Couples Therapy
Couples often seek therapy when they’re feeling stuck and have goals in mind for what needs to change: improving communication, navigating transitions, deepening intimacy, rebuilding trust, and letting go of old patterns. I provide a safe, structured environment to explore your relationship, examine what’s not working, and learn more conscious, intimate, and attuned ways of being in partnership with one another.
My role is to set the stage for couples to have a ‘conscious relationship’. This means a relationship where each partner begins to understand how they are contributing to the conflicts. Once each partner understands their contribution, we can start to learn new skills and ways of relating to one another that lead to the joyful and harmonious relationship they deserve.
Approach Therapy
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Couples counseling is more active, collaborative, and solution-focused than individual psychotherapy. I teach partners strategic skills and help them to change behaviors that restructure old patterns.
Our work starts with individual separate phone consults for each member of the relationship. From there, I evaluate the couple together in a joint intake session, and individually, with one-on-one sessions with each member of the relationship.
From there, the counseling continues primarily with joint sessions, with individual sessions done as needed.
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I have experience working with couples who are:
In non-monogamous partnerships
Have one or more partners who identify as LGBTQIA+
Have one partner undergoing gender transition
Navigating infidelity
Looking to make major life decisions, transitions, or changes
Seeking to address repetitive arguments and cycles of conflict
Working through religious, spiritual, or cultural differences
Wondering whether to end the relationship
No matter the configuration of your relationships or the challenges you face, all can benefit from couples counseling.