Couples Counseling

An intimate relationship is often where we show the most vulnerable and complicated parts of ourselves, easily leading to a rollercoaster of emotions. Thus, it is also an area that is ripe for personal growth. If you are unfulfilled by the common misguided notion of couples "completing" each other, I am here to help you create a relationship that highlights growth, allowing both parties to develop as individuals. By bringing out the best in ourselves, we can also offer the best to the other.

Assisting couples in working through relationship issues and achieve greater satisfaction and stability in their relationship.

I'm an expert in couples counseling (Ph.D., University of Florida), helping couples to communicate more effectively, build trust and understanding, and create healthier relationships. I have years of experience working with couples to find practical solutions to their relationship issues and create a stronger foundation for a more fulfilling and lasting connection. I aim to help you and your partner find the tools to foster a meaningful and satisfying relationship.

Trained in EFT, and was part of a couples therapy research lab, giving me practical training, and pedagogic knowledge.

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.

We specialize in helping couples dealing with a variety of common couple challenges and situations: -Communication blocks -Repeat Arguments -Disconnection and distance -Not feeling understood or a priority -Not feeling good enough for your partner; unable to make them happy -Not feeling like you can count on the other -Improving sexual connection -Desire discrepancies -Improving sexual satisfaction -Communication about sex -Relationship injury repair such as affairs or addiction -Rebuilding trust -Dealing with jealousy -Betrayal trauma and PTSD from relationship injuries or infidelity -Helping couples on the brink - can we repair? -Working with relationship ambivalence or uncertainty -Divorce prevention -Peaceful divorce -Parenting challenges -Not on the same parenting page -Lack of parenting support -Blending families -In-law conflict -Extended family relationships -Couples who work together; family business -Navigating religious differences

I blend models when working with couples and integrate each individual's past as well as what their goals are in the present. I learned about the STRONG Model for relationships from the founder of the model herself, and I believe that safety both physically and emotionally is the basis of any healthy couple. Regulating in the face of disagreements and being able to hear your partner's concerns are skills that can be build in couples therapy.

Couples counseling helps partners break free from painful cycles and build deeper emotional connection. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), I guide couples in experiencing new, healing interactions in real time. Instead of getting stuck in conflict or distance, you’ll learn how to express needs, feel heard, and strengthen your bond—leading to greater trust, intimacy, and security in your relationship.

We as people are built for relationships. Unfortunately we are not taught the skills or shown a pattern for making joyful, safe and intimate relationships. I will help you and your partner by introducing practical tools that can help you improve your daily lives together. While you are mastering those tools you will increase safety, trust and intimacy that will heal past hurts and build a deeper connection with one another.

I've been working with couples in both consensual non-monogamous relationships and monogamous relationships since 2013. I can almost guarantee you haven't invented a new way to struggle in relationships. Since I started working with couples though, I have learned many new ways to support your relationship(s).

I provide couples counseling to dating, engaged, and married couples.

Couples come to me with entrenched or habitual ways of “doing” relationships - including intimacy, sex, conflict, finances, and pregnancy/IVF/adoption/parenting - and want to work on aspects of the relationship that are fraught or avoided altogether. We work through roadblocks that get in the way of vulnerability, explore discomfort, and longing, and build conditions for partners to identify unmet needs, lean into conflict, anger, and fear, and explore non-monogamy, kink, divorce, & separation.

Conflict is your roadmap to intimacy, if you are not having conflict, at least one person in the relationship is not being real and that means they are suppressing their needs, wants, desires in order to please their partner. At some point that powderkeg will blow! As relationship therapists, we come alongside you as a couple and support you in developing the relational intelligence to build and protect your relationship so that it will thrive and stand the test of time!

Romantic partners can come to therapy for a variety of reasons. I work with partners facing serious challenges, who may be considering a separation and also those looking to deepen their connection or learn new skills before a major commitment. For parents and caregivers, I also provide coaching-style sessions to help you support your children and teens using loving, evidence-based practices. I am kink, queer, and poly affirming.

We offer couples therapy for any married or unmarried couples working on relationship issues including infidelity, communication, connection, etc.

I will work with you to bring hopefulness, emotional connection, healthy communication, and spark back into your life. We will work together to develop a plan to build your strongest relationship. Family counseling may include 2 or more family members to help heal relationships, open lines of communication, and learn new coping strategies.

I have expertise with CNM, open, and poly couples

Relationships can be difficult and present unexpected difficulties due to getting married, having children, infidelity, sexual concerns, external stressors or recurring conflicts. Couples experiencing conflict or challenges from communication can benefit from a working with a therapist who can help you understand one another and your relationship better and learn to constructively communicate and cooperate as a couple.

What will empowerment in your relationship look like? What does couples therapy help with? Finding autonomy in togetherness Understanding and resolving negative interactional cycles Cultivating emotional closeness through attunement Vocalizing wants and needs Communicating with transparency Creating intentional intimacy Navigating and repairing attachment ruptures