Couples Counseling

Relationships can be difficult, but couples/partner work can help us get to the root of our issues, understand our communication patterns and styles, and resolve conflict in healthier ways.

I work with couples who feel disconnected and misunderstood. I use an eclectic approach including EFT, Gottman and attachment based interventions to help couples gain deeper insight into their own experience as well as find mutual ground with their partners.

Couples counseling can help couples in all types of intimate relationships — regardless of sexual orientation or marriage status. It focuses on helping a couple work through challenges, understand their relationship better, develop healthier ways of relating to one another and get unstuck from painful patterns. Premarital counseling can help couples achieve a deeper understanding of each other and iron out differences before marriage.

With support, tools & strategies, couples can overcome challenges and build stronger connections. I emphasize the importance of effective communication, active listening, and mutual understanding as the foundation for resolving issues and fostering intimacy. Whether you're grappling with communication breakdowns, trust issues, or conflicts related to intimacy or life transitions, I work with you to identify the root causes of your challenges & implement practical strategies for positive change.

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.

As a couples therapist, I work with the Gottman Method principles to help couples understand and improve their relationships. We start by identifying current issues and their root causes, then define a healthier relationship vision. I guide couples in developing effective communication and relationship skills based on their goals, using evidence-based strategies to implement positive changes and build a stronger, more resilient partnership.

The choice to love another can be a powerful transformative and rewarding choice, but sometimes even the best relationships need some perspective and new patterning over time. The capacity to lean into someone, to trust someone and let them trust you, is one of the most difficult things to learn to do, especially if it is not what you have grown up with or know. Relationships give an opportunity to maintain your own personal integrity, and hold onto yourself while leaning in to intimacy.

Couples counseling is my passion, my training, and the core of my practice. I am trained in both Gottman and Schnarch theory, with specialty training in sex therapy and financial (personal and family business) counseling.

I use my training in the Gottman approach, Brief Emotion-Focused couples counseling and the family systems model to help clients strengthen their relationships while navigating some of the most difficult times in their lives.

In relationship counseling with me, you and your partner(s) will have the opportunity to learn new communication skills while deepening your emotional bond and securing your attachment with one another. I primarily use Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques, which ask you to tune into your emotions in the present moment in order to shift your relationship cycle. I also use Gottman Method techniques, which teach you concrete ways to communicate differently with one another.

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.

Developing healthy communication, quality time and understanding love languages are cornerstones of couple's therapy. We work together to understand one another's communication styles and to increase time needed to create an emotional bond with our partner.

I'm certified in Relational Life Therapy, aiming to meet couples where you're at, to understand & connect, & identify the patterns you’re stuck in to help guide you out of that pattern into a more functional one. We’ll work on this by relationally embodying “full respect living” in sessions. We’re aiming for living w/ integrity: what often evolves is a deep, fundamental characterological transformation: a change (for the better!) in who — & how — you think you can be (with yourself & others).

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 have received training while getting my masters degree and have since then continued to gain experience and knowledge by meeting with couples on a regular basis. I have completed the first 2 levels of Gottman training and apply these interventions when appropriate in sessions.

Couples Counseling is a wonderful way to bring increased intimacy and improved communication to any relationship. Expressing boundaries, healing from past issues and moving forward to a future with shared goals are all part of the journey. I believe that every couple can improve their overall relationship satisfaction through counseling.

Couples counseling can be an effective treatment option for almost all problems that arise throughout the lifetime of a relationship.