Best Hope Therapy

Best Hope Therapy is a counseling practice founded by Larry Baumgartner, a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist serving couples and individuals in St. Augustine and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. With 11 years of experience, Baumgartner offers a solution-based, action-oriented, and future-focused approach to helping clients address relationship challenges and emotional wellbeing.

Services include marriage and couples counseling, infidelity recovery, trust repair, intimacy therapy, conflict resolution, and relationship stress support. The practice also provides individual counseling for concerns such as anxiety, depression, and life transitions, as well as adult family counseling to help improve family dynamics and reduce household stress. Best Hope Therapy aims to help couples improve communication, rebuild trust, restore closeness, and move toward healthier relationships, whether they are working through betrayal or seeking to reconnect.

In-person appointments are available in Palencia in St. Augustine and in Ponte Vedra Beach, with virtual therapy offered throughout Florida. Prospective clients can schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation, and the practice provides information about rates, payments, and Good Faith Estimates