Couples Therapy

Relationships can be challenging. I help couples build a foundation for secure, lasting love, navigate ruptures, transform negative cycles into healthy patterns, or decide if it’s time to end the relationship in a constructive way.

Healthy relationships are rooted in: open and honest communication, prioritizing the relationship, reliability, consistency, mutual safety and respect, shared agreements, learning how to turn towards each other especially during times of stress, having each other's back, and managing conflict effectively. Healthy relationships aren’t void of conflict rather secure functioning relationships repair and resolve ruptures quickly. Effective conflict is one of the main ingredients necessary for deeper intimacy, trust, and lasting love.

In couples therapy, you can expect to learn how to understand each other’s "owner manuals"—how to respond to your partner in ways that work for them and your partner will learn how to respond to you in the way that works for you. Together, you'll develop skills to communicate effectively, make timely repairs,  read each other's cues correctly, protect your relationship from life stressors, recognize and support differences, and create the appropriate amount of closeness and independence.

  Couples therapy can include:

• Communication Skills

• Sex & Intimacy

• High Conflict

• Substance Abuse & Addiction

• Infidelity

• Pre-Marital Counseling

• Divorce / Breaking up

• Finances

• Parenting

• Co-dependency

• Trauma

• Multicultural Differences

• Open/Poly Relationships

  
  
  

How I work:

I bring a collaborative, warm, and balanced approach to my work. Alongside building insight and clarity, I also provide practical skills and homework to support progress in between sessions. I am trained in Stan Tatkin’s Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) and integrate methods from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to enrich and deepen the work.