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Couples therapy helps you to identify and change patterns that create distance, weaken your emotional bond, and maintain antagonistic conflict rather than healthily work through it. In the process, you not only gain the tools to relate differently, but you also learn about yourselves and one another. The gift of mutual understanding is something that your relationship will continue to benefit from, long after treatment has ended.

Areas of Specialty

  • Queer relationships 

  • Stressors related to parenting 

  • Infidelity 

  • Exploring new relationship structures 

  • Communication difficulties 

  • Emotional distance 

  • Balancing work and your relationship

  • Navigating major life transitions

I work with couples to help them safely give voice to the emotions they have been holding - but haven't been heard, to strengthen their attachment bonds with one another, and to build a foundational trust that helps them stay connected and work together through the inevitable challenges that life and relationships bring. 
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What to Expect

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Consultation

I offer a free, 15-minute phone consultation in which we discuss the difficulties in your relationship that you'd like to address in therapy. We talk about whether couples therapy is a fit for those challenges, and you have a chance to ask me questions you might have before we get started.

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Individual Assessments

I meet with you individually for one session to gather information about your relationship history and primary attachments. We learn more about how your past is impacting the current difficulties and explore your perspective outside of the dynamic as it happens in our other sessions. Partners often bring the insight gained here back into treatment and find it valuable for their individual growth, as well.

02

Initial Relationship Assessment

In our first meeting, we work to better articulate and identify the patterns that are keeping you stuck. I share my observations about your communication, your connection, and ask questions that can help you begin to understand your role in the dynamic and what you might need from one another to heal and move forward.

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Ongoing Meetings

Guided by what we learn in our initial meetings, we begin the process of changing the emotional dynamics that have kept distance between you, have prevented you from healthily working through conflict, and have left you feeling insecure in your attachment to one another. Usually, we meet weekly for ongoing sessions until you feel ready to embark on your own.

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