Specialty
Couples & Relationships
Relationships change shape over time — through new partnership, marriage, parenthood, career shifts, infidelity, blended families, or the quiet drift that can happen after years together. Wherever you and your partner are, the work is the same: understanding the pattern you're both caught in, and finding a way back to real connection.
How I work with couples
My doctoral training and ten years teaching graduate-level family systems theory shape how I see every couple who comes into my office: not as two individuals with separate problems, but as a system with its own patterns, history, and logic. From there, I draw on the Gottman Method and Emotion-Focused Therapy — two well-researched, complementary approaches to rebuilding trust, communication, and connection — tailored to the couple actually in front of me. Couples sessions are 75 minutes and typically meet once per week.
Who I work with
Couples at every stage — newly together, newly married, navigating a new baby, rebuilding after a rupture, renegotiating a long marriage, or considering whether to stay. I also work with couples who are unsure therapy will even help; you don't need to already believe in the process to start.
Couples Intensives
For couples who want to make real progress without waiting weeks between sessions, I offer intensive couples therapy — extended, focused work condensed into one, two, or three consecutive days, rather than the usual weekly hour.
Each day involves approximately six hours of therapeutic work, with regular breaks built in. This extended format gives us the depth and continuity to go beyond simply understanding your patterns — we can begin actively changing them: practicing new ways of interacting in real time, correcting course together as it happens, and building new habits before you return to daily life. Because you're not going home and reverting to old patterns between each session, the changes made during an intensive tend to be more lasting.
Intensives can be a good fit for:
- Couples who want to make significant progress in a short window, rather than over many months
- Couples facing a specific crisis or turning point — an affair, a major decision, a relationship at a crossroads
- Couples whose schedules make consistent weekly sessions difficult
- Couples who've done therapy before and want a deeper, more concentrated experience
A note on fit
Intensives work well for many couples, but they aren't the right format for every situation. If there is active abuse, unaddressed substance use, or an immediate safety concern in your relationship, a different approach — often individual support first — is usually more appropriate than an intensive format. This is something we'll talk through openly during your initial consultation to make sure this is the right fit for you.