Hope, I hate to sound like Debbie Downer, but it sounds to me like he is in the honeymoon phase of the cycle.
That said, I would be straight up with the couple's counselor about your expectations of the counseling.
My personal experience with couples counseling with my abusive husband was that it confirmed for me that I needed to get out of the marriage. He said and did all the right things in session but it was the same old, same old at home.