I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples strengthen their connections and resolve conflicts. EFT is a proven, effective approach that focuses on deepening emotional intimacy and improving communication. By creating a safe, supportive environment, I guide couples in identifying and addressing underlying issues, fostering trust, and building healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Whether you’re facing ongoing challenges or seeking to enhance your bond, my goal is to help you create a resilient and loving partnership.
Relationships come in all shapes and sizes, and like snowflakes, no two are unique. What's come between the you and your most important relationship(s)? Are you arguing more? Do you spend the day feeling irritated? Are you no longer able to trust your partner? Is your partner making unreasonable demands, or is your partner not able to meet your reasonable expectations? Are you listening to each other? Do you feel understood?
There is no "single" way to treat a relationship. Let's learn what's going on with yours and identify what's needed (communications? intimacy? sex? boundaries? expectations?).
I have extensive training in couples therapy and I love helping you express vulnerable emotions to your partner. I can help you with communication skills and tools to improve your relationship or marriage.
There is nothing quite as wonderful as a secure, romantic, committed love relationship. Yet even in the most loving couples, the nature of our past attachments together with the stress of daily life, can erode intimacy and trust and expose insecurities, jealousy, defensiveness, anger, sexual difficulties, disappointment and pain. As your couples’ therapist, my goal is to create a safe space where you can each feel heard and learn to better understand your relationship dynamics so that together you can restore trust and create positive change.
My practice specializes in helping couples navigate the complexities of partnership, no matter where you are in your relationship journey. We will identify patterns that are holding you back and keeping you stuck, break unhealthy relationship patterns and heal old wounds. You will learn to improve your communication, reclaim your intimacy and connection, and gain clarity around your needs and desires to find stability and happiness once again.
I believe that at times it is difficult for us to see things clearly. My goal is to help you re-adjust your way of looking at yourself and your world, and to help you realize what is possible. I believe that the most important aspect of therapy is the relationship that develops between you and me.
I enjoy working with couples and tend to use the Gottman Method to inform my work. This includes working on communicating anger in a constructive manner, increasing friendship and intimacy, removing barriers that create feelings of "stuckness" in the relationship, and increasing empathy and understanding between partners. I have also found attachment work to be beneficial in my work with couples.
With couples, we emphasize good communication skills as part of the foundation of any relationship and utilize our training and experience to help couples break negative cycles and see themselves as being on the same team, rather than as adversaries as they work through specific issues that are a challenge to having a healthy and fulfilling relationship.
With couples, we emphasize good communication skills as part of the foundation of any relationship and utilize our training and experience to help couples break negative cycles and see themselves as being on the same team, rather than as adversaries as they work through specific issues that are a challenge to having a healthy and fulfilling relationship.