INTER-CULTURAL COUPLES
Honor Your Differences. Deepen Your Bond.Loving across cultures can be incredibly rich and incredibly challenging.
When partners come from different cultural backgrounds, it’s not a lack of love that causes tension, it’s the weight of feeling misunderstood. What one person sees as care, the other might not recognize. What feels respectful to one might feel distant to the other.
These differences can lead to moments of disconnection: quiet tension during family conversations, frustration over traditions or expectations, or the pain of not feeling fully seen for who you are.
Intercultural couples therapy creates space to explore these differences with curiosity and care, so you can better understand each other and grow closer through it.
In our work together, we’ll slow things down and identify the negative cycle that keeps you disconnected. From there, we begin the work of rebuilding emotional safety, empathy, and connection.
In Couples Therapy, I help you:
Break painful cycles of recurring arguments and shutdown
Communicate emotions and needs openly, across cultural differences
Deepen emotional and sexual intimacy rooted in mutual respect and curiosity
Heal relational wounds created by cultural misunderstandings and disconnection
Strengthen your bond through vulnerability, empathy, and trust that honors both partners’ backgrounds
Being part of an intercultural relationship means your relationship is uniquely enriched, but it can also mean navigating misunderstandings, differing expectations, and sometimes feeling emotionally disconnected or misunderstood.
I work with couples who are ready to break free from these cycles of conflict, disconnection, and hurt. I specialize in helping intercultural couples deepen their bonds by exploring and valuing their cultural differences through the lens of attachment.
“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