What Couples Therapy Is:

Couples therapy offers a space for partners to understand the emotional patterns that shape their relationship. Together, we explore how attachment needs, fears of disconnection, and past experiences influence the ways partners communicate, react, and reach for one another.

Rather than assigning blame, the work focuses on creating greater emotional safety, strengthening connection, and learning how to repair after moments of hurt—so partners can feel more secure, understood, and connected in their relationship.

Who Couples Therapy Is For:

Couples therapy can be helpful for partners who:

• Feel stuck in the same conflict patterns that remain unresolved

• Care deeply about one another but struggle to stay connected during conflict

• Feel caught in a cycle where one partner reaches for closeness while the other pulls away

• Feel unheard or misunderstood

• Notice growing emotional distance

• Are navigating challenges around trust, including infidelity

• Find themselves at a crossroads, struggling to navigate major life decisions together

My Approach to Couples Therapy:

My approach to couples therapy is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C), which helps partners understand the emotional needs, fears, and longings that exist beneath moments of conflict or distance. Often, when we feel irritated with a partner, there is a deeper attachment need underneath that isn’t yet spoken or even fully conscious. When we communicate only the surface-level irritation, our partner may become defensive or withdraw because they may feel criticized or misunderstood. By getting in touch with the emotional need underneath the frustration, we learn to communicate in ways that invite empathy and openness instead of shutdown. This process moves in both directions, as each partner has core emotional needs that shape how they reach for one another. Over time, this creates greater understanding and connection.

Session Information

Sessions are 50–55 minutes and generally take place once a week. At times, it can be helpful for couples to meet for longer sessions in order to slow things down and work more deeply.

I offer couples intensives, which provide extended time together to explore relationship patterns in greater depth, understand recurring sources of conflict, and develop a thoughtful plan for relational healing. Intensives allow space to move beyond immediate concerns and toward a more integrated understanding of the relationship.

Intensives are typically offered in four-hour blocks and can be especially helpful during periods of heightened stress, transition, or when couples want to make meaningful progress in a focused way. Please inquire for more information.