Premarital Counseling
Foster safety, healing, and lifelong fulfillment.
You might be here because…
You recently moved in together and want help navigating new challenges.
You want to make sure to lay a strong foundation of communication.
You want help maintaining a strong connection with your partner while navigating the business of life.
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.
Nurture a lasting connection: Experience relationship-changing shifts that create a foundation for enduring love.
Premarital (Emotionally-Focused) Counseling
In our sessions, we’ll lean into the significance of your emotional connection, viewing it as the cornerstone for a fulfilling partnership. We’ll delve into understanding each partner’s emotional needs, communication patterns, and attachment styles, fostering a deeper bond rooted in empathy and understanding.
Secure emotional attachment forms the bedrock of enduring relationships, enabling couples to navigate challenges with safety and security. By exploring past experiences and addressing potential sources of conflict, premarital counseling helps couples gain tools for effective communication, conflict resolution, and intimacy enhancement, laying a solid foundation for a lifetime of love and partnership.
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.
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