you are as your circumstances and identity evolve.
*Create a meaningful next chapter without having to dismiss or forget the one that came before.
READY TO START COUPLES THERAPY IN OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS?
Let’s Do It!
You’ve been trying to find your way through a loss that has changed so much. You don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Together, we can make space for your grief, help you reconnect with who you are, and begin to create a sense of hope for what comes next. Reach out to schedule a free consultation. Healing can include both honoring your loss and building a life that feels meaningful again.