Couples Therapy
Work to reduce the level of conflict and distress that is happening when talking about difficult things. Therapy can dredge up big feelings, and it’s important that you feel confident when you leave our sessions.
Create a mutual understanding of each of your perspectives. I will guide you in listening to each other in a deeper, more compassionate way so that there is no winner or loser.
Understand the role of communication in your relationship: what is getting in the way of feeling that you are on the same team? What assumptions do you bring about each other?
Work to shift the patterns that are repeating in your relationship that may have become automatic and difficult to move. We will use our sessions as an opportunity to practice a different way of interacting.
Celebrate your strengths as a couple. There is a reason that you are in this relationship, it is important that we center this as we move through the difficult conversations.
Romantic relationships can be sources of stability, strength, pleasure, and partnership. They can also be triggering in ways that shake us to our core. When we become entrenched in patterns of conflict with our partners, they can stir up our deepest insecurities and make it challenging to connect with the safety, intimacy, and trust that we crave.
Relationship therapy is an opportunity to explore, understand, and shift these blocks, and to gain the perspective that comes with the guidance of someone who is outside of these dynamics.