diff --git a/causalml/metrics/visualize.py b/causalml/metrics/visualize.py
index 011fc521..39fe4bf7 100644
--- a/causalml/metrics/visualize.py
+++ b/causalml/metrics/visualize.py
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ def qini_score(
     return (qini.sum(axis=0) - qini[RANDOM_COL].sum()) / qini.shape[0]
 
 
-def plot_ps_diagnostics(df, covariate_col, treatment_col="w", p_col="p"):
+def plot_ps_diagnostics(df, covariate_col, treatment_col="w", p_col="p", bal_tol=0.1):
     """Plot covariate balances (standardized differences between the treatment and the control)
     before and after weighting the sample using the inverse probability of treatment weights.
 
@@ -865,40 +865,42 @@ def plot_ps_diagnostics(df, covariate_col, treatment_col="w", p_col="p"):
     IPTW = get_simple_iptw(W, PS)
 
     diffs_pre = get_std_diffs(X, W, weighted=False)
-    num_unbal_pre = (np.abs(diffs_pre) > 0.1).sum()[0]
+    num_unbal_pre = (np.abs(diffs_pre) > bal_tol).sum()[0]
 
     diffs_post = get_std_diffs(X, W, IPTW, weighted=True)
-    num_unbal_post = (np.abs(diffs_post) > 0.1).sum()[0]
+    num_unbal_post = (np.abs(diffs_post) > bal_tol).sum()[0]
 
-    diff_plot = _plot_std_diffs(diffs_pre, num_unbal_pre, diffs_post, num_unbal_post)
+    diff_plot = _plot_std_diffs(
+        diffs_pre, num_unbal_pre, diffs_post, num_unbal_post, bal_tol=bal_tol
+    )
 
     return diff_plot
 
 
-def _plot_std_diffs(diffs_pre, num_unbal_pre, diffs_post, num_unbal_post):
-    fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(15, 10), sharex=True, sharey=True)
+def _plot_std_diffs(diffs_pre, num_unbal_pre, diffs_post, num_unbal_post, bal_tol=0.1):
+    fig, ax1 = plt.subplots()
 
     color = "#EA2566"
 
-    sns.stripplot(diffs_pre.iloc[:, 0], diffs_pre.index, ax=ax1)
-    ax1.set_xlabel(
-        "Before. Number of unbalanced covariates: {num_unbal}".format(
-            num_unbal=num_unbal_pre
-        ),
-        fontsize=14,
+    sds_pre = pd.DataFrame(
+        {"std_diff": diffs_pre[0], "covariate": diffs_pre.index, "prepost": "pre"}
     )
-    ax1.axvline(x=-0.1, ymin=0, ymax=1, color=color, linestyle="--")
-    ax1.axvline(x=0.1, ymin=0, ymax=1, color=color, linestyle="--")
+    sds_post = pd.DataFrame(
+        {"std_diff": diffs_post[0], "covariate": diffs_post.index, "prepost": "post"}
+    )
+
+    sds = pd.concat([sds_pre, sds_post], ignore_index=True)
 
-    sns.stripplot(diffs_post.iloc[:, 0], diffs_post.index, ax=ax2)
-    ax2.set_xlabel(
-        "After. Number of unbalanced covariates: {num_unbal}".format(
-            num_unbal=num_unbal_post
+    sns.stripplot(data=sds, x="std_diff", y="covariate", hue="prepost", ax=ax1)
+
+    ax1.set_xlabel(
+        "Pre/Post Number of unbalanced covariates: {num_unbal_pre}/{num_unbal_post}".format(
+            num_unbal_pre=num_unbal_pre, num_unbal_post=num_unbal_post
         ),
         fontsize=14,
     )
-    ax2.axvline(x=-0.1, ymin=0, ymax=1, color=color, linestyle="--")
-    ax2.axvline(x=0.1, ymin=0, ymax=1, color=color, linestyle="--")
+    ax1.axvline(x=-bal_tol, ymin=0, ymax=1, color=color, linestyle="--", lw=2)
+    ax1.axvline(x=bal_tol, ymin=0, ymax=1, color=color, linestyle="--", lw=2)
 
     fig.suptitle("Standardized differences in means", fontsize=16)