Santa Barbara Therapists specializing in Relationship / Marriage Issues

Iliana Gelles

Individual Relationship Counseling can help your relationship by: * Giving you a space to speak freely and honestly about your thoughts and emotions regarding your relationship. * Process our thoughts and emotions to gain clarity and communicate more effectively. * Helping you identify ways that your past might be showing up in the present in your relationships. I'll help you feel more confident in your relationships

Kady Fleckenstein

Do you and your partner find yourself snapping at each other? Or perhaps you are ships passing in the night, leading very separate lives. I help couples that feel there is very little hope left or those just looking for a tune up. From sexual to communication issues, connection to compassion struggles, I'm here to help. If you aren't in a relationship yet and want to work on self-improvement in order to enter into a serious relationship, I can also provide tools to help you reach your goals.

Tamara Chaffin

My approach is client center meeting. I work with adolescents up to older adults. I enjoy working with people to help them achieve their potential. I am a client centered therapist and believe that the therapeutic relationship is vital to my client achieve their treatment goals.

Sharon Vargas

I collaboratively work with clients in re-connecting with their innate strength and resilience in their journey to face change and heal unresolved issues. I treat a number of issues including unresolved complex trauma, addiction, co-occurring disorders, life transitions, anxiety, depression, grief & loss, relationship difficulties, low self esteem, Adult Children of Alcoholics, impact & insight into historical trauma, and sexual abuse.

Elizabeth Pulliam

Have you been carrying a heaviness with you for a long time? It may be from one single traumatic event, many instances, or maybe you can't identify the source at all. Nevertheless, it's affecting your current life by bringing up feelings such as anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. I would like to be of support. I have worked with clients from preschool-age to folks in their 80s. Many of my clients have no prior experience with counseling or have felt disillusioned by it in the past.

Kristine Gore

I work with students and adults with a focus on life transitions. I meet patients where they are and provide a guiding hand with the patient's lead. This work is through a trauma-informed lens leveraging a person-centered approach.

Amanda Halloway

In my current practice, my approach is informed by my background in organizing for anti-racism, disability rights, the LGBTQ community, and people experiencing homelessness. I have specialized training in the treatment of trauma-related disorders, addiction, LGBTQ-affirmative therapy (with an emphasis on working with bisexual and pansexual clients), polyamorous relationship counseling, feminist therapy, and ecotherapy.

Brandi Davis

I work primarily with those struggling with generalized anxiety, substance abuse, life transitions, and relationships. Additionally, I work with couples to build Effective Communication Skills for a more sustainable and expansive connection and bond, working to de-escalate conflict while building awareness around foundational principles to lean on for long term success.

Galen Garbarino-Wilson

Is what you're doing getting you what you want? I am excited and honored to be invited into your personal journey to figure out what's working or not. I will walk beside you and help you figure out what change might look like for you. I am a listener, a guide, a cheerleader, an accountability coach and, most importantly, provide a healing space for growth.

Jackie Toth

Do you feel depressed and beaten down by life? Are you a people-pleaser who does not know what your own needs and desires are? This can drain the color from life, leaving us feeling without meaning or purpose. When we live by scripts written by others, our voices are silenced, disconnecting us from who we truly are. This often feeds a harsh self-critic who keeps us in line with judgment and shame. Therapy can help unravel these self-destructive threads, leading us back to our authentic self.

Rudi Lion

Do you sometimes say things to your partner that you later regret? Do you act in ways that don't get you the result you want? Do you wish you just knew how to be a good partner? I can help you to love better. Together we inquire into what holds you back from fully opening your heart. Together we explore whether possible unresolved trauma is holding you back. You might simply have no good relationship model to work from. I look forward in supporting you to have the relationship you long for.

Erika Feely

I find it most rewarding to work with clients who are willing to step into the unknown with me, co-create their path, & tune into a greater wisdom that is available in every moment. In my experience guiding this process, you benefit most when you are active in shaping our work together & developing an ever-deeper sense of trust in yourself on all levels. Our paths are never linear. We start right where we are & remain open to what is possible at each step to allow for the most profound shifts...

Michele Goldberg

We provide intimacy therapy to individuals dealing with patterns of unhealthy romantic entanglements, challenging relationships, and compulsivity relating to dating, love, sex, or pornography. We treat professionals and who, despite career or family success, feel unfulfilled. Our practice additionally specializes in those undergoing age, occupation and transition related identity changes, those managing shifting identities and relationships, social anxiety, low depression, and trauma.

Nicole Botaitis

My clients are motivated to make change. They are curious and ready to look inward. I help clients achieve the results they want by being extremely active with them. I pay attention and help them connect the dots and themes in their lives. I also utilize thought reframing, stress management, goal and expectation setting and identification/expression of feelings to bring about clarity, empowerment and transformation.

Jenny Hislop

Andrew Smyth

I see clients of all ages and most notably specialize in working with young adults and adolescents. My focus is centered on creating a relationship built on trust, to allow a space to let go of burdens from the past and move into reconnection with yourself and others. The stories we tell about our lives can have an immense impact on our experiences, relationships, health, and wellbeing. It is through the work together that we can develop new ways of being in this world and truly honor ourselves.

Amanda Low

I work with couples that are struggling in their relationship dynamics and communication to develop more effective skills and to restore passion.

Tiana Leeds

I take a collaborative, practical, and compassionate approach and empower you to recognize and utilize your strengths as a means of moving through fear, sadness, and insecurities. While I focus primarily on people in their 20s and 30s, particularly highly sensitive women, my practice is open to all ages and genders as well as all cultures and sexualities. Some of the issues that I typically treat include anxiety, depression, perfectionism, codependency, and relationship issues.

Maria DeAlba

My clients are adolescents and younger adults 19-35. My clients are journeying through the process of trauma, bullying issues, high anxiety, stress and depression related to a variety of issues e.g., relationships, work, school, untreated MH disorders and mild to moderate substance use, and depression. Some are working on managing anger, are sensitive to emotional reactivity, learning the body and mind connection, contemplating decisions and more.

Keriann Long

I can help you with all things relationship-related: dating, friendships, issues in romantic relationships, problems with relationships at work, and issues with family. I will help you work on how you show up in the relationship, including communicating what you want and setting appropriate boundaries.