A supportive space for partners to communicate, understand conflict, and work through difficult patterns together.
Every couple fights, and that's normal. What matters is how you move through it. Couples therapy can help you with:
This is an inclusive space for all couples and relationships, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or relationship structure.
Begin Couples TherapyWe begin with one session for each partner, held separately. This gives both of you the space to share openly, without the dynamics of the relationship in the room. It helps me understand each person's history, emotional patterns, and what's brought you to therapy.
Once you've both had your individual sessions, we meet together in a joint session. With both partners present, we'll begin making sense of your relationship dynamics together. My work with you will draw from the Gottman Method, an evidence-based approach to couples therapy grounded in relationship research.
As therapy progresses, occasional individual sessions may be woven in alongside joint sessions, as clinically useful. You'll always be part of deciding what this looks like going forward.
Starting with one individual session per partner helps me understand each of your perspectives, histories, and what you're each hoping to work on, without the relationship dynamic in the room. This grounding makes the joint sessions that follow more focused and effective.
Not necessarily, and that isn't the measure of success in this work. Couples therapy is about helping you understand each other better, communicate more effectively, and make clearer, more informed decisions together, whatever those decisions turn out to be.
Joint sessions are attended together. Individual sessions, at the start and occasionally throughout, are attended one at a time.
No. This is an inclusive space for all couples and relationships.
That's a completely normal place to start from. The initial individual sessions are a low-pressure way to begin and figure out what kind of support would help most.
No. My role is to stay neutral and support both of you equally, not to act as a judge, decide who's right, or align with one partner over the other. The goal is to help both of you understand each other better and communicate more effectively, not to determine who's at fault.
Not at all. While many couples seek therapy during periods of conflict or distress, you don't have to wait until things feel bad enough. Couples therapy can also be a space to strengthen your relationship, improve communication, navigate life transitions, deepen emotional intimacy, or better understand each other.