Services

I work with couples of all types at every stage of their relationship. From strengthening or rebuilding your bond to addressing an urgent, emerging issue, I am here to support your journey.

I am an LGBTQIA affirmative therapist, and welcome all communities.

I help with the following:

• Understanding and navigating conflict
• Distance / Periods of feeling disconnected and drifting apart
• Betrayals and repairs
• Issues coming up around commitment
• Resolving historical anger

Couples work can help you:

• Feel emotionally safe, understood and loved
• Improve verbal and non-verbal communication
• Strengthen abilities to manage outside influences together
• Have each other’s back in public and in private
• Find the source of the issue and repair conflicts quickly and skillfully
• Expand and grow capacity to tolerate difficult feelings in self and partner
• Cultivate more compassion for self and partner, especially in areas of sensitivity
• Pick up on expressive cues in partner that signal distress and gently intervene
• Become more intentional in conversation by slowing down
• Experience the benefits of practicing kind, loving, acts daily
• Practice how to honor, respect, and raise each other up
• State your own needs while keeping the connection strong
• Soothe and calm each other effectively during reunions, departures, and when in distress
• Help each other with limit setting when needed
• Attract your partner emotionally using attraction and persuasion and without using fear, threat, shame, blame, or guilt
• Become an expert handler of each other (much better than your parents were of you)