Online Couples Counseling
Do you and your partner fight without resolution? Does your partner’s messiness, difficulty planning, etc. drive you nuts? Do you wonder where the honeymoon days went?
You do not have to resign yourself to frustration or being on different teams. My approach emphasizes active listening, communication, and negotiation skills. Understand:
- Your developmental stage – is your relationship in Symbiosis? Differentiation? Building Interdependence?
- How you and your partner communicate – repairing rifts, understanding differences, negotiating, sharing a vision
- Steps to restore a boundary around your relationship when jealousy or infidelity have ruptured trust
- The delicate and complex negotiation of blended family and cultural dynamics
- How your emotional brain works – the meaning behind ‘irrational’ desires and impulses
- Financial symbols – does money mean freedom, power, safety, emotional investment and/or risk?
- Sexual fantasies and experience that reflect personal and relationship dynamics.
- Current Family & Original Family Dynamics – unexamined links that create tension in your relationship.
Couples sessions are tailored to the needs of committed couples who are encountering differences and communication obstacles in their relationship. Approaches include the Gottman Method, the Couples Institute Stages of Relationship, Prepare-Enrich core marriage skills, and Family Systems.
Couples Therapy: Navigating Your Journey Together
Relationships are a cornerstone of our emotional well-being. When communication falters, professional psychotherapy offers a dedicated path back to understanding. Our telehealth sessions provide a private, neutral space to explore your dynamic, resolve shared stressors, and rekindle lasting intimacy.
Common Concerns
- Frequent patterns of unresolved conflict
- A sense of emotional distance or loneliness
- Navigating major life transitions or parenting stress
- Communication breakdowns that feel overwhelming
- Coming up with a "fix" yet not feeling understood
How Therapy Helps
Couples sessions allow us to focus on one issue at a time. Practicing new ways of communicating while we explore an area of focus helps to make progress on concrete concerns and to build relationship skills. When we can create a better atmosphere for communication and a sense of progress, that builds a path to find the potential in your relationship.
Rekindle Your Connection
Love is multifaceted and dynamic. Couples and marriage counseling helps you ride and navigate the currents, staying true to yourself and your aims.
Contact me for tools to cultivate, craft and nurture your closest relationship.
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ~ Erich Fromm