Couples Therapy
Your love story deserves to be written with empathy, understanding, and hope.
You might be here because…
You are tired of fighting with your partner.
You crave more intimacy and connection.
You want to recover from infidelity.
You need better communication.
How will couples therapy help?
Find your stuck points: Explore the unique dance of your relationship and understand the emotions that shape it.
Increase Communication: Learn to express your needs and fears in a way that deepens intimacy within your relationship.
Create lasting change: Experience relationship-changing shifts that create a foundation for enduring love.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
The goal of EFCT is to create a felt sense of safety and connection within your relationship that can foster emotional balance and regulation.
In therapy, we will explore the attachment needs, traumas, and emotional injuries that come up in your relationship.
With greater clarity and insight into your attachment and relationship dynamics, you can begin to move towards secure connection.
Specialties
Communication
Struggling with communication in your relationship can lead to feelings of isolation, heartbreak, and frustration. In couple’s therapy, we’ll explore these challenges to bridge the communication gap and rebuild emotional intimacy.
Our sessions will delve into the core emotions and thoughts of each partner, fostering vulnerability and authenticity.
Together, we can pave the way for healthier, more meaningful communication patterns that strengthen the foundation of your relationship.
Attachment
Whether you carry trauma from your family of origin or have encountered attachment injuries as an adult, you need safety and security to move and grow through it.
Couples therapy, is a safe space to explore the relationship patterns, thoughts, and emotions that have grown out of trauma and left you feeling anxious, lonely, or isolated.
Through couples therapy, you and your relationship can begin to heal and continue your growth.
Infidelity
Whether infidelity stemmed from unmet emotional needs, unresolved conflicts, or a sense of disconnection, the impact can be profound, leaving partners grappling with feelings of betrayal, mistrust, and despair.
In couples therapy, we create a supportive environment to delve into the complexities surrounding infidelity, exploring its roots and the emotional toll it has taken on both individuals.
By fostering open and honest dialogue, we work towards rebuilding trust, restoring intimacy, and ultimately, facilitating the healing process for the relationship to thrive once more.
Intimacy
Nearly every relationship experiences intimacy concerns at some point. Experiences like pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, exhaustion, stress, body image, and aging can impact your sex life, leaving you feeling guilty, ashamed, or hopeless.
Couples therapy includes the exploration of of your sex and intimacy concerns as well as how these concerns have impacted your relationship.
I aim to make couples therapy a place where you can feel safe to discuss sexual issues, so that you can regain connection.
More about EFCT
“Learning to love and be loved is, in effect, about learning to tune into our emotions so that we know what we need from our partner and expressing those desires openly.”
— Sue Johnson