Marriage Counseling

I have worked with relationships for most of my career and am passionate about the work. I focus on increasing awareness for interactional patterns, power dynamics, impact of trauma, attachment issues, and improved communication.

Specialties Include: Struggles with effective conflict and communication, racial & gender issues impacting communication & conflict, empty nesters, low self-esteem, blending family, miscarriage & infertility, parenting Certifications: MA in Marriage and Family Therapy Gottman Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Leader Prepare/Enrich Premarital counselor Certified Clinical Couples Coach

I work with people and their partners to resolve relationship issues, whether married, dating, polyamorous, gay, straight, or TGNC. I help people grow toward each other and into their authentic selves in relationships.

Relationships are a deep source of satisfaction and meaning in life, but they don’t always come easy. At certain points, you have to work to allow your partner to understand you, resolve conflict, or overcome crisis. Whether in your romantic or your familial relationships, I can help you express yourself effectively to your partner or family member and find mutual understanding, so that you can grow together.

I offer marriage counseling grounded in the Gottman Method, having completed both Level 1 and 2 training. My approach integrates attachment theory to foster a safe and healing space for couples to explore and strengthen their relationships. Whether you're preparing for marriage or navigating challenges in a long-term partnership, I can help you develop the skills and understanding to build a deeper connection and lasting bond.

When working with relationship issues, I assume that each one of us learned how we relate to others in context of family, friends, community, school, and media. For some people, this work involves exploring our own needs in relationships. For others, the work is focused on communication. And for some people, this work will focus on grieving and healing events that happened in our past.

Gottman Method and Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) are the two most well researched and validated approaches. I utilize both of these interventions to help support your specific needs. Gottman Method helps provide step by step actions to take to have healthier conflict and create more connection and intimacy. EFCT helps you identify the cycle you and your partner keep getting caught in and what is going on underneath this cycle that is keeping the both of you stuck.

Is your relationship or family system caught up in a negative interaction pattern? Do you have difficulty resolving disagreements or getting back to a place of feeling connected? Through the use of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a strongly evidence-based approach, I help you to navigate difficult conversations in therapy and create new patterns of interaction.

In summary, my approach to working with relationship issues combines a deep understanding of relational dynamics with proven therapeutic techniques. By focusing on communication, trust, intimacy, and personal growth. I strive to help you achieve a healthier, more fulfilling relationships through better connections that begins with a commitment to understanding, healing, and growing together to create the relationship you both want.

I provide online couples therapy and marriage counseling to support you in having the relationship you deserve. I utilize The Gottman Method, EFT, and evidenced-based approaches to support you in bringing peace and enjoyment back to your relationship.

Sometimes couples need a mediator to help them work through an issue that the couple cannot solve for themselves. That is a much healthier way to work on a relationship than leave it festering. I listen without prejudice so if the relationship is an open one, I do not judge.

Couples counseling is my jam! I love helping couples connect while getting their needs met in the relationship. Hearing and validating each others' experiences without taking blame and becoming defensive, is a game changer in relationships. Emotional safety, emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, healthy conflict resolution, coping with challenges and adjustments, and resolving past resentments are all areas we will dive into in your journey to a more fulfilling relationship.

I am trained in both the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which are therapy modalities used to treat couples. My approach to couples' work emphasizes exploring and understanding the relationship dynamics and communication patterns between partners. I often work with couples on figuring out how to prioritize their relationship while balancing their careers and the demands of parenting.

Our greatest emotional wounds come from our most important relationships, so focusing on making our most central partnership a healing one is the most effective way to achieve our collective grown but also our personal growth as well. This is why I love being a couples therapist. When we feel like we have a team mate in life, rather than someone that adds to our stress, so much more becomes possible in life.

All couples experience conflict. Therapy can help you identify your own needs, your partners needs, triggers points and communication techniques. Together we will re-build trust, empathy and intimacy in your relationship.

I am a Certified Gottman Method Couple Therapist, and have training and experience in Emotionally Focused Therapy as well - two of the most well-researched, well-validated approaches to couple and relationship work. I begin every case with an in-depth assessment of relationship strengths and challenges, which will provide a road map for our work together.

In couples therapy, I support and encourage you in opening up to a different kind of experience with your partner, as well as developing the skills needed to build an authentic, interdependent connection. I work to bring greater attention and understanding to the emotional processes occurring beneath the surface, making vulnerability safer, and giving our emotions more space to be attended to and understood by our partners - while also building the tools to soothe and care for ourselves.

Relationships can bring you some of your greatest joys or deepest pains. I enjoy working with committed, motivated couples who seek deeper connection, better communication and improved intimacy, all through a lens of mindfulness, compassion and empathy. Areas of specialty include partner connection, communication, sexual desire differences, intimacy after a diagnosis, adjustment to changes, stress and grief/loss. I also offer premarital counseling services.