Would You Like to See Polly in Dialogue Therapy?

Dialogue Therapy was developed by Polly and her late-husband Ed Epstein, specifically to increase trust and emotional space between partners or other adult pairs. Increasing trust allows love to be renewed and playfulness to be restored. Twenty-first century relationships present a unique set of expectations when it comes to equality, authenticity, reciprocity, and accurate witnessing. All adults who are in equal relationships—spouses, partners, siblings, grown children and parents, friends, co-workers—want to be seen and heard accurately, instead of being misperceived, due to bias, indifference, or stereotypes. Building and maintaining trust in a mutually respectful and equal relationship requires more than just "better communication” or secure attachment, which are commonly the focus of couple counseling. It requires breaking through projective identification and developing skills for respectful conflict through the capacity to be mindful, insightful, and self-reflective, even in the midst of emotional activation (triggering). Polly has written many books on these issues, but recently she has published Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path (2019) and, with co-author Jean Pieniadz, Dialogue Therapy For Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides: Methods Based on Psychoanalysis and Mindfulness (2022).

Polly sees couples and other adult pairs (grown child and parent, siblings, friends) in Dialogue Therapy (which is structured and time-limited) in both regular sessions (see Consent Form here for description and sequence of the sessions) or Intensive Weekends (typically involving 18-20 hours of the same sequence of sessions). 

-Her fee for regular sessions is $250 per hour ($125 per person), offered only in two-hour time slots. 

-Her fee for Intensive Weekends is $500 per hour ($250 per person), due to the intensive format and working on the weekend. 

Because Polly does not offer tele-health sessions (except as follow-up from Intensive Weekends), seeing her requires coming to her office in central Vermont.

If you want to make an inquiry or schedule an appointment for the Evaluation Sessions in Dialogue Therapy (required to begin), or make an inquiry about an Intensive Weekend, please contact Polly here through her website.