Couples Counseling

I enjoy working with couples and helping them overcome relationship challenges related to communication issues, sex/intimacy issues, lack of understanding, kink, LGBTQ, and infidelity. I work with Imago therapy to increase couples communication and am passionate about teaching tantra. Tantra helps couples learn to somatically tune into each others energetic vibration and take their relationship to new levels of pleasure and compassion.

Like a healthy garden, couples need more than just love and aspiration to keep doing well. Beautiful things grow from intentional efforts -you don't have to guess or wing it to take good care of your relationship. My lifetime vision is all about bringing what we know for sure to what you plant, weed out, and keep feeding in your relationship. To you it is baffling or overwhelming till I coach you in what I know works. Hold on-keep going. Call me.

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.

For 17 years this is my specialty training with; Dr. Gottman EFT The Couples Institute Stan Tatkin Internal Family Systems Esther Perel Terry Real Bill Dougherty I have been married 18 years and survived 6 divorces as a kid. Couples work may be my dharma. It is what comes natural to me. It is the modality I get the most referrals for. I get sent the complex cases after folks have worked with several couples therapists.

Our couples counseling services are designed to help you and your partner improve communication, work through conflicts, and strengthen your relationship. Our experienced therapists are here to guide you through the process and help you build a strong and healthy relationship. Trust Intimacy Infidelity Diagnosis Life Adjustments Financial New Parents Eldercare Concerns

I have a deep well of knowledge related to couples/marital counseling, family strife, and interpersonal dynamics. A large part of my clinical work involved facilitating Family/Relationship Dynamics group therapy as well as a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy group to teach interpersonal coping mechanisms and skills for healthy social functioning.

In couples and family therapy, I integrate the principles of Internal Family Systems (IFS). We explore the dynamics within the relationship, understanding each partner's individual parts and their impact on the partnership. Through compassionate dialogue and healing, we foster understanding, empathy, and cooperation. IFS helps couples navigate conflicts, deepen connection, and cultivate a loving, resilient partnership.

Ever feel like your words aren't getting through quite right or feel like you're barely missing each other in conversation? With my 1.5 years working with couples, I have seen common barriers that make communication challenging. In sessions, we will role-play, use speaker-listener, and be truthful about our wants and needs. I assign homework regularly and recommend couples counseling at a minimum frequency of once a week.

I am trained in the Gottman Method and am able to help you identify when blaming, criticism, contempt or stonewalling is keeping you from effectively communicating. I'll teach you how to speak to each other in a way that is direct but empathetic and kind. I'll help you to relocate your lost friendship and intimacy and to bring the joy back. I want you to feel an ease with each other and leave the tension behind.

My style of relationship counseling is collaborative and ecclectic. Some simply need a safe space to explore conflicts, safely express criticisms, or voice needs and having an impartial observer present can profoundly shift the dynamic. In other cases a more involved treatment plan is necessary to guide partners in self-work and growth, and in these cases I often find it helpful to do occasional individual sessions with each party in addition to couples sessions. I'm flexible.

I've been working with couples in both consensual non-monogamous relationships and monogamous relationships since 2013. I can almost guarantee you haven't invented a new way to struggle in relationships. Since I started working with couples though, I have learned many new ways to support your relationship(s).

When experiencing high levels of stress in your romantic relationship, it can feel like your whole world is coming apart. This is where couples therapy can help so much. Couples work can be a complex process of learning how to better communicate and change your interactions from a place of insight and love. I believe it's one of the most transformational forms of healing that supports learning to open your heart even when in pain and empowering yourself to change.

Couples counseling is one of our specialty areas, as well as help for singles, help with breakups or divorce, and help navigating the dating world. We are relationship experts, and we absolutely love to help people find and restore love and connection. In couples counseling, we use Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) as our main operating framework, and it is extremely powerful in repairing lost trust, love, & connection. We often catch our couples making out in the lobby! Call today.

Couples therapy helps us navigate the most complex thing on Earth - the human relationship. We all struggle in relationships from time to time. We fight, we bicker, we threaten, we cheat. Eventually, we need some help. By weaving together attachment theory, neuroscience, mindfulness, and the most effective couples therapy approaches, I help couples fall in love again.

We have providers who are trained in both Emotion Focused Therapy for couples as well as a Gottman Level 2 certified provider. We have associates that can work to bill insurance for this as well as interns that do this work online. We have trans affirming providers as well as aspec/arospec affirming partner support. We also have poly/ENM/CNM affirming support.

I have years of developed expertise in couples therapy. I integrate research from the field with clinical knowledge to create individualized plans for each couple. I pull from the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy, and Attachment Theory.

I work with couples through individual and interpersonal challenges that cause strain, stress, confusion, and uncertainty into relationships. Anything from communication skills, to working through infidelity, and coping with stressors in life. The balancing act and dance of couples therapy requires couples to commit to the therapeutic process and be open to the prospect of positive change in their relationship.

I'm in expert in this area because I completed professional training over 30 years ago and have frequently used it in my practice to help numerous people.

It can be so tough and so scary to start couples work but you are already on the right track by asking for help with things feel hard. Whether you are looking for support in continuing a relationship, healing from an affair, or need support in seperating asking for help and engaging in couples work can be rewarding.