Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling using Gottman Method Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) integrates assessments, communication skills training, and emotional exploration to strengthen relationships. Sessions identify negative patterns, understand emotions, and build deeper connections. Structured conversations and interventions help rebuild trust, enhance communication, and foster a secure, fulfilling bond.

Relationship issues are often seen as indicative that a relationship is not working out. After becoming specialized and learning about attachment, I've come to see them as confirmation that we yearn for connection, but also as an opportunity to identify our wounds getting in the way that need healing. Working with an emotionally focused, trauma knowledgeable therapist can help you and your partner learn how to turn conflict into healing, so that you don't have to heal alone.

Helping to identify and root-out destructive patterns of communication and develop personalized plans to help clients create their own ideal-self in relation to their partner(s).

Having fulfilling relationships of any kind is the hardest part of living well. Add sexual attraction to the mix and you're in for a bumpy ride. The more intimacy you want to achieve, the trickier things get. It's odd that we save our worst behavior for those we love the most. I can teach you why and what to do about it. Love is a skill. Learn the skill and have fulfilling relationships.

Common Issues Explored in Couples Therapy We drifted apart after the birth of our children. My partner and I frequently argue about money. We are struggling with sexual difficulties and lack of desire. My partner had an affair, and I find it difficult to trust again. We can’t stop arguing over the most insignificant details. I fear that my partner might be addicted to drugs / alcohol. My partner is getting close to someone else. Should I worry? I constantly feel blamed and criticized.

Do you wonder when you'll be enough? Concerned that you will continue looping around and around the same conflicts without any resolution? Always feeling misunderstood? It doesn't have to be this way. I help couples move from conflict to connection; from resentment to forgiveness; and from hurt to healing by helping identify the patterns of relating that are not working, and providing new skills and behaviors to feel the way you wish to feel in your relationship.

Gottman Method and Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) are the two most well researched and validated approaches. I utilize both of these interventions to help support your specific needs. Gottman Method helps provide step by step actions to take to have healthier conflict and create more connection and intimacy. EFCT helps you identify the cycle you and your partner keep getting caught in and what is going on underneath this cycle that is keeping the both of you stuck.

I provide online couples therapy and marriage counseling to support you in having the relationship you deserve. I utilize The Gottman Method, EFT, and evidenced-based approaches to support you in bringing peace and enjoyment back to your relationship.

Pre-Marital Couples Counseling

I help couples of all lifestyles who are struggling with relationship satisfaction, affairs, communication issues, lack of intimacy, or who are unsure of whether to rebuild or walk away. I provide a space that is non-judgmental, I remain neutral and refrain from taking sides, and utilize activities both in sessions and outside of sessions to build trust, assess communication styles, and deepen emotional intimacy.

Relationship issues are common throughout the lifespan. The key to success in overcoming obstacles within a relationship is approaching communication in a relaxed body. This is simple to say but in practice takes time to understand and form healthy habits around. Once both members of the relationship are no longer triggering one another, effective communication style identification and skill-building can take place. Our therapists are equipped and ready to help you succeed in your relationship.

Although we are usually adept at forging friendships, few of us begin their lives as adults understanding or appreciating the rigorous commitment and sustained open-heartedness needed to foster and nurture prolonged intimacy with another person. When conflicts emerge, we often begin to doubt the viability of our relationship, rather than recognize the conflicts as a part of the ebb and flow of coupled life or an opportunity for growth. As a therapist, I enjoy helping couples learn together and in the process, not only become close, but develop the understanding that will help them to live with more ease, joy and confidence together. In addition to helping you develop more insight and awareness regarding your unique dynamics as a couple, I will help you develop the interpersonal skills you will need to navigate or traverse impasses or tensions in the future with less impact on your experience of closeness.

Deficits occur in all relationships; we aren't taught how to navigate through them and negotiate so that essential needs are considered, communicated and honored. Instead, we create relationships like the models we grew up with. We tend to have poor communication tools and get into toxic cycles and end up resentful, angry, scared, hopeless, passionless, and acting out (affairs, food, addiction, shopping, video games, porn, etc) or acting in (anxiety, depression). There is another option!

Being a mother, sibling, friend, partner and employee is just one of the many roles we have. When you are more loyal to others than yourself it’s natural to lose sight of who we are and what we need. Learning to prioritize yourself can help you to better connect and have more meaningful relationships with loved ones.You don’t have to struggle with unfulfilled relationships. You don’t have to do this alone.

My approach is tailored to your relationship’s specific situation and needs. I have advanced training in Emotions-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman therapy. Both of these models are evidence-based treatments that help improve communication, repair injuries, and rebuild and strengthen emotional bonds and connections. You no longer have to try to fix your relationship on your own. I will be honored to accompany you on your healing journey of improving your relationship.

Relationships are part of the foundation that make-up the human experience. They bring some of the greatest joys and the greatest pains to life. Together we can work on improving your relationship with yourself and those around you through processing past and present experiences, clarifying wants, needs, and desires, and improving communication strategies.

Whether you & your partner are simply wanting to take your relationship to greater depths of communication and intimacy, or there are feelings of disconnect, drifting, rejection or betrayal, these sessions explore ways towards healing, strength & renewal. While no relationship has a secret formula to success, there are proven methods to enhance communication, build trust, make room for meaningful affection, and grow together towards deeper levels of connection & understanding.

I help clients explore issues around trust, intimacy, and communication, and I help them navigate the struggles that arise during long-term relationships and cohabitation. Differences in sexual desire; imbalances in division of labor; lack of transparency about spending; spending time apart -- we can explore the problems that get in the way of a deeply satisfying and intimate partnership.