Couples Therapy
I provide a safe, secure, nurturing space for couples to explore their feelings, behaviors, and interactions.
You come to understand each other better, resolve conflict, and bond. Come to feel out what you want from your relationship, where you want it to go.
I approach couples therapy as a collaborative journey, guiding both partners towards mutual clarity and improved communication. Drawing from Existential-Humanistic Theory, Ontology, Somatic Experiencing, Neuro-Psychology, and Emotionally Focused Therapies, we tailor your sessions to your relationship's unique dynamics and needs.
We are all social creatures. We all need relationships with others. They can be hard to nurture and maintain; especially, the most important intimate ones. Those that allow us to be the most vulnerable. Those that offer us the chance to be known and accepted by another and to know and accept ourselves as we are and as we evolve along the journey of life.
This practice’s couples therapy starts where you and your partner are, both together and individually.
The initial session is with you individually. In those initial sessions we start creating a safe space for each of you to be accepted and understood, which is vital for this therapeutic work.
Throughout the therapy, we work to discover and create what you each want to experience in your relationship. For instance, as each of you grows increasingly self-aware and stronger every thing will change in some ways. We look for what is new. Your bonds are acknowledged and strengthened, as you go through this experience alongside each other.
We work to distinguish and understand obstacles that are holding you back from realizing the experience that each of you want. Depending on what the obstacles are, we work to embrace and understand them. Often, it is those experiences that have been suppressed and currently operate below awareness that are exacerbating the problems. You both are supported in this process. Then we work to create openings for new actions and experiences.
Often the obstacles occur when one or both of you are triggered and thrown off. Most often triggers are responses to incomplete traumatic experiences. I am an experienced trauma therapist. I will support each of you to work to release the traumatic energy and work through the traumatic experiences.
Through this therapeutic process, couples experience greater self-awareness with each partner experiencing the ability to make clearer and more empowered choices for themselves. Many, if not most, couples who engage in the process find themselves in relationships where they are genuinely self-expressed and experiencing new possibilities for being than before.
Now not all couples choose to stay together and that can be okay too.
Through our sessions you can expect to have clarity with what you want from your relationships,strengthen your emotional connection, improve mutual understanding, and a path forward. It's a journey of mutual growth and connection, enabling you and your partner to navigate challenges and grow increasingly resilient and stronger.
Ready to embark on this transformative journey together? Let's work towards creating a deeper, more fulfilling partnership.