Center for Couple & Family Therapy

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About the Center

For more than 40 years, the Florida State University (FSU) Center for Couple & Family Therapy has provided community-based services to thousands of clients with different needs. Doctoral student provide these services, most of whom have at least 500 hours in supervised clinical work with a variety of people from a broad spectrum of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.

The Center for Couple & Family Therapy is a non-profit clinic serving individuals, couples, families, and children. It is unique in that human strengths and challenges are understood to be outcomes influences by the broader social and other contexts in which they are embedded. To make services available to all who wish them, care is provided on a sliding scale, based on family income.

Student therapists at the Center work with a variety of clients with a wide range of individual, couple, and family concerns from a broad spectrum of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. The Center, as an active referral source, collaborates with state and community agencies to provide counseling services for their clients. The Center typically is open – fully staffed -- Monday through Thursday from 9 AM to 9 PM. Services are available other days and hours as needed.

Therapy Services Available

For more than 40 years, the Center has provided services to clients with diverse needs from diverse backgrounds.

We provide help with:

  • Relationship education
  • Couple & marital enrichment
  • Pre-marital counseling
  • Parenting & stepparenting
  • Couple Communication and conflict resolution
  • Individual, couple & family stress
  • Divorce & child custody
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Addictions and substance abuse
  • Grief & loss

Fees: Using a sliding scale based on income, sessions cost $20.00 - $85.00 each.

Staff: Doctoral students with at least 500 hours of clinical experience in Marriage and Family Therapy are supervised by FSU faculty holding Approved Supervisor Status from American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).

Call today for an appointment!
540 W. Jefferson St.
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Ph. 860.644.1588
Fax 850.644.0521

Research, Teaching, and Training Facility

The Center is a research, teaching and training facility for the 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 remotely zoom and pan. These feed into a standard and digital storage bank -- which includes the Landros Play Analyzer System. (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.

Contact Information

Larry Barlow
Ph.D.
Associate in Marriage & Family Therapy
lbarlow@mailer.fsu.edu