About The Couples Project

A specialized practice for partners working on connection, intimacy, and repair

We are a dedicated team of therapists who specialize in working with couples. Because relationships are at the heart of everything we do, we bring a depth of experience that helps us quickly understand the patterns keeping you stuck—and get to work creating meaningful change.

What We Help With

We specialize in helping partners navigate the relationship challenges that can be hardest to resolve on your own, including:

Infidelity & Betrayal: Rebuilding trust, safety, and connection after an affair or other rupture
Recurring Conflict: Breaking painful cycles of arguing, withdrawing, and misunderstanding each other
Emotional Disconnection: Finding your way back to each other when you’ve grown distant or drifted apart
Sex & Intimacy: Navigating differences in desire, sexual connection, affection, and intimacy
Life Transitions & Stress: Staying connected through illness, loss, parenthood, career changes, and other challenging seasons
Diverse Relationships: Affirming, sex-positive support for LGBTQ+ partners, kink, consensual non-monogamy, and other relationship structures

Our Approach to Couples Therapy

Emotional safety and sexual connection are part of the same system. How secure you feel together shapes what is possible intimately, and what happens intimately affects how safe and connected you feel. We work with both at the same time, because lasting change can be difficult when one is addressed without the other.

Our approach is strength-based, focused, and active. Rather than spending months—or years—circling through the same conversations, we work to identify the underlying patterns keeping you stuck and address them directly.

We won’t simply sit back and watch those patterns play out in the therapy room. We’ll tell you what we see, help you understand what is happening between you, and actively guide you toward something different. And if the therapy format you chose isn’t giving you what you need, we’ll say so—and recommend an approach that may help you move forward more effectively.

What We Believe

Uncompromising honesty: We give you straightforward feedback, including when it’s hard to hear.
Focus on the pattern: We evaluate the dynamic between you, not render a verdict on either partner.
Freedom from shame: We create a non-judgmental space, particularly around sex, intimacy, and desire.
Practical application: We provide actionable insights so real change happens between sessions.
Clear boundaries: We are transparent about what therapy can accomplish, and what it cannot.

Our Story

The Couples Project was founded by Michael Longo, LMFT, LMHC, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist with more than thirty years of clinical experience.

Before founding The Couples Project, Michael led family therapy training and research programs across Massachusetts, Delaware, and Maryland, helping public and private healthcare systems develop more systemic, relationship-focused approaches to care.

The Couples Project grew from that foundation into a carefully selected team of therapists who share the same philosophy: relationships are best understood by looking at what happens between people, not simply at each person individually.

We chose to stay narrow on purpose because working with couples isn't just part of what we do. It is everything we do.

Meet Our Therapists

Our clinicians are licensed in Massachusetts and bring different areas of expertise to our shared focus on couples. From sex therapy and neurodivergent relationships to trauma recovery and the challenges of parenting, we thoughtfully match you with a therapist whose experience fits what you’re facing.

We believe the right therapeutic match matters. That’s why we consider your relationship, your goals, and the expertise you need—not simply which therapist has the next available appointment.