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Spouses Group, Portland began in 2016 meeting in person. The 2020 pandemic moved everything online,
and opened the group to CA since Shannon, the leader is licensed in both states.


Spouses Group, Oregon meets online via Zoom
for eligible Oregonians from anywhere in the state of Oregon.


Spouses Group, California meets online via Zoom
for eligible Californians from anywhere in the state of California.


Are you a cisgender spouse of a partner who came out to you as transgender, or nonbinary? Maybe your partner announced that they don't know what their gender is but they do know it is not the one assigned at birth. Perhaps your partner is questioning their gender. 
Do you want to find a way forward together in a mutually supportive relationship? 

When your partner comes out as transgender or nonbinary, it's not easy finding supportive resources for you as a couple to make it through the transition connected and moving forward together.  Spouses Group, a support group with a professional leader, is a positive community that understands the mixed feelings in being the cisgender spouse of someone questioning gender.  You have your own transition too! Spouses Group provides an opportunity for members to move through grief if there is some, all the while remaining supportive of their partner.
Spouses Group also inspires ways to honor and celebrate yourself and the changes when you are ready. 

Spouses Group opens the door to apply for access to Couples Group-where spouses and their partners who are interested join a group of similar couples to further support the growth of the relationship through transition, building a supportive community of similar families.

If you can manage a confidential space at your location for online video group meetings, contact Shannon for the registration phone call that will fill you in on what is required to start Spouses Group. Group fees are by donation.
Spouses Group is led by Shannon Batts, an LGBTQi? SOFFA (A SOFFA is a significant other, friend, family or (seeks to be an) ally of someone transgender). Shannon is a licensed therapist specializing in marriage repair, Gottman style, with practical mnd/body stress relieving tools.
Call Shannon 503-348-0405.  Leave your number, and email address.
Let her know if you are in CA or OR and what are the best times for a conversation.

Love remains, we'll sort the rest out together.
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New Enhanced Relationship Check-Up now available with streamlined 30% less questions, an easy way to reassess progress if we'd like, and plenty of information about strengths and what to repair. Available for $39 (to Gottman) for clients of Approved Member therapist Shannon Batts.
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How to find a good marriage counselor?  Ask Shannon Batts in Portland, Oregon.  Note from Shannon: Make sure they have advanced training (not just degrees and licenses) with couples, can describe what they learned and how they deliver it to you, and are also HAPPILY married! Can they speak to their privilege or marginalizations and how they impact counseling with you?
Shannon Batts, Licensed Professional Counselor of Portland, Oregon, lic# C2379, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for Californians, lic# MFT 34477, is Marriage Friendly, with better than neutrality toward the outcome of your life long love commitment. Shannon Batts is a Portland, Oregon counselor, with advanced skills, education and training in assisting couples (extremely rare among counselors). Lesbian, gay, trans, mixed gender identity, questioning gender, nonbinary, and straight couples of all ages seek out tools and support for their relationships from Shannon Batts. Shannon trains ongoingly to be antiracist and is a facilitator and consultant at Race Talks PDX. Transgender, Black Americans, or unhoused clients will find amazing flexibility in counseling rates if you need it because you've been through enough!


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www.couplesintransition.com and www.spousesgroup.com also arrive here at https://relationshipgardening.com/
so as to direct couples facing gender transition to excellence in support for making it through transition together.

Electronic/internet based communication is not a guarantee of privacy as it is always subject to security breach or hacking. You do maintain the right to email, text or video chat regardless of the risk.
 Shannon is the counselor's counselor where couples go to grow a happy marriage, with Gottman research based relationship and marriage help and telehealth video sessions.  Marriage Counseling, couples' coaching, premarital counseling, help for transgender or non binary coming out in marriage, support for spouses of transgender or non binary partners, couples group for transgender partners and cisgender spouses, questioning gender in your marriage, gender affirming referral letters, marriage retreats, marriage workshops, antiracist coaching for engaged couples, antiracism groups for white people, antiracism couples groups, antiracism groups for professionals, custom antiracism groups, marriage affairs or adultery, porn or sex addiction or compulsion in your marriage, couples communication training-whatever you call it-make sure your best marriage counseling choice in CA, or in Portland, Oregon has Advanced Gottman Institute aka Relationship Research Institute training.  A Gottman trained therapist like Shannon Batts knows how to move couples from sticky negativity to a garden of new possibilities from the very first couples' session.  Services available by Zoom for all of CA and OR. relationshipgardening.com