Mountain Family Therapy

What Mountain Family Therapy is

Mountain Family Therapy is an online therapy practice founded and run by Cade Dopp and Leanna Dopp, both Licensed Clinical Social Workers. The practice is licensed to serve couples, individuals, and families across six states: Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Montana, Texas, and Utah. Unlike many therapy platforms that operate as marketplaces connecting clients to independent contractors, Mountain Family Therapy maintains its own clinical team and positions itself as a practice where the founders remain actively involved in the work. The company's focus centers on relationship repair, emotional regulation, and practical momentum toward change, drawing on evidence-informed approaches that emphasize both warmth and clarity.

How couples therapy works at Mountain Family Therapy

Couples begin with a free consultation, either by phone call or text at the company's listed number. During this initial conversation, a clinician helps prospective clients understand whether online therapy is a good fit for their situation and explores practical details like availability and how the matching process works. The company does not publish specific information about how couples are matched to individual therapists, though bios on the therapists page show that all clinicians are licensed and have experience with couples work.

Therapy sessions are delivered via video. The pricing page shows that intake sessions cost 195 dollars, and standard sessions thereafter are 165 dollars per session. Couples are billed entirely out of pocket, as "insurance typically does not cover couples therapy." The practice handles payment confirmation during the free consultation so there are no billing surprises before care starts.

Beyond weekly sessions, Mountain Family Therapy offers therapy intensives: extended multi-day sessions or retreat-style formats. These intensives are described as custom and typically range from 1,000 to 5,000 dollars per day, with final pricing depending on whether the format is private or group, the location, and the number of days. Clients can arrange intensives near Sandpoint, Idaho, where the practice offers "access to North Idaho experiences like the lake, ski resort, hiking, fishing, and biking." For couples who want to deepen their work beyond a standard weekly hour, intensives are an option to compress months of progress into focused days.

The company's website emphasizes that couples therapy often works by "slowing interactions down so each person can understand the pattern instead of reacting automatically." The practice describes sessions as potentially including "coaching, communication practice, parenting support, and planning for what happens between appointments." Couples can switch therapists if needed, though the site does not specify the process for doing so.

What the pages say about credentials, coverage, and conditions

Mountain Family Therapy's clinical team holds specific credentials. Cade Dopp is licensed as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in Florida, Idaho, Texas, and Utah. Leanna Dopp is also an LCSW, licensed in Utah, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, and Texas. Shawn Weymouth, the third therapist listed, holds an LMFT credential (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) and is licensed in Montana and Florida. The website states that the practice is "in-network with many major insurance companies" for individual therapy. For clients with insurance, the practice performs benefits verification before the first session. For those without in-network coverage, "superbills are available for PPO out-of-network reimbursement," allowing clients to submit claims themselves. However, this insurance pathway applies only to individual therapy; couples therapy is explicitly self-pay.

The practice names specific concerns it addresses in couples work. The couples therapy page details infidelity recovery and trust repair, attachment patterns that show up as pursuit and withdrawal cycles, relationship anxiety and fear of abandonment, premarital counseling, and support for couples deciding whether to rebuild or separate. The practice describes drawing on "Gottman-informed" approaches, specifically mentioning the Gottman Method, the Four Horsemen concept, repair attempts, and the Sound Relationship House framework. It also offers therapy for couples navigating one partner's reluctance to attend.

What the pages do not say

The practice does not publish average wait times for new clients, success rates, clinical outcomes, or research backing for its approach beyond the reference to Gottman-informed work. It does not state how many couples or how many total clients the practice serves, nor does it publish therapist counts or team size. The website does not specify how long the typical couples therapy relationship lasts or at what point clients can expect to see change. While the practice emphasizes evidence-informed care and clinical grounding, it does not detail specific outcome measurements it uses, success metrics, or data on how often couples stay together versus separate after therapy. The matching process is not spelled out: clients book a consultation but are not told in advance which therapist they will work with or what criteria guide assignment. The practice does not publish cancellation policies, refund terms, or what happens if a therapist becomes unavailable mid-treatment. Session duration is not specified on the pricing pages.

Who Mountain Family Therapy fits and who it does not

Couples with employer insurance and in-network access will find pricing manageable through insurance, at least for individual sessions. Couples self-paying out of pocket face 165 dollars per session. That price point is accessible for many couples with disposable income but not for those on tight budgets. The six-state footprint means couples living in those states can access licensed care; couples elsewhere cannot use the service. The practice emphasizes working with couples navigating "relationship distress" and "recurring conflict patterns," so it is designed for couples actively looking to repair or strengthen their relationship, not for couples seeking separation support or family law guidance (though it does mention offering clarity-focused support for couples deciding whether to separate). Couples wanting to avoid weekly standing appointments might prefer the intensive format, though intensives require travel to Idaho or online participation in a multi-day format. The practice explicitly serves couples, individuals, and families, so single clients and families with children have pathways too, though the primary marketing emphasizes relationship and couples work.

The free therapy app and practical tools

Mountain Family Therapy offers a free companion app suite, labeled "free family therapy tools for individuals, couples, and parents." The app runs in a browser with no account required and no cost. For couples specifically, the app includes "communication exercises, connection tools, a couples check-in guide, and trust-rebuilding worksheets." The suite comprises four separate tools: Therapy Tools (an all-in-one app with a CBT thought journal, anxiety and grounding exercises, and couple/parenting sections), Together (a private app designed for two phones to check in, share conversation prompts, and structure repairs after an argument), House Rules (for documenting household expectations), and Allowance (for tracking chores and allowance). The company emphasizes that data privacy is protected: "Nothing is sent to any server" from Therapy Tools, and Together uses "encrypted data" synced only between two phones with a key that "stays on your phones and is never sent to us." The tools are clearly supplementary to therapy rather than replacements for it, aimed at couples who want structured exercises and a framework for conversations between sessions.