Couples therapy can be deeply effective when both partners are willing to show up honestly and engage in the process—even if things feel tense, uncertain, or fragile right now. Many couples begin therapy when they feel stuck in painful cycles of conflict, distance, resentment, or disconnection.

Real progress often begins when each person becomes willing to look inward: to not only name what feels painful in the relationship, but also to honestly examine their own patterns, reactions, and contributions to the dysfunction. This kind of self-awareness can be challenging, but it is often where the deepest change begins.

My role is to help you understand the patterns beneath your struggles, slow them down, and create new ways of relating that foster trust, clarity, and repair. Therapy is not about assigning blame. It is about helping both of you better understand yourselves, each other, and the dynamics shaping your relationship so meaningful change becomes possible.

This is very common. Often one partner reaches out first while the other feels unsure, skeptical, or reluctant. Hesitation does not mean therapy cannot help. In many cases, a reluctant partner becomes more engaged once they experience therapy as a constructive, balanced space, rather than a place where one person is “ganged up on.”

If your partner is hesitant, I encourage openness rather than pressure. Sometimes simply inviting them to attend one session together can make beginning feel less overwhelming.

Yes. I work with couples experiencing frequent arguments, recurring unresolved conflict, emotional reactivity, communication breakdowns, and deep relational distress. High-conflict relationships often involve entrenched patterns that can feel impossible to interrupt without support, especially when couples find themselves repeating the same painful cycles despite sincere efforts to change.

In our work together, we focus on reducing escalation, identifying the emotional injuries beneath conflict, and building safer, more productive ways to communicate, repair, and reconnect.

It is important to note, however, that couples therapy is not appropriate in every situation. When there is ongoing domestic violence, coercive control, intimidation, fear-based dynamics, or active abuse of any kind, traditional couples therapy may be contraindicated because relational work cannot be safely done where one partner does not have equal emotional or physical safety. In those cases, individual support, safety planning, or specialized domestic violence resources are often the more appropriate first step.

If you are unsure whether your situation falls into this category, I encourage you to reach out. Determining the safest and most clinically appropriate path forward is part of ethical care.

My work is relational, structured, and deeply attuned to the emotional dynamics happening beneath the surface of conflict. I integrate evidence-based couples therapy approaches, including advanced Gottman Method training, Emotionally Focused Therapy, trauma-informed care, and experiential work that helps couples not only understand their patterns intellectually, but actually experience change inside them.

Rather than staying at the level of surface arguments, we work toward the deeper emotional patterns that drive disconnection, resentment, and repeated pain.

The first phase of couples therapy is designed to help me gain a thorough understanding of your relationship—your story, your concerns, and the patterns that have brought you here. In our initial session together, both partners will have space to share their perspective. My goal is not to rush into fixing, but to begin creating clarity around what is happening beneath the surface and where healing needs to begin.

Many couples leave that first session feeling relieved simply to have a structured space where difficult things can finally be named with support.

Because I use the Gottman Method in my work, the early process is intentionally structured. After our first session together, I meet individually with each partner to better understand each person’s history, relational experience, and perspective on the relationship. We then come back together for a feedback session, where I share my clinical impressions and outline a clear path forward for our work together.

This assessment process helps ensure that therapy is thoughtful, focused, and tailored to the specific needs of your relationship.

Yes. For many couples, intimacy and sex are closely connected to communication, trust, and emotional safety.

This is a space where those conversations can happen in a way that feels respectful, clear, and productive without pressure or judgment.

I am a private-pay practice and do not bill insurance directly. This allows therapy to remain more confidential, flexible, and focused on your actual clinical needs rather than insurance limitations or diagnosis requirements.

Upon request, I can provide a superbill for clients who wish to seek possible out-of-network reimbursement through their insurance provider.