Couples Counseling

What will empowerment in your relationship look like? What does couples therapy help with? Finding autonomy in togetherness Understanding and resolving negative interactional cycles Cultivating emotional closeness through attunement Vocalizing wants and needs Communicating with transparency Creating intentional intimacy Navigating and repairing attachment ruptures

As a licensed marriage and family therapist associate, my education and focus has been on fostering successful relationships between people - whether those are familial, romantic, or sexual. Couples are amazing: building trust, connection, and shared values takes energy! From pre-marital counseling to conflict resolution, I am passionate about this work and the benefits it provides to you, your partner(s), and the community around you.

Being in relationship to each other is central to our experience as human beings, but it can be hard! If you’re struggling to feel a sense of connection to your partner, relationship therapy can help you get back to feeling like you’re on the same team again. I especially love working with nontraditional relationships and couples where one or more partners are LGBTQIA+ and/or neurodivergent.

I help couples get past their painful patterns and create the lasting love they deserve. I help people create Intimacy-Based Relationships rather than Fear-Based Relationships.

My focus and track in graduate school was couples and families and I have continued my work since constantly obtaining new education, training and reading about techniques to help couples from various backgrounds that find themselves in my office.

Couples coming to counseling want to learn how to communicate better with each other. To recognize the cycles that they find themselves falling into. They also want to work on becoming more intimate and connected to their partner. I work with all types of relationships including open relationships, queer relationships, and those wanting to explore new things together.

I approach couples therapy from an attachment lens. I believe that your partner can be an important resource in the healing process. By developing a secure attachment, safety, and the deep sense of being seen and known, you will begin to feel more deeply connected to your partner. I combine practical tools with deep emotion-focused work to help you solidify the strength and connection in your relationship. I have received specialized Gottman training for couples impacted by addiction.

I have completed several Gottman trainings and I am listed on the Gottman Institute website. I have extensive experience in pre-marital counseling, couples counseling , surviving infidelity and counseling couples with ADHD. I work with couples on how to really listen, how to have constructive conflict, how to see each other with compassion and understanding, how to increase connection and intimacy. The best relationships do not happen; they are made though conscious action.

I have expertise with CNM, open, and poly couples

Are you part of a relationship that feels old and stale? Let’s talk about what’s working, and what’s not working so much in your intimate relationships. We will take a look at different ways to handle loneliness, stress and conflict, sex, and injuries to the basic trust system of your relationship.

Relationships can be difficult and present unexpected difficulties due to getting married, having children, infidelity, sexual concerns, external stressors or recurring conflicts. Couples experiencing conflict or challenges from communication can benefit from a working with a therapist who can help you understand one another and your relationship better and learn to constructively communicate and cooperate as a couple.

Couples therapy is focused on the relationship. Each partner is asked to own their contribution to the current state of their shared struggle, while working to build more honest, intimate, and beneficial communication skills. This growth stems from risking vulnerability, learning to sit with discomfort, minimizing reactivity, self-soothing, and a sincere desire to listen and grow. As couples therapy requires time and commitment. To fascinate this growth, we meet weekly in 75- minute sessions.

You, me and your partner/spouse/lover. We'll unpack what's not going so well. Then, you'll learn and practice better ways of interacting. You'll walk away with new skills to think and act relationally.

Couples may struggle with a variety of issues from communication, to conflict resolution to sexual desire discrepancy to betrayal. I am passionate about helping couples hear each other, manage disagreements and atone for betrayal. I can help couples rediscover the love and desire they had for their partner and to reconnect. Let's explore ways to be intentional about your relationship, to prioritize the pleasure, passion and play in your relationships and your lives!

Experience with a range of couples and presenting concerns; am currently receiving training in the Gottman Level I Certification.

My work with couples has ranged from those who are mostly getting along but want to enhance their relationship to people who are often in conflict and trying to figure out how/if to stay together. I draw theory from sources similar to Focused Therapy, thinking about the role of the partners' attachment styles and focusing on emotional responses. In couples work, the relationship is the patient. I stress validation of each person's experience. Polyamory, open relationships, and kink are welcome.

I have many years of experience with pre-maritial/marital couples, who are experiencing difficulty with common issues such as: building intimacy, communicating in a healthy way, letting go of old resentments, and getting into the habit of living their lives in a parallel way. Once couples learn a certain "dance" of how they engage in routine patterns, it's quite difficult to break out of it. These patterns of our unique "dance" is what we will address in couples counseling.

Similar to Relational Therapy, with more of a bend to the traditional Couple and/or Family System. I also work with Affairs, Infidelity and Couples in Addiction and Recovery as they navigate repairing and rebuilding trust in their primary and other relationships.