Couples Counseling
Partnership can be one of the most maddening and enlivening things in our lives. We can find ourselves acting in ways that we would never act with another human being. We can find ourselves in situations that feel completely heart-breaking; situations that feel dead; and situations where we feel deeply and passionately in-love---sometimes all within the course of days, sometimes stretched out over years.
Typically, our partners are our primary emotional attachment and that comes with a lot of potential, history and complexity. I want to explore this with you and your partner and allow you to hear each other free of some of the patterns that may be unhelpfully ingrained. I want to help you to re-discover why you are together, which may come with a continually changing and deepening set of answers. If there have been ways that your partnership has been stretched or challenged (major life-stage change, loss, infidelity, etc), I want to help you feel the impacts on one another and re-imagine, re-work and re-build your connection.
I encourage you to come in for support sooner rather than later. If you are thinking about it but waiting for things to get worse—you are like many of us—but I strongly encourage you to trust your instincts and if you are struggling, give yourselves a space to struggle fruitfully. I happily work with couples who are trying to figure out whether or not they want to stay together. I also happily work with couples who are exploring boundaries around sexual and emotional openness in relationship. Gay, straight, queer, trans and all the identities in-between are all most welcomed.
I am completing my certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) while also continuing to learn and be informed by the developments and wisdom of the sex therapy field.